Halloween

Only 2 "Trick or Treaters" left in this house!!  Only Quincy and Brinley went trick or treating this year...well kind of!  The Mecham girls came to go with them.  Brinley is with her favorite friend Kate and Quincy is with Kira...Kate's older sister.  They headed out and covered the whole neighborhood.  Kade was in a stupor as to what he should do this year.  Too old to just dress up and go, but not quite ready to give it up all together.  Luckily for him, the girls took him up on his offer to "take" them around.  As he had hoped by doing this...he ended up with a huge bag of candy.  As you can see, Quincy and Brinley both decided to be "babies" this year.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Carving Pumpkins

On a Tuesday night when Dad was home we carved pumpkins.  Hurray that Dad was home to help!  Kylee was in St. George at school but the rest of the kids had a great time.  Grateful my older kids still like to do fun things!!  They are all getting old enough that they each did most of it on their own.

Brinley's 1st Grade Halloween Program

Brinley got to dress up for her Halloween Program.  She of course wanted to be a Princess...Cinderella!  Her program was really cute.  She did a great job singing and doing all of the hand actions.  Much improved from last year when she refused to participate in any of the actions.  We loved it when they sang some songs in Chinese.  That was really cool.  It is amazing how quickly they are learning.

 This was pretty funny...Brinley had told Chris NOT to try to take a picture of her as she was walking off the stage.  Of course that just encouraged him more.  This is her trying to hide behind her friend, then hide behind her hands, and then finally just growling at him in disgust.  What would our kids do without a big tease for a father???

Emilee's 15th Birthday!

I can't believe Emilee is already 15!!  Next year she will date and drive!  She was sure to get her driving permit only days after her Birthday. Now she begs to drive everywhere we go.  All she wanted this year for her birthday was money.  She wanted to be sure that she has plenty of money to spend in Disneyland when we go with the Hadley family in February.  She is determined to save it all and get her name done in Princesses like Kylee did.

Some fun things about Emilee at age 15...

* She has tons and tons of friends.  Everyone loves her!

* She is really picky about her clothes.  She makes very careful decisions when buying them, but she always looks cute!

* She loves volleyball...she is on the Box Elder freshman volleyball team.

* She loves to play the piano in her spare time.  We love listening to her learn new songs.

* She can talk for HOURS on the phone with her friend Lexi!

* She loves to hang out with the Teachers in our ward who are her age.  We might be in trouble next year when they can take her on dates!

She loves it when Kylee comes home from college and she has someone to share the basement with again!

She is a talented, beautiful girl and we are so glad she is ours!!

Happy Birthday Emilee

Halloween Sugar Cookies!

You can't have Halloween without making Halloween sugar cookies.  I loooove sugar cookies.  I have adapted our recipe so that it uses half the fat than it used to and we add about half wheat flour...much to Kade's demise.  The final product is a little different than they used to be but still a great cookie.  And we can eat them without feeling terrible afterwards!!  Who doesn't love to frost and decorate a sugar cookie?? 

Grandpa Wyatt's Funeral

On October 23, 2012 Grandpa Wyatt passed away.  We are sad to see him gone but oh so happy to know that he is free from his body that wasn't working anymore.  I just know that he is having the best time in Heaven walking and talking!  He has spent so many years confined to his chair and the last several years unable to talk or communicate.  He loved to talk and I know he is enjoying having that restored!  Even though a funeral isn't the most favorable of circumstances to gather for, it was fun to see all of our family.  Almost eveyone was there.  Grandma Wyatt did a great job caring for Grandpa until the very end.  It was a huge sacrifice on her part and she has been a great example to all of us.

What a blessing to know where he is and that we will see him again.  What a great reunion it will be in Heaven.  We love you Grandpa!

Layton Surf & Swim

Over Fall Break the kids had several days off school...but Chris did not have any days off of work.  We had Friday night though...so we met Chris at Layton Surf & Swim.  The waves were fun and we were some of the only ones there.  We almost had the whole place to ourselves.  We got Subway sandwiches for dinner and stayed until we were swam out.  We stopped on the way home and got a movie to watch at home.  Turned out to be a pretty fun night.