Fall Colors

I love everything about Autumn, the food, the smells and the colors. Brock and I have a tradition to go on a drive every fall to look at the fall colors. The fall colors were so vibrant this year and the weather was so nice, we didn't even get snow until November.

Reba twice in one year= the best year ever!

The best thing happened to me this year....I saw REBA in concert twice!

As you may or may not know Reba is FINALLY touring again! She took several years off to peruse her acting career and performed in "Annie Get Your Gun" and also starred in her show "Reba".

My sister and I have always gone together to see Reba in concert, in fact one of my first concerts was a Reba concert that Nette took me to. Our last Reba concert together was in 2001 in SLC, which was Reba's last year touring. (I think)

Anyway, we were "over the moon" to learn that Reba was touring again and coming to SLC with George Strait! We didn't hesitate to buy our tickets and I didn't mind that I was going to have to drive 7 hours for the concert. I thought that for sure it would be the LAST time for a LONG time that we would have the opportunity. So, I went to Utah and the concert was amazing and we were star struck by Reba and her amazingness.  (George was pretty awesome himself but that goes with out saying...right?)

In JUNE...to my great astonishment...I saw REBA on the calendar for MSU's concert schedule. So of course we bought our tickets and Nette came here and we partook in Reba's limelight. She totally still rocks it and is a lot of fun to watch. Her encore was of course "Fancy" and she obviously rocked it! She came on tour with "The Band Perry" and they were okay and fun to watch.

Anyhoo...here are some pics from the October concert!

Band Perry

Band Perry-I love that she plays the guitar!

Reba

Reba singing "Fancy"-note the red dress!

OuR sPoOkY dInNeR

My mom and sister & her kids came to visit last weekend and while they were here I put on a Spooky Dinner for them. I did a Night for Witches & Wizards and each of us had a Witch or Wizard name and we all dressed up.
For dinner we had Monster Guts (Baked Spaghetti Lasagna), Bug Salad (salad with craisins), Mummy Bones (Bread sticks), and Dracula's Blood Clots (Jello with raspberries). For dessert we had Unicorn Eyeballs and Frankenstein Brains. For our beverages we had Spider Venom (root beer), Rotten Apple Cider and Ghost Juice (water).
We had so much fun together and the food was actually really yummy! (Thanks to Brock, he actually made the main dish for me).


Our Witch & Warlock names: 
Brock: Artoro Spiderguts
Kim: Lucinda Cobweb
Mom: Gwendolyn Mummybones
Nette: Isadora Grave-Robber
Brans: Walden Gory-Ghoul
Brin: Marigold Broomstick

Our Invitations

My spooky Witch stuff. We had brains, rats, Frankenstein blood, spiders, shrunken heads and many other spooky objects!

Rotten Apple Cider

Monster Guts

Walden & Marigold

Unicorn Eyeball

Frankenstein Brains

 It was a lot of fun but also a lot of work! Who knows if I will do that again:)

Random Halloween Stuff and fall colors....

Nick's Farewell

Our nephew Nick has been called to the Villa Hermosa Mexico mission and last weekend he gave his farewell talk in Church. He picked his topic to be on family and he did such an awesome job! Of course he had us all in tears but he did a great job. We spent the afternoon at my brother's house munching on yummy food and spending time with the family. We had to say our "goodbyes" to Nick on Sunday because it was the last time we would see him before he leaves. He reports to the MTC on Wednesday the 26th. He is going to make such a great missionary and we are so proud of him. We will miss him so much but we know he is doing what the Lord wants him to do. Good Luck Nick, we love you!!!

Us with Nick

Nick with Grandma

Nick & Christian

Nick & Dakota

Jaiden & Uncle Bob

Nick & Kaitlyn

Nick & Nette

Bella and her baby

Tracy, Sky and puppy Lola

Nick's "friend" Taylor and her mom

New Babies

We have had many new nephews & nieces join our family this year and we have a few more to add towards the end of the year. We were in Utah recently and were able to meet a few of them.

On Brock's side we have Tanner, Lindyn & Stetson plus 3 more on the way.

On my side we have little miss Jaiden Marie.

We were able to meet Tyrell & Lacey's little Lindyn, Jonny & Heather's Jaiden and Dan & Nesh's bran new little Stetson. It was so fun to see the babies along with some of our other nephews and nieces. We love our family!

Bella Boo and Jaiden Bear

Baby J with Uncle Bob

Little miss Lindyn

Baby Stetson-love his hair!

Stetson with cousin Hadlee