Joe's Farm Grill

Joe's Farm Grill is so yummy. And each year they have a "Customer Appreciation Day" and they give everyone a free burger and fries. Yum! The line is usually pretty long but it moves really fast. Kimbri was actually in preschool during the time we went so it was just Garrett, Brenna and I. We went through the line and got food to go but on our way out they had a fire truck with firemen handing out free fireman hats. Garrett was in heaven! He was SO excited to see the firemen and the firetruck.... and you can totally see the excitement on his face in these pictures. It was super fun and was delicious! (And the burgers were so big that we split Garrett's and Kimbri still got to have some food when she got home from preschool).

Brenna's Blessing Day

Brenna was blessed on November 1, 2015.

We felt so happy to have our parents come into town for Brenna's baby blessing. It was such a special day and it turned out perfect!

 A sweet lady in our ward, Christy Peterson, wrote down a few parts of Brenna's blessing so we could remember. There was some very tender and sweet parts of her blessing which included:

"I bless you to know you are loved and were born into a home where you were loved and people looked forward to your birth."

"I bless you that you will see the best in others. That you will see the best in them even when they treat you less than fair, and even when others look down on them."

"I bless you with great faith in Jesus Christ and that you will help others strengthen their faith."

"You will be close to your siblings."

Brenna has already been such a sweet blessing in our lives. She is such a tender soul and makes me filled with joy. I love her more than words can say and it's so true, the part in the blessing, that said people looked forward to her birth. We were so excited for her to join our family and we are so happy that she is here! 

Wearing the same dress and bracelet that
Kimbri wore on her blessing day.

Halloween Weekend

Halloween weekend was full of fun! IHOP always does the free "Scary Face" pancakes for kids so I decided to load up the kids and take them there for breakfast. Because who can say no to free breakfast?! The kid even went in their pjs and everything. I'm pretty sure they loved it! They got to decorate their own "scary face" and had a lot of fun eating the whipped cream and candy on top of the ginormous pancake. I'm pretty sure their faces tell all. :)

Kimbri thought it would be funny to put the Minnie Mouse ears on Brenna. I guess Brenna thought it was pretty funny too.

Rick's school, ATSU, always puts on a great Founders Day Festival around this time of year as well. This year they did it a day or two before Halloween and made it into a Halloween party as well. This festival is always super family friendly too. It's awesome. Garrett dressed up as Buzz Lightyear, again. And Kimbri decided that this time she would dress up like a ballerina. (Pretty sure she has dressed up like something different for almost every party/festival we've gone to, haha!) They had blow up bounce houses and slides, face painting, cotton candy, sno cones, and yummy food. It was all so great. It's nice when the school puts on free activities like this geared towards the families of the students. I know our family sure enjoyed it!

She wanted a witch hat on her forehead!

And of course Garrett wanted Spiderman!

More Kimbri selfies!

Rick's parents and my parents were all in town for Brenna's baby blessing since it was over Halloween weekend. Halloween was on Saturday and Brenna was blessed on November 1, a Sunday. So we felt extra spoiled getting to have both sets of grandparents join us for Trick-or-Treating. I know both Kimbri and Garrett loved all the attention they were getting from the grandparents. It was such great weather while we were walking around the neighborhood going trick-or-treating. We pushed Brenna in the stroller while we walked and got to visit with our parents while Kimbri and Garrett loaded up on some good loot. At some houses they got full-sized candy bars! We have a pretty great neighborhood for trick-or-treating :)

My parents brought Kimbri and Garrett both a Halloween costume just for fun and they ended up both LOVING them and decided to wear those on Halloween night. They looked so cute :) They brought Garrett a Spiderman costume and Kimbri a Cinderella outfit. 

Rick's parents brought us a vampire bowl to put our Halloween candy in. When someone reaches into the bowl for candy, you can push a button on the end of a cord and the vampire talks and moves. It was pretty funny to get a couple good reactions out of trick-or-treaters that came to our house. Haha!

Grandpa Lyle sleeping with Brenna.

Ward Halloween Party

Instead of a Trunk or Treat type of thing, our ward does an annual Fall Festival. It's super fun! There is dinner and then the youth set up booths with games and contests kind of like a carnival and you can win candy by playing the games. They also did things like a cake walk, eating donuts on a string, and a hay ride. The night always ends with fire dancing by a brother in our ward, Brother Filimaua, which is always a hit.

Getting her hair all curled for the ward party.

Her cheeks are getting more chubby! I love it!

Stuffing a chocolate cupcake in his mouth
from the "cupcake walk" game.

Our home teacher, Brother Filimaua and his buddy, does a
fire dance each year at the fall festival. So cool! 

Kimbri's Preschool Halloween Parade

Kimbri wanted to dress up like Sleeping Beauty for her preschool Halloween parade. I had bought the dress from a yard sale for $1 when we were in Utah during the summer and had found the crown (brand new!) for 25 cents at a yard sale here in Arizona. So it worked out great! We curled her hair and she found a matching necklace and bracelet in her dress up bin and she was ready to go!

We dropped Kimbri off at preschool for a Halloween party and then Garrett, Brenna and I went at the end to watch the costume parade.