It seems like school started and the Autumn has been a blur. We've actually had quite a wonderful September and October. The weather has stayed nice and Natalee is loving the 4th Grade.
DADDY DAUGHTER PARTY
On September 18th we had a Daddy Daughter party for Activity Days. It was quite a lot of fun. The best thing about my calling, hands down, is getting to serve in it with my daughter. I love being able to plan fun things for her to do and teach her to apply the principles of the Gospel at the same time.
Anyway, at the party we played Minute to Win it games. They had a gumball relay, had to wrap their dads in toilet paper and stack dice on a tongue depresser. Afterwards we had treats and it was a fun night!
PUMPKIN PATCH
A few posts ago I put in a photo of one of our pumpkins. One day in September Nathan decided it was time to pick them. He and Natalee harvested our 4 pumpkins and took them to the front yard. Then they pulled all of the dead stuff out of the flower bed, bound the old corn stalks together and made a cute little fall display. People foolishly think that I'm the one that decorated it, but they are wrong.
OUT WITH THE OLD
This is out with the old, but I don't have a picture of the new. When MarKey moved, she gave us her couches. Our couches were getting old and worn out after 13 years of use, so we were very grateful to have something newer. Since we didn't have time to do anything but move the new ones in before we left to help them move, we moved the couch into the back part of our dining area and the love seat just through the front door. Then when we got home and they sat there while we tried to figure out what to do with them. My dad has a friend who needed a couch, and he was willing to come and pick them up. So we sent them away.
This isn't a great picture, but Natalee was all excited to get rid of the couches until she realized that meant they were leaving our house. She started to cry and cry. Sometimes she's a little too sentimental.
CONFERENCE & A BIRTHDAY PARTY
We had the opportunity to have Mom, Dad, Dallas and Grandma Camp at our house for General Conference. It was just a few days before Dallas's birthday, so we celebrated that too. Between sessions of Conference we went on a treasure hunt to find all his presents.
One of our stops was the park to feed the ducks.
This duck was a baby and Natalee kept trying to feed him and keep the bread away from the other ducks. They are more experienced bread grabbers, and no one can accuse ducks of being really great with manners, so all too often, he was left with no bread. When we finally got some to him, he ran away from the group as fast as he could go. It was so cute.
Natalee loved having someone help her color.
PUMPKIN PATCH PROFESSIONAL EDITION
There is a nursery by our house that does a hayride and pumpkin pick for children in October. It's free with a donation to the food bank, so we went, stood in the giant line, took a scary ride through deep mud and got to pick a pumpkin. Every now and then, you run into an advantage to only having one kid, and this was one of those days. The line to get on the wagon was forever long. I suggested that we leave and that was not a popular suggestion. The wagons were only coming about once every 20 minutes and it was kind of cold. So when the lady at the front told a group of 6 that the wagon only had two spots, I yelled "I HAVE TWO!" and we were able to get on. Sometimes you gotta take the advantages you have.
Nat couldn't decide between a short fat pumpkin and a tall thin one. I'm kind of a mean mom and made her decide quickly before the wagon left because I was tired of waiting for a wagon.
This picture doesn't really highlight their differences, but Natalee wanted a picture to remember the one we didn't get.
And finally, in all of his spare time from his most busy time at work, Nathan is teaching Natalee to play chess.
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