Gabbie can sit up!

Gabbie has been sitting for a few weeks now, and has mastered it!

She is pretty proud of herself!  What a sweet baby girl she is.

Our crazy elders!

Thurs. Oct. 25th was the first snowfall of the season.  Our two crazy elders, Elder Banks from Arizona, and our new little greenie, Elder Wenner from New Mexico, were so excited for the snow!

They both made snow angels,

here's Elder Wenner

and Elder Banks

I LOVE FALL!!!

Fall is such a fun time of the year.  We have been enjoying the beautiful weather and have had fun taking our granddaughters to see all the fun Halloween decorations.  There is a great pumpkin patch up close to where Josh's family lives, so we took the girls to check it out.

There were lots of fun things to see

Merijane was at work, but Josh came along 

On Saturday, we went to Gardner Village with Krista and her girls.

It was a little chilly and rainy early in the day,

but with jackets, it was really nice.

 We ran into Kathy, Carissa and Morgan

3 cute girls!

Thanks girls for letting us come along, what a fun day!

Today, after school, Jamie, Emily and their girls met us at Gardner Village.  

They had other things going Saturday, so I thought It would be fun to go with them today.

They had a lady teaching them how to draw spiders

It was a BEAUTIFUL day today!

We loved seeing all the witches again!

Now I have fun new pictures of all our girls for my fall picture frames!  

Halloween pictures

Tonight, we had all our kids,  grandkids, Mom, Dad and Lani over for dinner.  I had found these cute Halloween shirts for the girls and here is a picture we took of them.  We got all the big girls actually looking pleasant, and the babies, not crying!  Quite an accomplishment!!!!

Mom gave the girls fun Halloween books that she read to them.

It was a beautiful day, so the girls played outside for a while

                                     

After dinner, they painted the pumpkins Mike had poured for them.  I envisioned cute little orange pumpkins,

but I made the mistake of getting out the other colors so they could paint stems, and that's when it got crazy!

Before I knew what had happened, they were painting them all kinds of wild colors.

 What a bunch of funny girls!

     

Dad turns 84!

Sunday was Dad's 84th birthday.  We had a fun celebration at Lani's house with LOTS and LOTS of family!  Here he is modeling the new BYU jacket we gave him, he looks pretty good for an 84 year old guy don't you think!

The girls eating the cake pops Krista made

The guys just standing around chatting.

Just visiting after dinner.

more visiting

and even more visiting

 Skyler, Kara and baby Lucy

Me and sleepy Gabbie

Lani and Kelsi

Ric and Taylor

Krista and Merijane

High five for Taylor!

 Abbie

Jeff and Jen

Hailey lost her first tooth

Notice anything different about this darling little girl?

Yesireee, she lost her first tooth,  Hailey is our first granddaughter to lose a tooth.

Katie can ride a 2 wheeler!!!!!

This week when we went to tend Josh's girls, Katie had been practicing on her balance bike, which is a bike that Josh took the chain and peddles off (no training wheels) of so she could learn to ride a bike.  This is how Molly and Libbie both learned so easily.  Anyway, I was watching her ride it, and she had such great balance, I told Josh he should take the training wheels off her regular bike and let her try that out.  

  He did, and she was AMAZING!!!!  Here are some cute pictures of our little 3 year old riding a 2 wheeler after 5 minutes of no training wheels.  

Here's a little short video of Katie on 2 wheels, she was LOVING it!!!!
(Just click the arrow key and it should play)