October is here!

The first weekend in October is always General Conference, so it's a good time for the kids to come home. This time it was Lisa's family who came. We were so lucky to have beautiful warm days to enjoy together. I got to spend lots of time hugging and kissing on little baby Lawson. He is now pulling himself to get to the things he wants and started sitting up by himself while he was here!

Also, one of the days Lisa was here, Sonja needed me to come stay with Mom because Randy had a Dr. appointment. So I went to St. Johns, but then decided to bring Mom back to Eagar so she could see her great-grandkids!

We also took the kids on a short nature trail hike one day along the Little Colorado River. It's a nice easy trail close to town that we could even use the stroller.

It's called a wildlife trail, but we only saw the signs of wildlife!

The Fall colors are starting to show!

It seems I always need something fixed, so Barry got my grill working but putting a new valve on it while he was here. 

We made pumpkin pancakes and put up all the Halloween decorations!

Barry went home early Monday morning and Lisa left on Wed. because she wanted to see Kingston off on his mission early Thursday morning at the airport! 

Kingston had 2 weeks of MTC training at home and then on Thursday, October 8th, he flew out to the Missionary Training Center in Mexico because he is going on a Spanish speaking mission in CA.

So many people came to see him off! I should have driving down! But it's a 4 hour drive and he has lots of support!!

A VERY HAPPY/SAD DAY!

Now he's in Mexico!

Kingston's Missionary Farewell

 Today was a pretty special day. My grandson, Kingston, who is Bret's oldest child, had his farewell at church today. He leaves for his mission in the next couple of weeks. He will be serving for 2 years in the Santa Rosa, California Mission, Spanish speaking. After church, Bret and Suzy had a houseful, all of her family and some of our family members came to support him and they fed all of us a wonderful breakfast. 

Kari's family came from Flagstaff, Kirk had to work.

Mark's family, their oldest is off to school in Utah.

The boys cousins.

Lisa's family came- of course they only live one house down!

I was super impressed with the talk Kingston gave in church. I would say that he is a very prepared young man-he is ready to go out into the world and share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the people in CA.

Grandkids visits.....

I was able to see a couple of my kids and grandkids over the past couple of weeks. First I went to Show Low to watch Zallen play football on the 11th. His school in Mesa is in the same football conference as Round Valley. He is #13 and he got to play a lot. Mark & Holly didn't get there until half time, so they missed the best part of the game because we stayed with them. The 2nd half, we couldn't stop them. It was fun watching him and visiting. Mark was late because he had minor knee surgery that same day.

Bret and Kingston came this weekend. He brought his trailer and loaded up a bunch of solar batteries and a huge pile of wire. The money they get from the recycle place will go towards Kingston's mission. I also told them that I will follow in my Dad's footsteps and pay $100 a month to help out. My Dad did that for all of his grandkids that served missions. I remember it really helping out.

When they finished that job, they started on another one. I needed the Starlink cable buried (again). They had to trench and take up a bunch of pavers to bury it. They got it done really fast.

Kingston loves 'old stuff'. Old clothes, old VCR tapes, etc. I found an old outfit that his Grandpa wore when we were dating. It fit him perfectly! It's quite unique!! 

I sure do love seeing my kids and grandkids and I sure do appreciate all the good help they give me. I'm so blessed!!

Here it is---September!

Where did the rest of August go?? I missed posting about a few August events!!  

There were a few more August birthdays besides Lisa's and Adlee's. Tami's Blake turned big #16!!  Yes, he's driving!

Then on August 29th, Lisa's Lilly turned #11! I got a lot more pictures of Lilly!!  She sure had a fun birthday! First she got taken out of school to go to lunch with her mom and dad and baby Lawson! Lisa took her to get her nails done, she got an Apple Watch that she can call her Gma from! She got to go get sherbet and she got an e-bike scooter!  WOW!

If you know what the new 'lingo' is, you're smarter than me!!

I just asked Lisa what it means: 

"This totally awesome person is 11 for sure!"

Mark's been taking his boat out a lot on Roosevelt Lake. He took Kari's family out in July for Rivers #16 birthday, along with all Rivers friends and he took his boys with their friends and boy cousins. He recently took his girls with their girl cousins. They had some excitement. Mark decided to do a back flip off the boat! He hit something and gashed his head really good. He was bleeding like crazy and nothing to fix it with. For being a doctor, he wasn't very prepared!! He had to improvise to somehow get it to stop bleeding so much and not have to drive the 30 minutes to an ER for stitches! He came up the idea to use his hair to pull it together. The girls twisted a few strands together from each side, then tried to tie them to each other. His hair was too short to make that work. The dilemma? How to get them to stay together? The answer- chewing gum of course! All the girls donated their chewed gum and stuck it on his head to hold the gash together.  It worked! He put his hat on and they played on the lake the rest of the day. Once back to Mesa, he went to the clinic/ER where he works and they put 9 staples in, after working to get all the gum out of his hair first!!

Randy has been over trying to get my new sprinkler system ready for winter, so I can blow out the water lines so they don't freeze! It has been raining and they had to work in the mud!! He brought his helper, Jason over to do the heavy lifting!

This was the original, how the sprinkler guys did it. However, we had no way of turning off just the water to the sprinklers. They had to dig up half my lawn to find the water line coming in and put a shut off valve in.

Before....

After....

It was so much work, they worked from morning until almost 5pm. I sure appreciate my sweet brother-in-law!!!

The last thing that has happened is me hitting a stupid turkey! I was coming home from Mesa, about 5 miles outside of Show Low, when a turkey hen decides to come out on the road. I slowed to about 60mph, but that wasn't enough! I hit it and it did so much damage to the front of my car. I had to get a new grill, have the dent in my hood popped out and then the guy who fixed it told me that my condenser to my A/C is also bent in, but it doesn't seem to be leaking! $800 later! STUPID TURKEY!

I think I'm all caught up for now!!  It's been a busy month!