Witchfest

This year's theme was Hocus Pocus.  It was fun.  My dad wasn't feeling 100% so mom had to miss it, but we went shopping and dressed up. And most importantly.... ate candied apples and chocolate.

 

Ren Faire

On the way home from Bryce Canyon, we drove over to Mona and met up with Ada and Uncle Seth to wander the Ren Faire for a few hours.  It was fun.  There are a lot more vendors than there used to be.  We caught the end of a joust and the fire dancers. It was pretty chilly by the end.  We also ran into three of our neighbors.  I think the highlight was a tent of real swords. 

 

random

Silly big kids.  We were ready to play games before bed and they were being all giggly.

We had an amazing D&D session.  It was so funny.  There were magic potions, size changing badgers, ninjago snake guys, etc.... it was fun.

Sam and Jer and training for a half marathon together.  It's Sam's first one, but Jer said that he's doing amazingly.  

Evelyn and I got to go on a temple date together to the Mt Timp temple.  That was fun.  I haven't been to that one in ages.

My mom, Evelyn and I went to the Snow White ballet together.  It was so cute.  Evelyn LOVED the dwarfs and was talking about how she would love one of their roles and how she knew which dwarf was which.  It was fun to be with these two wonderful women.

Jer and I went to the symphony with Jim, Amy, Jon and Isabelle (first time goer).  It was pretty and rainy.... including a double rainbow right above the newly finished (outside) Salt Lake temple.

But along with the rain, our neighborhood flooded again.  Our house, our neighbor's home and the row of town homes all needed to be bailed out.  Nick made the comment, "Thank you for coming to our annual 100 year storm clean up.  I really wish that we could nail down a day for it."

Jim and Jer working on trains.

Evelyn and I have been seeing a specialist about her eyes.  They want to detach the muscles from both eyes, straighten them out and reattach them again.  She's trying to decide what to do.  I'm trying to research the surgeon.

Jer's excited face

 

Wilcox cousin reunion

A new fun tradition is my cousins getting together for a quick reunion every couple of years.  I loved catching up with them. Brad had a gift for us. Our ancestor, Walter Eli, had written a personal history and Brad had found the person that had it.  It was so neat to see the beautifulc neat handwriting, hear all the neat life stories, etc...

Unfortunately, Ada wasn't able to come.  She missed her flight back from her FBLA nationals competition. She had a fun time and worked hard.  Jer drove up during the reunion to pick her and two more people from the airport so that I could stay and visit.