October

The greatest day of Jake's life happened at the SLC Comic Con when he got to meet and have a picture with his hero, Captain America- aka Chris Evans. Maybe, just maybe his wedding day will top this day as best ever, but we shall see...

This blurb book was 2 years in the making. I was pretty good at keeping up on it while he was gone so when he came home I just needed to add pictures from his homecoming and our trip back to Seattle in August. He was happy to have all his memories and pictures in one book.

 
Carol, Ann and I went for a walk one Friday morning from Ann's house to Center Street Grill for breakfast with Mom, then back to Carol's house. It was a lovely fall day and we had a great time chatting the whole way. I absolutely love that 2 of my sisters live within 10 minutes of me!

Three of Cam's high school friends came to visit me one night and bring an elf bobblehead that reminded them of Cam (because of his cute smile- not the big pointy ears...;) It was so fun to talk with them and reminisce about all the fun they had in middle and high school with Cam and his friends.

These pictures were taken one morning when there was a cool fog that hit the lower parts of the valley. I love Cache Valley!

I LOVE getting pictures of Cam every week. He's so great at sending several with each email. This is Cam and Elder Seegmiller who he's been with for 3 transfers now holding up Elder Morris whom they're training right now. Cam said he'd never want to go back to being a brand new missionary...

With President and Sister Woodbury at transfers.

 

On conference Sunday we did our traditional walk in the canyon between sessions. It was a beautiful fall day and we had a great time.

Oh Evan. What a joy it is to see pictures Kylee and Brody send me. It just makes my day. Here's a month's worth...

 
For Halloween, he was Max from The Wild Things book and Ky and Brody were wild things. I could not love these pictures more. And be impressed with Kylee- she made all three costumes! I'm so impressed with her!

Jake turned 22 on the 29th. It was so great having him home for his birthday and getting to celebrate with him for about 3 days... On his actual birthday, Tom and Freda took us plus Jess and Brad to dinner at Jack's Wood Fire Pizza and it was amazing. We came back here to watch "Edge of Tomorrow" which is a great movie that only Jake had seen. The next day Jake and I along w/ Jess and Brad went to the Station in Farmington to shop and eat lunch at Zupas, then we drove to Park City to do more shopping at the outlets. That night Jake had some friends over to finish off his birthday cake then they went to the Aggie football game. On Sunday the Bundy's and Jess and Brad came for dinner and games.

The Skeens put on an amazing party the weekend before Halloween that we loved attending. We had amazing food, made to-die-for homemade donuts and played some fun games.

Sara and Caleb switched identities with each other and it was hilarious.

These were the entries for the pumpkin carving contest.  Pretty cute and creative!

We made enough donuts to feed about 3 times more people than were there...

Brad and Bundy did some science experiments with the kids.

I loved everyone's costumes.

Mom's costume was an old woman. haha.

Jake looks just like Jim Carrey!! And yes, that's his real hair! It hasn't been cut on top since he got home!