Ben & Brooke's Anniversary Trip...

It's hard to believe Ben and Brooke have already been married for a year! They went this weekend to San Diego and visited the place where Ben proposed in July of 2025! The first 2 pictures are of the exact spot! Looks like they're having lots of fun!

Happy Abby!

Today's Abigail cuteness! Got this in the family text this morning! I love it and I love all the cute rolls she's getting! And I love her smiling bright eyes and her toothless grin!!!

 

Thankful For Sweet Abigail!

It's the first day of November and I am thankful for Abigail! (And all my cute grandkids!) We had dinner and games over at our house tonight and it was STILL pouring down rain! The entire western US is getting pelted with this storm and it has been so good as everyone seems to be in a drought. We had another fun evening together as a family! BTW-- don't you just LOVE Abby's little plaid, fall colored dress and matching bow? I love it!! Oh we played Ransom Notes tonight and apparently I'm really good at it! I won! Hee hee! 

Halloween is Finally Here!

It was a VERY WET Halloween this year! Arizona hasn't had rain on Halloween since 1987-- which rang true with my own memory-- since we moved here in 1995 it hasn't rained! We have gotten so much rain! It has been wonderful, but it definitely affected how many trick or treaters were out and how many people gave out candy! That's ok, because we had a really fun party and Megan and Todd's house and everyone brought such YUMMY food (and lots of candy) to share! Allison brought 7 layer dip and tortilla chips-- the dip looked like a spider web. Megan made single serve charcuterie cups with pretzels, grapes and cheese chunk and also some cookies with eyeballs! Brooke made cute little pumpkin shaped chicken pot pies and they were soooo good! I was boring and brought a salad (but it was a yummy salad) and cheese and crackers to snack on. We were definitely well fed! This first picture below was a Halloween breakfast Megan made for the boys... it's been a celebration not just today, but all week, and it has been such a blast!!!

Trunk or Treating @ Megan, Todd, Brooke & Ben's Ward!

We are ward hopping Trunk or Treats it seems this year! It was another really fun night, but with TONS of rain! (It was supposed to be outside!!) Dinner was so good-- the usual with chili and corn bread! While everyone went outside to Trunk or Treat in the rain, I stayed in where it was dry and held Abby... for almost the whole night-- she was fussy for most of the time, but I finally got her to sleep. (As soon as I did then Brooke wanted to hold her!! Ugh!!) Someone had a Star Wars Tie Fighter outside they let the kids go into-- welcome to the Dark Side! Brooke and Ben dressed up as Ratatouille-- Ben was the chef and Brooke was the mouse. (I don't remember their names...) Megan and Todd and crew were all supposed to go as Star Wars characters, but Logan didn't want to dress up in his Jedi Knight costume. He wanted to wear his very well-loved Luigi costume from last year that he has used for dress up all year! He does make a cute Luigi!!! But there's always one in the family... Megan was Princess Leia, Todd was Darth Vader (they both just dressed up in black--haha), Luke a Jedi Knight and Logan...... Luigi! Abigail was Grogu (baby Yoda!) She and Luke embraced the theme! Hahaha! It was a soggy but fun night complete with cotton candy and popcorn too!

 

Cute Halloween Spooks!

Logan got to attend Luke's Halloween party this morning at preschool! Looks like they had so much fun!!! There's always an abundance of candy and treats this time of year! It is the beginning of "candy season", as I like to call it!

Halloweening!

For each night this week, Megan has been doing something cute with the boys to celebrate Halloween. Last night she came over to our house with the boys and brought pumpkin shaped pizzas which we enjoyed for dinner and then we watched a spooky Halloween show! Tonight she invited everyone over to frost cookies and the boys LOVED it! Logan loves him some frosting! That boy licks it off and barely eats the cookie part of it! He's too funny that kid! They took a plate to the neighbor's house. Later on, during our girls night... Logan kept getting out of bed-- he's in a big kid bed in Luke's room now and he can get out! He kept coming in but each time he did, he'd cuddle with me and then Brooke. When we were finished with our show, he was still kinda riled up (maybe because of all the sugar???) so I offered to go lie down with him thinking he'd get tired and fall asleep-- even sang to him-- NOPE!! He just giggled and kept wiggling and doing anything BUT going to sleep. After a while, Megan came in and said it was time to go in his crib because he wasn't obeying and going to sleep in his big kid bed. I told him I loved him but that I needed to go home and go to sleep and he said, "But Grandma, I love you!!!!" It melted my heart-- he didn't want me to go! Logan is the sweetest little guy! I gave him one last squeeze and told him I'd see him soon. Megan has the cutest little kids! Even Abigail is showing so much personality, too! They are so much fun and I'm so glad we live so close by!