Happy Birthday!

 

This month is such a special one, it's Birthday time for Carter!  On the 23rd, Carter Jaron Simonson turned 8 years old, and will be baptized this coming Saturday!  Carter is such a sweet and caring young man.  He is very loving and a super good brother to his siblings.  He has a tender heart and is quiet, yet charming.  He loves to play video games and Pokeman cards...and he loves Lilly, his little sister!  I am so very proud of him and what a great person he is becoming.  I can't wait to be there and give him a hug and watch him be baptized!  Happy Birthday, Carter!  I love you!

On the 30th, our little Brielle Lynn Larsen will turn 1 year old!  I am so very excited to be able to see her again also!  Both Carter and Brielle live WAY too far away from Grandma, on the other side of the country!  Brielle is a brilliant little girl...learning to crawl and walk so very early.  When it was time for her birthday, I had a hard time believing she was only 1!  She has been walking for some time now, and loves to jabber and toddle around.  She loves her big sister Addi and will follow her and jabber at her for attention, and she has the most adorable little smile!  She can melt your heart!  I love you Brie-brie and wish you the happiest birthday!

  

Ouch!

  So I went to peel an apple for Corgin yesterday, and while I was using the knife Corgin kept saying..."Grandma, be careful!"  "Grandma, don't cut yourself, ok?"  "Grandma, don't cut your finger with that knife!"  And so on, and so on...to which I reassured him each time that I wouldn't.  Well, after it was all peeled and cored (the more tricky part) I simply set it on the granite to cut the piece in half...and it slipped off the granite and the knife proceeded to chop my thumb instead of the apple!  Good job, Corgin...you jinxed me!  lol

 

You can see the flat part where I cut a chunk out of the tip of my thumb.

 

MoDgE - POdGe

 

I had a chance to get away for a few days and run up to Lewiston to see Trisha's family and Jacob over the Halloween/Grant's Birthday weekend.  The drive up there was so pretty with all the leaves changing colors, and fall well underway.

 It was fun to make cookies with Grant and Ali for Halloween!

 Ali was a cute sourceress for Halloween...

 

 and the man behind the Iron Man mask is our very own little Grant!

 

 Then there was Danny..."you might be a red-neck..."

 

 Their Ward had a nice Trunk or Treating and the kids got tons of candy.  Grant was a little shy to pose with this weird stranger sitting on his Dad's truck!

 

 Ali, or course, recognized her Dad right away...not much difference!

 

 Then it was the big day Grant had been waiting for!  Birthday time!!

 

 We got up before the sun came up, to open presents...

 

 We gave him a new little scooter...he got lots of fun things and was a very happy boy the whole day!

 

 

 I thought this was a great picture of Trisha and the kids!

 

 Our very own big 3 year old!

 

 This was the sun rise just breaking before the dawn that morning!  It was gorgeous!

 

 Then it was time to come home...and with the last trip in the fall...you never know when it will start snowing and the weather will turn bad.  This year, it came a little early, November 9th!

 

 We got about 4 inches, and it snowed all day!

 

 A look up at the ski resort...still buried in clouds and snowing!

 

 I guess it's time for the holidays...a fun Thanksgiving, with Trisha and Danny and Jacob and the kids all coming home...Yay!

 

And then we will be ready to fly to Jaron's for Carter's baptism!  We will get to see all the kids and Tanessa and the little girls will fly up to meet us there...So I am very blessed to have Clint living here close, to have Trisha and Jacob coming home to visit, and to be able to see the other two, Jaron and Tanessa just a week after that!  My kids are all spread out now, so I am thankful to be able to see all 5 within such a short period.  Look forward to LOTS of pictures!! 

 

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Already the stores are putting up decorations, the radio stations are playing Christmas Music, the toy catalogs are arriving in the mail!!  And to think it's still three weeks til Thanksgiving!

Anyway, this is my early plea for all my family out there...I NEED CHRISTMAS WISH LISTS!!  I need to start my shopping early, because I will be going to Pennsylvania right after Thanksgiving, and I also will need to send gifts with people, or in the mail...due to lack of attendance this Christmas!!  I love you all, but have no ideas what you need, want, or are wishing for unless you tell me...so PLEASE!  You can respond to this blog, or email me your personal list at bksimonson@hotmail.com. 

 Those who don't wish, can't complain!!

Happy Halloween!

I headed up to Lewiston/Clarkston to spend a few days with Trisha and her family for Halloween and Grant's Birthday.

Grant was excited to make some cookies and decorate them for Halloween!  

He was a pretty intense cutter...

With a little help from mom to get them in the oven... 

But he didn't need any help when it came to deocorating them or eating them!

Ali is a great cook, and an old pro at making cookies now!

She's pretty artistic and talented when it comes to decorating.  Can you spy the "twins" she made?

It was fun to spend time with the kids and get to see them out in their costumes "trick-or-treating"!
Ali was a cute Sourceress...and of course...Grant was Iron-Man!

We're not sure who the 6'6" tall "Joe Dirt" person was in the center, but he creeped me out...alot!

I also got to go to Ali's last soccer game of the season.  They will get to play in the tournament next Saturday!  They only had one loss all season, and we were able to be there when Ali scored a goal for her team back in September, but she had gotten even better!