Party!

What a week! Conference weekend was so nice. My mom came up and we had a big breakfast. I made french toast casserole and homemade peach sauce and raspberry sauce and cream. We watched all 4 sessions of conference from Saturday to Sunday. It was my favorite conference ever. The kids watched a lot of it as I tried to make it fun for them. I set up cups with pictures on them of Jesus, the prophet, scriptures etc. and every time they heard that word they would put a bean in the cup. They could cash in the beans later for prizes and treats.

Then my dad invited us to a BBQ that night at his house. He had a special announcement. He now has his priesthood and he and his wife were called to serve as temple workers in the Draper temple. We were so proud of him. Then later this week the kids both got the flu and took turns puking in the car throughout the week in the car. A total of 3 times. Such fun!

I gave Manuel part of his birthday present early. Tickets to a Jazz game and a Jazz Jersey. We had a fun little date. Then we celebrated his birthday with my family at the annual Halloween party at my mom's house. Paisley and her cousin Kyler won for best kids costume. My sister Crista won for best adult costume. She was Medusa. My mom thought she was Moses. I was a black widow spider, Gabe was wolf boy, Paisley was a Spanish dancer, and Manuel was a phantom thing.

We decorated a pumpkin and were the only ones who did so our family won that contest. I won best desert for my eclair cake. You can find that recipe on my food blog. http://cookwithlindsey.blogspot.com

I also made 2 pumpkin pies out of fresh pumpkins, apple cider cheesecake cupcakes (my own invention), homemade root beer with vanilla ice cream and we brought chips and salsa. It was fun. I love Halloween!!!

The baby is scheduled now to deliver on October 25th.

Tumbling, Fishing and Being Silly

My little monster mouths. The kids got these from the treasure box after family home evening. It helps them sit quietly through our lessons knowing that there is a reward like this at the end.

Paisley took a sample tumbling class this week as you can see from the videos she had a great time and was overly confident. I just can't justify spending $36 a month for her to jump around to animal songs and learn about colors for one hour each week. The teacher never taught them technique or anything really she would just read stories and say, "Go jump on that" or "roll down this". At least it was free.

After that we went to Day Farms and picked pumpkins. Then a big rain storm came and we had to jump in the car. Nothing funner than pumpkins and rain storms. I love autumn.

I've been making some more yummy meals and they are all featured on my recipe blog http://cookwithlindsey.blogspot.com/

Me and Gabe went fishing with my dad at East Canyon. I have never caught a fish before and have taken myself fishing three times now. My dad didn't think we would catch much because we went later in the day. To everyone's surprise we hooked 18 fish in 4 hours. Seven of our fish got away when we tried to net them. It was about a fish every 10 minutes. Sometimes we'd catch one before we had even cast all the line into the water. It was a great day for fishing and my favorite memory with my dad. We had a pic-nic on the boat and Gabe loved it.

Our Week

Yes, marshmallows can fit in many places. Gabe started tumbling this week. He did so good. He was the only one in the Saturday class so he gets private lessons. His teacher said that he is confident Gabe will move up to the advanced class of 5 and 6 year olds in a few weeks. Gabe is only 4. Paisley starts a tumbling class next week. She has already been practicing.

Today is Opa's 60th birthday and cousin Tanner's birthday. Happy Birthday Opa and Tanner!!!!!!

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