Kendal's Senior Night

 There were 17 Seniors and their parents honored before the football game Friday night.  We played Aberdeen and the score was 49 to 14.  At half time it was 14 to 14 and we were worried, but the team came back and pulled ahead.  Cory Bluth came to the game with his daughter Riely AND Uncle Barry and Aunt Laurie stopped by to visit on their way back to Sugar City.  They stayed for the first part of the game.

I did Aubrey's hair with my new method of "pin curl twists".  I will do just about anything to prevent from using a time consuming hot gadget on my hair.  I have been practicing on my own hair and then I dared to try the method on Aubrey's hair.  It took much bravery because with teenagers there is zero tolerance for error.  This is after playing volleyball or basketball at her friends in the afternoon! 

apples

I wanted to take a picture of the apples before I picked them.  The morning dew was an added beauty.  The apple are small--the tree is small, but loaded. 

Homecoming continued

 This is the scarecrow the bank put up for the scarecrow festival.  They added pom poms for homecoming week.  Clever.

 The branches were encouraged to get involved in the Homecoming celebrations.

 The Homecoming parade was different this year in that it was decided to NOT have floats.  I guess the floats were only really done by a select few, were time consuming and fairly costly.  It was proposed to have vehicles for the parade.  New cars, old cars, or what ever.  We did not know any different and the parade was just fine.

 Now I know why so many of the girls had "cantalope" or orange colored dresses for Prom--you just might need to use the dress for another occasion  promoting the school colors.

Dad wears his festive shirt on each game day.

During the half time presentation it was raining a bit.  It has been rainy here for a few days and it sure has been wonderful.

 Ready for the dance.  Kendal was happy to stop by and let me take a picture.

Kendal caught a pass during the game.  He also played defense at times.  We beat Soda Springs 41 to 14.  I am sorry this video gets blurry when you make it bigger.  It is amazing that I got this particular play at all--it is also funny that I got our new Stake President, Pres. Wray (also Kendal's seminary teacher, how cool is that )  asking where his "Dear" was sitting.   Pres. Wray is a big hunter and deer season opened this weekend.

MHS Homecoming week

Here is Kendal's  official football photo.

This was in the newspaper to kick off Homecoming week. Kendal got 1st runner up for the Homecoming royalty.  Kendal is the Prince.  Mechelle was voted Homecoming queen.  The dance is after the game tonight.  Mechelle is wearing a purple dress from her sisters wedding and Kendal is wearing a purple shirt and gray tie borrowed from Mechelle's brother.  I'll try to get a picture. Kendal might come by the house, it depends on his "willingness mood".

a great Conference

Dad and I had a great time attending the Saturday afternoon session of Conference.  We got 4 tickets but the kids did not want to go with us, I encouraged them as much as I could, but they wanted to stay at the house with grandma.  Kendal said he did not enjoy all the people and there sure were a lot of people EVERYWHERE.   We gave our two extra tickets to some college age girls.  I found out there are people who try to go to all the sessions of conference.   Our Stake was aloted 60 tickets and David said his Ward got 2 tickets to be given out. 
We left to catch the train right after the morning session.  We had a lunch packed that we ate in the shade by some gorgeous flowers.  The lines to purchase any food were extremely long.  The lines to get in to the Conference Center looked very long, but  moved quite well and we were sitting in our seats about 25 minutes before the meeting.  We were in the balcony area.  Kendal said he did not like the protesters either and there were some of those also.  I felt sorry for them.  There were groups of missionaries singing hymns and playing musical instruments--a very good idea to, as peacefully as possible, off set the negative preaching.
It is so nice to live this close to Salt Lake.  Grandma is doing well and she enjoys hearing about how you all are doing.