Halloween was a blast!

 Those of you who know me know that I started working in September at Osmond Designs.  I work with some pretty & talented girls!  Our Monday crew decided to dress up for the holiday...a couple of us did, anyway!!!  Here I am all decked out as...Donny's Oldest Fan!  Customers loved the outfit and got a kick out of it.

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Chanelle and I did go to some extent in dressing up.

Here is our Monday group...Chelsea, Chanelle, Cathy and Louise.  The best part of the day was getting off two hours early!  I loved all of the trick or treaters and tried to scare them after they would knock on the door!  As tradition goes at our home I had homemade sugar cookies for the adults and candy for the kids!

We got a fun visit from Cara and her friend Lindsey from Arizona.  The girls are interviewing with Del Sol and are planning to head somewhere warm for the winter!  Kelsey worked for them and was able to go to St. Lucia and Alaska....two polar opposites!  No pun intended!!!  (Ok...maybe I did intend it! )  :)

October 9...the blessing of McCoy Richard Smith

Our side of the family that came to see McCoy Richard receive his name and blessing from his Dad.

Ella, Cara & McCoy and Colson.

Craig and Kathleen and family with Cara & Kelsey...

Four of McCoy's Aunt's that were able to make it.  We missed you Jamie at this event... Nicole is due at the end of the month!

Bapa and Nana with McCoy...we love you!

McCoy Richard Smith on his blessing day!!!

Nana and her two grand darling boys!!!

Aunt Cathy and Ella & Colson!  Love them!!!

The Smith's....

September Third

 We had a busy day on September Third....Casey and Taylor came and stayed with us the night before from Arizona.  These boys are "real" cowboys!! They offered to help us with the yard work.  They we got the call from Kurt that Jen was in active labor...  I drove up to Logan to bring Cara down to see the latest addition of Kurt & Jen's!

We got to the hospital and found....

Beautiful McCoy Richard Smith.  He is the sweetest little boy!

Once again, I'm in love with another little boy!  Thanks Kurt and Jen for making such adorable little grand darlings!

 Kurt and Jen and little McCoy...He weighed seven pounds and four ounces and I think only eighteen inches long...A tiny little                                   cherub!

We are so blessed!

I knitted this little hat for Cannon but Jen brought it for McCoy to wear. He is adorable, isn't he?

Cannon getting to know his new little brother, McCoy. It is so precious to see.

Sweet little picture of our boys...

Sweet little addition to our family.

Homecoming at Utah State....go Aggies!

Here we are at the tailgate party before the game. Cathy, Cara, Kelsey, Missy & Allie.  Love the shirts!!! Love these girls!

Mom & Cara & Dad!!!  We love you CareBear!!!

Kelsey came with us for this fun filled weekend!  We both got Aggie-fied (notice the A's on our cheeks!)  We had fun at the parade in the morning and ate at some fun restaurants.

I got to meet BIG Blue the Aggie's mascot.  

This is us at the game..sadly, the Aggie's lost in double over time! It was such a bummer! But fun to see The Herd cheering their team on!  Cara's face was on the big screen a couple of times. Jen and Kurt even saw her on TV!!!  Go Cara!

We LOVE BIG Blue!!! and the AGGIES!!!

Taking Cara to State...

 Cara transferred after graduation from EA with her associates to Utah State.  We took the "long" two hour drive up to Logan to get her settled in.

 Missy and Cara...new roommates.  They knew each other at Eastern Arizona and both transferred up to Logan.

 Getting things organized in Cara's room.  She has such great style.

Cara with her room almost complete.  She was so excited to get set up and ready to study!!!  and play some...

 This is where she lives just off of campus...

We hated to say good bye but know we will see each other often, as we are so much closer!  

Here is a shot of the Logan Temple.  Just a few blocks from campus.

This is one of the oldest temples around.  It is simply beautiful.  We love Logan and have had some fun visits already!

It's been too long.....little boys and mountains!

 Cannon came with us to Sundance to see, The Sound of Music.  He loved the transportation we had to use to get to the amphitheater... This was at the end of July...

 Cannon on Bapa's lap on the tractor ride up the mountain to see the musical.  What an amazing setting...

 Kurt and Jen at Sundance for a fun evening.  Kurt said he wanted to make this a tradition!  I'd have to agree....what an amazing evening we had...the setting perfect!

A few days later we went up American Fork Canyon for a picnic dinner with our friends Jeff and Andrea.

 Here is Noah and Andrea....adorable Mom and son.

 I love being so close to the mountains and rivers. Utah is such a gorgeous place to live!

Noah and the fresh raspberry pie I made for our picnic. We both made tin foil dinners and got chewed up by the mosquito's!  

Tea Party with Kylie and Nana...

Kylie and I got dressed up in my Nani's old hats, glove's and some of my jewelry and scarfs and had a tang-tea party!  We used Nani's antique cup & saucer's and sliced some delicious peaches and enjoyed ourselves!

Warm tang is the perfect drink to put in our tea cups!  Yes, Kylie is wearing my tiara I still have from Santa Teresa's homecoming!!!

We had to finish off with a little smackeroo on the lips!

It was fun being silly and talking English-like! Kylie has such an imagination and you should have heard some of the flower names she made up as we had a small tour of our deck flowers!

Days of 47 Parade...

 

I know this is not the best shot of Pres. Monson but we were able to see him in the parade.  We arrived a few minutes late for it but landed more at the end of the parade route and were able to wave at him.  I chased his car down to get this shot!

This was actually the first shot I had of our prophet... we were all thrilled to be able to see him.  Governor Herbert and his wife were in the car behind Pres. Monson.

Kylie and Cara watching the floats... there were some pretty neat one's!

The family watching more of the parade...

The girl's of the family...

One of the floats...

Kelsey knew a husband and wife that ride in this group from Rexburg.  You should have seen their face's when they recognized Kelsey on the street!  They were so excited to see her!

Yet, another float!!! Thought Kylie would enjoy remembering some of them...

After about an hour of floats some of us lost our enthusiasm for the parade...it did go on for two hours but we headed for food after an hour and a half...

The girl's giving the little girl's a ride to the restaurant...

Apparently the parade wiped out Reese!  Notice the sucker still in her little hand...

We are at Hire's Big H Drive-In.  This is where Mitt Romney came and we were able to meet him.  They do have the "best" fry sauce and rootbeer on the planet!

Free re-fills of Hire's rootbeer is a good thing!  Jamie was loving it & apparently I was, as well!

Kylie sharing her corn dog with little sis...Reese!

Reesa-bug is the cutest twenty month old in the universe!  Her little voice is so precious...come here Nana, the way she says Kylie, I love you are some of my favorites!