Fall Break in AZ

The week before Fall Break I reminded Cade that the girls have off and if he wanted to visit the Close side it would be a good time to. He gladly took me up on that offer. Aside from Lucy hating her car seat, traveling to Prescott AZ isn't too bad.

The kids absolutely LOVE being with each other. Emma and Ashur have always played well with each other, but it's been really fun to see how Reese and Taft are becoming such great friends. They just spend hours playing outside (climbing trees, riding Gma and Gpa's quads, digging in the dirt), coloring and creating crafts, and asking to eat food all day long.

Cade got to meet up with the Egans in Flagstaff for "Man Camp" while we were down there. We were glad it coincided with when we could come to AZ anyway!

I took some quick shots of the Young family while we were down.

Halloween 2016- a Wild Bunch

This year Cade and the girls agreed to do a family theme. Each girl picked their favorite animal and Cade and I found awesome adult flamingos that we could be together. Even Penny dressed up like a Lion! It was fun to move away from Disney princesses for one year. I'm sure we will revisit them again soon :). We dressed up for the Annual Fishbowl trick or treating (in which Lucy threw up all over her costume as soon as we pulled up to the building- we took the girls trick or treating anyway). Then our ward had a trunk or treat/chili cook-off and so we dressed up for that. And lastly, Halloween day! It was a great year and of course I ate more Halloween candy than anyone else in the family. So we donated a lot of our candy after Halloween was over. Don't worry, the girls still ate more than they needed to!

We won best couple at the ward Trunk or Treat :)...

Since I wasn't feeling well on Halloween, Lu Lu and I passed out candy while Cade took the girls around the neighborhood. Usually it's the other way around.

Close Family Pics 2016- Lucy Added!

Andra Hansen Meyer did our family pictures again and we always love what she does. We have gotten family pictures done every time we add another to our growing family...which happens to be every two years so far :). Little Lu Lu got to join this time!

Miss E's First Musical :)

Emma's elementary school decided to allow a traveling theater to put on a musical this year. Over 100 kids auditioned and about 60 were able to participate. Emma was in the 5-8 age range which did not have as much practice time and did not have a very big part but Emma was still so excited to be in it. Mostly because she got to stay at school an extra two hours every day for a week and socialize! She was a lobster in Alice and Wonderland. I went to the first performance and then Daddy, Grandma and Reese and Nora went to the second one. She had a great time and loved being with friends and performing on stage! (They practiced for an entire week and performances were on Sat November 12th).

Reese Gymnastics!

Our little Reesie-Roo started taking gymnastics at All American Gymnastics in Lindon, Utah. She loves going! This next semester we are going to try and get her in dance so we'll see if we continue with both dance and gymnastics. She is a flexible little thing and has a lot of fun going.

(She's the one in the light blue leotard)...