Hazen Pictures

Lyndsie had Hazen pictures taken with the clearfield cheer squad. She looked so beautiful...I just loved how the pictures turned out.

Sam

Sam brings a smile to everyones face as soon as he wakes up...One morning, after we had been toilet papered, Sam came up into our room early and said to me, "Mom, I have bad news...we've been P.G.ed!" I thought that it was so funny because what he really meant to say was T.P.ed. When we finally all got up to look outside, he was the first one out the door willing to help clean it all up. And it wasn't his friends that did it!

A Favorite Quote

I love this quote out of the October Ensign, Visiting Teaching Message...

"The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind...We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith"Margaret D. Nadauld

Halloween Night!

Everyone had a fun Halloween Night. They met at our house to go trick R treating. We had Anakin, dead football players, ninja's, and Pam and Angela from the t.v. show "The Office". When everyone was in their costumes, we went over to the Jardine's house for a neighborhood get -together to enjoy hot soup before the big night. Lyndsie and her friends (Tenille, Allen, Dalen, and Jeremy) took Sam around, while Brin and Gracie and friends just took off, and Sydnie's group was so well organized that they had the whole night planned. They came to our house after to play games and watch a movie. It was a wild night!

Our dead football players...Lexi Syverson, Brielle, Brinley, and Grace.

Anakin...Sam

The four Ninja's...Bridgette, Sara, Sydnie and McKenna

The Office Employees...Tenille and Lyndsie Allen is dressed as a dead female cheerleader!

Adams Family Halloween Party

Every year, Steve and I host a pumpkin carving party with Steve's family. It has become a fun tradition where we all have a pumpkin to carve, dinner to eat, and a movie to watch. We have scary halloween music playing and the kids seem to have a good time. We started this clear back when Lyndsie was the only grandchild on that side and we have been doing it ever since. Now we have Ben and Deanne's kids, and Matthew that make it a lot more fun for everyone. Check out our pumpkins...

This is Sam's Batman Pumpkin, he wanted to carve this

because he knows Lyndsie loves Batman.

This is Brinley's

This is Sydnie's...Lyndsie chose not to do one his year.(I guess she thinks that she is too old)

this is Roxy, our chubby beagle, she is just waiting for someone to drop a piece of food or candy...she wants to celebrate the holiday too!

At the end of the party, everyone sits their pumpkins on our front porch and we take a picture of every family. It is fun to see these pictures from year to year!

P.S...the extra is Allen

A UEA Football Game

Janine planned a neighborhood football game...it was so fun. We had a large group show up and we played flag football. Sam had a good time and so did Brinley. Lyndsie came too, but she couldn't play because of her spranged ankle, so she was our photographer. When Sam heard what we were going to do, he got so excited and ran upstairs to get his football gear on. He came down with everything, including the helmet...He was ready!

This is Brad, trying on Sam's helmet. Funny!

Sam kept stealing my flag, he thought it was soooo funny!


Here is a picture of Lyndsie's beautiful ankle. Doesn't it look awful? It is going to take a long time to heal and in the meantime...let's hope she doesn't hurt anything else...Competition is just around the corner!!

Let It Snow?

Wow, it is October 12 and we have snow. I can't believe it...the weather in Utah is so unpredictable! It was a beautiful sight to look out and see everything covered in snow and we didn't just get a little...we probably got about 4 inches. Our poor trees have not recovered from last years early so storm. So I asked Brinley and Sam if they would like to go out and shake the branches a little so the tree wouldn't droop so much. And of course, their answer was YES. They did what I asked and then built the cutest snowman.

Lyndsie

Some pursue happiness, others create it!

We love you Lyndsie

I can't believe it!! Sam hurt himself again! He was jumping on the trampoline, did a front flip and hit the metal bar with his little mouth. He had three significant cuts and I knew that they needed to be stitched up. Yikes. Two were inside of his mouth and the other was acrossed his lip. When the doctor saw it, he wanted to send Sam to a plastic surgeon but then decided that he would do it himself. He wanted to stitch it without any numbing medicine because it tends to puff up the skin and so he numbed it with an ice cube. Sam did not like it, not one little bit...it hurt! He got 4 stitces without any numbing, he was so brave. We came back home and guess what? The stitches popped loose and Sam had to go back to the E.R. to get more stitches. What a sad day!!

Homecoming Week...

Homecoming Week for Lyndsie was so crazy!!! It was so jam packed with activities, early morning practices, assemblies, homework, and more activities! I am not sure how these cheerleaders coped with it. Lyndsie had some bad luck on top of everything else...on Friday, when the week was just about over, McKenna came to pick Lyndsie up early to get ready for the assembly that the cheerleaders were performing at. On their way to school they got in a car accident. A UTA bus hit them in the intersection close to the high school going about 30 miles per hour. No one was hurt too bad, except McKenna's poor car. McKenna and Lyndsie suffered some neck pain and sore muscles, but other than a few tears, everyone was okay. I will never forget the feeling of getting a phone call at 5:45 in the morning, getting the news of the accident, and driving up there so fast. It really makes you realize that bad things can happen, and it makes me sick to my stomach to think that things could have been so much worse if it had been just a second difference in time. We are so grateful that Lyndsie and McKenna are safe...they performed at the assembly, decorated for the football game and even cheered at the game. That didn't take away the fact that both of them were pretty shook up with sick stomachs and headaches. I felt so bad for them, but I am so glad that life went on as usuall!! Here are some pictures of the week...

Lyndsie went to the Homecoming Dance with other cheerleaders because the cheerleaders were in charge of it. Her group went to a Chinese Restaurant for dinner and then went to the dance together to hang out so they could help clean up when the dance was over. Wow, what a long week!

There is in each of us so much goodness that if we could see

it's glow, it would light the world.

We love you Sydnie!

Camping with the Larsen Family!!!

We had the best weekend! We went boating, 4 wheeling, had dutch oven dinners, went on bike rides...you name it, we did it. The only draw back was that Lyndsie couldn't go with us because of cheerleading so she stayed with some of our good friends instead. We missed her though. We traveled to Ferrin, Ut. to enjoy our weekend. It is the best little campground...it has a little lake, running water, flushing toilets, and trails to go 4 wheeling!

Sam and Gracie are trying to do "Big T, Little T"

something they learned in Lake Powell!