It’s time to catch-up with favorite pictures.

In September we took a ride up Payson Canyon and had a wonderful time.

Then the camera was placed on the shelf for the rest of September as our family experienced the loss of Don’s mom, Kathleen and shortly after my grandpa, Pappaw and the weight of Don being called as the bishop of our ward... It was a heavy month and we welcomed the lightness of Bizzie’s Birthday and Halloween.

Cake and presents with Grandma Martha.

Going to the zoo – our absolute favorites were the river otters, the seals and the bengal tigers!

We ended the day eating at The Garden and enjoying Temple Square.

Getting Creative with the Cricut…

Two very different takes on what a pirate looks like…

Making spider pretzels for Bizzie’s First Grade Halloween Party!

Meeting Mitt at the ward Trunk o’ Treat!

Then came the first snow fall which was absolutely beautiful but was so wet and heavy that we lost lots of major branches to our trees. Our  High Priests and many other wonderful men in our ward were examples yet again of christlike service and traveled through the ward cleaning up the mess – have I already mentioned what an amazing ward we live in?! Anyway, with the mess of course came glorious, perfect sledding snow and the kids took advantage of it all day long!

Eli was willing to become a popsicle before he would complain of being cold, needless to say – he was upset when i made him come in early…

Big sister and little brother sledding.

Bizzie and Liberty getting ready for take-off!  

During Thanksgiving break Autumn and her friend worked hard on their Egyptian Fair Project and did an amazing job!

Which brings us to the Christmas Season! We got a beautiful tree at Sunrock’s Tree lot and christened the tree “Joe.”

Don received a lot of “encouragement” if not “help” with setting up Joe in the house…

As i went through my pictures i noticed a lot of gaps of major events and realized how much we have started to use Don’s Iphone for pictures instead of the regular camera. So maybe once I receive those I’ll do a second installment of “catch-up.'”