Go Utes!!

Taylor purchased season tickets to the University of Utah football games. They ranked as high as number 3 in the nation, however, they fell to number 23 at the end of the season. It was fun to have an excuse to spend a day together.

The Jungle Book

The kids and I enjoy going to plays. We decided to support Thunderidge Elementary and attend the 3rd and 4th grad Jungle Book Play. They did an amazing job. Aysia wanted to try out for a role, but it would interfere with her dance schedule.

It's getting bigger!

The hole for our home is almost complete, however we are missing one minor document... Our building permit.

NOVEMBER 2015

Random Pictures - OCTOBER 2015

 Auri preschool field trip to pumpkin patch

 Lion's club RSL

 UofU game

 Youth temple trip - October 2015

 Aysia's talent show - Piano

HALLOWEEN 2015

 For Halloween, I was able to go watch Skyer perform his 6^th grade Thriller dance while Taylor watched Aysia’s school Halloween parade. I then volunteered to help out with Skyler’s class party. I helped out with the dancing raisins and making silly slime.

 On Halloween Night, Mikelle, John and the cousins came for the evening. We had soup in pumpkin bowls and of course several spooky goodies and appetizers. Jayden took the boys around on the golf cart while I walked with Grandma Woobie and the girls for a while. Aysia ended up trick or treating with Emmi and Auri and I met up with the boys for the remainder of the trick or treating. Jayden and Skyler headed to their friends houses for movies and games. We love our Halloween Holiday!! Great fun, friends and food!

Carving Time!

 Great Job Kids!!

Ground Breaking Moment!

We FINALLY broke ground for our new house. It has only taken us 10 extremely frustrating months to get to this point, but we are one step closer to getting our building permit. Our well has taken us over 4 weeks to place and 3 tries before we finally reached the right depth for water.

Surprise!!! We're heading to Sunny California!

Taylor and I decided to surprise the kids with a trip to California for our fall break. They kept asking if we were going to do something fun and we said most likely. We told them maybe we could head down to St. George and visit cousins. The night our flight was supposed to leave, we got a text from Mikelle saying she had surgery. We told them St. George was out, but we would find something else fun to do. We were all in the car going “out to dinner” as a family when Taylor received a pretend text from a friend that needed a ride home from the airport. Needless to say, the kids were pretty bummed and not too excited about our fall break. As we waited for a text from Taylor’s friend when waiting for him to come out of the airport, Grandma Woobie pulled up from behind, ran up to our car and said she had been chasing us for miles and couldn’t reach us. She said we had forgotten a few items. The kids slowly got out of the car a little confused and with sullen faces. She started grabbing luggage pieces out of her car. I started calling out the name of the luggage piece it belonged to. They still didn’t understand what was going on until Taylor finally told Jayden he would not be going to scouts that night. His eyes widened and he finally understood! “We’re going on Vacation???” Skyler continued to look a little down and confused until I told him I had brought his homework with us for him to complete. Then we saw the first smile from him. It was a great surprise!

The first day, we went to the LA shopping district where we enjoyed the day finding great deals. Then it was back to the hotel for swimming and pizza.

The next day was Six-Flags, Magic Mountain. They had a lot of bigger rides for the older kids so we split up for a while. Taylor and the boys headed to the crazy big rides, Aysia and myself headed to the more mild rides and Grandma Pikus and Auri ended up in kiddi land where they had crafts and fun Halloween activities for the kids. We left just in time before the zombies arrived for “Frightmare” night.

The next day we headed to the beach. We randomly found Manhattan Beach which was incredible. The weather was perfect and due to El Nino, the water was exceptionally warm for being October in California. We packed a picnic and played all day long. It was a great relaxing day, other than a parking ticket we ended up with for not putting enough money in the meter. We were able to walk down to the end of the pier where a little aquarium museum was located. The kids were able to touch and hold sea urchins as well as the sea cucumber. Then it was out to eat for a great seafood meal and then back to the Hotel for a needed good night sleep.

The next day was Sunday, so we went to church. We then headed down to San Diego to visit the Mormon Battalion Museum. They recently renovated it and made it very entertaining for the kids. The history behind the Mormons that were asked to help fight in the war and settle California was incredible. We brought a picnic lunch and found a park to play and eat at. Then we met up with Andy and Sabrina and their little girl at a park as we headed back to Las Angeles. It was good to visit with them for a few minutes. The last day, Monday, we had a late flight scheduled so we decided to go buy lunch and take it to Aunt Pat’s for a visit. It was a very relaxing and enjoyable trip all around.