Ghosties and Ghoulies--NOT!

Halloween on Sunday! It turned out really nice. Everyone in the family had their Halloween festivities on Saturday and then came at their leasure to our house to show off their costumes and frolic in the front yard in our nice weather and then to have soup in the pumpkin bread bowls. It turned out to be really nice and I didn't have to deal with the trick or treaters (just turned out the porch light). It was great!

Love our weather!

The girls

Toothless

The Last Aerbender

Ruthie the Fairy

The White Queen

What a Man!!!!

Matty the Pirate--aarrgghh!

The Cowgirl and the Pirate

White Queen, Belle, and Matty the Pirate

Belle and the Piratess

Reddin trying to scare the girls with Wayne's Wicked Witch costume

Matchy, matchy

The End

Matthew Turns Two!

It is hard to believe but little Matthew turned two on the 28th of October. We had FHE on the 25th at Carrie and Brendon's house so we celebrated Matthew's birthday. He is such a little sweetie and is doing so many more things than he has been able to do in the past. He has come a long way in two years since his REALLY rocky start. We all love him to pieces.

Excited about his birthday.

Opening presents

Such a big boy!

Matthew was more interested in eating the table than his birthday cookie and ice cream.

Picnic, Birthday, and Baptism

October brought a little bit of cooler weather--no hundred degree temperatures. These little kidlettes were over and decided they wanted to eat lunch outside. Voila--a picnic!

Chicken strips and chips were the order of the day.

Neil on the run

Saywer and Abby enjoying their feast

October also brought birthdays. Happy Birthday to Sawyer!

Lots of help with the presents

Uncle Reddin helping to open a box with his knife

Anticipation!

The boys are ready to blow out the candle!

Sawyer on her baptism day

After being baptized and confirmed

She looked like a princess

No mistaking whose daughter she is! Dad did a good job of baptizing and confirming Sawyer even though he did it in English instead of Spanish.

The Neus Family

Opening presents -- Sawyer got a bag full of beenie babies from Grandma Neus and as soon as she unwrapped one Abby would immediately grab it and put in the beenie baby bin that she had retrieved from their room.

She got the comforter

Everyone enjoyed the good food and the company

Where did September Go AND Why is it STILL Blazing Hot!!!!

The first Sunday of the September was the Evan's Family Break the Fast and we finally got to see Avery Lynne Brimley. And what a cutie she is!!!

Next was this big boy's birthday. He turned six and is now in Kindergarten. We had a fun celebration at the M & M's house.


What a treat birthday candles are! Love to taste that tiny bit of goodness mingled with the flavor of birthday candle wax.

Everyone enjoying brownies and ice cream!

The babies enjoying each other.

FUN TIMES AT GRANDMA'S

Reddin and the girls enjoying a snack and a movie.

Relaxing on a Sunday evening

FAMILY HOME EVENING @ THE M & M'S

Enjoying yummy Mexican food

Preparing for FHE

We also celebrated the September birthdays of Karen and Megan, but I could not download the pictures I took and Wayne didn't have his camera handy. For shame!!!

Happy August Birthdays!

The last Sunday in August we all got together to celebrate the August Birthdays. We had celebrated Kayda's earlier in the month with a yummy waffle dinner at her house. Here is Kayda decked out in her birthday finery.

It is always fun opening presents!

Marcus and Carrie share the month of August with their birthdays being nine days apart. Here is Marcus blowing out his candle on his birthday poozookie.

Here is Carrie pretending to blow out her candle since Abby already snatched the candle and left the picture.

Okay here we go with a better reenactment...and yes that is Matty standing with minimal help! We are so proud of him and the progress he is making to become a big boy in time to be the big brother.

Kayda enjoying her Poozookie...check out that chocolate mustache!

The other girls enjoying the desert.

A Man's Work

This is Neil Reece Evans and he is a funny little guy. Last night the M & M's came over to visit and the children wanted me to put on a movie in the family room. Ruth brought me a DVD case but when I opened it the DVD was not there so I was looking around on the entertainment center for it when Neil found a dead cockroach on the floor in the corner. He said very matter of fact, "This is man's work! You just pick it up with your bare hands and then flush it down the toilet." Which he proceeded to do! I love the things kids say.