Bring on the Fall

First week of October just finishing up.  Halloween decor is up and ready.  Holiday celebration now in the works and colors and coolness of fall is happily received!  Memories will be written but the first week in pictures is non-existent.  What the heck is my deal?!!  Started off October with a ride over East Canyon and Emigration Canyon leaves were FABULOUS!  Was waiting for the perfect stop, which was everywhere but didn't stop :( ..stopped at Smash Burger for a bite (not impressed, 5 guys kicks!) and on over to Cabelas for fun??  ya FUN!  It is the season for the hunt so we checked out all the "stuff"  Ridge can hardly wait to turn 12.  Sunday Jaden was ordained an Elder so the  parents were up and we enjoyed dinner.  Yummy as usual because Ken and Dakotah were the chefs.  Steak, chicken and shrimp on the Q with all the yummys to go with.  Beautiful blessing given with the ordination and once again still trying to get through my mind that the older two kids are now young adults and praying that we have taught them the best we could and trusting they will rely heavily on the Father from above.  Monday FHE and Ghosts..the ones of Secret Service and so we began Boo-ing the neighborhood!  Kids favorite thing to do..Ghost to get rid of as they do "ghost-like service through out the week.  Ke'Nia rid herself of ghost quickly!  That age and the excitement of everything!!  Witches Stew and Bread Broomstix started the Halloween menu..Ghost "peeps" smores and a Webeloes den meeting with the "mad scientist"  making fog, soda pop volcanoes, rock candy suckers, and a dry ice bomb (found out later about that one because I had to leave with Ke'Nia for gymnastics)  Night Games playing GHOSTs in the Graveyard with 17 neighborhood children and a body that creeked and cried out and played the part well!  Beautiful night and lots of excited children!  Mummy Dogs played on the menu before the excitement, because halloween food is fun! A trip to Artic Circle for the Square Pumpkin and flashlight and a hockey game to follow played by my Nephew Dax Hobbs..ya you know the name..only the best Hockey player for Weber State!!  And then a quiet weekend to be enjoyed along with Conference.  Ken and the rest of the company partners are in Arizona collecting the Inc. 500 number #17 Award and some EXCITING things happening for the company.  Busy Busy first week!!  So until the next week...SCARY ON cackle cackle...

Read..REaD...READ!!

How do you get little girls excited to read??  Make it a party!  It's time to start up  homemaking skills and get learning.  We ( a couple of friends)  realized that dance and tumbling and soccer are great but will they be used much later on in life??  Are our girls being taught the things they will use throughout their life??  We thought we had better do something about that!  So we started a little co-op  where the girls could learn basic skills such as the importance of loving to learn and how to host, so Book Club was started!  They for sure need to know how to cook and not just from a box, so Cooking is part of the curriculum.  And what about the lost art of sewing??  Even if for repairs and alterations.  Sewing is also a part of our co-op.  And crafting??  Oh yes!  Every girl should know how to do a variety of crafts, because more than likely, they too will have little girls someday!  That's a pretty good variety of the necessities.   Lucky for me I have some very talented friends.  Here are some pictures of the first gathering of the year...  Tangled is our book and we learned just like Rapunzel we are Princesses too!  But not just Princesses to any King..but the King of all Kings.  We are daughters of a Heavenly Father and we have great potential to become Queens!  Love that!!

Miss Welsh and Miss Rowlan making cupcake towers

Miss Whitemyer just about ready to dig in!

Engaged in the story :)

Ready to get reading!

Miss Martin with all the "Stuff"

 The girls did each others hair.  Beaded and colored!  Where are my pictures??  Darling girls!!