Alice's 6th birthday

 Alice trying on the bat fairy costume. It didn't make the cut; she'd rather be a princess this year.

 Putting up our Halloween decorations on Sunday.

 The always-popular lightning ball.

 My cute husband headed to work.

 Hopscotch with Alice. at the playground at Grace's school.

 Danny on the tennis courts.

Matching pj's.

 Baby burrito.

 Booster seats for the kindergarten carpool are fun to play with.

 Selfie with my kids.

 Danny loved the Halloween display at Wal-Mart.

 Plum face.

 Breakfast time.

 Lunch time.

 Play doh time!

 Charlie the headless boy.

 Charlie in my coat. "I'm a little old man!"

 Grace and her ASL class I teach. Colors and clothing turned silly.

 Alice on picture day.

 Making Alice's birthday cake.

 Pink pearly sixlets!

 Toy room of horrors. Olaf the pirate holding a gun to the prince on a horse.

 Pelican eating Sven.

 Angry birds sewing up a little person.

 Slug parasite exiting dolphin.

 Truck crash.

 Barbie subjected to tools.

 Aurora eaten by mice.

 Snakes and creepy creatures.

 Barbie with head popped off being preyed upon by dinos.

 Monkey puppet turned King Kong on parking garage with vampire teeth.

 Alligator piano eating skeleton leg. Baby in frying pan over camp stove.

 Man crushed by tractors.

 Woman about to be attacked by bugs.

 Attack of the giant crab and the dino eating a bat.

 Charlie Brown being bitten by disembodied teeth.

 Missionary on a catapult.

 Darth Vader rules the world with Iron Man and Thor with their skeleton dino minions.

 Creatures of the night.

 Elsa trapped in a cage on the roof of the farmhouse.

 Bird eating an eyeball.

 Alice's birthday breakfast at Dick's donuts.

 At the pumpkin patch. Haybale pile with slides.

 Corn box.

Photo booth.

 Tic-tac-toe.

 Giant connect four.

 Giant jenga.

 Tractor time!

 Photo op cut-outs.

 Lunchtime.

 Cake!

Present time. The little princess had a great birthay!

 Outfit for church this morning with new jean vest, sparkly black leggings, and necklace.

And stick-on earrings for her and Grace!

Cassidy and Conference

 Last Sunday: "Having a nice conversation?"

 Dad, Spencer, and Cassidy.

 Lemon bars and brownies make it a party!

 Dad's hearing aids.

 Spencer and Charlie picking apples.

 Paul got the higher ones on the ladder.

 "Stop taking so many pictures, Bethany!" She'll thank me someday for documenting her early days with Spencer.

 The hearing aid duo. (P.S. Just before taking this photo, I had to cut out a nose hair from Dad's nostril! That is true daughterly love right there!)

 Three flaky Flakes.

 Apple pickers. Cue the song from the Johnny Appleseed cartoon.

 Lovebirds.

 See, Cassidy? I got a really pretty picture of you, you big baby!

 Dad with his compression socks from the doctor.

 The happy couple with their favorite kid of mine. (Or the one who won't leave them alone, and Spencer is too nice and new to push him away.)

 "Would you like a bright shiny red apple, Snow White?"

 Dad was on a quest for a perfect apple without a wormhole to take home with him. I think he did finally find one.

 William Tell, or Dad in a Silly Mood.

 Charlie at the playground.

 Pears and apples from the neighbors' trees.

 D is for dinosaur masks. Ty and Charlie.

 Grace is her own kind of beautiful.

 Swinging with my boys at the park.

 The new bison statue in Woods Cross.

 Crawling with kids. They hate to see him leave for scouts.

 Joy school. Charlie, Danny, Ty.

 Sheep. Danny, Ty, Charlie.

 Cassidy was a natural teaching my ASL class at Grace's school. New profile pic, Cass? She totally wanted to keep the lanyard!

 The 500-pound pumpkin in Grace's playground.

 Activities for the kids for General Conference.

 Laundry day can be confusing at our house. A house divided, etc.

 Peeling apples.

 Our first attempt at cut-out shapes on our pies.

 Pretty fancy!

 Priesthood session = father and son wearing matching shirts. Not on purpose, but pretty funny.

 Peeling potatoes.

 Cool slicer! (I hadn't gotten ready for the day yet - don't judge.)

 Danny peeling a potato.

 Back in time: last Sunday out back.

 Paul on the football field on employee appreciation day.

 Apples from backyard neighbors, pears from across the street neighbors, plums from next door neighbors, and baby tomatoes from us. All free and organic!

 Prepping apple pie filling.

 Alice is the apple of my eye.

 Delicious dinner with Dad Gabe at Smoke'N'Bones BBQ.

 Sarah wanted a picture of our family in front of our house for the family yearbook, so we had Dad Gabe take some.

 A close-up while we were up there.

 Okay, now you can see the house AND the family. This should work. Even if two of our kids are in pajamas.

 General Conference set-up.

Sister hugs.