Birthdays

It is taking me a while to finish up with September despite titling a post "Winding up September" about three posts ago.  I still have the past weekend of birthdays to mention as well as the upcoming report of the Hale Theater play tomorrow "9 to 5" and our trip to Logan on Saturday for the Special Olympic Swim Meet.  Oh well.

As noted before in this blog, our family celebrates three birthdays in a week with Ben, Gary and Jena.  This year, we have been wanting to take our motor home up into the mountains to spend a night or two to enjoy the fall colors but things have been too busy on the weekends.  So instead we headed up to spend a special Sunday with Gary's mom at his sister Vonette's house to celebrate birthdays (my niece Nikki's birthday is today as well) and to attend the Brigham City Temple dedication.  We met at their Church for the broadcast which was shown in all of the Stake Centers in Utah, I think.  Then we headed to Vonette's house for dinner, some family game playing and conversation, and a beautiful walk on the streets around their home in Ogden Valley.  (And once you see how awesome it looks you will all be welcome to visit next September and see it for yourselves).

Mom (Grandma) Hall, Gary, Jena, and I
after the temple dedication

Nikki, Brie and Eric with little Emily due in November, and Krystal
some of Vonette's children

We took a small detour between the Church and Vonette's house
and drove passed the house where Gary's grandparents lived much
of the time he was growing up.  It is located in Liberty, Utah.
It has changed since those days, but still brought some sweet memories
as we went by the area.

Nikki and Hayden (my niece Christie's son)

Jena's trying to hide her face by kicking her leg up.
It worked.

Cousins on the tramp

New background for my phone



I love this picture even though it is the backs of our group.
Its like:  "Enjoy our walk with us!"  view
Gary, his mom, Eric and Brie, Christie in the orange,
Gary (Kerr) and Vonette



Mom Hall, Christie and Vonette

Ogden Valley in the background

Through the window on the drive there

In the middle of our day, we found time to share a birthday cake to wish Ben, Gary, Jena, and Nikki happy birthday.  The cake said "Happy Birthday everybody".

It was a good thing Sunday was so perfect since I started feeling sick towards the end of the day and have spent the last two days with a cold.  We did open presents yesterday with Ben and hope to gather more of our family to celebrate next week when Scott and Chantel are back from their trip to Boston---where they are also enjoying fall colors.

And now I really am caught up with the blog.  Valerie and I decided that our children will be grateful in the future that we have recorded things on the computer so they won't have to worry about scanning and other such things.