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I have tons of Disney and Halloween pictures to post, but 1st I have to brag about Dallas's award! He entered the Reflections contest with a painting of a picture we took in Yellowstone and he was one of the few that were selected to go on to Council! Great Job Bud!!! We are so proud of you! Here are a few of the pictures from that day.

Above is his actual painting and below is the inspirational photo from Yellowstone.

He did an awesome job! Luckily we took a color copy of it before we sent it in, then I had to take a photo of it to be able to get it on the blog... so hopefully you can still see some details!.

It doesn't look as good as it does in person, but at least you get the picture :o)

He was one of 6 (only the kids with medals around their necks are going to Council)

I love, LoVe, LOVE our family pictures!!!

My sister Kimberly is an awesome photographer! She did such a great job! They turned out exactly how I wanted them! If anyone needs a photographer, she is great!

"The Boys"

just another cute one of Jordan
Thank you again Kim! We love them!

Where did October Go????

I have tons of October posts and no time to post them in! Be patient and hopefully I will get to them soon!

Micailey's a photographer!

This year in school, Dallas and Micailey were supposed to turn in a Reflections entry. The theme was "Beauty is....." . Dallas painted a picture of a picture we took while we were in Yellowstone this year (I'll post a picture of it later) and Micailey was going to paint a picture too. She had it all drawn out on her art paper and then got tired of doing it and procrastinated.... point is, it was due on Monday and we were going camping all weekend. So she decided she wasn't going to turn an entry in. While we were camping we took a walk and I told her to take some pictures of the beautiful fall colors and nature so that just in case she changed her mind, she could turn in a photograph. So as we walked, we looked for beautiful stuff and these are a few of the best ones she took. She did really good!

This is the one we ended up turning in. I love it! I just might enlarge it and hang it on my wall! :) It kind of reminds me of the Sacred Grove in a way.

Even on Sunday, she still said she wasn't turning in an entry so I didn't worry about doing anything for it and then .....

10 MINUTES!!!!!

..... before her ride picked her up on Monday, she changed her mind and was begging to be able to turn in an entry! That is Micailey for you!

So we read the instructions really quick for photography and no where on there did it say that it HAD to be printed on actual photo paper, so we printed it on plain paper and backed it with cardboard and slid it in a sheet protector and "wallah", she had a Reflections entry.

What a circus! She had to walk to school by herself because she missed her ride, but she was proud of it! Ahh, the things you do for your kids!

Good Luck Micailey and Dallas!

Thanks for the visit Ginger!

Ginger and I grew up in Camarillo together. She was in our ward and we became good friends. I haven't seen her in about 15 years. She lives in Boston now but some of her family lives here in Lehi and she was able to come visit me when she was here. It was so fun to catch up and reminisce. Thanks for the visit Ginger! Someday maybe we'll be able to come see you and meet your family!

Camping during fall break

The grandkids roasting marshmallows

The boys... so excited to have a "shmallow"

Jordan enjoying his "shmallow"

Shelby & Cohen

Putting a puzzle together in the trailer

Breakfast in Grandmas trailer....pancakes & bacon.... YUM!

Grandpa and his "buddy" on our morning walk

Micailey and Sadie on our walk

Grandma and Macie

Micailey, Jordan, and Cohen (below) chillin by the fire after our walk

Micailey and Mackenzie "playing" in the fire

We had a lot of fun! It will be a lot better next year when it is warmer and the little kids are a little bit bigger, but it was fun to get out doors again!

A few Zoo pictures...

I never posted the rest of the pictures from Dallas's birthday at the zoo. We had a great time! They even got to pet a lizard of some sort...

Funny story about this elephant! We knew that there was a baby elephant at the zoo and had been waiting a few months to be able to go see it. We even asked the zoo keeper by the elephants if the baby was out for viewing and she said "yes, it's over in the next exhibit." So we hurry over there and the only elephant we see is this one and it's really hard to judge size when it's so far away... right? Anyway, I'm standing by my sister and she asks me where the baby elephant is. Not being able to any other elephants in this exhibit I tell her that the baby elephant is right there. She then questions the size and I justify my answer by the fact the elephants must grow really fast and the zoo keeper said this was it... so we take pictures of this elephant....

then we see the next picture down-

Can you see that little tiny elephant come out! It was so cute! All of the sudden the other elephant looks gigantic!!! Yes, I felt stupid! Anyway, the little baby got "stuck" climbing over this log! It was so adorable! I want a baby elephant!

Stuck on the log

Playing ball

Here's the baby giraffe... I want one of those too! Everything is so much cuter in miniature!

Mackenzie's favorite animal at the zoo is the giraffe so we had to get a picture of her with the baby giraffe!

Brinley is in the background of this one, but she insisted that she ride that one!

And a trip to the zoo is never complete with out a picture on the gorilla statue!

These last 2 pictures are from Wheeler Farms. We were about pictured out by the time we got there! But we had a really fun day FULL of animals!