She should have been a surgeon

One of the time honored holiday traditions that I was anxious to discontinue was pumpkin carving. Something about the slimy pumpkin guts that I always dreaded. But what I realized when I saw this picture is ya gotta have the "guts" to have the joy.

Take Your "Tricker Treater" to Work Day

Barry and Avery

Christina and Avery

Avery, Nicole and Christian

Jill decided it would be fun to dress Avery up and take her trick or treating to the offices of some of the people that would love to see her all decked out. Barry gave her a whole box of fruit snacks, Christina gave her 3 movie size boxes of candy and Christian planted candy at several colleagues desks so he could take her around his office at ASU and show her off. (She has a mild crush on him so she was very accommodating.) Halloween has gotten fun again! I love being a grandma.

Nic and Chris

Nicole and Christian were in the backyard enjoying the crisp fall weather (ya, right. instead of being in the triple digits it had cooled down to 93). Anyway, they both have such beautiful smiles, that just looking at them makes me want to smile.

R and R

These two guys better enjoy their time on mamma's lap while there's still room. Soon the boys in the family will no longer out number the girls. I can't wait to see those beautiful brown eyes passed on to a little girl.

Go Blue

On our recent trip to MIchigan Barry, Brett, and Braxton decided to show some school spirit.

U of M people are big into football and it's hard not to be swept into the mania. They pack the "Big House" with well over 100,000 screaming fans, among which are my son and sometimes his little guy and his biggest supporter, Jen. But in these pictures the Big Game Day festivities included grandpa. Our little guy Braxton is all about UofM football. In the photo he is cheering, "Go Blue!" When we dropped grandpa and Brett off to go to the game on Saturday he realized he wasn't going with them, he just sobbed. He kept saying "football, me go"

A Star is Born

If anyone is interested they can view a video of Ben and Stephanie's wedding by following this link: http://www.rb-studios.com/blog/ They are happily settling into married life. Steph's parents drove up this past weekend and helped them get ready for an open house. They had planned on having it outside but it kept trying to snow (didn't quite make it though). They moved it all inside, which made for a cozy setting. Everyone seemed thrilled with how it turned out. Barry and I wish we could have gone. Sounds like we missed a smashing party. Ben said the State Auditor for Utah was there as well as lots of friends and family.

Kissing cousins

One good kiss deserves another. These are my two grand-babies. They really have quite the bond and have made getting together so much fun. Both of their moms are expecting, so in the next few months we are welcoming another boy and girl to the ranks.

Meet the Fam

Well, here they are they some of the people I love the most in the whole world. I can honestly say that I am the happiest when I am with them.

Introductions: L to R

Christina, Brett, Braxton, Jen, Nicole, Barry, Cathy, Benjamin, Jill Avery and Spencer.

Meet the newest member of my family

We are so excited to welcome to our family it's newest member, Stephanie Parker Hulet. We've been anticipating this event for months. We all met in St George Utah on Sept 28th and with the help of my wonderful family put on a Fiesta to help the new couple celebrate. Brett stole the show with his toast to his brother. Christina made the desserts which were wonderful. We had a pinata, ping pong game and a video presentation I put together. The next night Stephanie's parents put on a reception that was breathtaking with a crepe bar, caricature artist, fresh flower cart, shrimp bar and the most beautiful cake I've ever seen. Oh course they both looked great, but Steph in that dress, whoa...