Fear Factor

The youth in my ward participated in a combined Fear Factor night.

In room number 1...

 

Videos of Glenn

Bye to Geri

The next day was Geri's last day with us.  The time went by way too quickly!  We wish she could live here--and we keep trying to convince her to do so!

But we were glad she could come visit for at least a short time. 

To send her off, we had a BBQ up in the mountains.  Our extended family came as well and that was really nice.  Not only did Geri get really close to me and my siblings, but she got to be really good friends with our cousins as well.  We really are her American Family.

Cornbelly's

The next night we went to dinner at Rodizio's Grill.

Paul's brother Arik and his friends were also in town; they got tickets to General Conference.

So we had a big group of us go to dinner.

Fall Colors

Maren and Geri spent the night after Jump on It.  The next day we went down to Provo to visit Grandma and Grandpa Thibault.  We also visited Sirie while she was at work.

She obviously got the message about it being plaid day!

( Maren first came upstairs wearing a plaid shirt.  Then Geri came up after her shower wearing a plaid shirt.  So I obviously had to wear one too!  Glenn didn't have a plaid shirt, so I put plaid shorts on him.)

 

Jump on It

One day while Geri was here, we had the girls over at our house.  It is a tradition of ours to watch either Pride and Prejudice--the long version, or Anne of Green Gables.  

This time we watched P & P at my house.  We let the kids play, we grabbed some food and gathered around the computer to watch.  (We don't own a TV...)

We love this movie.  Geri loves this movie.  I love that we watch it with her whenever she comes.

That evening Paul made homemade pizza.

 

Happy Birthday Dad!

My Dad's birthday was in September and we had a small get together to celebrate.

Our Swiss Sis

When I was a sophomore in high school my family hosted a foreign exchange student from Switzerland.  She stayed with us for a year and just fit in our family so well!  We love her as if she is our sister!

She had the opportunity to come visit us this year.  We had a great time with her!  She was only here for just over a week and it wasn't long enough!  We love you Geri!

Grapes

Our grapevine also produced a lot of grapes.  I am amazed at how big it got!  

Paul cut it back last year to basically one branch.  Now look at it!

Millions of Peaches

"Millions of peaches-peaches for me.

Millions of peaches-peaches for free."

I don't know who sings that song, but I remember my brothers listening to it.  And every time I say 'peaches' that lyric comes to mind.  

But this year we really did get millions of peaches!

 

Food Anyone?

Paul has made several batches of homemade salsa--and it is really good!

Glenn really likes it too.

Nursery Songs

It's nice to know that Glenn is learning and  remembering 

things taught to him in Nursery.

Spelling Bee Star

This video only shows a little bit of what Glenn can do.  He knows all the letters of the alphabet--uppercase and lowercase.  Sometimes he gets confused with I and l, but who doesn't?  

It is fun reading signs and books with him. He points to all the letters he knows and is now learning to sound out the words.  He is getting close to recognizing small words like 'the' and 'and' and 'of'.  We just love our little Spelling Bee Star!  (Maybe one day he will be...)

Candy Corn

Oh man, I LOVE this time of year...cooler weather, Fall colors, and of course

CANDY CORN!

I love candy corn!

I also love making funny faces with candy corn.  I guess Glenn watched me do that a few times and he decided he wanted to do it too.

Glenn and Paul having Fun

I love being able to capture these fun moments had between my husband and my son.  It is so precious!

These boys sure have fun together!  I love them both so much!

Potty Training...

So about a month ago we decided to try potty training.  

Glenn really liked the underwear that we found.  (It is Thomas and all the other trains!)

But it didn't really work.  We'll try again soon.

Abbie

One of my Mia Maids plays on the high school soccer team.  We had the chance to go to one of her games.  We took a picture of her getting ready to sub in and then one on the field.  (She has the dark hair.)

Exercise

So this is what exercise looks like at our house--haha!  It looks like Glenn is pretending to be a chicken or something!  I'm not sure why he started doing that when he runs through the house, but he always does.  We figured we'd better get a video of it before he doesn't do it anymore.

Labor Day Hike

Labor Day morning we dropped Glenn off at my aunt's house, got my uncle and headed up to meet family at my grandparent's house.

Dad. Sirie. Me. Paul. Niels. Eric. Maren. Uncle Stan. Tanner.

The Trash Man, played by Glenn

 Glenn loves the trash man, like most young boys.  Glenn also loves to imitate the truck as it picks up the trash cans and dumps them.  I had a video of this, but it is too long.  So here is the picture sequence.