Pop and Grandma Visit

Last Thursday Oct 4 my mom came to visit from Florida! We got our hair done by my friend Erin and went to our favorite Whole Foods Store. We also had yummy lunches while Duane watched the kiddos including the Corner Bakery and lots of shopping! It was so wonderful being with her. Mom also got to go to Enrichment night with me! Which meant a lot because I'm enrichment co-leader and we did a "Home Away from the Range" meeting outside in the woods around a campfire, sang camp songs and roasted hot dogs, made s'mores and really felt the spirit with the testimony's and thoughts shared from sisters in our ward about gratitude. It really kicked fall off for me.

Ash got her stitches out last Saturday and again did not like to be tied down. She's a trooper. She calls Austin "Au-Tee". She loves her big brother and in the mornings before we get the kids out of bed, we hear them call to each other. Austin is supposed to wait for his alarm to ring at 7:15, but Ashley gets up at about 6:45. So she'll yell to him, "Au-tee!" And he'll respond, "Good morning Ashley!" They'll talk for a good half hour in the mornings before they can get out of their rooms for the day. Austin reads books and Ash throws stuffed animals from her bed. We've also made the conversion of binki's only during naptime and bedtime.

My dad came later in the week and we went to a pumpkin patch at Buckland Market Farm. We all had so much fun! "Pop" was woken up each morning by Ashley coming downstairs yelling, "Poppy" and he was a trooper by making eggs, waffles, pancakes for the kids every morning. We also played football each day, went to the park, and he danced with Ashley many times a day, read stories, put the kids to bed each night and helped out with baths. It was so nice! Nice to have the help but mostly nice that the kids are getting older and remembering Pop and Grandma and things they all do together and building even stronger relationships with their grandparents.


We also enjoyed ourselves at Stribling Orchard picking apples and Cox Farm amazing pumpkin patch/slides/rope swings. I don't know who had more fun between myself or the kids...with my parents being there I felt like a kid myself! My dad and I went down the giant slide and we raced with the kiddos in our laps. I cheated half-way down by pushing him and Austin and I won. Dad's a trouper.

Duane has been in Russia, Jerusalem, Egypt and is still on the go. I get calls here and there and he's doing fine. He was so sweet and called me since he was near the Dead Sea and got me refills on my favorite dead sea body lotions, creams, etc. Ashley misses Dada because at the gym nursery they said that she's been on the phone with dada the entire time-as she's holding a plastic cell phone walking around.



The weather is slowly cooling off here and we're enjoying fall!
Angie