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10/21/23

The first costumes of the season: Zombies

They were headed to a church dance!

10/25/23

Fall Festival at church. We did an active representation of Ammon from the Book of Mormon. Ammon became a servant to King Lamoni, a Lamanite king. He protected the king’s sheep and helped the other servants be brave. He was known for cutting off the arms of the king’s enemies, a practice that fits a cultural pattern among the later Aztecs and Maya. Ammon’s faithful service had a significant impact on King Lamoni and many of his people, who were baptized because of his example. Ammon is considered one of the most skillful missionaries and teachers of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Halloween:

Mom’s costume was inspired by our Halloween decorations:

Mom taught her Body Combat class in costume:

Rachel was a dark angel:

Rachel went to her friend Aries house and went treating with more friends:

Lizzy was dressed as the Lorax! She went right from school to a friends house and they assembled her costume:

She also spent the evening with friends and came home with her wig in her hand:

Happy Halloween!

10/13/23

Our church had an international fair:

They asked the Young Men and Young Women to present a dance representing USA. We danced to “Cotton Eye Joe”

Mom did it with us!

The Young Women prepared an extra dance to “Party In The USA”!:

“Star ships were meant to fly..”

“Turn on the radio…”

It was So Much Fun!

10/10/23

This time we got a mama cat and her kittens:

Mama cat was super sweet.

She is a bobtail cat with super-long legs!

Her adorable kittens! Although they put holes in the curtains and the couch covers.

10/08/23

Mom asked Facebook for roads that had a tree canopy for pictures and we got a hot tip on a beautiful location just outside of town on a back road. We have a camera, tripod, and a clicker button so we take our own pictures:

9/30/23

We are so grateful for our friends the Lowerys who we have been sharing a session of conference together for many years. It was our turn to have them in our home for the first session of General Conference.

The kittens were a big hit!

The settled down for the first session of conference.

Of course we had a smorgasbord for the occasion:

For the afternoon session of Conference we invited the Araques to join us again. Luna was so excited to see her friends!

We also celebrated Franklin’s birthday!

A homemade card adds a nice touch:

Time to relax with Luna and our foster kitten who is trying to befriend Luna and now Franklin.

Happy Birthday Franklin!

9/25/23

We have been having lots of fun fostering kittens from the Humane Society:

They are just barely starting on regular food so we are supplimenting with bottle feeding:

Dad even got in on the feedings:

After the feedings they are knocked out!

Except this one who still wants to cuddle:

They sleep a lot:

They are very happy to get to know Luna, who incidentally is not happen to get to know them!

More naps:

Luna is being such a good girl!

Time to wash the kitten hair off her:

Napping until Luna gets back:

9/15/23

We decided on a family fun outing to a women’s college soccer game.

University of Florida Vs. University of Missouri

Let’s Go Gators!!

We lost 2-3 but it was still a good game:

09/13/23

We went to a local park that had obstacle course equipment:

Rachel queen!

You got this Lily!

Going up:

Teamwork!

They were very supportive:

No one made this almost impossible leap to the monkey bars but Rachel gave it a shot:

Lizzy’s making her way across with unease:

Good old monkey bars:

Rachel’s crushing this one:

BF’s Lizzy and Lily:

Who wants a frozen icee treat!?

That was an awesome youth activity!

09/09/23

On Saturday we headed back to the Big Bend area for more hurricane clean-up:

the second house was the next door neighbors:

Lizzy got into some poison oak! Her leg was hurting really bad. We doctored her up and she was ready to get back to work:

Rest break:

Still smiling:

We had quite a crew at this location:

Off to the next..a farm:

The animals were happy to be fed (extra) by Lizzy:

Lizzy guy became besties with Lizzy pretty fast:

They actually had a clean up crew come by yesterday so we headed to our next site:

Dad was back on the chainsaw.

Dad cut and we pulled:

And pulled!

This was our hard working team at the last site:

09/11/23

We made the TV news!:

09/06/23

Every Wednesday we get to go to a church activity with our friends. Today we had a lesson on photography taught by Daisy Engebretson. She is taking photography in school and is excited to teach us some things that she’s learned.