Photo Shoot

Yesterday Jenna took many photos of Audrey playing outside. I am impressed with Jenna's skills! She had a pretty cute subject, too! Also featuring in the pictures is the new play set that we got from my friend Holly who is moving soon. The kids are loving it already. I love these pictures!

William is 12!

I can hardly believe I am typing this, let alone that it actually happened. William is 12! That is just crazy! He got to open presents bright and early on his birthday. And since he turned the big 1-2 he got his big Aunt Amy blanket! He was really excited about that! He chose a Kit-Kat M&M cake, which was delicious if I do say so myself. 

He was ordained a Deacon this past Sunday. And in two weeks he will get to pass the sacrament for the first time. He is really growing up so much. He is still in piano lessons and rocking it! He and I got to play a duet together for his recital a few days ago and we had a great time! He is playing percussion in band this year. He also participates in student government at his school.  He is a great brother and such a help with Audrey, who loves him SO much! We are blessed to have William in our family!

Bean-Boozled

Have you ever played Bean-Boozled? If the answer is no, don't do it. If the answer is yes, then you understand our pain. We played bean-boozled, and learned our lesson. It was actually a lot of fun and we had a lot of great laughs, but I don't think anyone in our family will be playing that game again. At least not willingly.  William was the lucky one and he never got a bad bean. Joel was the unlucky one and never got a good bean. Afterwards we had to make some caramel popcorn to cleanse our pallets from the horrible flavors. I think from now on we'll stick with regular jelly beans.

Lovely Fall

The Saturday that Jenna was at State Marching Band was a beautiful day, so we took the rest of the kids for a walk down by the river. The weather was beautiful and mild. The kids stopped to throw about 400 rocks in the river. We saw geese and ducks and even two bald eagles. It was a great walk.

Deer

Joel took all of the kids to Laramie for a UW football game on Oct. 8th. On the way home Saturday night he hit a deer. It did this to our van. :( It is now in the process of getting fixed, but it will still be awhile before we get it back. I miss my van. I don't like that deer. 

Football and Band

This Fall Adam got to play flag football again. And he loved it, again. He had a great coach and team; they were undefeated.  He had so much fun, and scored many, many touchdowns.  He's also quite the flag grabber. He's a fast one! It also helped that Adam now has an inhalers for his exercise induced asthma, so he doesn't struggle with his breathe so much. We are very proud of him!

This year Jenna has had the opportunity to participate in the marching band. She wasn't able to take band as a class this year because she didn't have enough electives, but she chose to go to zero hour (class at 7 am) and practice with the band. She was in the percussion pit, so she didn't actually have to march. We got to watch her perform at football games, which was a lot of fun. They also went to State Marching Band in Casper and did very well. We are really proud of her for the work she put into it, and for not complaining about having to get up so early for school. She did great!

Mumford and Sons

I was a very lucky girl, and I got to go to a Mumford and Sons concert in Salt Lake with Adrienne!  I have wanted to see them live for years, and it was kind of just luck that we even found out there were coming to the area. The concert was at Usana Amphitheater, and at the end of September we were lucky that the weather was beautiful and mild. It was an awesome concert; words can't describe it. It helps that I love Mumford and Sons SO much (but even if I didn't, it would have been amazing!)  I hope they come back soon!