Day 3 of Grandma & Papa's Visit

Well, we took it easy on Sunday. We were all exhausted from all the fun we had over the weekend. We went to church. We had a wonderful Primary Program in Sacrament Meeting. All of the kids had speaking parts (Aspen & Sierra had 2), Sierra played a piano solo, and the 4 older ones sang the 2 middle verses of "This is My Beloved Son" all by themselves. They all did a GREAT job. It was so beautiful and the spirit could be felt strongly. On the way home from church my mom took some pretty pictures of the fall colors. When we got home, we had "Thanksgiving!" Mom thought it would be fun to have a Thanksgiving dinner, since we won't be able to be with our families this year. It was Yummy!! After that, we all rested. Trent & Beth came over later, so Aspen could finally open her Birthday presents. All in All a great day!!

Day 2 of Grandma & Papa's Visit

On the second day of my parent's visit, we took the kids swimming at the indoor pool of their hotel. They had fun just hanging out. After swimming, we went to the Indy Children's Museum. It was packed, but still lots of fun! Then we went home and got ready for our ward's Trunk or Treat. We all dressed up, and had a good time visiting, eating and getting lots of candy! Enjoy the pics!

Day 1 of Grandma & Papa's Visit

Grandma & Papa came to visit, and we had lots of fun showing them around our new home. We went to the "Punket Catch" as Marina would call it, and then we went out to see the Headless Horseman. Boy, was that fun! I decided I better do a slide show, since I wanted to include tons of pictures. Believe it or not, I didn't use them all. Grandma ended up taking well over 100 pictures of our day. The first slide show is of Waterman's Farm. The second slide show is at Conner Praire, where the Headless Horseman hangs out. Hope you enjoy!!

My mom recorded parts of the spooky hayride, but we weren't allowed to use flash photography. So this is a movie of us when the Headless Horseman scares us. By the way, the really loud screaming is me! He totally freaked me out! (and Harley wasn't having it at all!) Listen carefully, and you can hear the horse galloping. We were wearing glow sticks, so the little green things are us.

Just in Time For Halloween

We woke up to this very cool & spooky fog this morning. The kids thought it was so awesome to be able to walk to the bus stop in it...and I do mean IN it!! Can you see the bus in the picture?? That is only about 5 houses down the street!!

This is a view of the woods behind our house. I thought it was so pretty with the fog!!

Indiana Weather Station

This is the funniest sign I have seen in awhile! Notice the rope hanging to the right, then read the sign to figure out what the weather is like!!

Covered Bridge Festival

Yesterday, we decided to do some more exploring here in Indiana. About 1 1/2 hours west of Indy is Parke County. Every October they have a Covered Bridge Festival. This county has the most covered bridges in the state. We only saw a handful of them, but it was really fun and interesting.

Roller Coaster Weather!

Well, remember a few weeks back, I posted about the nice fall weather. Well, like a week after that we were back into the upper 80s even the lower 90s. Monday was a record, not only for that day, but for the latest October has ever seen 91 degrees! Ok, fine, I can deal with that. After all, I was born and raised in Vegas. Fast forward only 2 days later. We have dropped more than 30 degrees in less than 48 hours! Today's high was 57 degrees, with the wind chill, it felt cooler than that. Now, they are saying that by the weekend we should be back up towards the low to mid 70s. Can't Mother Nature just make up her mind??

It's driving me nuts because I can't quite put away the summer clothes, but I am having to also get out the bulky winter clothes! Did I mention that I have 4 girls in one room, sharing one closet??? Yeah, that's not working out so well!!

I was told that Indiana's weather was temper mental, but come on!!

In Honor of Fall

Well, I wanted to do something different for fall on my blog. I really liked this, and I hope all of you do to. If you like it and want to do something like this on your blog go to http://www.matiekay.blogspot.com. The layouts are free!! Hope you enjoy!!

Look at HIS Pumpkin!!

Thomas saw this on his way down to work the other morning. He got a kick out of it!!

Thank Goodness!!

Those of you who know my daughter Sierra, know that she is a bit accident prone.....okay, a lot accident prone. Well, tonight Aspen came running into the house and told me that Sierra had tripped and that she couldn't get up. I go out and help her get in the house, put some ice on her ankle, and get her some ibuprofen. All the while thinking, I've got to go and make sure it's not broken. She has already fractured her elbow, and her 5th metatarsal in her left foot. (All within a year of each other!) Apparently she has tender bones. Anyways, I took her to a quick care, and thank goodness, (hence the title to the post) it isn't broken, just a bad sprain. He told her to stay off of it for awhile and let it heal.

Let's all breathe a sigh of relief!!! (((((((aaaaaahhhhhh)))))))

THANK GOODNESS!!!

Look at the new trick daddy taught me!

In case you were wondering...those are green beans from dinner.
Thanks Thomas!!