Thanksgiving

We went to Ryan and Venessa's for Thanksgiving. We had a great dinner and went to see Frozen on Thanksgiving.  Friday we went the the beach.  Danny had a great time fishing with Ryan. Seth loved playing Jake and the Neverland pirates on the pirate ship at the playground.  It was great weather and we all had a good time.  Saturday Ryan and Grandpa took Danny fishing again and then we went to the park and came home.  We also had fun meeting "new baby" Ella who was born on Monday.

Ruby is 3

For Ruby's birthday we went to Grandma's house. She was so excited.  We were thinking about going to Disneyland. Ever since going to Disneyland in May, Ruby regularly told us we need to go again.  But after her trip to stay with Grandma in September, she stopped talking about Disneyland and instead always wanted to go to Grandma's house.  We had a great time.  We went to the arcade and miniature golf.  And we went up to Three Rivers and played on the big rocks and went to Reimer's ice cream shop.   

Ruby is such a fun girl.  She loves to play with Seth, go to gymnastics and jump on the trampoline.  Her nursery leaders have told us many times that she is "feisty".  That is a very good word to describe her.  We sure love our tiny Ruby!

What makes you happy: looking at pictures
Favorite food: chicken nuggets
Favorite thing to do: go to gymnastics
Favorite TV show: Animal mechanicals
What are you really good at: painting

Favorite Movie: Cars

Favorite color: pink
Favorite song: Raindrops on roses

Best friend: Seth

What do you and your mom do together: play toys

What do you and your dad do together: tickle

Favorite place to go:  Disneyland

Favorite animal: Penguins and horseys

Favorite Book:  Dinosuars

What do you want me to be when you grow up:  mommy

Halloween

We had a fun Halloween week. The kids had a halloween piano recital on Monday night.  They did great.  Wednesday night was our Trunk r Treat.  Bob was in charge, as the ward mission leader, so I went around with the little kids and then we handed out candy.  Thursday was Halloween and we went over to Shauna Reed's house and had pizza and then went trick or treating.  It was a huge group.  The kids had lots of fun.  Danny and Aaron were sumo wrestlers, Rachel was a crayon box, Seth was a power ranger one night and spiderman from last year one night, and Ruby was Sophia the first.

Ruby was really cooperative while we took these pictures. 

New Family Pictures

Grandma and Grandpa took our family pictures this year on the wall around the corner from our house.  They did a great job.  And then I did quite a bit of photoshop because 4 out of our 5 kids needed some kind of injury photoshopped off their face.  Rachel was the flawless face.

Aaron's Baptism

Aaron's baptism was the week after his birthday.  And since everyone came his birthday weekend, only Grandma and Grandpa were able to make it back for his baptism.  But that was ok.  We still had a great time. Sandy and May and Aaron's friends, Tyson and Collin came too.  It was a beautiful day.  He had a great football game in the morning.  We did the baptism and confirmation in the afternoon. Rachel gave the talk on the Holy Ghost and she did an amazing job.  It was wonderful.  Aaron said he felt so warm and happy and wanted to do it again. And that night we left Seth and Ruby with a babysitter and went to the restaurant at the top of the Stratosphere.  It was a great day.  We're so proud of Aaron and his choice to be baptized.

Aaron is 8

Aaron's birthday happened to fall on the day of the Pumpkinman, so we had lots of family around for his birthday.  Sadly, I didn't get any good pictures of that. Aaron had a Reece's ice cream cake and got some foam swords, clue the game, and a spy watch.

We celebrated his birthday with friends a few weeks later when we went to Warehouse Wars and Flip n Out.

What makes you happy:  When people are nice to me
Favorite food: Pepperoni pizza
Favorite thing to do: play soccer with friends
Favorite TV show: Studio C
What are you really good at: football and soccer

Favorite Movie:Despicable Me 2

Favorite color:  light blue
Favorite song: Radioactive

Best friend: Tyson Pettingill

What do you and your mom do together: talk at night

What do you and your dad do together: play football

Favorite sport: soccer and football

Favorite place to go: Washington D.C.

Favorite animal: dogs and cats

Favorite Book: Goosebumps: You can't scare me

What do you want me to be when you grow up: GIS person at the water district like Dad

Pumpkinman

We did the pumpkin man again.  Bob and Grandpa Cliff did the full sprint and did great.  Jean, Ryan and Dustin did a relay sprint.  It's so fun to get together for this race.  Ryan brought his whole family and Kristal came too.  The race almost got cancelled this year because of the government shutdown.  But two days before, the government reopened and we could use the lake. The race seemed to be less crowded this year because of that.

Seth and Ruby's Adventure

Seth and Ruby went to Visalia with Grandma Zonda and Grandpa Cliff while we were on our trip.  We talked it up before they went so they wouldn't miss us too much. They loved their "adventure".  They went to parks and the mall and fed the turtles and swam in the hot tub and picked out Halloween costumes.  Grandma and Grandpa took them to the Tulare County Fair.  And they went down to Ryan and Venessa's for a weekend.