Halloween and Thanksgiving. Since those were only 3 weeks apart this year!

Pumpkin time!  Katelyn worked really hard on this Dia de los Muertos pumpkin, look at all those tiny holes!

Maris picked out these patterns and I cut them lol.

Owen had fun doing his own again.

Whitney made a bat hanging upside down.

And Emma looks just like her pumpkin lol.

The Star Wars crew before Eric's work Halloween party.

I meant to post the picture of this, but accidentally posted the video.  Maris eating candy stew hahaha

Luke and his faithful friend (on a scooter), R2D2.

We let his hair grow out for the occasion, worth it!

Luke and Leia!

Rey :)

Jyn Urso from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

holding the plans for the Death Star, labelled "Stardust"

Padme!  

With her awesome hairdo.  We made Katelyn and Whitney's costumes from random things we bought at DI, it was awesome!

The whole family, taken badly by Katelyn's friend lol

BB-8!! So adorable.

Rey and her pal BB-8.  Halloween was fun.  Especially because I took the kids around with a couple of friends, and Emily Peterson and I got to hang out again while we walked with our kids.

We took Whit, Owen, and Emma to a BYU Basketball game.  Emma was adorable the first half, singing the fight song and yelling Go Cougars constantly.  But then the second half she was an absolute nightmare; welcome to the next month of Volleyball games and performances we had to endure with her lol.

Speaking of Volleyball, here are a couple of pics from Katelyn's first game.  I was super impressed by her growth since last year!  She hit the ball way more times and went for it WAY more times than last year!  And she was honestly the most consistent server on her team.  Underhand, but most consistently got points! And she was a 7th grader playing with 7th-9th graders, good job Kate!

Emma and Spencer became friends now that he is getting bigger!

We ended up hosting Thanksgiving because Allison was in the middle of moving! And my parents came, and Jonathan and Jenae and Connor.  It was awesome. It all went smoothly with so much help, and it was delicious and fun.

These 4 are great pals.

And so are the older 4.  I am just so grateful, and I said this on Thanksgiving, that I have no regrets from the time we have spent together the last 3 years the MacKays have lived in Utah!  We really lived it up!  All the picnics and parks and Friday get togethers and Sunday dinners and attending kids' performances and sports.  The awesome Family History trips we have done the last 2 summers.  Swimming and acting out the Christmas story and hiking.  Baby blessings and baptisms. And that one random time we met up at a gas station in Idaho on accident!  It has been so great and I'm so happy the kids could build this strong foundation of cousin-hood. :)

Katrina even stopped by at the end for a bit, so we had to take a classic 5-sibling picture.  That seems to be the most common number of us that get together at once!

First snow of the year!  Whit and Owen with their snowmen.

Rococo did a Christmas show this year, and it was Owen's first time.  His dancing (and singing) was awesome!  Here he is front and center in the black vest.

Kate loved it as usual.

Cuties.

And that was our intro to the Christmas season!