We had a festive October, and here's how it ended. We had a great visit from our college friends, Robyn and Andy Young. Their first daughter, Hannah, was born just 3 months before Kennedy, and they lived in our same apartment complex at Oregon State. They've since moved back to Utah, and had three more girls. We thought that was funny.

Hannah and Kennedy, we celebrated Hannah's 9th birthday together.



This is their sweet Becca.


We did our primary program in sacrament meeting. It went so well. The kids memorized their parts and kept their wiggly bodies under control and sang loud and I only cried a little. Since being called as primary president in the summer, I've been dreading the program. But once it was over I was completely amazed at how well it turned out. Simple and sweet and sincere.
So, I took class pictures and here's my favorite group shot of the whole primary (minus about 10 kids).



I got to be a chaperone for CC's pumpkin patch field trip. I love hanging out with this kid. I got to meet some of her friends' moms and discovered that CC is as talked about in their homes as her "guy" friends are in ours.




Nic and I took Bob the Tomato's (see below) parents out for Melissa's birthday. We went to Brassier Montemarte in Portland for it's "soft opening." Nic's cousin Emily is a manager their and we got to see his Aunt Tamie and Cousin Heatherlee. Its was delicious, the best French onion soup I've ever had.


Trunk or treating at the church. We had Kennedy going as "Devi Lovato" and if you don't know who that is, congratulations, you're not a tween.
CC got the most original award at our house with requesting to be "Skippy Jon Jones," the siamese cat that thinks he's a chihuahua. Awesome.
Ava was a beautiful princess, with curls and makeup, and Bree was a ladybug, a recycled costume from when Kennedy was one.





This is Bob the Tomato from Veggietales, a.k.a., Sophie


We celebrated with Nic's cousins for their baby's 1st birthday party. I love parties that have 30 adults and 10 kids.
Oakley was and is a doll. She was a kitty, and what killed me, was that all four of her grandparents were mice.



Here are her insanely pretty parents, Cam and his discounted mail order bride Yakiko, aka Jenny.


Christine and her awesome lashes.


And to finish off the post, Mooseman as a Moose!