Our Missionary Friend is almost Gone...

This is Brent's last Sunday here before he leaves on his mission. We are all going to miss him a lot. We are going to miss him coming over almost every night, just walking in without knocking (of course he was always welcomed though), helping Syd with her homework, eating our food, messing around with Sam, edging our lawn, teasing everyone, and the list goes on. Our house is going to be quiet when he leaves, but we are still hoping that Allen and his friends will come over every now and again! This Sunday, Anne had us over for a Thanksgiving Feast. It was a beautiful dinner with all of the thanksgiving fixings. It was delicious actually and I left stuffed! She had asked Brent what he wanted for his last sunday dinner and he told her she invited some friends and went to work. What a great mom! The Page's are a great family and I am so happy that my family has gotten to know them better! Thanks for everything Brent...you will be an awesome missionary and we will miss you! Here are some pictures of all of the kids down in Brent's room playing video games...

Halloween Night...

A Great Halloween...Everyone had a fantastic night! Sam went with Ben, Brinley went with McKahl, Brielle, Lexy,McKenna and others, and Sydnie went with Bridgette, Jaycee and that group. And wouldn't you know it, Lyndsie has finally gotten too old to go trick r treating so she went out on a date with Darren. Steve took Sam around with Ben and I just stayed home and passed out candy...our street was busy, so I finally did my usual thing and went and got a lawn chair and sat outside with the Crosby's and finished passing out candy.

Dallen Moss stopped by to say HI

Choir Concert and Piano Recital...

Syndnie had a busy week of music but the worst part of it all was that it was also the last week of the term and she had a busy week with that and cheer practice and homework. She was also given a challenge when her piano teacher decided to change her piano piece because another one of her students had moved away and she wanted Sydnie to play Bella's Lullaby instead of the one she had. So with everything elso Sydnie had to do, she also had to practice extra hard on a new song for her recital on friday. Her choir concert was fantastic, the Lady Madrigals did awesome but I especially loved her piano recital. She did a great job and it is so good to see the fruits of her labors! What a great week you had Syd!

The choir pictures did not turn out very good...my camera does not do a good job inside of the school...here they are anyways...


Piano Recital at the home of her new piano teacher, Racheal Willis, oh and Ben Crosby takes with her.

The Adams Fam-ily dada da da**

We have been doing the

Adams Family Pumpkin Carving Party

for about 15 years now. It is a tradition that we do at our house every year on the monday before Halloween. All of the kids look forward to it. This year was no exception and we had a fun night! The only draw back was that Grandma and Grandpa couldn't be here tonight because Grandpa Richard just recently had a hip replacement and is still home recovering.

Brinley, Sam and Myself went to buy some pumpkins first and then to the store for the ingredients to our famous homemade rootbeer...

(ok, not famous, just ordinary homemade rootbeer)

Then around six everyone started showing up and we started enjoying our dinner together. Played some games, did a little dancing and then CARVED the pumpkins.

After, we always light all of our pumpkins, put them out on the front porch and take pictures of every family. Tonight was a great night, Allen and Brent came also and helped us carve some of our pumpkins and even joined us in one of our family pictures.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Kim's Birthday!! Hip Hip Hooray

I cannot believe all the things that we have fit into one day...Kim's birthday! I have already posted 2 of the events. This morning was Brinley's soccer game and we had to get up at the butt crack of dawn, getting ready in the dark for a soccer game just doesn't seem right! When we got home, Steve went with Sam and Brinley skeet shooting, Sydnie went with her friends to get their pictures taken ( I will post those pictures when I get them) and Lyndsie and I went shopping and out for a quick lunch. Later when I got home, I cleaned out the flower beds, cut down all the dead plants and mowed the lawn(Lyndsie and Sydnie helped). Steve started to clean out the garage with the help of Sam and Brinley and then I finished helping when I was done with the lawn. Then we got all cleaned up and went to a wedding reception and then for the birthday...out to dinner. We went out to dinner with Brad and Kim for Kim's birthday to Tepenyaki's. It was so good! I loved it and I loved the company! Happy Birthday Kim...I am sure there will be more celebrating to come and I can't believe all that was accomplished on your birthday! I even did a few loads of laundry, cleaned the kitchen oh about 3 or 4 times and with out fail...cleaned up junk after the kids! Now I am exhausted so good night, sleep tight!

Skeet Shooting with Brent

A few weeks ago, Brent promised Sam that he would blow up a pumpkin before he left on his mission! Well that conversation turned into duck hunting which then turned into skeet shooting. So today Steve, Sam, Brinley, Brent, and Darrel went up Farmington Canyon with some shot guns, rifles, clay pigeons, and some pumpkins! Sam was in heaven. He had the best time. They shot pumpkins up and shot clay pigeons...drank pop...ate sunflower seeds and beef jerky...and went wheeling through the canyon (well sort of). Brent has been coming over to our house to visit all through the summer and Sam has really enjoyed having him here. A couple of times, Sam has even snuck away and went over to Brent's house to see if he could go long boarding with him for a minute...and Brent would go...what a good guy. Brent is leaving on his mission on November 4, he will be going to the Albuquerque, New Mexico mission.

We will miss him.