October

Life has been full to the brim lately.  Here is a recap of October...

I love our view of the temple!

 Geoff's sister Ingrid and her family came for a long weekend.  We went to Wheeler Farms.

Geoff and I took the 12-and-older crowd to the Salt Lake Temple to do baptisms, and then we went out to Hires.

We spent an afternoon in Sundance to admire the Fall foliage.

We celebrated Tate and Zoey's 2nd birthday.  It was a farm theme.

Geoff's sister Emily, the cute mom of these twins, and the creative hostess of this super cute party

One long weekend we drove to Auburn to move Geoff's dad out of the dear Auburn home. All of Geoff's siblings were there to help.  It was hard to say goodbye to the location of so many great memories.

Grandkids adoring Poppop at Tango

Last dinner

Geoff is doing an intensive IV therapy to revisit his health issues and got a port put in to make that process go more smoothly.

Ceci went to her first Cotillion (Tennie is now too old and Adele is on an off-year).  She loved dressing up.

We went to Witchfest at Gardner Village.

Just in the nick of time we got some pumpkins to carve.

And the girls carved them.

Ceci's is on the left, Adele's in the middle, and Tennie's on the right

Adele wanted to have a Halloween party.  She planned the entire thing; I only took her shopping for things she needed.  They had chili, salad and cornbread, a donut on a string contest, a Halloween trivia game and painted their nails.

On Halloween we found a suitable costume accessory for Geoff to wear to work.

 Adele was an Egyptian and Ceci a robber.

And Tennie was a gypsy/fortune teller.

We went to Geoff's sister Emily's for Halloween night.

Our sets of twins were chickens

Yesterday Adele and Ceci finished up their Fall soccer season.

Last night we had a Night of the Dead Indexing Marathon for the youth in our stake.  We started off with a Mexican dinner and then the youth jumped on a laptop to index.  Every hour we stopped for 10 minutes for games and snacks.  It was a 4-hour activity.  Super fun.

Snack table before snacks

And that's it!

General Conference

General Conference is so much fun, being right here in our neighborhood.  There is a positive energy everywhere.  Our building is full of visiting grandkids and friends, and the streets are full of conference-goers.

The girls set up their spots...

During the Priesthood session we girls made cornmeal, pumpkin donuts.

We always have enough to share.  We decided to offer them to our neighbors.  Tennie and Ceci painted on some chocolate mustaches for delivery.  At one neighbor's we were invited in to share with her guests; there were about forty people in there from Japan!  They took pictures of the mustaches.

After the Priesthood Session Geoff and the girls were playing soccer in the hallway.  Soon the neighbor's six grandchildren joined in, and then the other neighbor's two younger guests jumped in.  It was lively until 9:30PM.

You can't tell, but at this point six kids were playing against Geoff

I love this weekend.  It is slow and relaxed and we are all inspired to do and be a little better.  As a family we resolve to be more kind, more outward focused, and have a renewed commitment to center our lives on the Savior.

Catching Up...

Our days are full of learning and activity; I hardly seem to have a spare hour.  I have only a handful of pictures from the last two weeks, but it will give you a glimpse of some of the extra things we have squeezed in.

The girls took joined in the Meet My Grandma challenge to provide some stories about the Mormor they miss terribly

Ceci took apart her birthday stereo

We played a little family football in Memory Grove

We attended a concert at the Cathedral of the Madeleine.  It was our first time inside and it is gorgeous!  We sat right behind our sister-in-law, Liz's, cute parents!  It was so fun to see them.

Tennie finished up the first level of her acting class with a rooftop BBQ.  Her instructor Lance has become a family friend who loves Tennie's exuberance and talent.

We've had some rainy soccer games!  It sure is fun watching Adele and Ceci play!

Ceci having a farmer moment while buying a few roadside pumpkins

October 1st

A selfie for Nikki (a Yale Alumni)

Silver Lake with cousin Tag, Mitch and Joann