October

 October started with Lizzie visiting for Conference. She finished making a hat and scarf for Eve. Eve loved them!

Random picture from a picnic outside and playing on the trampoline. I do love this dog most of the time and how much he snuggles me:

More cute selfies:

My mom felt well enough to go to church again for the first time in a LONG time and I loved this picture they sent:

It felt like a miracle to me.

Sometimes I take pictures of Eve asleep during quiet time before I have to wake her up to go pick up the boys for music lessons.

Eve relaxing in the sunshine:

Our nice neighbor Donna gave Eve this little camping chair and she loved it.

We joined Jon and Jaime's family for a camping trip in southern Utah to see the eclipse. The drive down was pretty:

We stayed at a campground in our tent next to Jon and Jaime's trailer. The day of the eclipse we drove to a fun spot with lots of red rock to climb all over while we waited.

Joe climbed up really high with the boys:

Watching the eclipse was awesome. Here's a pic of everyone looking at it:

We explored other areas as well:

This was a scary land bridge but Eve went with Joe:

We also introduced Jon and Jaime's family to wolf 'em sticks and they were a hit!

It was a fun trip and we were thankful to Jon and Jaime letting us join them and take advantage of their planning with their friends.

Eve stayed dry at preschool and so I bought her a promised blue ice cream cone after at Arctic Circle:

Lizzie's choir at BYU had a performance that was streamed online so we could watch. It was beautiful and we loved seeing her:

Eve and I made Halloween sugar cookies one day:

We love when Lizzie visits:

Lizzie and Eve are "celery buddies":

We had our ward Halloween party and Eve was Princess Peach:

Eli was a James Bond-like spy:

Natalie starred as MacBeth in her high school's performance of it:

She did SO well! I can't imagine memorizing all those lines. Joe helped her a lot with line reading in preparation but most of it was all on her own.

Staying in character:

I was so blown away by her acting yet again.

We carved (and painted) pumpkins:

We went Halloween morning to watch Eli's school's Thriller dance. It was freezing but fun to watch him:

That night we went to Chris and Regina's ward's trunk or treat:

We also did some trick or treating in Stauffer estates with Regina and Maddie: