Grandparents Come for a Visit

We enjoyed a visit from the Grandparents for a few days this week. We loved having them come. We snapped a few photos. We should have snapped more, but here are the ones we got. The first night that they arrived, we had a talent show with Savannah dancing...
...and Veronica playing the piano.
Joe was Grandpa's little buddy this trip. He enjoyed hanging out with Grandpa, being put in traps (even Grandma got in on the trap action) and watched Planet Earth together. They had a good time.
In their desire to help out while here, Grandpa vacuumed up some yarn (and a speaker cord) and had to buy tools and work for a few hours to repair the vacuum. Sad, huh? Thanks for your help, anyway!
Joseph read to the Grandparents. Here he is reading to Grandma.
This is Grandpa and Grandma shopping at Real Deals. We also shopped at Thursdays.
Grandma and the girls played Ticket to Ride and Grandpa and Travis and Bruce enjoyed the Oregon Arizona game. Actually, Bruce wanted Oregon, so he didn't enjoy the game very much. Look in the background and you'll see Joe sleeping.

We love it shen the Grandparents come for a visit and hope it isn't very long until they can come again. We love you!

School Pictures

Okay, so to get school pictures for my kids was going to cost somewhere around $70.00 and that was for the lousy set that doesn't even include an 8 x 10. So I decided I was going to do it myself. I'll get prints made at Costco and will have saved about $60.00. I think they turned out great, but I'm a little bit biased--they are my kids and I did take the pictures.

First is Bruce, age 15, sophomore.
Veronica, age 13, 8th Grade
Savannah, 9, 4th grade
Joseph, 7, 1st grade

Crappy Halloween Pictures--Use Your Imagination

So, I don't know how we ended up with only terrible pictures, but here is the evidence that we allowed our kids to enjoy the autumn ritual that is Halloween. Bruce and Veronica, our two teenagers, spent the evening handing out candy at our house. Travis and I took shifts taking the kids trick or treating. They had fun.
Savannah was a rare and beautiful butterfly.
Joe was a handsome and courageous knight.

Done for a year. Yeah!