Please Read!!! Pictures of Everyone Included!

This blog goes all the way back to last summer. Yes, it's been that long! So, this will included the picnic up Big Cottonwood Canyon and the pictures Morgan took that night on the playground, it includes Halloween and one of Gabe's trips to the zoo. So, this actually goes backwards.


Gabe lost his knit cap (found) and his army scarf (not found), so we bought him new winter stuff. Check out the hat he chose this time! Our weather here has been so unpredictable, but at least he's warm.













Here's the Halloween pictures. These are the apple pie things we made for the party at Stacy and Josh's. They turned out really good!












Here's part of the crew on the rainy/snowy Halloween night. It was beautiful weather -- AFTER the party, but for trick-or-treating, it got a bit cold!












So, I've never really been into costumes or things, but I decided to come as something really ghastly. Well, ghastly it was!
John looked better in his Quazi Moto outfit!

I don't remember exactly what Arden had on the night of Halloween, but this is what she looked like on the night of our Ward Trunk-or-Treat party. She looked great!

Here's Gabe's costume up close (also on the Trunk-or-Treat night).

Watch our for wily cats! Lalo thought the blanket
in the back of my car looked like a great place to relax!

He's up behind the stereo.

Ok, here's the picnic last summer when we all met up Big Cottonwood Canyon. Morgan forgot her camera, or something like that, and they borrowed ours. I'm sorry I'm just now getting these posted! That was a great night, in spite of having to be careful of rattlers!

A few days before school started, Gabe and went to the zoo with the DeGraws: part of the Piep family. The kids had a great time seeing the wildlife: even the bits outside of the cages -- case in point!

Alex, the cousin that is Gabe's age.

The whole crew!

They found the waterball fascinating!

This plant is a new tall flower that John got to put in the place of the euonomus (sp?) shrubs he had taken out. They went all the way to the roof line! At least, until the wind knocked them over. The flowers were beautiful!

And, for the final picture: I've got a pasta attachment for my KitchenAid mixer, and this was my first batch of noodles. It was fun -- and they were delicious!