Labor Day…

This weekend my sister Krystal and her family and Neal's sister Kira and her family that both live in the same apartments in Portland because their husbands are both Chiropractic students came to visit us and meet Grayson.

First things first. Holding the baby!

  

4 different ribs, 4 different flavors, 4 different grilling methods. The best way to taste test ribs!

Tried ourselves some Fatburger....

....on our way to the splash pad!

Saturday we went to Pig Out in the Park in Spokane! It was a lot of fun! So many food trucks and vendors it was like heaven.  What I really loved was the pumpkin donuts! Yumm!

After we'd all gotten our food we went and hung out by the river!

Sunday the men each dressed up their own ribs to grill for a tasting contest. The women tried out some garlic fries! They tasted sooo good! As for who won the ribs contest, it's still a bit difficult to determine. However, Jordan's meat was the best, but the flavor of Neal's was my choice! I can't remember who agreed with me, but I think someone did.

We had a great time! So many memories made. The kids (mostly Brooklyn) were obsessed with my closet. It's like Brooklyn's dream basically. More shoes than she could ever ask for. I caught them all in there..

The kids had a slumber party...

....but there was no slumber until Brooklyn was able to get some of my shoes back on-

Us girls did our nails one night, we took the kids to the park, celebrated Krystal's little guys 4th birthday and enjoyed the luxury of playing in a backyard!

April…

Here’s our recap instagram style:

Made some turkey meatloaf potato cupcakes for dinner for April Fool’s day!

Jasper styling a bowtie I made for a friend’s baby shower gift

General Conference: Always comes at a perfect time!

Some of my favorites from this conference:

Favorite saying right now:

Boston Bombing: My Heart broke that someone would do something so cruel to all these people who trained so hard and for so long to run a marathon.

Jasper got comfy while Neal was sleeping.

Neal’s family had a German exchange student when he was 10 yrs old and they still keep in touch with her. Her and her family came to visit and I got to meet them for the first time. They were absolutely delightful! Silke, Marc and Ben (Jasper photobombed)

I got to go to Time Out For Women with my sister Holly and my mom and then I went back home to visit the family for a week afterwards. It was so fun but I sure missed Neal!

Grandpa Ron and Grandma Olsen

Grandma and Grandpa Davies

Of course it would snow in April in Idaho

Bonfire with my sister Heather and her hubby Mark and my parents…roasted starburts, smores, and hotdogs

Early birthday party while I was home with delish food

Went to the temple and then to Scotty’s Drive in where we used to always go growing up.

I also got to meet up with my brother and sister in law Nephi and Mallory at Orange Leaf (frozen yogurt place) and we talked for hours. Love the family I married into!

I got super spoiled for my birthday this year! My family threw a little party for me while I was home, my friends threw me a girl’s night with games, cupcakes, and yummy food, and Neal topped it off with a great day and Birthday Itinerary.

Choice One: Breakfast at Cottage Cafe

Choice Two: Shopping and G.I.Joe Movie

Choice Three: Work Out, open present {Neal was so proud of himself for color coordinating the bag and the present} and Soup and Salad at Olive Garden

Friend B-Day Party at Cara’s: Thanks for the fun night and laughs!

October…

My parents came for a visit the beginning of the month and it was so much fun to have them come and see where we live! We enjoyed conference weekend together and went to Greenbluff, Bowl and Pitcher and visited the Spokane Temple. It was such a wonderful weekend and I loved having them here. I have the greatest parents and feel so incredibly blessed!  Love you maw-maw and paw-paw.

Neal's Grandpa passed away on October 9th. The funeral was that next weekend  so Neal and I hopped in the car and drove home for the funeral.  Neal gave a great prayer at the funeral and his brother Nephi gave a great talk. I enjoyed hearing the grandkids tell stories and reminisce about Grandpa Richins. It was a beautiful funeral and the family paid a great tribute to him.

We had 3 Halloween Party’s this year. We had the annual chili cook off/trunk-or-treat as a ward party and also the following 2 parties! 

Party #1: The Klain’s a cute family in our ward did an adult only party. We played Pictionary, family feud Halloween style, murder mystery and ate great food!

Heather and Ken Klain

Brian and Becky- A”SALT” riffle and peppered with bullets

The Rippey’s: Baby wranglers

Heather and Justin: Brick and Brick layer

Sarah and Brandon: The Farmer and the Dell

Shawn and Felicia: Granny and Red

The Urichs: Gladiator and Medusa

Schaber’s: Prisoner and Officer

Sharps: Scott Pilgrim

Anneice and Tim: UPS man and the Total Package

Cardoza’s: The Walking Dead

Emily and Gene: Kate and Will

Alex and Christy: Wonka and Oompa Loompa

Neal and I

Owl Cupcakes for Party

Party #2 at Sullenger’s:

We ate food, drank homemade root beer, played pictionary, the game of Things and chatted it up.

Cheese Ball for Party # 2

All the costumes:

Danielle and Bobby as a Bee and Captain America

Summer and Brian as Tinkerbell and Captain Hook

Cara and Kash as TMNT - Donatello and Leonardo

Angie and Tyler as angels

Kevin and Julie as 80's era.

Brad and Robin as "Bradman and Robin"

 

Me and Neal as crayons if you couldn’t guess :)

Erica and Landon as a bee and a genie

Ordered this little cutie from my friend Christine—she’s so talented—Love my new Halloween Doll!

Neal got bored in Sunday school and drew this

My fav hot chocolate of all time