Easton's Birthday and Cohen's Blessing

The second weekend of October my sister was blessing her new darling son Cohen and her son Easton was having a birthday party and of course who can forget the BYU game so we decided to make a little weekend out of it. We stayed downtown and the first night we got there we went and explored Temple Square which was mostly shut down because there was a gay rights protest of President Packers talk, so we tried to steer clear of the weirdos but still ran into a few. We ended up taking the girls to see the Joseph Smith movie, which they loved.The girls slept all together on the pull-out bed, quite the adventure.

Friday morning we met Jill and her boys and took the kids to the Discovery Childrens Museum in the Gateway Mall. It was amazing, we had to drag my kids away.
Halle and Quincy loved sitting in the helicopter...

McKin and Halle pretended to give the weather forecast

Halle loves this boy, he's still trying to decide how he feels about her. The enthusiasm is a little one sided, even though we know Easton loves us, the amount of attention he gets from Halle would make anyone a little weary.

McKinley loved playing grocery store,

Quincy loved the cars and animals of course,

and everytime we tried to tear this girl away from the playhouse, we would find her right back here 2 minutes later. A future homemaker in training.

Me and my darling new nephew Cohen Kimball Lucas.

Afterward we met up with the Bruderers and took our first trip to Gardner Village which was darling and McKinley and Saddie talked us into getting their eyes painted.

Sadly that is where the pictures end. What was I thinking? That night we went to eat at Benihana with the Bradshaws where we met Jon Peter Lewis (the mormon Ricks student who was a finalist on American Idol a few seasons back)! I recognized him and asked if he was JPL and totally made his decade.

The next day we went to Chuck E. Cheese for Easton's birthday and then hung out while the boys went to the BYU game and then Sunday we got to see Cohen get blessed and eat a great dinner prepared by the Lucases. It was a great weekend!

Homecoming

This year Whitney was nominated as Sophomore Homecoming Attendant. We had a great time shopping for her dress and as you can see she looked beautiful.

Cheerleaders

The girls performed at an Aberdeen Football game with the cheerleaders, they did a great job!

Fair Rats Are We

Started off fair week at the Parade on Saturday morning. The kids particularly hyper that day.

The whole crew

We hit the fair on Monday and watched the Indian Races, ate (of course), and after Quincy fell asleep Chan took her home and I took the older girls to see the animals.

Halle plugged her nose the ENTIRE time we were looking at the animals.

Wednesday we hit the rides!

It was a great week, but I'm never really sad to see the madness go so we can get back to real life. 11 months left!

Do the Smartie Pants Dance

Halle also had her first day of Smartie Pants Preschool! She loves it, if you ask her what grade she is she says "Smartie Pants." I know this is a lot of pictures, but she is such a funny poser that I couldn't leave any out! Now it's just Quincy and me for 4 hours a week, which I thought would be heavenly but not so much. Quincy screams EVERY time Halle leaves for preschool and the whole time she's gone she just follows me around asking "Where's Halle?"

1st Grade, Here She Comes!

McKinley's first day of First Grade came and went. She was very excited, the second I went to wake her up for school, she popped out of bed with a huge smile on her face like it was Christmas. She has Mrs. Stocking this year and has a lot of her great friends in her class. First grade was a little harder for me than Kindergarten. She's gone all day and with all those big kids but she's been doing great!

Quincy Lou is 2!

Quincy's Birthday was the Saturday before school started so we had fun celebrating and having one last hurrah! We took the girls to the zoo again, so Chan could go with us and then we had a picnic lunch and went to swim at the Shelley Pool so the kids could show him all they learned at swimming. We love our little Quincy, she certainly brings a lot of excitement to our lives!

I told the girls to act like they had just hatched from the egg. This is what I got.
.My three little birdies in their nest

Happy Birthday Quincy, we love you!