Reed Saying goodbye to Lily. She sure will look different when he gets back

 
Reed the night before he left for Brazil.

Thanksgiving with the family
Ann helped me learn how to put on a slide show. Some of the photos should have been deleted. But I just didin't take the time to do it. We had Thanksgiving early so that Reed could be there with us. We had a wonderful time with the whole family with there.

Mexico
Anita, Cathy and I went to Cancun Mexico. We had a wonderful time. We really enjoyed ourselves.

Our least favorite part of our trip was a sub ride to go look at the colorful fish. We got so sea sick and the fish wasn't that pretty either!

My sisters and I enjoyed going to all the ruins. We saw so many great things

My sister's and I favorite part of the trip was climbing the pyramid! We climbed clear to the top

Football season is here. Blake's team is doing not so good but Blake is doing well. He loves playing. Hopefully his team will improve soon.

Mickayla is playing soccer right now. She is loving playing. Her games are very entertaining. She loves playing goalie. She feels she gets the most cheering from the crowd when she plays that postion.

Mickayla doesn't always pay attention to what is going on up the field. Being goalie can either be exciting or boring.

Mickayla as Goalie

LaDawn, Brent, Brooklynn, Mickayla with great Grandpa Elkington.

LaDawn, Brent, Brooklynn and Mickayla with Great Grandma Sparks

Erin took Reed, Mickayla and I with Rod and Will to the Circus. We had a great time. We went early so we could go and meet the performers and some of the animals down on the floor. It was great. Mickayla was afraid that the circus would be boring. When we left she was so excited. I don't think she thought it was boring any more.

Erin, Rod and Will watching the Elephant in the center of the floor

Reed lifted Mickayla up so she could see the Elephant paint a painting.

Mickayla and Will with a Circus performer.

That time of year.

The spiders are out. They are interesting to look at. This spider was at my parents house. It was huge.

Blake talked Mickayla into putting on her old Halloween costume so she could go with him to QFC to sell discount cards for his football team's fund raiser. The only problem is the sleeves came to her elbows and the pants came to her knees. The people thought she was really cute. Blake figured she helped him sell a few extra cards. Mickayla didn't think it was very fun, but she was a good sport about it. Blake took her to Dairy Queen afterwards.

William loves Lily. He loves holding the baby.

A few of us went to the Risenmay Family Reunion in Oregon. Candice and Scott found their tent a little cozy.

They had some fun activities at the reunion like pie eating contests.

There was a half pie- pie eating contest. Scott entered this one. He didn't feel he could eat a whole pie.

There was a whole pie eating contest. Blake entered this one. It was pretty wild. Blake did request no whipped cream on his pie.

Blake got his face right in there

Ryan Dye ended up winning the contest. The crust stuck to the bottom of some of the pie tins. Blake and several others couldn't get their crust off.