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Halloween and Beyond

On October 29 Chloe had her last Primary program. Weird to think she'll be in Young Women in March. Our baby is all grown up!

That night it was an unusually warm night so Kory and I thought we'd take advantage of it and take a walk around the greenbelt. We got some pretty great pictures too.




The next day was our annual pumpkin carving. Morgan did an emoji, Caleb did the Joker from Batman, Phoebe did the Rebel symbol from Star Wars, and Chloe did the Deathly Hallows. It's so funny how different people's personalities come out during pumpkin carving, ranging from the "that's good enough" to "I will still be working on my pumpkin after everyone else has gone to bed." I'll go ahead and let you guess who that was. (Can you say perfectionist?)






The kids are all getting to that age where they want to trick or treat with friends, so Kory just kind of ran kids around to different friends' houses and I was working late and missed most of the festivities. But here are a few shots of costumes that I got. Chloe dressed as giraffe with her two other friends, Caleb was Assassin's Creed or scary mask guy, depending on his mood, and Ryker was a gangster or something. I don't have a picture but Austin and Leah did a Star Wars theme with Andy dressed as an Ewok. So cute.





Later that week, Caleb had a District Choir concert. It is so weird how grown-up he is getting. He said he was really nervous, but the choir sounded quite good and they had a cool guest conductor. Brought back lots of high school choir memories. 




That Sunday, our Morgy-girl (grand-daughter) turned 9. Kory and I took her shopping the day before so she could pick out some presents from us. Then, on Sunday, everyone came over to our house for dinner, presents, cake and ice-cream. She was most excited about the mini sewing machine she got. 






This past weekend, Grandpa Kunz was in town so he took all of us out for dinner at Chuk-a-Rama. I got a couple of snapshots of everyone. We are getting to be so big, it's hard to get everyone in a picture. In fact, this will be our first Thanksgiving on our own, since we've got so many people it's hard to transport everyone down to St. George like we usually do, so Kory is trying to figure out how to cook a turkey and I'm getting some help from my mom on pies. We were also excited this week to hear that Austin got a job offer from a great company in Phoenix as a software engineer. We're super happy for his little family, although sad that they will be moving.



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