A Beautiful Weekend

Last weekend found us in the land of the North. By some miracle, Elina finished taking her antibiotics just in time to go! We were able to attend Carrie & Seth's Sealing in the Provo Temple and take family pictures with the entire family! My younger Sisters & Cousins were ANGELS and watched all of the grand kids so we could go! The photo in the upper left shows them all enthralled in a movie @ Aunt Cheryl's house! From there, we headed to Sheri & Jason's to see their new baby blessed. I'm sooo glad Bryce took Monday off so we didn't have to hurry home. Even though it rained, we still enjoyed the day going out for ice cream at KFC and the BYU Creamery (yummy!)& feeding the ducks and visiting the museum on BYU Campus! Thanks family for the beautiful weekend!

Halloween!!

Our Halloween Holiday began at the Paragoonah Pumpkin Patch with Elina's "preschool" group. They loved it and even smiled for the camera....after being bribed with suckers that is :)The Monday before Halloween, we invited our neighbors, the Batts', over to carve the pumpkins. Mmm, nothing beats good friends, pumpkin seeds, hot cocoa & treats!On Friday, we dressed the kids up and "Trick-or-Treated" to Bryce's work! After watching Ratatouille, Elina's cute little mouse costume became a "RAT" (said with emphasis). Elina loved telling everyone about it too! After seeing all of the other boys in Super hero, football, pirate, etc. costumes, I think he felt a little self conscious with Aaron as a little Duck! :) I figure it was a free costume and wasn't going to complain. Needless to say, he went to Walmart the day after and bought an astronaut costume for Aaron to wear next year!The kids ended up getting sick on Halloween, so we made a quick visit to the ward chili cook off (in which Bryce's Hoppin' Johns won 3rd place) then spent the evening watching How to Train Your Dragon and handing out candy! What a month!