Ben's First Band Concert

He was sure excited to share his new and developing talent.

Pumpkin Patch

There is a park in Logan that does a pumpkin patch every year. The theme this year was commercials and there were some great ones. Our favorite was the Jolly Green Giant garden.

Here are some other fun ones I took there.

Happy Birthday Mom & Dad W!

Bob's parents arrived on Oct. 14th for a 3 week stay. We were happy to see them, especially because it's both their birthdays in Oct. We had a joint birthday party for them and fun was had by all.

Sick kids

Well I am on week 3 of having at least 1 kid sick. UGH! First it was Caleb. Not feeling good on a sunday night, monday running a temp, tuesday to the Dr. He said that it was Influenza A. He got a temp of 104.9 that night and was a mess for a couple of days. By Friday he was feeling a lot better but ran a low grade temp for a total of 16 days. By then, I told him to stop taking his temp. cause I didn't want to know and he was going to go to school monday no matter what as he missed 2 weeks. Then I had Tabi with a high temp for 2 days and a really yucky cough. Ran her into the Dr. He said she had influenza A too but it only lasted 5 days for her and only 3 days of school. Then I had Justin home with an unhappy stomach and then Ben home for 3 days with an unhappy stomach and a low grade temp. We had a great Halloween, I'll tell more about that later, then Liz home today flushed and a low grade temp. She is giving herself tons of positive self-talk, "I'm healthy and well." 'cause she doesn't want miss school.

As a side note, this is a picture of Caleb's leg. We found that he also got a spider bite the week he was really sick too.

Fall Festival

Every year Hardware Ranch does a free day, (just my kind of day) for everyone. This place is incredible in the winter as you get to ride out on a sleigh and see tons of elk. The kids had a great time painting pumpkins, shooting guns, dressing up as mountain men, riding out to see the elk, and shooting arrow. We had a great time.

Chicago

Bob had a conference to attend in Chicago on the 9th and I was able to go too thanks to my mom taking care of the kids.

End of Navy Pier looking towards the City

The Art Institute of Chicago

End of Navy Pier

Bob surprised me and took me to The Green Mill Cocktail Lounge thursday night where an incredible big band called Swingshift played. It was wonderful! As a side note, it has been open since 1910 and was a hang out of Al Capone.

Napoleon Dynamite Goes to Mutual

Click on the title above and have a great laugh watching a movie done by our YM & YW. Don't forget to watch all the credits. If you can't get the link to work go to www.youtube.com then do a search for Napoleon Dyaminte Goes to Mutal.