Kunz Krazies

Kory and I decided to brave the unknown and host our own Thanksgiving at our house. I had done this once before when my parents were on their mission and I had my grandparents over for dinner. I ordered the whole meal from Broulims. :)  Since we're getting bigger and now have three grandkids, it's getting harder for our older kids to join us on our trip to St. George, so we figured it was more important to be together with our kids than to be in St. George (although we LOVE going to St. George). So, I decided to figure out how to make my mom's pies. I had a special cooking session at my mom's house in which she walked me step by step through making pie crust and pie filling for banana cream, coconut cream, and chocolate pie. These are the recipes she was taught by her mother and I felt happy to be learning how to do it for myself. Kory decided to take on the turkey. Luckily, he teaches with an expert chef, so Brother Hillam walked Kory through the process--...

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 work...

On Friday we had a birthday party for our grandson, two-year-old Ryker. We had a nice surprise when LaRell spent the night with us on Saturday and came to sacrament meeting on Sunday. The kids always love seeing their Grandpa Kunz.  Sunday we invited my sister and her kids over for treats. Her kids enjoyed all of our Star Wars paraphernalia. We now have a 14-year-old in the house, with Mr. Caleb's birthday. He was very specific about which Lego boxes he wanted. I took off for four days to go up to a cabin in Victor to work on my dissertation. There were three other women up there working on their dissertations and a couple of men from our department in a different cabin. We all went to eat on Thursday night to celebrate our progress! Kory and I were happy to be reunited after a few days apart. We went to a ward party on Friday and then Saturday we cleaned and raked leaves and then spent the afternoon golfing (he golfed...