September 26 to October 1 - I flew to California to see my sister and her family. I had so much fun with Jill and her girls and it was a great break from Utah! Poor Holly had broken her leg the week before but she was a trooper and did most everything, even on crutches, AND she gave up her bed for me! I LOVE this girl!
Then there's Rissa Roo, who is always busy dancing and singing and playing games. She loves playing "Find Me", a simpler version of Hide n Seek, watering the plants on the deck, swinging/playing outside and eating gogurts and M&M's! She's fully potty trained at just 26 months and a very independent little girl, which reminds me of an incident where she had gone to the potty ALL BY HERSELF! Scene 1: She is found in the bathroom flushing and flushing the toilet, which was of course clogged and starting to overflow... Her clues to us were 1)wipes, 2)hand and 3)ball (Oh NO!) Scene 2: After plunging and plunging and trying to unclog it every other way the toilet had to be removed finally. Scene 3: In the neck of the toilet there was a giant, and I mean GIANT, wad of toilet paper rolled into a, what else, Ball! So she had been telling us the truth: she had made a giant ball of the TP by wrapping it around her hand several (like hundreds) of times for the purpose of wiping. Oh, we (at least I)laugh now, but at the time it was pretty late and it had been a long hard day for both John and Jill and it wasn't a welcome little diversion. Kids! Pretty cute!! Also while I was there Jill and I had some good time to talk and laugh and yes, sometimes just plain ol vent about life. I helped her put together some pages for the Baby Shower Scrapbook she was making for Angelique and also got to go help at Holly's school's "Bulldog Trek" with her. Then late Thursday night we got their vehicle all packed up and John drove us through the night back here to Utah where they spent a little over a week here with us.
10/2-10/14 - It was conference weekend. Mom and Dad came down Friday night after their mission reunion and spent Saturday with us all. Matt and Angelique and Alli and Jon spent a lot of the weekend with us too. It was a crazy madhouse but fun, fun, fun! Tyler made his yummalicious Dutch Oven BBQ Ribs on Monday so everyone came back for that too. We had some good Nertz games and played some Bananagrams too.
It was back to work for me during the days, but non-stop shopping, playing, eating, and planning for Angelique's baby shower the rest of the time. The shower was on Saturday Oct. 13th and it went really well. She had lots of friends come and Great-Grandma Judy even came back down from Idaho just to help and be there. 
10/15 on - Back to normal life, whatever that is! The house was sure quiet and meals became much easier and simpler. Hurray! Jill has this thing about needing dessert every day when you are on vacation, so we had altogether too much yummy stuff around to munch on while they were here! Dixie, a friend from work, and I had been thinking about joining Weight Watchers for awhile but the week after Jill and Family left I knew it was truly time! I also got a terrible cold that week, must have been all the late hours and then the letdown of having them leave. The H1N1 virus has been rampant around Utah and has definitely hit our neighborhood and ward and also many on BYU campus have been out very sick so I was grateful it was just a cold.
Rick and I were able to get some needed "fall cleanup" done in the yard and then take a nice long drive up into the Uintas and see the colors change the next weekend. It was just in time I think because we've had some frosty nights and even a little snow in the valley this last week. Fall is definitely here and maybe even on it's way out soon it seems. Hopefully we'll get some great November days before ol man Winter really comes!
The best thing about November coming is we are expecting our first grandchild then. She is due Nov. 18th but Angelique would be oh so happy to have her any day now. AND we have a 2nd grandchild on the way! I've known for quite a while, but since Allison is 19 weeks along now I think it's safe to announce to blogland. (see her blog here) I am SO EXCITED!! She has an ultrasound scheduled in early Nov. and hopes the baby cooperates and will let them see him or her so we'll know better who to plan for!
And since today is Oct. 30th, that's about all for this month. I don't do much for Halloween, but next year should have some really cute pictures of grandchildren dressed up!
