10/27/2010

Happy Wednesday everyone,
I used to send a family update to all of you who are away from home and I realized that I haven't done that for awhile.

We have snow on our roof! We've had rain and a little snow and a good hard frost at night the last few nights. Just a little snow on the ground across the street. I picked our last tomatoes from the garden before the storm hit and we picked the grapes and made grape juice. I'm not ready for winter yet, though. It's supposed to get back in the 60's this weekend. Yeah!

Blake's last football game was last week, but Tyler is still going strong. His last regular season game in Saturday in Park City, and then playoffs begin. Aubrey and Lauren finished soccer a few weeks ago.

Tyler's fall concert was last night at CJH and it brought back many fond memories of all of you over the years. McKay, you didn't sing in the CJH choir but you did art and there were art displays in The Blue so we thought of you, too. Blake's VHS fall concert is tonight, so we'll think of all of you again.

Our family Halloween party was on Monday night. G&G Peterson came over (the Williams were at Megan Brown's birthday party.) We had dinner and then we played Pin the Nose on the Pumpkin and Halloween Bingo. We all got a good laugh when it was Grandpa's turn for Pin the Nose. He was blindfolded, going toward the entertainment center where the pumpkin was taped,but he veered to the left and started down the hall toward the bathroom. I think he would have gone all the way down the hall, except that his arm brushed the wall, so he stuck his nose there. We carved our pumpkins that night and bobbed for apples, of course, too. Grandpa was remembering how the boys would put ice in the big apple bobbing bucket. Treats were doughnut holes and apple cider. A good time with lots of memories of when we would go to the Peterson's house for the party. It makes me sad to think of those days and to see how much Grandma's heath has deteriorated since then. When I get the supplies for the Halloween party out of the box and see things in Grandma's handwriting it makes me teary. (Grandma gave me all her stuff for the Halloween party a few years ago.)

We are hosting Thanksgiving dinner this year. We will have the Bastians and the Merrills with us, along with G&G Peterson.
The third weekend in December will be a fun one. The Wyatts and McKay fly in on Sunday, Dec.19, and Levi will move home that weekend, too. Becca and Nathan, we're still hoping you fly out of Salt Lake, so we can all be together for a little while.

We hope all is going well for each of you. I love you!
Mom