Blessed Baby!

Today was Nathaniel's Blessing Day!

(He was Blessed at home to avoid all the germs.)

  I was talking to a sister in our stake recently and telling her that I worry about Amanda and Darryl and their family a lot.  She said something that helped me:  She is the oldest of 5 children and the youngest was born with Down's Syndrome with lots of problems.  She was 8 when he was born.  And then she said to me: Not a day went by that he wasn't a blessing to our family!  

Our sweet family blessing on his Blessing Day!

Spooktacular Weekend!

We love the decorations the McClellan girls do for us!

Heidi was busy and told the girls they could do what they wanted.

We had this coffin in our room...

 ... and all of these ghosts!

 A cute pumpkin...

 ...and these balloon creations!

They were even thoughtful enough to have this tree in their front yard!

One evening we stopped at a house that had the decorations you may have seen at Christmas that move to the music you tune to on your car radio:

Saturday afternoon we attended this outdoor concert.

It, too, had a Halloween theme.

Eleanor played "Candy Nabbers"...

...and Sam play "Ghost Dance on Halloween"

(A lady is holding the music because it was so windy--no surprise in Kansas!)

But the best part of the weekend was the people!

Jeff's family...

 ...and Heidi's family!

So Glad We Made It!

Still smiling after a crazy day of traveling and having a blast at this fun park!

Eleanor...

Sam and Courtney...

Camille and Penny...

Elizabeth...

Sarah...

Eleanor, Camille and Sarah...

Sam and Peter...

Suzie and Jeff...

The fun Grandpas!

Beaming Grandparents!

It's that time of year: Primary Programs!

Fun Pumpkin Patch!

I think Amanda found the perfect Pumpkin Patch!

See here

(Not too commercial and not too small)

The kids enjoyed peeking into the haunted barn!

5 acres of pumpkins!

Who doesn't love wagons!

And it's in the mountains!

Love those pine trees in the background!

A corn maze perfect for younger children!

Love Daniel's T-shirt!

The family's haul!

Busy Weekend!

We did a lot of fun things this past weekend!
Two soccer games, Emma's Irish dance class, the school carnival, and playing several games each day, a nice dinner out with just Josh and Andrea, watched the BYU game, had a pizza dinner after the baptism and sat in on Josh's Sunday School class.

Loved playing CandyLand and Matching games with this cute girl, Sophie!





Julia is an accomplished pianist!


Fun times playing games and doing crafts!


Emma is learning the clarinet. We were impressed since she just started at the end of August!


Matthew loves sports and would only let me catch an action shot!

Katie's Baptism!

We are so proud of Katie who was baptized on Saturday! Enjoy some pictures from her special day:
























The Primary gave Katie this block so she can always remember her baptism. This is the front...



...and the program is on the back! Great idea!


Congratulations!