BRANDT'S BIRTHDAY WISH

OCTOBER 22, 2011

Brandt's birthday was on the 21st, and for his birthday he asked his family to go with him to Ephraim and to take the four wheelers up the canyon to Grandpa Bills tree. We left early Saturday morning for Ephraim. On the way to Ephraim we had a few deer jump out into the road. We almost killed a deer even without trying. It was the start of the deer hunt so Dad, Brandt, Soupie, Carlee and Tayler had to deck themselves out in bright orange for their trip to the tree. They quaking aspen were a beautiful yellow.

Brandt explaining to Tayler the story behind the carved tree

I stayed back and played with my cute little Grady, he is such a good baby.
It was his nap time. It looks like I needed a nap too.

After their ride we helped pick up Grandma Ellen's leaves. By the time we had dinner and were ready to leave for home the wind had sent hundreds of the leaves down again, that was disheartening.

Tayler was helping me by stomping down the leaves in the garbage can.

We made carrot cake for Brandt's birthday. We never can get grandma's matches to light. There is a special emery board she uses. I don't think grandma needs to worry about these matches catching anything on fire.

CALI FAMILY CELEBRATING HALLOWEEN AT WARD PARTY

IS THAT A SKUNK I SEE IN THE BACK GROUND?

Mike, Cole and Niki

A BEAUTIFUL BRUNETTE TINKER BELL

A HANDSOME KNIGHT IN SHINNING ARMOR AND A SWORD!

CUTEST LITTLE SKUNK I EVER SEEN
BUZZ LIGHT YEAR

Wow, what parents wont do for their kids
YOU ARE VERY HANDSOME BUZZ

OCTOBER * BASKETBALL SEASON FOR AT LEAST THE KIDS..........WHO KNOWS IF THE PROS WILL BE PLAYING?

We went to Collin's game on Saturday and watched him make four baskets out of the eight. He is a real dynamite player. We had fun watching him, and of course watching his dad coach the team.LOOK FOR THE ONE WITH THE RED SHORTS AND RED HAIR,
THAT WILL BE COLLIN - #9

COLLIN JUST THREW THE BALL TO THE BASKET

COLLIN IS RIGHT IN THE MIX OF THINGS, HE IS NOT AFRAID OF THOSE BIG GUYS

THERE GOES ANOTHER BASKET MADE BY THE ONE AND ONLY - EVEN THE BIG GUYS COULDN'T STOP HIM
SYDNEY IS STILL ACTIVE WITH SWIMMING. SHE IS STILL BEATING HER BEST TIMES EVERY WEEK!

Grady's blessing day

WILLIAM GRADY STRONG

THE STRONG FAMILY

GAYLA AND SOUPIE DECORATED THE TABLES
THEY DID A BEAUTIFUL JOB

BRANDT'S BLESSING OUTFIT WAS ON DISPLAY
GRADY WAS BLESSED WITH BRANDT'S BLESSING BLANKET
THE BLANKET UNDER BRANDT'S OUTFIT WAS MADE BY GRANDMA RUTH

GRADY'S NEWBORN PICTURES WERE ALSO ON DISPLAY

FATHER & SON

FOUR GENERATIONS
DAD BRANDT, GREAT GRANDMA ELLEN, GRANDPA JOHN & GRADY

FOUR GENERATIONS
GREAT GRANDMA RUTH, GRANDMA GAYLA, MOM SOUPIE, SISTERS CARLEE & TAYLER

BRANDT AND GRANDMA RUTH

GREAT GRANDMA ELLEN, GREAT GRANDPA DICK & GREAT GRANDMA RUTH

GRANDMA ELLEN AND GRADY

SOUPIE'S DAD STEVE AND HIS WIFE JAN (STEVE BLESSED GRADY)

GRADY WASN'T TOO HAPPY WHEN WE HAD THIS PICTURE TAKEN

NATALIE AND JAY

LARRY & SHANNON

GRANDMA AND SHANNON

CARLEE AND STRIDER

COUSINS
LOOKS LIKE GRADY IS CATCHING UP WITH STRIDER
THEY WILL BE CLIMBING OVER EVERYTHING SOONER THAN WE THINK

GRADY, WE SPENT A WONDERFUL DAY WITH YOU
WE LOVE YOU

AUTUMN'S FIRST SNOW FALL

 OCTOBER 6TH

WE GOT OUR FIRST SNOW AFTER A WARM AUTUMN

The weather is suppose to change back warm, so it was fun while it lasted

TAYLER LOVING EVERY MINUTE OF IT!

 DON'T THROW THAT SNOW BALL AT ME!

 

OUR DARLING LITTLE GRADY SLEPT RIGHT THROUGH ALL THE EXCITEMENT.

OCTOBER LDS CONFERENCE

Conference week end was full of work and play. Saturday, between sessions we were able to pour cement for the stairs on the south side of our house. On Sunday we decided to go for a ride and listen to conference on the car radio. We used to take our kids on rides and listen to conference, that way we had a captive audience.

We traveled up through Mirror Lake, enjoying the autumn leaves.

We stopped in Evanston, Wyoming, then continued on through Woodruff Utah (my dad's birth place) and over to Bear Lake. We were so surprised to see how high the water was this year. We missed our annual Bear Lake family reunion 2011 because of two new babies in the family. I have some pictures from 2010 to compare to what we saw on Sunday, October 2011.

North end of Bear Lake in Idaho

We had to drive up to the restrooms because they were so far away

2011

Easy walk to the road and restrooms

2010
Our cars were on the beach where now there is water.

2011
Where we parked in 2010

2011

2010

Our day continued on with stopping in Preston Idaho, back into Utah checking out Logan and then driving to Brigham City to see the new LDS temple that is almost complete.

It was a wonderful day full of great conference talks and a beautiful drive.