Happy Halloween!!

We've enjoyed October with outings and traditions celebrating fall and having fun with the Halloween Holiday.

We all went to a pumpkin patch earlier in the month in Avila Beach, but Preston and James got to go again closer to home to choose our pumpkins.

Preston loved driving the tractor and wasn't sure he wanted to leave.

The big kids were happy with Preston's choices for their pumpkins and had fun carving them

Ethan decided on Luke Skywalker this year.  His friends were Darth Vader and Anniken, so they enjoyed sticking together as a star wars group at the school and church halloween carnivals.

Brielle as a good witch.  

I thought Preston would want to be a pilot, or an airplane as he still asks about airplanes every single day.  But when we asked he said he wanted to be a rocket ship and stuck with that idea.  As I was trying to sew the flames and windows on his costume he was 'helping' by trying to sit on my lap, then on my back, then was unwinding a spool of thread...when we finished and cleaned up he smiles and gives me a thumbs up and says 'good team work!'.  

General Conference October 2016

Another conference came and too quickly passed. It is a weekend we all look forward to as we have the chance to listen to the words of our modern day prophets.

 The 2 big kids listened and took notes or sculpted with clay during talks.  Preston worked on puzzles and activities while trying to be quiet.  He also loved being in charge of finding the pictures of the speakers to put up on his board.

As usual, a few favorite notes from the kids to share

Ethan

"Have you ever been thankful?  If you have I am going to tell you how I be thankful.  When I get something I want I am thankful.  But how are [we] thankful?  I have good or bad feelings.  A good one means you did something good.  A bad one means you did something bad."

"Elder Cornish was talking about how to go back to Heaven. 1. Don't say you can not do it.  2. Try a lot."

"Elder Ballard was talking about the Book of Mormon.  Where will you go to learn more?  In the Book of Mormon.  The Book of Mormon teaches you something.  Go and read it."

Brielle

I won't transribe Brielle's, but I'll just point out my favorite part.  I think she was getting tired by the end of the last session of conference (almost 8 hours over 2 days).  In Elder Ashton's talk she wrote that he said "You need to love the Lord as much as you love gummy worms and more than that!".  He did not actually say that, but she was eating gummy worms at the time and made her own thoughts based on what he said.  :)