A long post

I try not to post a really long post.  They're harder for me to do and to search, but I'm being lazy this week.  

This week, my Ecuadorian friend, Pablo, passed away.  I wish I could have introduced my kids to him once.  Maybe I'll still be able to visit his wife. My favorite thing about teaching him the gospel was that he was the epitome of humility and obedience.  We taught him about the Book of Mormon sitting on the floor of his carpentry shop.  The smell of wood shavings.  When we taught about tithing, we learned from the Bishop that he paid his tithing without being a member yet. When I came back to visit a year later, he was in the bishopric and all of his adult children and many of his previous congregation had joined the ward. He's a good man. 

We got to go to Howl's Moving Castle for family night last week.

I was trying to show Ada my hair.  She's always combing through or fluffing my hair. I actually wore it down and wanted to show her proof.

Ada doesn't like orange skittles, but she knows I do.  So for General Conference, she seperated all the skittles so she could have some and I could have the others.

This was our low key, at home conference.  We did the first 4 sessions at home, then the Brashers invited us to eat lunch with them at Grandma and Grandpa Robertson's house before they drove home.  It was fun to see them, even for an hour.  The 5 of them left and we stayed for the last session on conference.  It was a nice conference.  We didn't have anywhere to go, all the kids easily listened to the speakers.  There was a little pent up energy at the end, but they did great.

Evelyn always builds a tent during conference. She's getting too big for this one though.  I realized just today that she's grown a lot lately.  I wonder how tall she's going to get and who's going to finish growing first.... Sam or Evelyn?  I think Ada's mostly done.  She's stayed still for about 6 months.

Seth's Primary went to Wilderson farms.  He had so much fun but I don't think he liked the ferris wheel.  He told me about it with a little trepidation.  (This is Seth's friend, Gabe).

Then the school had a Fall Festival.  I wasn't able to go, but Seth had fun with Jack. Jer said that it was fun, but honestly it was too many people for the activities that they'd provided.

After conference, Grandpa invited Seth to help him put together a Winnie the Pooh puzzle. They were so cute just giggling over there.