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Thanksgiving I'm pretty sure this is the first year in 12 years of marriage that we had Thanksgiving with only one of our families (if you don't count our Thanksgiving in Georgia a few years ago when we didn't have it with anyone). We tried to set it up where one family was for lunch and the other was for dinner but it didn't work out. This year the rotation "schedule" was on the Owens side so we had Justin's family and extended family over for a great meal. The weather was wonderful and so was the food. Unfortunately whenever Justin smokes meat, the flies congregate from miles around and they didn't leave by the time we ate, so we did have LOADS of flies to shoo while we ate. FR, LtoR: Grandma Joanna, cousin Luke, Dale, ?, cousin Skye BR, LtoR: Brighton, Adaira, (Justin's)Aunt Alison, Uncle John Daisy enjoying some potatoes. I caught Adaira roping her Grandpa into playing "Ms. Susie" with her (the singing, hand slappin...

This month Brighton played the Big Bad Wolf in his class play. He had quite a few lines and had them all perfectly memorized. In the story, Little Red Riding Hood made changes to the story at will and she changed the story so the wolf had to dance around in a tutu. Dale got to come watch his big brother. He ended up laying on the floor under my chair by the time it was over, but he was excited to see Brighton at school. Dale ADORES Brighton. Brighton and few of his buddies. The kid on the left is Brayden, a friend who used to be in our ward and who I was so excited to find out would be in Brighton's class with him. Halloween The weekend before Halloween our ward had its annual Trunk or Treat. We made homemade root beer last year and it was such a hit that we did it this year as well. It's nice to give out something different that what most of the other people are giving. Hooray for Goodwill/Saver's and loaner costumes! Adaira was princess Jas...