TWILIGHT

I hope you enjoy this awesome piano arrangement River Flows in you by Yiruma, AKA Edward's Lullaby; I know I can't get enough. It is now just after ten o'clock p.m. on Thursday night and the first showing of Twilight will be starting shortly. All I can think about right now is poor Marie (one of my YW) and hoping she can stay up through the whole showing, she's really been worried about that. I know she's been prepping for this for awhile now :). I can't see it until Abbi has finished the book. I'm kinda wishing I didn't make that promise now, I may have to wait another week :( Hopefully Hollywood hasn't embellished the romantic scenes too much so she can see it. Marie, you better stay awake so I can find out! LOL.

Congrats Abbi!

Abbi completed level one in her Suzuki training. It took her just over a year, which is pretty good. We held a concert for her in our home so she could show off what she has learned to her family. She played thirty pages of memorized songs! She did great!

We want to thank the whole Fam for supporting her.

It really means a lot.

I apologize, the sound is a little scratchy :(

BACK IN BLACK

view of the "blackout" crowd

This was taken before the game started. Ty was in his usual "game home"
underneath the bleachers.

Karli and Abbi down on the field after the game.

Game Highlights:

The kids looked forward to this one.
We wore black.

It was an exciting game.

The girls rushed the field (safely) with Dad and got some Utah garb.

UTAH WON!

"Grease is the Word"

Blaine and I had a blast dressing up this year as "Danny and Sandy" from Grease. Let me tell you, Halloween is so much better when the whole family dresses up. I only wish we could have found a better wig for Blaine. I've got to hand it to him for being such a good sport. I'm sure he's always secretly wanted a "T-Bird" jacket ;)

Halloween was great. We had the day off from school so we enjoyed parties with friends, baking cookies, the annual tri-ward dinner and trunk-or-treat, and of course good old door to door trick-or-treating. We finished off the night with carmel apples, hot chocolate and a cozy backyard fire.

Abbi won most exceptional costume as the Bride of Frankenstein.

Karli won most marvelous as a "Good" witch.

Ty won most fascinating as a Power Ranger. Fun, fun.

Must See T-ylerV-ision. . . Ty's Fire Safety Demo

Ty came home the other day after preschool and taught me how to be safe in a fire. When he got to the "drop" part of the demonstration I laughed so hard. I had him do it over and over again. (I know, it may be considered child abuse to tell your kid to repeatedly throw himself on the floor, but it was too funny.) It may be hard to hear him on the video so here is the play by play:

TY: "Stop............Drop..............Roll................Touch.......the Doooor..."

Thanks Des for teaching him the importance of fire safety and giving me a good laugh :) Ty wants you all to watch this so you too will know what to do in a fire!! (He really does)

"STAYCATION"

This year for UEA we decided to have a "staycation". You know, when you are on vacation in your own city (or close enough). We stayed in Park City at the Canyons resort. JUST BEAUTIFUL! Then we had our trip packed with activities close by. The first night we went to a pumpkin patch but it was closed. So we went for a drive and found an even better one. We have always picked our pumpkins from the vine so that was important to us. This place was like Thanksgiving Point's Cornbelly's. We went on a hayride, then we cheered on the red pig in a pig race, and slid down an enormous slide. Great fun! What a fun way to start our endeavor.

SO EXCITED!!

On our way to the pumpkin patch.

(We had an awesome

tractor driver.)

We found the perfect pumpkins

Mine was the smallest one. I seem to be the only

one that remembers that I end up carving all of them!

Wait. . . maybe they do realize that!?

It looks like Ty is standing up. That's because he

practically is. The slide was incredibly steep!

SATURDAY. . .GAME DAY

We first went to the Utah game on Saturday that weekend. It was perfect weather. I was so worried we were going to have to pack the kids with all their winter garb. It was awesome, Utah won, the kids had a good time, our game neighbors were awesome as always, and again the weather was great.

Because we were on vacation we had to eat out. So we went to Red Lobster.

Note the fishy faces :)

Finally, that night we went to the Real soccer game in their new stadium. If you haven't been it's a "must try". There's not a bad seat in the house.

I'm thinking that we will try this "Staycation" thing again.

VERY FUN!!

Konnichiwa!

Uncle Blake just came into town for a short visit from his current home in Japan. Blake and his wife, Naibi, are expecting their first baby in December. We are so excited! We've all been waiting along time for a child to come to this part of the family. They are so deserving of such a blessing. We just wish they were living a little closer.

The kids just love Blake and Naibi.

We Miss you Guys!