The Gabrielsen Seven

The Gabrielsen Seven

Friday, October 30, 2026

Halloween parties

Working on the blog together last weekend.

Charlie Chaplin after the mustache and makeup are starting to come off.
Cute little guy.
Grace's missionary plaque on the bulletin board at church.
Toby taught FHE on Sunday.
Grace got to go to the Santiago temple with some recent converts.

Charlie's Frankenstein pumpkin.
Ready for the Poulsen Halloween party. Darth Vader, turkey, Charlie Chaplin, and flamingo.
I threw on a pizza costume. Paul threw on his skeleton pajamas.


Arby's after no cavities at the dentist.
I was heading into Wal-Mart one morning and saw a plane fly past the full moon.
Danny added sprigs of rosemary for the ward Halloween party.
Toby loved the cake walk.
Graham answered Alice's ask to the winters dance with lots of cute Alice in Wonderland stickers.

Temple baptisms.
Charlie got his patriarchal blessing.

A picture Dad sent from our days in the Kentucky Louisville mission.


Alice loves her health science class, and can identify all the bones in Danny's body!




We had fun at the park one evening playing hide-and-seek and frisbee.





Grace eating cereal at a zone meeting.
At the elementary school Halloween parade this morning.


Toby made it onto the school's instagram.
Alice's hand bone drawing.
A little Halloween in Chile.
Disney cartoon Ichabod. Classic!

Saturday, October 24, 2026

Grace to Chile, and guest blogger: Toby

Toby typed the whole thing by himself. (My notes in parentheses.)
Charlie's jazz band. Back, second from right.
Charlie's solo. Front.
Charlie on Sunday morning. He just woke up and he appeared to have crazy hair.
Grace's picture of her district as skeletons.
Her district acting out the picture.
Alice wearing the shirt she got for her birthday.
Toby eating a giant cookie before dinner. That paper is his song.
Alice got her DRIVER'S LICENSE on Monday./!
The brothers on Monday night watching the new episode of Studio C.
Toby in Charlie's Halloween costume wig. He's going as Charlie Chaplin. Mom thinks he looks like Graham.
A boring picture of the backyard. [A fall tree.]
Grace's district in MEXICO! Front, second from left.
Same picture a little bigger.
Tiny pumpkins.
Mom in front of Chile's flag.
Mom's mission book. (Reminiscing about when I left the MTC and my first day in the mission field.)

Alice in her pink flamingo costume scarf.
Toby in his Darth Vader costume. Normal.
Air-choking Mom.
Without the mask.
Charlie.
Danny in his turkey costume. Normal.
Holding the thing.
Every good S'more needs a GRAHAM! Winter's??
Charlie in his full costume.
Charlie and Danny. (They won prizes at mutual for their costumes.)
Mutual. Try to spot the siblings, because it's hard to explain where they are.
Grace FINALLY landed in Chile!
The temple. Alice, Charlie, and Danny.
Left: Mexico. Right: Chile!
Toby's Bingo board.
Mom did some reorganizing in the garden. (I harvested all our tiny pumpkins.)

Grace and Hermana Rigby[her companion].
Alice and the flute for her to play a smoochy-woochy song for Graham.
Alice.
Alice.
Alice's concert.



Alice and Charlie.
Alice and Graham are across from each other. Alice and friends.
Grace, second from left.
Grace in the middle.
Grace and mission people. Front, second from left.


Up close. Plant leaf. (Alice's microscope day in AP Bio. She loved it so much!)
Water lily leaf.
Human blood.
Danny and Dad.
Toby's Halloween cooking class food.
Toby making muffins this morning.
Flowers.
More flowers.
The frontyard.
Toby and Charlie.
The temple.
Alice in full costume.
Pumpkin carving.