Pomegranates = a yummy treat! Oma brought us all back some from Thatcher. They other day she call me and said come by I have a bowl of pomegranates for you (thanks mom for taking them out of the shell for me)!
We have great memories of Grannie and Grandpa Dowdles pomegranate trees. When it was time to pick them all the Aunts and Grannie would make pomegranate jelly, yummy. Grannie would even make homemade bread to put it on, delicious (I am now craving it). Fun memories!
Friday, Oct. 23 Cole didn't quite make it to school. He threw-up several times in the car on the way to school. We obviously cleaned him up the best we could turned around and came home. He didn't have a fever (diarrhea came), but other than that he played like normal and asked to eat like normal. About every 4-5 hours he would puck and then be fine again lasted 24 hours and it was over, thank goodness! He spent a good part of the morning playing play dough. He loves it...he will even get it out on his own and play all by himself (finally). He loves to get out his animals and make paw prints. 
Cousins are so much fun...Megan and Kaelen Lavold came to spend the night with us. Erik's Aunt Emogene passed away and the funeral was in Snowflake, Arizona on Friday Oct. 16. Erik couldn't get the time off, so we weren't going to be able to go. We thought what could we do to help someone else go? Tina (Erik's sister) wanted to go super bad and was hoping to go with us. When we couldn't go we volunteered to keep some of Liz's kiddos (Erik's other sister), so they would have room for Tina.
Carly was in hog heaven to have some of her cousins come and play. They had such a good time. The Lavold girls even brought some wood crafts to paint...fun! We rode bikes and scooters to the park, ordered PIZZA, watched a movie, ate popcorn and candy (shhhh don't tell their mom), and played a fun scavenger hunt game. 
Carly was so happy to have them over (they did crafts at 6:30am)! Wants to know when she can have cousins over again?! 
Every year as the weather cools off and we start to open our windows welcoming FALL our darn fire alarms go off! One starts and within seconds all 12 are going off. Waking the dead (Erik) as he had just fallen off to sleep and scaring Cole to tears. What a horrific sound. Off to Wal-mart I go to spend $10 a pack buying batteries, ouch! Erik swears by Energizer by the way (he has proven they last twice as long in his pump he wears). Awe...good for another YEAR!
My bOyS loooooove popcorn! Cole will finish his breakfast and ask for popcorn at 7am.
Cole's preschool LIFE had a field trip to Schneif Farms. Adults $5 and children $6 what a smoken deal Carly, Cole and I had a great time.
Carousel rides...fun!
Carly loves to be on the go and join any outing!
They had a maze where the kids rode these bikes around. 
They climbed through this really creative wooden train.
We each got to pick a pumpkin...Cole wasn't sure which one to choose!
Carly, how does this one look?
We rode on the roller coaster...I just knew we were going to fall. It was really scary to me...Cole hated it!
The swings...Cole could have ridden these a million times! 
Wow...airplanes, who needs Disneyland???
The Phoenix Zoo rocks. We love to visit there. Cole was so much easier this time and enjoyed playing and interacting with everyone.
The Edwards met us there, fun! On the left, Dallin, Sadie, Carly, Jase, Conner and somewhere is Lindsey and Cole!
Erik caught a TURTLE...I was so worried we were going to get kicked out! The boys thought it was so cool.
Dallin wanted a turn to hold it! I love to watch the turtles swim and climb up on the rocks!
Sadie and Carly...they are both so GIRLY!
Now everyone was trying to catch a turtle! 
Jase got to come with us that was fun! He was into the Zoo Map big time! 
Sadie loves Lindsey! It was so fun to have our whole family together. Glad Erik had the week off and we were able to do some fun things! 
Carly...only 7 for a few more months she is growing up way to fast!
Can I leave these a-n-i-m-a-l-s at the ZOO?
BROTHERS...they love to be together. Conner loves to play with Cole and Cole thinks the world of him! 
Kylee started out really nervous about Marley, but ended up loving him and wanted lots to do with him. She was great at giving him toys and taking him for several walks.
Lindsey, what can I say you are such a "beast," she loves to call herself that. She hung with us all day. It was fun to have her around. 
The excitement of the day was Erik's car had to be towed. It broke down and he tried to fix it, but no luck. Luckily it wasn't to bad of a bill, it is now running and good to go! 
The kids were totally amazed at how the man got the car on his truck! 
Thank heavens Gramers and Papa have a few extra cars, so we were able to borrow one until Erik's car ran again. Thanks so much!
6:45-9:00 Off to the church
Lindsey went to mutual and I worked on September's Visiting Teaching report in the clerks office.
9:00 All kids in bed and mom right behind them.
(Sienna, Ramie, Brynn, Whitney, Kylee, Carly, Conner, Tanner, Crew, Cole) 
take pictures...
take silly pictures...
take pictures with mom (pretty one Lindsey)...
take very silly pictures...
take modeling pictures (great one of Carly)....
take happy pictures (cute smile Conner)...
take pictures with our dog Marley...
Lindsey had a great season! We loved watching her play volleyball. She has a killer serve and learned lots this season. We already miss going to her games every Monday and Wednesday. 
She is a great leader and made some fun new friends this season. What will she do with all her FREE time now?
In the 16 years we have been married we have never had consistent home teachers. A little over a year ago Jim and Julie Larson were assigned to home teach us. They have been amazing! They have truly become a part of our family. They have come each month to give us a message and see how each one of us are doing along with checking on us weekly. They surprised us on our birthdays, showed up to ball games, made special visits when injuries happened, sat with us at church, gave blessings, called us out of the blue, and much much more! With our ward split they are no longer in our ward. We are so sad and miss them terribly. We have truly been blessed to have them in our lives. They have taught us many things and more than anything they have loved our family in ways we can not express. We have truly been watched over...now it is our turn to be like them they have been wonderful examples. I am sure the Lord is beyond pleased with the service they have given our family. We will never forget Bro. & Sis. Larson and the love they have given our family!
I got an invitation to my dear friend, Leslie Hodgson's wedding reception. I have been so excited to go and see her and all my old Ray 1st ward friends. Yesterday was a crazy busy day, but everything went pretty smoothly. I was pretty tired and thought I don't want to drive 45 minutes to an hour to get to the reception, but I really want to go. So lucky for me Erik was home from work (due to his arm injury) and I could leave the kiddos and go. Lindsey decided to go with me. We got in our skirts and headed off around 7:15 after picking Conner up from a primary party. Get to where we thought the reception was and there was another reception going on there (no we didn't go in, but the car decorated outside was for two people we didn't know). Okay know that I have the invitation with me, but we call Erik and say this is the address and we can't find it. As I am reading him the address from the invitation I look at the DATE, September 5. Okay yesterday was September 4! Yay, get it we were a day EARLY! I was so angry, but Lindsey and I had to laugh! BLONDE moment...oh well we wasted some gas, but went shopping at Target (bought a new lamp I needed for my bedroom) and treated ourselves to Bahama Bucks since we didn't get any wedding cake! Oh yeah and got some movies out of Redbox (entertainment for the weekend).
Friday, August 28 Carly was recognized as "Student of the Month". She didn't know she was receiving this award until I showed up for the program. I am so proud of her. Here is what her teacher, Mr. Jeffers wrote about her:
Carly loves school and is an excellent student. Here she is singing the school song. I love you Carly!
