October

 October begin with General Conference.  Changes have been happening at Conference!  At this one President Nelson announced  that the church block on Sunday would change from 3 hours to 2 hours.
Sacrament meeting would be 1 hour, a 10 minute break to move to classes and then 50 minutes of: primary (5 min. opening, 20 min singing, switch and 20 minute lesson), or 1st and 3rd Sunday--Sunday School and 2nd and 4th Sundays, Relief Society, Priesthood, YM/YW.
I remember back in 1979 when we were building the new Redwood City building we moved to the 3 hour block and can remember people wondering how to keep kids attention for the 2 hour block!  :)
Previous to that we had gone to church all day.  Dad would go to Priesthood meeting, come home and we'd all go to Sunday School and Jr. Sunday School, come home, eat lunch and then go back in the evening for an hour and a half Sacrament meeting around 5:30.  My how things are changing.

 The change is to encourage a home centered, church supported Gospel study.












MarySue's mom has a huge apple tree in her backyard and lets us come pick apples every year .  This year we went over and got quite a few.  Norma (MarySue's mom) was there, but stayed inside as her health wasn't good.
It turned out that this year would be our last as Norma passed away in November.
She has always been in good health, but began to fall down towards the end of October.  MarySue brought her home and began to take care of her until she passed away.  She was a very nice lady!

 We continued our tradition of going to Gardner Village with Terri Hodgen and Debbie Kirby and kids.

 Jacob and his friend Carter were able to ride the back roads to get a treat at Pirate O's.
I remember years ago, before I moved to Draper....whenever I would drive down here and see Pirate O's I always thought it was a bar!  :)
Actually it is a specialty food store.

 We had a change in October to go to Funtopia with Catheys and Browns.  Had fun there!!

I have been taking a quilt class with my friend Andrea.  I finally decided to put last years quilt squares together for a lap blanket.  Here is the result of the blocks sewn together.  I still need to put a boarder etc. on it. 

 We went to STEM Fest with Conner and Gabe.

On Wednesdays Jacob and his friends have film crew after school.  They are always wanting to play together so we decided to have a playgroup each week.  Here they are at our house using Play-Doh. 

Fun at Classic Skating during a school break

Halloween parade

Halloween....had the class party and I helped again.  Here Jacob is at one of the stations.

 Jared and Stephanie invited us over to a cake decorating contest.  It was fun!

All of our cakes

I've always thought it would be interesting to stand beside a stop light to show just how big it actually is!

















Instead of a Pinewood Derby, this year they did a rocket derby.  Jason was out of town, but helped Jacob build it. Then Randy came to help us make sure it flew!

 Jason brings cups to work.  Jacob saw this on the counter and added a note to it.  Such a funny kid!