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My nephew & his wife just had their baby Here is a slide show of some of the pictures I took today at the hospital.

Family Photo and the Wonderful World of Technology

Every year I get with my sister and we do our family photo. Some years we plan ahead and do it in the fall. Some years we are in the snow and it is already December. This year we got it done in November. Not early but not too late. In past years I would go to Walmart buy a roll of film for my sister's camera and then we would go take the whole roll of film of pictures. I would then go back to Walmart and get them developed in 1-hour. Then I would choose the picture, go back to Walmart and have them developed. Oh the process. If I was busy this process took a good couple of weeks to do. Choosing the picture was the hardest.

Ohh the wonderful world of technology. Last Christmas my sister got a D-SLR. So this year was a completely different process. We did 3 poses. We were able to see the pictures right away to see if they would work. We could tweek the colors, lighting, crop it. The pictures were emailed to me. I took them to Walmart and in 1-hour had my family pictures. I like our family picture this year and best of all the wonderful world of technology allowed me to take only ONE trip to Walmart.

Halloween Fun
Oct 29 & 31, 2007

Chloe, Brooke, Phoebe & Race on the tractor bed
getting ready to go down to the pumpkin patch at the Big Red Barn in Santaquin.




Choosing the "most perfect" pumpkin "all by myself". We walked up and down the pumpkin patch each looking for the "most perfect" pumpkin. The twins didn't want any help from Brooke. Race just enjoyed being able to run around and pick up anything he wanted. He wanted so many pumpkins, but the Terry rule is - you must be able to carry the pumpkin you choose. Mine was real large. I did learn that if you go on the last day the selection is still good and all the pumpkins, no matter what size, is $1.00.




After dinner we carved the "most perfect" pumpkins into the "most perfect" jack-o-lanterns.
Race went to bed so I carved his.
I remember now why my kids have never carved pumpkins before. Chloe didn't like the feel of the inside and took out maybe two pumpkin seeds. I did hers as well. :)


Trick-or-Treating
Phoebe and Chloe came up with our theme this year. They wanted to be Little Red Riding Hood, and Brooke agreed to be the grandma and it was easy for Race. He was the wolf. After a bit of sewing and figuring out how to do Race's outfit they all turned out great! They were happy with them and I was happy to get them done. One more year of costumes done.

Arizona Trip
Oct. 6-14, 2007

We had so much fun with the Bristows in Arizona. Here are just some highlights from the trip.

Feeding 7 kids at each meal. We filled up the table and the bar and Angie and I still were left standing at the bar. Here is Phoebe, Dean, Kate & Race having dinner on Saturday night.

Swimming at the hotel pool was fun. All the kids loved the hot tub the best.

We spent a morning at the Children's Museum of Art. The exhibit was on toys. They had all types of toys through the ages to look at. The kids like the ones they could play with. This picture is of a "pinewood" derby style of cars racing. They had twister, build your own robot, building with blocks, making your own game board, and making spinners. They also had a room for children 4 and under and their siblings. This was a great room for all the kids to play!


The girly girls are taking time out at the zoo to rest in the shade on a rock at the Zoo. You can see Ron, Race and the bottom of a giraffe in the background.

Ron and Mike giving Kate and Race a little shower in the misters.


Mike taught Ron how to hunt and kill Arizona scorpions.
It takes a black light, a small torch and a dark sky and a little bit of patience.
Apparently the scorpions glow neon green in the black light. Who knew??

We also went to the Arizona Natural History Museum. They had dinosaurs, and a real alligator and snapping turtle. They had an exhibit on Indians of Arizona, Arizona's film history and in the back courtyard they had panning for gold for the kids. They enjoyed all of the above but loved panning for gold. Chloe came away soaked - but they all had their bag of gold - well pyrite.

These are just a few pictures from our trip. We went shopping, out to eat, to the park, the Science Center and hung out at the hotel and at the Bristow's. It was a great vacation!
The twins learned that cactus does hurt - Mommy was telling the truth, :)