We kicked off the month of October with a secret trip to Cotton City. Brigham made plans to fly down from Utah, and coordinated with Marquette, Carolyn, and I to get as many of the family home at one time as we could manage, without Mom or Dad knowing anything about it. The only person we were missing was Nina.
Ethan and I picked Brigham up from the airport in Phoenix and headed for NM. Instead of going straight to Mom and Dad's house, we went next door to Carolyn's house and sent Brigham over on foot from there. I would have loved to be there to see Mom's face as he came walking in the door. After stalling for a couple of minutes the rest of us headed over. We all came walking in the door and Mom melted into a puddle of tears. It has been a rough several months for her, health-wise, and it meant the world to her to have everyone gathered together. We spent a couple of days all together there, and it was so nice to be able to visit with everyone and to watch Mom's face as she watched us all together. At the end of the weekend we took Brigham back to the airport, and life went on as usual.
Thankfully, October brought in some consistently pleasant weather, so we were able to spend a lot more time outside. The day we surprised Erik by picking him up from school and taking him for a picnic in the park was a lot of fun. The kids loved the fall themed food, too.
The girls were just super excited to have an excuse to use the lunchboxes Grandma gave them.
The rest of the month was fairly quiet. A few highlights were:
-when we discovered the entertainment value behind a book of stickers. Keeping kids quiet in church was never so easy!
-I started trying to get the kids helping in the kitchen more. They love to be doing whatever I'm doing!
-Using pudding to practice writing spelling words. All that sugar makes for some hyper kids!
-We had a really fun Halloween. We enjoyed the church Halloween party, but the real fun was carving Jack-o-Lanterns (Erik and Daddy were a team, and Sharli and Mommy were a team) and going Trick-or-Treating. The kids had so much fun walking around the neighborhood collecting LOADS of candy.
Princess Sofia the First, Captain America, and Queen Elsa.
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