Veterans Day Parade

We celebrated Veteran's Day by going to the parade in downtown Mesa. Tate and his cousins (Anson and Becca) enjoyed sitting in the front line-waving flags, catching candy, seeing cool army tanks, motorcyclists, scouts, and marching bands!

Boys will be Boys

{Tate & his friend Tyler playing lightsabers}

Photoshoot with Craigster

Christina & baby Craig came to our house for a visit today... As she was feeding him on the couch, I realized that the lighting in our family room was perfect for taking pictures. So I started and didn't ever want to stop! I ended up getting a million of them which we narrowed down to about 20 good ones. It was fun!

Bishop Grandpa

My Father-in-Law (Keith) was called as the new BISHOP in his ward, and it was announced in their Sacrament Meeting today. All of the immediate family (except for Andrea who is on her mission) and many extended family members were able to be there (for the sustaining and setting apart), so that was awesome!

Keith & Dianna invited us (their children/spouses) over to their home Saturday evening where they told us the news. But somebody forgot to tell Grandma Bloomfield about the calling. She was invited to their ward's Sacrament Meeting, but apparently didn't know why she was there. She must have thought it was to see Natalie in the Primary Presentation (which happened to be today as well). Let's just say Grandma was a little surprised when Keith was announced as the new Bishop! At least it was a good surprise:)

A Note to Mom from Tate

I got this note from Tate the other day. It says, "Thiss is reel and mom has too hide". Ha/Ha, Bryan and I got a good laugh out of this! And yes, I did hide for him to find me.

Game Day

Bryan, Tate, and I were all feeling sorta sick on Friday (probably just something we ate). Poor Bryan had to go to work anyways, but Tate and I took it easy and played games all afternoon! I know that I've said this before, but I am just LOVING Tate's age. Now that he's five, he's becoming even more fun to play with (if that's possible).

Halloween Night

So, it's taken me FOREVER to download our Halloween Night pictures off of Bryan's camera and post them. I've obviously lacked the motivation! Probably the main reason is because of Tate's face... Yes, my kid wanted to wear bright red face paint to "match his costume". The only problem is that it didn't match at all. He looked like he had a big bloody face, and he looked... well let's just say freaky! I let him wear it like that though because that's what he wanted and I didn't really feel like fighting him on it. Plus on Halloween night, he should be able to dress how he wants (within reason) right?!?

We ended up going trick or treating in our neighborhood (with Tate's friend Logan). But since our neighborhood was practically dead, we headed over to Grandma and Grandpa's house and Tate went trick or treating with Grandpa and Natalie.

And... Here's a funny memory that I have of my Grandpa Jack since I ALWAYS think of him Halloween night. For your information, he was born in 1910 (a completely different era) and I'm pretty sure you didn't have to worry about people poisoning candy back then:) Anyways... I remember back when I was a teenager visiting Grandma Ada and Grandpa Jack on Halloween night. Grandpa would buy those fun size candy bars (snickers if I remember correctly), and for some reason he would unwrap them all and cut the (already mini candy bar) into several pieces. He would then place the candy bar pieces into a bowl and hand them out to the children on Halloween night. Well obviously the neighborhood kids knew better than to eat them, so the morning after we would find candy bar pieces all over Grandpa's yard. I don't think that he ever found out!