Monday, October 31, 2011

Halloween - Greek Style


The kids have been so into the Percy Jackson series this year that we decided to have a Greek theme to our Halloween. Jared is Perseus, I am Medusa, Chris is Poseidon, Amber is Pegasus, Krystal is Aphrodite and Clarissa is Athena.Scary Mommy!

Amber with her friend.


Jared and his friend ran the cookie walk at our church Trunk or Treat, they are busy dancing to the music.
These are the eyeball cookies that we made for the cookie walk.


The kids decided that they wanted our trunk to have the theme of Rock n Roll. Clarissa made the poster that says "Mattsons Rock Van." We had fun dance music playing and several people gathered at our van to dance when the candy was all gone.

Krystal, Delaney, and Janet stayed together to get candy.

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Family Time


While my dad and Chris's parents were here visiting, his sister Kara and her husband Dan came to visit with their little boy Jimmy. We had a great time playing with Jimmy and took a walk at the park by the river. We took the opportunity to get some family photos too.



Five of the Mattson cousins.

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Shoot Out

We read about Native American boys who have to pass a sort of right of passage test to achieve manhood as they reach a certain age. I guess for Jared you could say that age is 12 and that right of passage is that Mom finally let him shoot a real gun. Each year the guys at church get together and have a shoot out and now that Jared is 12 I just couldn't keep him from going. So, with Dad and his two grandfathers, he headed out to try his hand at several different weapons.

I would put more captions about each gun, but of course, I have no idea what they are.
Here is Grandpa Hansen shooting.
Grandpa Mattson looks on as Jared tries another gun. I think he had a lot of fun and his shoulder and arms were only sore for a few days after the experience.

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Jared is 12!

What do 12 year old boys want for their birthday? A NERF gun fight! Jared invited his friends over on this beautiful Fall day for a capture the flag NERF fight. The boys had a blast.

Jared designed his own cake and helped me decorate it.
Earlier in the day Jared had a soccer game. They played against a really tough team so he thought he would intimidate them by having black under his eyes. The team played really well.

Here's he is in action.


On Sunday the 23rd, Grandpa and Grandma Mattson and Grandpa Hansen went to church with us to see Jared receive the Aaronic Priesthood.