Nov.

November begins...

We've had a beautiful, warm sunny fall. This is the view off of the balcony. 

Taylor invited a few friends over for an after school snack last week. It ended up being 16 guys at our hose after school or food and drinks. It was fun and crazy! He has a great group of friends and I am happy to have them over. 

Lizzie was the star of the week last week. She made this poster and was really excited about it! I love kindergarten because she gets so excited about everything!

I took Lizzie and a group of friends to the park one warm day last week. It was a gorgeous day, and they had fun running around and playing in the leaves etc... 

Baby Jane went to Canada to see G & G Shields this week. 

We enjoyed Saturday afternoon at Red Butte Garden last weekend. It was SO warm and a gorgeous day to be outside. 

Sunday afternoon we made our Christmas advent calendar out of our Christmas calendars. The kids love this tradition and it's a great way to use all the Halloween candy.
Onto the rest of November!  

Halloween! 🎃

We had a wonderful Halloween this year. The weather was warm, sunny, and not too cold. The kids had a great costumes, and we had tons of fun!

this year for costumes Emily was a chef, as it was the blue morph man, and Lizzie was an adorable cat.

 We have a really fun neighborhood tradition come over we have chili, and dinner before trick-or-treating. Then we all meet for scones and hunt chocolate later. We love our neighborhood, and have wonderful friends and neighbors.

Happy Halloween!

Here's Emily with some friends, at a birthday party. She has a great group of friends, I'm happy that she has good influences in her life.

Grandma and grandpa Shields, are enjoying their mission. They're super busy, but I think they're doing great!

We had a lot of fun at the Uintah school Halloween carnival. They have a Photo Booth coming with the kids love! It's a fun night to see everyone in their costumes at the school having fun.

Taylor had his first show choir concert last week. He looked so handsome in his uniform. The group sounded great! It was a fun night of Taylor! 

The kids had fall break this week, which means no school Wed-Friday. And also no school on Monday. So we went to Midway with Monica and her girls for a day or so.  We had a blast playing, doing pearler beads, going to a pumpkin patch, eating ice cream, sitting in the hot tub, playing games, relaxing etc.. it was a nice get away and we all had fun! 

The kids love spending time with their cousins and we all adore baby Jane! She's so cute!  The pumpkin match/hay maze was fun and we took a few pics. 

Friday night some of us went to the Boo lights at the zoo. It was a fun halloween adventure. The kids had a blast. We also went exploring in the Glenn and Danny filled in for the music leader in primary.(because half the ward was out of town for the Fall Break) 

Saturday was sunny and warm so we decided to carve pumpkins. The kids had fun scooping guts, and carving their pumpkins. We roasted the seeds to eat later too. 

Sunday we had a family dinner to celebrate Emily's birthday!! We had dinner, cake & ice cream etc.. Emily had a fun night. She's a kind, thoughtful, witty, smart, cute, girl with high self esteem and a great smile! We all love this girl!
On Monday there was no school so we went bowling with a few friends and then out for donuts. They had a great time and I won at bowling! It was a fun day for Emily! 

Happy 11th Birthday to Emily!