Our Weekend

Friday Stacie let me leave early from work so I could pick up Brandon for the weekend. When we got home we stayed with Aunt Anita so Mom, Kacie and Mallory could go to the Schulthies Family night. We watched game 7 of the World Series. The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Texas Rangers. It was a good series. Brandon was really agitated this weekend and would yell out loud, hit himself, throw his glasses across the room and cussed like a sailor so we decided to take him back early Saturday night since that wouldn't go over too well at church. He just never connected at all with us and was still the same when we dropped him off at his home. It was pretty depressing for Scott and I. Sure hope he is OK. Before we took him home we dropped Kacie and Jocie off at the dollar movie to see Harry Potter 7 part two for the 6th time and then we took Brandon to get something to eat. He wouldn't even tell us what he wanted so we just got him some burritos. When we picked the girls back up they wanted some ice cream so we took them to Cold Stone. After we hit the freeway, we heard a thump on the car and Jocie yells, "There's a cell phone on the car!" I then asked Scott where his wallet was and sure enough he left that on the car too so we back tracked to find his wallet. It wasn't at Cold Stone so we just watched along the highway. When we got back on the entrance to the freeway we saw it. It had been ran over with all of his cards scattered on the road. You could see the tire marks on his wallet and we are pretty sure he was able to retrieve all of his stuff. Talk about an adrenaline rush... He was so lucky to have found everything and not get ran over during the process. The girls thought that was pretty fun.

Brady's Primary had their sacrament program Sunday. I think he was the last one to make it to the stand he was so scared and he whispered his part..."The scriptures teach me about Jesus Christ and all the prophets." But he sang all the songs so well and he was so reverent on the stand. I was really proud of him. I always love the Primary Program, there was some really cute moments. Here is a picture of them all...

After we had dinner we went into see Wanda. She had her 2nd knee surgery two weeks ago and is not doing well. She can't eat and is so weak...I have never seen her cry before she is such a strong woman. Scott helped his dad give her a blessing and we had a good visit. We pray she starts feeling better soon. When we got back Brady sang a couple of his Primary songs for Anita and then I put him to bed and decorated cupcakes for his Halloween party at school. Hope he likes them...
This morning I was thinking back to Halloween 1998. I was pregnant with Kacie and Brandon was at the Shriner's hospital in Salt Lake City having his first surgery on his legs. Kaylin was battling cancer and had embroidered his name on a Tigger costume for him while he was in the hospital. I sure miss Kaylin and Brandon...

Pumpkin Patch

Brady's class went to the pumpkin patch today. They all had a lot of fun!

It was cold, but at least the sun was shinning!

Brady's Award

Brady got the PE award today for the 1st grade. He was really shy going out to get it... but he made it...

Jaynee and McKenzie also got awards which was fun to see!

i LOVE the fall!

I was having a hard day and feeling bad about Brady's new diagnosis and I really didn't feel like going anywhere once I got home from work. But the kids wanted to go to the Corn Maze in Ontario so we went and I was so glad we did. The kids had so much fun. Kacie has gone before but this was Brady and my first time in a corn maze, can you believe that.
We got through the maze pretty easy, but Brady didn't want anything to do with it once it got dark.

Brady loved the cow ride...it was fun!

We also enjoyed the hay ride...
and the kids loved the mini maze too!
I stayed with Taylor and Brady while the others went back to the corn maze in the dark.

Straw Mountain!

It was a fun night...nothing like hearing the sounds of children's laughter to brighten your mood.

Kacie's Last XC Race

Kacie ran in her last cross country race at West Park in Nampa. It was a 3K and she finally met her goal of not walking any part of it and so she was able to improve her time at 20.57. I'm so proud of her for sticking it out. I know it wasn't an easy thing for her to do. Kacie is more of a sprinter than a long distant runner, but this will give her more confidence for track in the spring. I told her she shouldn't have any hesitation now about running a 400 meter.

The Nyssa Girl's team took 1st place and the boy's got 3rd. Good job Nyssa!!!

Brady turns 7

Party at School...Mrs Johnson is Brady's PE/Music teacher and we just love her. Brady promised to give her a chocolate cupcake and she made him keep his word... luckily we had enough.Family Party...We have loved having Aunt Anita living so close...I have defiantly had cakes that looked better but never one that tasted so good. It was a chocolate cake with chocolate chips and it had a chocolate mousse filling.Brady got his favorite things, toy story stuff, marble races, candy corns and some money... I would say he got pretty spoiled by everyone. We were lucky to have Reid, Brielle and Sadie visit for the weekend. Reid came up to go pheasant hunting and he also helped us put in a new heat pump. It was fun to have them here for Brady's party also. We sure wish they lived closer.