October 2014

The month began with General Conference. It was so wonderful - I feel like it always comes at the best time for me. A little while after school starts again and things get scheduley and busy and then comes this great reminder of how important the Gospel is in our lives. Love that feeling of being re-centered and reminded! 

This little friend had her first birthday. She's my favorite one year-old in the whole world. 

On Hannah's birthday, Rebecca was running around in a fireman costume (see her hand there) AND Jeff brought home an adding machine he got at an antique store. The children were quite enthralled with it and are still mourning that the machine took its place in Jeff's office on campus instead of remaining in the garage. Several times I'd be looking for Jacob in the house before mealtime or something and I'd find him in the garage, calculating. Well, really, adding. It is pretty amazing. 

Jacob finished his soccer season. He had fun with his friends from school and their team played pretty well, very well for some of the games. I will confess to being glad to have our Saturday mornings free to do what we want now and no practice Tuesday nights, but it was a fun few weeks. 

Here are five of the six of us at the ward Halloween party for church. We snagged best group costume: fire truck, flame, firefighter, ladder, and dalmatian (minus her ears).  Jacob went as R2-D2 but people thought he was a fire hydrant. 

Kendall came to visit! My cousin came from Idaho and stayed with us for a few nights while he was looking for work and coming to a school orientation in Findlay, OH. So good to see him again, it had been a long time!

Taking out the pumpkin guts. She was very much wanting to plant the seeds right then but somehow I convinced her it wouldn't work unless we waited until Spring...

Jeff;s handiwork, stellar as usual!  Tinkerbell, Yoda, Butterfly and one we'll call Fun With Different Drill Bits. 

There are better pictures of them all looking but Hannah's face cracks me up in this one. Trick or treating was on the 30th so we got all that fun out of the way before the school parties. 

Trick or treating in effortless style...

Our school does a costume parade every year. So fun to see everyone!  And I thought it would be fun to count Elsas but in the end, keeping track of Sarah getting in and out of the stroller and there being at least 6 in just the kindergarten classes made me rethink that idea. Rebecca went as Fancy Nancy this day, a last minute decision. 

Jacob as R2-D2. His friend from class was "The Banana Lady," as he called it. 

Sometime around Halloween Hannah showed her ability to stack popcorn flavor containers. I think I snapped the picture just as she swiped the top one off the stack very quickly. 

Jacob at his class party on Halloween. They had early dismissal that day (end of the quarter) so it was fun and fun and more fun. Then they came home and we had some more fun!

The Kindergarten party was pretty happenin', too. She told me she wanted to be Fancy for the picture, because Fancy Nancy.