Grandma Naef

Robert's grandmother passed away today, on her 88th birthday. I remember meeting Grandma Naef for the first time. She was very kind and generous. I really admired her. She was such a strong, capable, righteous woman. Robert was very close to her. She fought a long battle with Alzheimer's. She will be missed.

She is pictured here with Jane when she was younger.

Road Trip!

I had really been feeling like we needed a family vacation. So, we decided to road trip to Utah for Thanksgiving week. We had a great time. The kids did really well on the long car ride. We had a lot of fun. We stayed with my Aunt Carole for 3 nights and my Uncle JB for 3 nights. We created wonderful memories and were able to spend a lot of time together. I'll put some posts up from our trip throughout this week.

Linda's Parties (Tooele, SLC)

Linda had a great birthday in Utah, while we were there on Thanksgiving vacation. When she walked upstairs at my Aunt Carole's house she found this sign. She was excited.

We drove out to Tooele, UT later that day to see David, Jennifer and Grandma and Grandpa Thompson who were there visiting. We had a pool party at Grandma and Grandpa's hotel.

 Personalized Scriptures from Robert and I
 Art set and Rapunzel Barbie from Grandma and Grandpa.

                      

When we got back to SLC later that evening, the Davis family had arrived and Aunt Carole had made Linda a birthday cake.

Happy Birthday to Linda!

Today is Linda's 7th birthday! She has grown up so much over this past year. Every once in a when I glance her way it catches me off guard how grown up and beautiful she is. She is a little lady. 

At 7yrs. old, here are a few of her favorite things:

Pink

Teaching

Singing

Watermelon

Red velvet cake

Dancing

Butterflies

Being outside

Happy birthday Linda Kae! You are such a special girl.

Halloween 2011!

We spent our Halloween trick-or-treating with my brother's girls. Here is a picture of all of the kids before we headed out. (Gwynn was not in pic) Gregg's girls are the witches.

Bruce and Linda wore different costumes than they wore to the party on Sat.

Bruce was a skeleton and Linda was a lady bug.

Here's a pic of us and the neighborhood trick or treaters.

All of the kids at the end of the night, with their candy. 

Trunk or Treat!

Our church had a trunk or treat party on Saturday evening. We had a good time. There was a chili cook-off, cake walk(which I was in charge of), costume parade, and trunk or treating. Claire especially enjoyed everything as this is the first Halloween that she was really old enough to understand what was going on and enjoy it. We got in to the car afterward and she was sucking on a lollipop and said, "I like Halloween!"   :)

The Costumes

Unicorn - Black Ninja - Angel - Kitty Cat

Bruce and Linda are doing a costume change for real trick-or-treating tonight.
Robert won top 3 in the chili cook-off!

A few more costume pics...