Happy Halloween

I liked all of these pictures for different reasons, so I included them all. :)

Jenna was a mad scientist, Will was a cheetah, and Adam was a pirate. We went to the stake trunk-or-treat and then Joel took the kids around the neighborhood. They came home with a ridiculous amount of candy. They filled a gallon sized ziplock bag... each. The sugar rushes will be coming for many many days. :) 

Comparison

Here are all four of our kids around the age of four months. What do you think?

Four Months

How is this girl already four months old?

Pictures

Jenna and Will have their school pictures back, and I took some pictures of Adam and Audrey for the wall...

Eight is Great!

William is EIGHT! I can hardly believe it. For his birthday I made chocolate chocolate chip cupcakes with marshmallow frosting, and Will wanted M&Ms and sprinkles on top. They turned out pretty cute, I thought. 

We had spaghetti and garlic bread for dinner at his request, and then after dinner he opened presents. He got a card from Grandma Flash and Grandma K, a pocketknife from Dad, and scriptures with his name on them. When he opened his scripture bag he was kind of turning it over and over like he couldn't tell what it was. I asked him if he knew what it was and after a pause he replied, "A purse?" He seemed pretty confused that we would get him something like that. When we told him it was a scripture bag for his new quad he was much happier.

Everyone enjoyed the cupcakes. After that Will picked a movie to watch and they even got to stay up past their bedtime because they didn't have school the next day. At the end of the day I asked him if he had a good birthday, and he said that it was one of the best days of his life! :) He's such a funny kid.

His baptism is on the third of November and we are so excited for that. I can't believe he's already to this huge milestone.

More Randomness

Here are some more random pictures. 

Audrey doesn't really like to sit in her Bumbo. But every now and again she'll sit in it happily for awhile.

Adam has been all about holding Audrey lately. I think he likes it more than she does.

She's a strong girl and can hold up her head and upper torso pretty well.

Jenna snapped a picture of the sunrise one morning before school. She was disappointed that the picture didn't look as pretty as real life.

Some more holding.

 Can you read what it says? "Welcome to CRHD (Castle Rock Hospital District) Joel Robertson PA". Fun!

The dear are not at all unusual around here, but I still get a kick out of seeing them. I really felt like this one was staring me down this morning. It was just chillin' right outside our back door.

Random things

This post will be mostly pictures with a  little explanation.

There are deer all over the place here in Green River. There's a grop of around 5 or 6 deer, I think, that live right by our townhouse. They are always in our back yard or in the street, or in this case right by our neighbor's front door.

 There are also a lot of walking paths around town. We took a walk by the river, and Adam borrowed Joel's sunglasses for "sun block".

 The weekend before last we took a quick tri p up to the Lovell area. We got there late Thursday, and on Friday we had lunch at Minchow's Food Court, played at the park, and went out to the cemetery.

Joel and his brothers went golfing Saturday morning. Joel was this close to a hole-in-one.

 Grandma Flash came over Saturday to see miss Audrey. Jenna was showing her off. Audrey was a little cranky at first,but then she fell asleep and let G Flash hold her and we had a lovely visit.

Saturday evening Brenda made pizza and all of Joel's siblings and their families came over for dinner. Dane was eating out on the deck with the kids and it was too cute not to take a picture.

We were all there for a family picture. Fun!! After the picture the boys started throwing a football around the kids were chasing and tackling each other. It was a lot of fun to watch, and the kids had so much fun running around. I wish I had some pictures of that.

Sunday afternoon we were able to go visit my Aunt Barbara, and we even got to chat with my Aunt Elaine and Uncle Allen for a bit. I was sad I didn't get to see them more, but I look forward to seeing them more often now that we live closer.

Sunday evening we all got together for dinner at Grandma and Grandpa Asay's house. After dinner the kids were all outside playing and Jenna found this snake. She thought it was so awesome! The kids all had fun touching it.

We came home Monday, which was Labor Day. It is nice being only a 5.5 hour drive away from Lovell and our family up there!

Here's the sunset from our front door in Green River.

Last Friday Jenna got to spend the afternoon and evening at my cousin's house, playing with her second cousins. Here she is with Allison, Isabel, and little Amelia. She had so much fun!

And here's a picture of a smiling Audrey. She's a sweetheart!