Halloween and Warren's 3rd Birthday

What a fun Halloween week we have had! These two cuties dressed up as Tinkerbell and Sleeping Beauty for Eliza's preschool Halloween party. Parents, Grandparents, and siblings were invited. It was a lot of fun. We got to have snack with the kids, have Halloween stories read to us, the kids sang songs to us, and we got to go trick or treating with them through the High School. Fun fun fun.

For the ward trunk or treat and for Halloween Brianna and Eliza wore their warm costumes because it was cold and rainy outside. They made a cute Piglet and Tigger.

Annie and Lizie

I attended the Halloween Parade for these two sweethearts below. Mr. H is looking pretty scary.

Here is the cutest vampire I have ever seen.

On Halloween Sunday all the family came over for a Halloween/ Birthday party. Below are all 4 of my granddaughters.

I'm not quite sure what Mr. M was but I loved his costume.

The grim reaper.

Showing her fangs.

Grandma with her oldest grand kids.

This is the cutest Pirate I have ever seen. He looks so much like his dad at that age it kind of takes me back.

Weston was an adorable little lion.

Grandma and her boys.

Here I am with the three little sisters. They are my sweethearts.

Me with all 8 of my grand kids.

Our little Warren is three years old. We all loved celebrating his birthday with him.

Blowing out the candles. Happy Birthday Warren we love you.

She's Gone/ She's Here!

The date 10-20-2010 will always be an important day to us. Not only did Alyse enter the MTC to start her mission but our new little granddaughter Kaitlyn Rose was born! The Monday before Alyse left she chose to have an early Halloween party for her last family night before her mission. We had fun!

Peter Pan and Tinker Bell.

The clowns.

The princesses.

The night of Alyse's setting apart was crazy. One daughter was sick and couldn't be there and another left just before the setting apart with labor pains. For those of us that were there it was a very sweet experience.

Alyse felt so blessed to get to see her new niece before she left on her mission. It was a miracle that she was born the same morning before she left and that she got to see her. It is a miracle that even though the baby came four weeks early she is healthy and doing so great! Alyse was grateful to see April and get to say goodbye to her too.

Alyse and Kaitlyn

The ride down to the MTC was so fun. We had 4 of our 5 kids with us and it was fun to hear the memories they shared and the advice they gave Alyse.
Pictures before we said goodbye.

Alyse just before she enters the doors at the MTC. We are so proud of her!

Grandma with little Kaitlyn Rose shortly after birth. She weighed 4lbs. 13oz. and was 16 and 1/2 inches long. Tiny tiny but so cute.

Annie and Kaitlyn

Now Brianna gets to be a big sister.

Eliza loves her new baby sister.

First family photo.

Mom and baby.

Cute little Kaitlyn. We are so glad you have arrived safely.

Witches Night Out and Oct. Birthdays

For Alyse's last weekend before she leaves on her mission we did some fun things. One of them was to take my two youngest witches to Gardner Village for a witches night out. It was lots of fun . We only took pictures of the the witches that were set up for picture taking but we wish we had pictures of some of the people who were all decked out as witches. Some of them were pretty amazing!

We also attended this guys football game. They won Yay!

On Sunday we had family dinner with the family. Alyse just loves her nieces and nephews. She can't stand how much she will miss them.

Grandpa loves this little guy.

We also celebrated two of our Oct. birthdays. Happy Birthday Mr. M.

Me with my birthday boy.

It was a fun party and we loved the time with everyone.