Halloween

These are pics of the kids and gkids from the Fri night Halloween party at Paige's. This is an event that people look forward to each year. She and Scott spend a lot of the day fixing the edibles, and the house decos are really cute. Halloween is Paige's 2nd fav holiday.

A Geisha, basket ball player, and 2 marathoners

Scott and Jessica dressed like characters in Hunger Games

Chris and Sarah were Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum

This was costuming for a Sat night murder mystery party, Chris was a gangster and Sarah was a flapper - roles assigned

Is this the definition of cowardly behavior, gross incompetence, or treason?

I was going to blog this morning about Paige's Halloween Party, and all the great costumes. Something light and fun, with the pics of my children and gkids. That will still come in a later post today. But now...this...

I was reading some of my conservatives blogs, and came across this post with this pic! What happened in Benghazi is horrible - 4 Americans left to die, when they could have been saved, with only slight effort on Obama's part. The only thing he had to do was give the order for help. That is the American military tradition.

Run, run, run

Sat night was a Harvest Festival at the church for Stella and Macy. They dressed up as marathoners - I think they look adorable.

Kincade Facetimed me as he was getting them dressed (Paige was over at the church setting up, as the YW and Primary were in charge of the activity - why oh why did they get rid of the Activity Committee?); Macy kept pulling her sweatband over her eyes and walking around. Stella would run back and forth thro the kitchen and front room so I could see how fast she could run.

Grandmother Deeny (as Grandmother has asked them to call her) and I quite enjoyed watching and talking with them.

Muesh

Paige called me up to tell me that is Macy's newest word. Mooesh.
Know what it means? It is a combination of the words move and push. Paige was sitting on her hope chest in the library, reading to Stella, I think. Macy walked up and pushed at Paige to move over and said, "Mooesh!" Or is that mooish?

Rain and hail

I love storms. Indiana and Illinois had some of the best storms of any place I have lived. They are not in Tornado Alley, but close enough so that we had tornado warnings and watches all the time during the season. One time Rick and a group of church kids got chased by a tornado on the way back from a YM/YW waterski trip to Raccoon Lake. And I love lightning. Absolutely awesome.

I don't want to be out in a storm (actually, I would, if you could guarantee my safety), but I do like to be in a nice safe location while the storm rages around me. I like to snuggle in bed and hear it; I like to get up and look out the window at it; I like to stand in doorways and see, smell, and feel it.

And last night we got a bunch of rain and a little wind, just enough so that I could feel like the storm was raging around me. This morning at 8 it started raining, hard, then it changed to hail. The hail beat and pounded the house, roofs, roads, and anything else it wanted to pound - hail the size of marbles. Of course, I had to take a pic, and of course, the pic shows nothing like what it was.

Does this mean she likes dogs now?

This is the dog at Old Navy. Paige was out shopping with the girls, and Macy went right over and hopped on.

Mom and Gary

The weather in St. George is at its most beautiful. Yesterday at 11am we went for a walk around the temple. Not too hot, not too cold - just right (as Goldilocks would say). The flowers and other plants are beautiful.

Trying to catch flies...

...looks just like her Papaw!!

Zion National Park

Mom, Gary, and I drove to Zion on Mon. These mountains are so incredibly beautiful, I do not have words to describe them and no pics can do them justice. The rocks have such a red and white color, with the green foliage - it is breathtaking. Since I was driving, I had to keep track of the mountain roads while also trying to take in the sights.

We also stopped and got some Fugi apples at her fav orchard just outside the park. Mom and Gary have a fav restaurant on the other side of the park where they can enjoy a buffalo burger. Plus, we always sit right at the big pic window and see the buffalo outside grazing on the hillside. Rural and rustic.