October 2018

I love it when Jared and Nikelle send pictures of visiting Brody's grave.  Such a calm peaceful place to be.

Blake and Jared had to replace the water heater at Grandma Purcell's house. It was not a fun job, but they got it done.

We celebrated my 60th birthday on the 6th, because everyone could be here. (My birthday is on the 15th)  I love having my kids and grandkids here.  I had a lot of help blowing out the candles.

We had some fun with play dough.

Blake and Maden played some pool, and the other kids had fun playing house and school.

Ryder brought us a pumpkin for our porch.  He was a little worried about the dragon at Walmart, this is as close as he would get on this day.  Clark loves to play with the pickups and trailers, he hooks them all up and then lines them up and then plays with them in the chair for hours.

We got to have Molly overnight on the 12th.  When she woke up that morning she told her parents that she wanted to play hopscotch, they told her maybe I would play with her and boy she didn't forget, it was the first thing we did when we got here.  We did her kiwi crate and she loved the little cake we made.

On my birthday, Blake and I took a little drive to the Star Valley area, we stayed overnight, then went to the temple the next morning.  Jared was working over there, so we stopped in to see him in on the job.  Molly got to go to a pumpkin patch for a field trip with preschool, she loved seeing Mickey and Minnie there.  Annie is so good to play with the little kids, she and Ryder were playing school together.

Oct. 20th - Brian and Celia were out of town, so the kids were staying with us for the weekend.  Nikelle, Courtney and I went to a baby shower in Ogden and left Blake, Randy and Jared in charge of the 5 kids.  They took them to IJump in Pocatello.  It was kind of fun, Annie, Maden and Molly loved it.  (for some reason, I didn't have a picture of Molly) Clark only liked the ball pit, Ryder liked it until he hurt his ankle.  After the jump place they took them to Pizza Pie Cafe.  They all survived!

In the evening, Jared (the hunter), Molly (the fox) and Nikelle (the deer) went to their ward party.  Such cute costumes!  Randy, Courtney, Ryder, Maden, Annie, Clark, Blake and I went to the Snake River High School to a play all about Dr. Suess.  It was a great performance with a lot of singing, the kids all loved it. Afterward, Annie got to try on the cat's hat.

Annie and Maden got to attend our ward's Primary, they were having a missionary day, and we got these cute pictures of them.  I love the one where Maden is photo bombing! Annie's hair turned out really cute that day. Ryder came over for a movie and popcorn, everyone loves to sit on grandpa's lap.

Look, Ryder got closer to the dragon.  Molly fell and hit her head at preschool, the Kleenex was to wipe her eyes and nose, but apparently it helped her head too.  Ryder got to stay overnight one night, and he and grandpa had some fun in the hot tub with the colored lights.

Ryder and Randy came to help sweep up the leaves.  Ryder loved getting in the trailer with all the leaves.  They almost covered him up! They swept up the red leaves from Anderson's yard too.

We had a family party to celebrate this cutie's 6th birthday.  I really don't know where time goes.  Annie is such a cute, bubbly, cheerful, happy girl.  She was so excited about every aspect of her party.

After the party, we all got ready to go to Boo at the Zoo.  Clark wore his Lightning McQueen jacket, Ryder was Blaze (I didn't get a picture with his eyes open) Molly was in Utah with her parents, but she went to a pumpkin patch in her cute fox costume, Annie was rainbow dash, and I can't remember the name of what Maden was.  They all looked so cute.

There were some super people at Boo at the Zoo, named Brian and Celia. There was a monster waiting to scare Blake after this picture.  Ryder spent most of the time sitting on his dads or moms shoulders, which was nice for him, but hard on them.  

Halloween turned out to be a really chilly night.  Molly told me that it was freezing. But she sure is a cute fox!  When we took Ryder to Trick or Treat at my parents, he said Trick OR Treat when she opened the door, with a huge emphasis on the OR.  We all got a good laugh at that.  Poor Annie had little accident involving the corner of a chair when she was running to answer the door for Trick or Treaters.  Thankfully, she was able to recover enough to go out and do her own trick or treating.