Movie Buddies

What's more fun than going to the movies? Going with friends!

Family Home Evening

When it was her turn to teach the lesson for Family Home Evening, Alison decided she wanted to teach about the story of Jesus feeding the 5,000 with five loaves of bread and two fishes. She then decided to sew five loaves and two fishes for visual aids! What a cool kid!

Artist

When we were redecorating Eli's room I was looking around for some art to put on his walls when it occured to me that HE loves to be an artist. So instead of art I got a big bulliten board with the hopes that it would be a fun place for him to display his creations, and I've loved seeing that vision come to pass.

Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving we went to Jason's sister Amy's house and enjoyed a lovely day of food, family, and fun. I sure am grateful for these people I get to call family.

Joyschool Field Trip

We took a field trip to Cantigny with Jake's Joyschool group so we could do their tractor ride. Jake and I love to do that each year, and it was fun to share our tradition with our friends!

Logan reading

Logan has discovered a few series of books he loves and has been reading more and more for the pure joy of it. Alison introduced Logan to a book series called Amulet and he couldn't wait to see what happened in the next one in the series. He requested it from their school library as soon as it was released and devoured it when he got home from school. He even gave up his coveted first slot to play Roblox to keep reading!

Conference Puzzles

Our sweet friends shared some of their conference traditions with us, one of which is doing puzzles while watching, and they gave us this fun Halloween puzzle. The five of us pictured spent most of two sessions working on this beauty and had so much fun seeing the finished product.

New Cub Scout

Turing 8 also means we have another cub scout in the family! Cute kid.

Selifies

Jake gets to use my phone while we're shopping, and after an excursion I often find the most hilarious selfies! (And family members also often get Marco Polo videos that look a lot like this too...)

Nails

Ali has gotten really creative with her nails lately and is beginning to become quite good at doing them!

Baptism

We have a new member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in our house! This is the sweet picture we used for his baptism announcement.

I'm so thankful Jason honors his priesthood and can baptize our children. The night before his baptism, Eli felt sick. He was worried he'd feel sick on his special day, so he asked his dad for a blessing. On Saturday morning he felt great. What a sweet tender mercy.

We were thankful to have Grandma Eldredge visiting to represent all four grandparents we love, three of whom couldn't be there.

And Aunt Amy's family came to support us too, as well as many sweet friends from our ward. I felt very loved, and so did Eli.

Sure do love this family of mine, and it was a wonderful day for us!

Park Spot

The other day at the park Logan found an interesting spot to relax.

Spooky Halloween

Jake had a love/hate relationship with Halloween this year. He was equal parts fascinated by and scared of most Halloween decorations. It took him a few minutes to inch his way up to this skeleton at the library and was quite pleased with this own bravery in sitting next to him!