October 2011

Snapshots of life here in October

 David and Marissa made a huge pile of leaves to jump into.

 Megan and her friends Laura and 

Deanna had fun jumping on the trampoline in their new homecoming dresses from the thrift store.

 Amber and her cousin Nicole at their cousin Mackenzie's wedding.

Zombie Marissa and the Phantom of the Opera (David) on Halloween.

Stake dance time

This is a picture of the good looking bunch of girls that we took to the stake dance over the weekend. Three nonmember friends came. Now if we could only convince the boys to go!

Tree trimming

We spent a large part of Saturday cutting a couple huge branched off of our Box Elder tree. We were worried about it falling onto our neighbors property (Box Elders tend to be weak trees). So our friends the Allen's came and helped us. It was quite the team effort.

Here is the before image

Pulling the limb to make sure it falls the right way

Success! (it really isn't that close to the house)

The finished product

Now we are left with dirty snow!

The wood piles. Bring on the bonfire weather!

Friends visit

Our good friends, the Stanton's, made a quick trip to visit on Saturday and left early Sunday morning. We love that they have flight privileges and can make the trip from Georgia!

David had a wonderful day playing with Zachary and Heber!

The Crofts and Emma T. joined us for some trampoline fun!

We were sad when everyone had to leave!

Visiting West Linn

While in Oregon we HAD to visit friends in West Linn. We miss them!

The boys enjoyed visiting with Jacob and Ethan at Hammerle Park

Mary and Marissa

Connie, Amber and Alyssa

Jenna, Tess and Amber

Farewell

Our good friends have moved and we are sad. We tried to spend as much time as possible with them before they moved.

David, Zachary and Heber on the trampoline.

Marissa and Sicily

Marissa and Sicily enjoying the Mall of America together.

David, Zachary and Heber loved to find frogs in our backyard!

We had a going away gathering for them and had fun hanging out in our backyard.

The kids went on a frog hunt during the party. If you look closely you can count at least 8 frogs here.