Halloween 2016

Ghostbuster, Queen of Hearts, and the PJ Masks!

 Before School Photos!

 The Halloween Parade at Granite!

 Had to get the backpack!

 Family Halloween Photo 2016!

 Jake and Cruz-trick or treating buddies!

 Grammy with the kiddos!

I had to post this one because of cute Lexi peeking out of her mask! I helped with Cruz's Halloween party at the end of school.  I will help with Alegra's Valentines Party next.  Then around 5:00ish the Milners came over for our soup dinner.  This year it was my turn to host, but I kept it pretty simple.  Then Shawn took Cruz and Jake trick or treating and I took the girls.  We ended up hooking up with Kate, Jane,  and their mom Amy and that was fun.  Zoe Milner also was with us and it was a lot of fun!

Maybird Gulch

Shawn and I had lined up a babysitter for late this afternoon/evening so we could go hike.  We hiked Maybird Gulch hike which I have never done before.  It was really fun.  It was a total of an 8 mile hike that took us about 3 hours.  We grabbed some food afterwards....fun evening!!

Last Soccer Game for the Fall

Today was Alegra's last soccer game for the Fall with CFC.  She had a great season and she ended with a goal today, which she worked super hard for!! Way to go Alegra!!

Toys

Lexi has such a vivid imagination.  She plays with what looks like to me random toys but total has a game/play going in her head.

Granite Shirt Day at School

 Loved that they all had matching shirts on for one day.  Lexi isn't at Granite quite yet, but she supported her brother and sister!!

More pumpkin carving pictures from the good camera!

Pumpkin Carving!!!

We carved the pumpkins tonight and the kids were so excited.

Finished products!!!

Our Little Vampire!

Lexi has been wearing these vampire teeth most days, she is such a goof!

81 for Grandpa Gary!

Today my dad would have been 81.  I miss him everyday!  This is a flashback picture to the night before mine and Shawn's wedding day-August 18th, 2005.

Wednesday Gymnastics Day

Cooking Class

Stacey told me about a cooking class a blogger called "The Bountiful Kitchen" was putting on today. Carissa and Stacey both signed up and I decided to sign up too.  It was so much fun.  She taught us how to make Lion House rolls, a really yummy soup, a great salad, and cookies.  I learned so much.  All the proceeds went to a charity called "Rising Star".  A lady from the organization was there to tell us about the organization at the end when we were eating lunch.  It is definitely a charity I want to look into.  It helps people with leperesy in India.  It was fascinating!!!  Such a fun morning!

Andrew Dougherty at BYU

Our family friend from Northbrook was at BYU doing a lecture on Chinese government with rap songs.  Andrew lives in China with his little family and does this Chinese rap thing and it was so cool to see him. He was so talented, it was so much fun to see!

UEA 2016 in Idaho

We went up to Idaho on Friday morning for the long weekend.  Grammy and Murphy came with us so it was a fun trip up, first time with a dog in the truck!  We stopped in Idaho Falls to eat lunch and to pick up the ATV's, they had been serviced.  It was a nice afternoon hanging out at the cabin.  On Saturday we had fun hanging out, playing games, going to the Tolivers for a bit, and floating the river!  Dad even got a mountain bike ride in!

 The Falls!

 Cruz and grammy helped us shuttle

 Grammy's pretty home!

After we floated we stopped at the Snake River Grill to eat and play pool!

We had a great Sunday too.  Church and then kinda getting the home ready to leave it for a bit.  Cruz made this awesome lego creation!

A week of pictures

 Cruz came home with this cute drawing of himself as a lacrosse player!

 Stacey and I hiked the Pipeline trail together on Wednesday afternoon.

 Our annual Snowbird stay.  Love this crew!

 Alegra found snow to eat this morning up at Snowbird!!

 Earlier this week this goof had fun playing outside!