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!

December…

We had a few Christmas parties the first one started for our work party. It was a fun time we went to the Davenport Hotel had delicious dinner, played some fun games and got great Christmas gifts.

 

We got to order “mocktails” at the work Christmas party they were divine!

Our ward Christmas party they had desserts and a little program put on by the YW and YM. These little yummies I made for the party

Find the Salted Carmel Shortbread Squares recipes here.

The next week we had an ugly sweater Christmas party put on by our good friends the Barker’s. We had delicious treats, many laughs, and played some Winter Olympic Games (aka minute to win it)

Our good friends the Sullenger’s had us and the Rencher’s over to make gingerbread houses

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To get in the Christmas spirit, we watched the Fireplace episode on Netflix, while drinking hot chocolate.

Made these little Christmas gifts  for my cute beehives

We went home for Christmas and updated our family photos with the Guymon’s and enjoyed spending time with both our families. We realized how lucky we were to have 2 weeks off while Neal was in school. We only had 4 days this year…we must be in real life now :)

Kira and I found the most awesome glasses in Claire’s

Best white elephant gift at the Guymon Christmas Party

Grandma Guymon playing some Christmas songs on the organ (she has been taking lessons and did a wonderful job!)

Made it to the Davies Family Christmas Eve Breakfast. The nativity was amazing and the kids did a great job!

My adorable nephews and niece I could seriously eat them up! Miss them so much!

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