Birthday boy!

      We have another adult in the house! How did that happen?! For Isaac's 18th birthday he bought ME a new pair of Nike's! What a good boy! Definitely my favorite! He also requested acoustic tiles for his bedroom so he can soundproof it. I don't know what exactly he has in mind but I'm happy to fulfill requests that are within my price range for birthday gifts.

    And I love a simple pumpkin pie request instead of a birthday cake that I have to make. Costco pumpkin pie is always a win at our house!

    And then it was the Halloween parade at the school and if Covid's done anything positive in my life it's this, no parents allowed at the school for big events like Halloween parades and class parties! Yay! I'm a total poor-sport when it comes to the school activities so I'm glad I had a legitimate excuse for not watching the kids walk around the gym for an hour this morning. Plus these two kids keep wearing the same costume every year so it's nothing new to see.

     Now we'll see if regular trick-or-treating will happen tomorrow. I've got a lot of full sized candy bars to hand out so I hope at least a few brave children and their parents head out. I'm sending my kids out and hopefully enough neighbors will be good sports and pass out candy. This Covid business is getting out of control. They sent out alerts on our phone today as if we're in some kind of state of emergency. Don't they realize, at this point, its a virus and it's going to spread no matter what rules they give us!? This is getting crazy! Can't wait to see what happens next week. Maybe Jesus will finally come! We need Jesus!

Refer to last post

      I dropped my most recent photos on my last post and have nothing new to add. It's been a quiet week. We did vote and we are looking forward to making cobblers Sunday evening and hope we have a few neighbors join us. 

Photo overload/RV to Nyssa Oregon

     We had such a fun time in Nyssa, Oregon visiting the Baker's! Taking the RV was an added bonus and made for a more comfortable road trip. Gas was a bit expensive but it was a fun experience overall. Here are photos of all the fun we had over the 4 days. Tad hooked us up with lots of fun stuff and the weather was gorgeous every single day. 

Here we go, all 7 kids, one dog and one cute grandbaby!

Beau meeting Great Grandma and Grandpa Baker for the first time.

Our set up for the four nights.

Fun with cousins

Games

Playsets and tire swings.

An overall fun and gorgeous yard to enjoy.

Fishing for sturgeon at a nearby pond.

The kids loved this fishing fun.

Our first glimpse of Grandpa's new ride. He won this after buying $75 dollars worth of raffle tickets. 

Back to more fishing fun.

Carter was the master fisherman.

Beautiful place to spend a few hours fishing.

Luke was the 'sturgeon whisperer' and a rockstar at unhooking and releasing the fish.

Carter pretty much never missed.

Jim the fisherman/instructor. He was a character.

    Back to fun stuff at Tad's.

Race car rides for the win!

This is a real photo taken by Greg from Tad and Megan's backyard, it's frame-worthy for sure!

Aunt Ann wins favorite aunt with a piñata for Austin's birthday.

Ford is a Baker for sure. Off to the Model-A to eat his stash of candy. How can you not love this cute boy!?

So many fun toys to ride on and enjoy.

Cousins, cousins, everywhere you turn.

Another fun ride.

These boys want to make their own cool go-kart.

And when you're at the Baker's you learn to bake!

Baby Beau had endless entertainment.

A fun Christmas craft with lots of help from Aunt Megan.

And we ended the weekend with a fun drive out to the Owyhee reservoir and dam. 

Carter was the master rock skipper.

     So that's the photo explosion of all our fun over the past several days. We're so glad we could get away and spend time with family. We had lots of yummy food, lots of fun visiting and no shortage of fun things to ride around in. We wish we had all our siblings and their families there but maybe next time!

A quiet week.

     It's been a fairly quiet week. General Conference was amazing and I'm looking forward to reviewing all the talks in the coming weeks and months. I watched all the sessions and didn't even take a nap, that's a first! We got some amazing direction from our great church leaders and several talks spoke directly to my spirit. So happy we have direction from a living prophet and apostles.

Charlie made a jack-o-lantern. She didn't realize how gross a job it is so of course she got help from dad.

      Our neighbor got a ride with Greg on the Harley and loved it so much that he was back about 20 minutes later for a second ride. He was in heaven and despite the awkward man hands on Greg's shoulders and waist, he was happy to give him a ride around town.

     So those are the highlights from our week; a great general conference, lovely weather all week long with lots of pleasant evenings on the porch and of course a lovely Sunday evening with lots of yummy homemade ice cream to enjoy. 

Butterflies and birthdays

    First, we can't skip over cute baby Beau wearing the dress I bought her in Australia, it finally fits! So pretty!

     And we finally got to meet Jack the butterfly. Of course we missed the official 'pop-out' from the chrysalis but we got to watch him/her stretch his wings and get ready to fly, that didn't take long either.

This all happened in a few short hours.

Saying hi and by.

Opened the door and off he/she flew.

This was a fun time.

     And then it was McClane's 10th birthday on Wednesday. He was sure excited to get his balloons and the Nintendo Switch he's been begging for, for months. He also requested a strawberry jello-cheesecake. I don't think it was as good as he expected but oh well, we'll know better for next time.

    So that was a good week! We're sure excited for General Conference weekend! We've got our food plans in motion and it promises to be a great weekend full of spiritual enlightenment, renewing and direction. Let the fun begin!