Caleb turns SIXTEEN!

What a FUN day for Caleb!

Jessica, Justin and Jack came to visit, 

we ate chicken enchiladas and chocolate cake,

and his FRIENDS kidnapped him

and took him for some frozen yogurt.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to one AMAZING kid!!

We LOVE YOU and couldn't be more

PROUD of the Young Man you are.

PUMPKIN Picking . . . at Wal-Mart

CALEB - Before and After

After 3 LONG years of braces

Caleb was READY to get them OFF

--BEFORE--

 --AFTER--

NICE teeth * HAPPY boy

Project time

--Ammon: Mom, I'm bored.  I need a project.

--Me: What do you have in mind?

--Ammon: Maybe a Halloween craft or something.

--Me:  OK - there's a bunch of stuff up

in the craft room.  Go see what you can find.

--Ammon: Do you need your toenails painted?

I'd like to do something like that.

--Me:  Sounds like an AWESOME 

project to me!

Haleigh visits BYU-Provo and BYU-Idaho

 Haleigh has begun the college

application process.

She, and her friend Morgan,

paid a visit to both BYU-Provo

and BYU-Idaho to check out 

the campuses.

My Dad picked her up at the airport

and took her to my sister Amy's house.

She had a DELIGHTFUL dinner

and visit with my Dad, and 4 of my

5 siblings and their kids.

She stayed with Fred's parents

in Provo.

The first stop was a tour of BYU-Provo's

campus and the news studio.

 Haleigh and Morgan in the 

BYU-Provo skyroom.

 THIS is where Haleigh would like to

spend most of her time during her college career.

 Grandpa Lewis!! He arranged the

visit to the news studio.

A visit to Salt Lake's

City Creek Mall

 BYU-Idaho Conference Center

Kneaders with their Georgia

friend Marlee.

They had a GREAT time!!

The verdict is in -- 

Haleigh's college of choice is

BYU-Provo!!

ATLANTA Food Trucks

Fred and I were in downtown Atlanta

and stumbled upon 

a park of food trucks!!

 We chose lunch at this truck - YUMBII

 What a CRAZY combo

* Korean * Mexican * Southern *

BUT it was AWESOME!

We had a chicken burrito, fish tacos

and, my new FAVORITE,

sesame fries.

We will DEFINITELY be going back.

What a FUN find!! 

--Saturday CLEAN UP--

FALL Clean Up at the Lewis'

Project #1 -- We cleaned out the basement

and uncovered the CRADLE

Fred and I made before 

Haleigh was born.

All THREE of our BABIES used it.

I found a pattern for the cradle in a book at the

Bountiful, Utah public library.

We purchased the wood and took

it to Grandma and Grandpa Johnson's

house in Orem, Utah to cut it out.

We assembled the pieces at our

little Park Place apartment off

Main and 4th North in Bountiful.

I stained it and stenciled it.

We were discouraged when we

realized we didn't have enough money

to purchase the board to lay across the

bottom of the bed to hold the mattress in.

The next day, as Fred was driving home

from working at the Doubletree Hotel,

he spotted a piece of plywood in the 

middle of the road.

He stopped, picked it up, and

threw it in the back of his Ford Ranger pickup.

We were AMAZED to find it was

an EXACT fit for the bottom of our cradle.

TENDER MERCIES from heaven so our

baby could have a place to sleep.

 Project #2 -- Changing the Family Picture Wall

to make room for Haleigh's senior picture.

I pulled the console out, 

so I could paint the wall behind it,

 and revealed

LOTS of dust, chocolate hearts, a mint

 and a little toy Sid the sloth

literally hanging out on our wall.

It made me laugh.

Our FAMILY wall will now display 

senior pictures for our three kids.

I LOVE this pic. of my 

BEAUTIFUL Haleigh.