October Misc.

Family Night at Gravady!

 

Max really did brake his wrist!

He was playing football with his friends and for three days

he kept telling me it was broken so I took him in

and to my surprise it was!

 Made some family rules. Hope they help!

It's been soccer games every Friday night watching Hanna and Van.

Didn't get any pics. of them playing because I was too distracted by this crew.

Hanna, Van and Walt each scored a goal at the first game of the season.

Walt sure deserved this trophy!

Walt has had lots of fun playing soccer this season. 

He is a super hard worker and it showed on the field!

Walt was all over the place defending and scoring, Walt was the team!

We Love You Grandma Mike

 We took a quick trip to St. George, to say good-bye to Grandma Mike.

She passed away 6 days later on October 18th with my mom and Aunt Joann at her bed side.
She was 89 years old, which was the same age her mother, Alta Cooper was when she died.

At the funeral on Oct. 24, 2015 at Forest Lawn in Cypress, CA.

With all 4 of her children.

My mom, Jim, Janet and Joann.

Grandma died on a Sunday.
I was in sacrament meeting when my sister left the message on my phone telling me that she had passed away. The closing hymn was I Believe in Christ.
Later that day I was talking to my mom and we were trying to think of the song she always wanted Rebecca to sing at her funeral. My mom said, "Oh I know, it's I Believe in Christ. but it's too long so we'll have her sing this other song instead." I said, "Mom that was the song that we sang in sacrament meeting really close to the time grandma passed away. Rebecca needs to sing that song!"
So, Rebecca sang "I Believe in Christ" at her funeral.

 Grandma Mike with almost all her grand children

at her 88th Birthday just last year.

With almost all of her great grand-kids.

Singing to Grandma

A few pics. of Grandma Mike.

I love the pic. on the right with Daisy and Grandma.

Daisy loved her Great Grandma Mike!

Grandma Mike's real name is Marian Giles Michaelson.

She was also a twin and so we named Daisy, Daisy Marian after Grandma.

 

My Grandpa Gravell was at the funeral.

Grandpa Milton Gravell with my dad Ernie Gravell

Me and our seven children.

Jane is 3 Months Old

This girl is 3 months old and is getting nice and chunky!

She is such a happy baby girl and such a joy!

 

She has torticollis. 

It's a tight muscle in her neck, which causes her to favor one side. 

We are doing stretches with her and hopefully soon it will correct itself.

 

 My sister-in-laws threw me a family baby shower.

 Alena, me, Becky and Cindy

Daisy & Her BFF

Daisy spent her whole summer at her friend Violet's house!

She goes to her house almost every day after school.

They watched Cupcake Wars today and then

 with Violet's older sister Jade's help they made cupcakes.

Daisy, Jade and Violet licking the frosting.

Daisy's cupcake, that she couldn't actually eat.

Daisy got this done at the school Fall Festival.

Trip to Utah for Conference & Fun

 We had a late start on our trip to Utah because of car troubles, 

but we made it to our first BYU game with the kids!

It was cold and rained on and off, but we had a great time!

(Daisy, Walt and Clark stayed with Grandma Susan for the weekend).

 We woke up early the next morning to go to the 

Saturday Morning General Conference Session.

Sadly, Danny didn't make it in.

It was such a wonderful experience taking these three for their first time.  

 Meeting up with Danny afterwards.

 One more with me Max, Hanna and Van.

(My Cousin Heidi watched Baby Jane).

 We stayed at our friends the Finken's for the weekend. 

We enjoyed their home, company, nickel arcades together, 

their taste in food and watching conference together!

 The kids loving on baby Jane.

Tanya is the most talented quilter I know! She's even been featured in a couple of quilting magazines, because of her amazing skills! Danny jokingly asked her for one of her quilts and she insisted on us taking one! She says she gets sick of looking at them after awhile :). She's made over 150 and only has 15, because she gives them away. I just love this quilt, it brightens my day every time I look at it!

 Here are a few of my favorite quotes from General Conference.

Witches Tea

My friend Kelli threw the funnest Halloween party ever!

I just love Kelli and these pics. give you a little taste of how fun she is!

We all dress up as witches, eat amazingly yummy food, drink "witch tea"

and enjoy one an others company.

The witch and her kitten,

Jane is Starting to Laugh & Plays Patty Cake

Starting to laugh.

 At the Children's Museum with Clark, Wyatt, Landon and Ethan

 

Jane is a happy baby, but she loves being held.

 Jane and Lilliann

               Dee Dee and Jane                       Uncle Micheal meets Jane

Clark playing at the park with his friend Jett.

                                                      

 We are ready for Fall!

Jane loves playing Patty Cake.

Max & Dad Hike Mt. Charleston

They're off!

These 12 year old scouts are and their two leaders are headed off on a two day hike up Mt. Charleston! It is a 19 mile hike, which is one of the tallest mountains in South Western United States. 

 One of the oldest trees in the world. About 3000 years old.

On the way to the top!

 That's the peek behind them!

They made it to the top! 11,916 ft. way to go boys!

What an accomplishment!

And they're back! So happy they made it back safe!

Us parents back at home started getting pretty worried about these boys!

The parents asked Danny what time he thought he'd be back from the overnighter when they dropped off the boys the day before and Danny just threw out a time, which he said was 4:00. When 4:00 came and passed on Saturday without a word, it didn't concern us much. When 7:00 came and the sun was down without a word we started to get concerned. At 8:30 one of the boys' dad who was on the hike is a police officer called and said he was notifying metro police in the area and asked us to call search and rescue. At that point we kind of panicked! We heard from Sean the other leader on the hike at 9:30 and all was well! It just took longer than they thought and had no way to contact us.