Jonas is Seventeen

We love this guy!

We had a fun day with a cool toy set up of all of Jonas' old favorite toys ... thanks kids!

We had a family football game.

Bob and I took Jonas out to IHOP for lunch.

He opened presents.

We enjoyed a noodlemania dinner with 

German Chocolate Cake for dessert.

Yum!

Lots of toy memories...

Lucy is wondering if she can have any of Jonas' food/candy... 

Uh, no.

The cake... 

YUM!

Evelyn's Baptism

I love the shining faith of my little girl.  

She positively beamed with joy as she was baptized and confirmed.  

She requested that Jonas baptize her, which was a wonderful privilege for him.  

Bob confirmed her a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 

and bestowed the gift of the Holy Ghost upon her.  

She is beautiful inside and out, and we are thankful for her righteous example.

We hung out in the kitchen with candy and talking after everyone left...  

Two of my favorite things to do!

Jonas' Eagle Court of Honor

We were blessed to have all our sets of grandparents in town for the weekend.  We arranged Jonas' court of honor and Evelyn's baptism for that Friday/Saturday.  We enjoyed our time with everyone. We are so proud of our Eagle Scout!

We had a lot of other good times this weekend too with trips to a couple of parks, 

visiting in our home, 

and even sneaking in an awesome conversation with Leslie in fulfilling a Personal Progress requirement about faith.  (Yes, she's doing it again...!)

Thank you, dear grandparents, for coming to visit!

Halloween 2014

We've had an illness run through our little ones again, which made the Trunk or Treat not so fun...
Halloween night was a success with fun pictures, acting the parts, gathering loot, and then rushing off to see Jonas' final football game.  Today we graphed our candy and took a fun time-lapse movie of the kids eating candy for 5 minutes. Perhaps we should have taken a time-lapse movie of them AFTER the candy... :)

Trunk or Treat... 

you can probably guess by the faces 

who wasn't feeling too great...

Halloween night (Jonas is missing because he was at his last football game... who schedules these games!!!)

Princesses

My cute dragon (just woke up from a nap, so a little grouchy...)

The energy of these knights!  

Back view of Princess Leslie's outfit (and hair)

Best buddies

The candy graph.  900 pieces of candy total.  

Lollipops are reigning champion...

This is gross to watch in real time, 

funny in sped-up time, 

and would be disgusting in slow-motion! 

FUN!