October

 It's always a treat when the Norther Lights make an appearance outside my front door!

Kaden asked me to take a picture of his art and post it.

I made a trip down to Logan to see Kylee and we went for a little run.  I took her to a trail that I ran once in college.  It's pretty popular and not very far from campus.  We had fun!

Only two kids with school pictures this year.  Sadie decided she wanted long hair now, largely because trying to do the hairstyles required for dance competitions was really hard with short hair.  But also she just wanted it long like all her friends.  I did love her short hair though!

Kaden was flossing his teeth one night when his tooth just came out on his flosser!

I played on an adult coed team in the Spooky Sixes tournament.  Actually I got Ryan to come play with us too because we were really short on players.  Our team was made up of coaches so we often had people missing because they were coaching their kids.  It was fun even though we lost every game.

I got stomped on.  I mentioned this in my NYC posts, but here's my sock when I took off my cleats. I was honestly scared to take my sock off and see what was there.  It was swollen under my toenail and oozing blood and other yucky stuff.  And it continued to ooze all week.

October is not complete without a haunted house!

The best part of the month is that Hailee returned from her mission!  For good this time!

Halloween

Sadie didn't even really want to dress up this year but she's on Student Council so she had to.  Actually I think they had to dress like cowgirls as part of Homecoming / Spirit week so she just used the same outfit.

Kaden picked this reaper costume on Amazon and it was easy enough.

Kaden had a little crew and they ran around together until it got late and then came back to admire their earnings.

 

NYC with Mom- Day 5-6

 Take 3 running in Central Park.  And I still found new places I hadn't seen.  I made it all the way to the north end of the park.

We had tried Liberty Bagels and they fell flat.  But I still wanted to try one I had heard was good called Pop-Up bagels.  The problem was it wasn't close to anything we were going to.  So we had to jump on the subway and make a special trip to the Upper West Side. 

We came out of the subway right by the Natural History Museum so we walked past that as we hurried over to Pop-Up Bagels.

These bagels lived up to the hype.  I was obsessed.  We ate while we walked quickly back to the subway.  We had tickets to Top of the Rock!

Top of the Rock was cool!  The views are awesome.  

I loved seeing the birds eye view of Central Park. And my mom is a little obsessed with the Empire State Building.

We came out at Rockefeller Center and saw the beautiful grounds including the ice rink that's up and going.

After that we went on a journey to get close to the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building to get some pictures.  I didn't have any desire to go inside either building but I do like the architecture of them.  Chrysler is my favorite!

If this isn't a typical New York scene, I don't know what is.  The underground steam (that doesn't smell great) and the yellow taxis.

One more famous cookie stop

And my mom wanted to try the Stardust Diner.  The line was way down the street when we walked past the other night.  So I knew I didn't want to wait in line but we went way early, like 4, and we didn't have to wait.  It's really fun, they sing the whole time.

That night we went to Pier 35 to watch the sunset.  This pier has swings but we didn't really plan to get a turn on the swings.  I just wanted the views.  (Side note, this is the only time the whole trip when I needed to use the bathroom and we were not somewhere that we would be able to find a bathroom.  I knew we were planning on being at the pier for awhile and I knew I wouldn't make it.  I googled public bathrooms near me and was trying to find some and we were not having any luck, we had already taken the subway to this random part of town.  But we saw a nice looking grocery store and I was like, I will buy something if I have to but I need their bathroom!  We lucked out because the bathroom definitely has a lock code on the door but it was not closed all the way so I was able to sneak in.  I would've bought something if they got mad at me.  Tender mercies!  That was stressful.)

The sunset was so great!!

The last day we did another run in Central Park but I refused to take any pictures because I have enough pictures of the park!  So we just got a quick run in and got ready to go.  We were going back and forth about how to get to the airport.  An Uber is expensive.  We could've dragged our luggage to Grand Central Station and taken an above ground train, but that's kind of a far walk with luggage.  So ultimately we got on the subway.  It was a loooong slow ride but it got us there!  Luckily we had plenty of time.

And finally, views of the city from the air.  It was so fun!  I hope to go back again and again,