Oct 23rd-28th Baby Gabe and SNOW!!.....and Halloween!

Last week while Kari was at a vacation resort in Mexico with Elijah to celebrate his 8th birthday, I got to keep baby Gabey with me. We got to be close buddies, I got lots of snuggles and kisses! So did Gpa! He is a sweet little boy, who is 18 months old, but doesn't walk or even talk much, but so much fun!

Gpa got a big load of wood delivered!

 

Yogurt is his favorite! He feeds himself, but is super messy! He learned a few new words while he was here too. Peek-a-boo, bye-bye, hello, and cuckoo. (from our cuckoo clock)

He stands all by himself, but refuses to try to walk, he will just plop himself down if I try to get him to move his feet!

He sat with Gpa and watched the BYU game!

Then on Monday Oct 26th, we got our first snow, about 3 inches! On Tuesday we got about 7 more inches!  10 total! It was beautiful and we needed it really bad!!

It looked like Winter wonderland!

The ruler showed 9 1/2 inches, but it was a heavy, wet snow and had already melted some!

The trees still had a lot of leaves still on them, so we had a few broken branches!

One last picture!

I got to keep Gabe a few days longer because hurricane Zeta hit down in Mexico and Kari's flight home was delayed so she missed her connecting flight in North Carolina and had to spend the night! I didn't mind, this is one cute, sweet, good little boy! I met Kirk in Holbrook on the 29th and it was sad to say Good-bye!

And here's a few pictures of our grandkids from Halloween!

Rivers is a famous soccer player-
Cristiano Ronaldo

Elijah and Leo-  silly clowns and Kari is a crazy 80's girl!

Bret's family!

Ellie is a devil, Dempsey a Genie, London an angel, Kingston is a Zombie? and Ivory is Rapunzel.

Ellie and Lisa's little Lucy- a scary ghost!

And Bret and Suzy as the 'filtered' and 'unfiltered' version of @suzycrosby25! (he's a pretty good sport!)

Reed's cute family of Trolls!

Eliana is one cute 'Poppy'!!

Tami's kids!

(Blake must think he's too old to dress up?) but not to old for the candy!! Colter is Pikachu from Pokemon, Adlee a kitty.

Adlee is a sassy kitty! That hair! That face!!

Lisa's kiddos were 'scary ghosts'. Landon was a non-participant this year!  Little stinker!!

Lilly and Lucy!

Lilly is a 'peaceful' ghost!

Dressing up to go to cousins Halloween Party

Carving pumpkins with Dempsey.

Marks kids went to a Trick or Treat scavenger hunt! They made out with the candy without even having to dress up!

 Fun times from Halloween  2020. 

DEMPSEY gets baptized! Oct. 17th, 2020

 Well, Dempsey was finally able to get baptized after waiting about 10 months since her birthday last December. Covid-19 still put a slight damper on things, but her baptism was well attended with family and friends who support her and love her. 

Her Dad, Bret was able to baptize her and confirm her. Just immediate family were  able to be at the church for these ordinances. We sang an opening and closing song, which Bret asked me to play for and Luann lead, witnessed the baptism and confirmation, then had a closing prayer.

Then we all went to his house where a lot more friends came for a wonderful and beautiful luncheon that Suzy put out for everyone!

It was wonderful that Becki's 3 sisters came and her mother. Aubrey even made this beautiful dress for her.

This was the beautiful table setting that Suzy did. They had a sub-sandwich place make a huge sandwich in the shape of an 8. She served fruits and dip, chips and lots of condiments for the sandwiches. Plus, cupcakes and carrot sheet cake. All so yummy. There were pictures of Dempsey and her family on the windows and balloons!

Chad and Luann drove from Snowflake that morning!

Dempsey's other new Grandparents, Sam and Vicky Sherwood, Suzy's parents.

It was a lovely day. Dempsey is a sweet, wonderful granddaughter and we were so glad that we were able to spend this special day with her.

FALL BREAK- Kari & 4 boys plus Blake, Colter AND Holly & 6 kids come!

Fall is just so great in Eagar that more grandkids had to come! 

Kari  drove to meet Tami, who drove 1/2 halfway to Flagstaff from St. George, to pick up Blake and Colter so they could play with cousins. Then they wanted MORE cousins to come, so they talked Holly into bringing her kids from El Paso. 

We got to do fun things with them. We picked all the pumpkins, gathered the eggs, we picked apples and made apple juice with the apple press, we played on the zipline and treehouse, we roasted S'mores around the campfire, they built a fort, slept out on the trampoline one night and had a slumber party the next night. It has been pretty WILD around here!!!

On Friday their cousins arrived and then things got really FUN!
The boys spent a lot of time building their fort out of Gpa's woodpile!

Gabriel is such a sweet baby boy!

Sunday morning biscuits and gravy! Milea helped!

One final picture together!