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Ali loving life and surfing it up at Capitola on a Saturday morning.

A racetrack in the sky!

Doing a Halloween craft with our neighbor, Peggy.

Alisal's Halloween carnival

We all went to Hotel Transylvania 2 and liked it!

More Alisal Halloween fun.  If the girls knew that their school would celebrate Halloween with a costume parade and class parties, they may not have been so sad about moving!

pumpkin patches

Somebody went to an authentic pumpkin patch with a friend...

 and had the best time!

(Thank you Jaime and Matthew for inviting us!)

And some went to a closer, more practical pumpkin patch called Safeway...and still had a good time!  And picked some perfect pumpkins.

par-TAY

What's an easy and fun way to make friends?

Chelsea, Rachel, Abby, Emmy, Julia, Hope, Eleanor, Ellie, Marian, Rebekah

Throw a Halloween party!!!

New friends with old traditions...

treats, crafts and minute-to-win-it-games!

It was a spooky good time!

Go Hawks!

The Seahawks played the 49'ers tonight here in San Francisco!!  

Woo hoo!!  GO HAWKS!!

We loved it even if we did sit by 49'ers fans.  Cousins first.

We had a blast watching our friend, #46 Will Tukuafu.  He played awesome!  We also tried to get on TV during Thursday night football.  

BEST NIGHT EVER.

small world of friends

the Kimballs, the Finks, and the Hoopes...

friends from Walnut Creek & friends from Issaquah

now in the same ward!

It was such a fun night and delicious dinner at the Kimballs.

It was a little piece of home, and therefore, heaven.

We love our friends.

new friends

We have new friends.
It's one of the things we thought about most.
Introducing some of them:

Drew with Matthew Wiley and Ryland Swan

The girls with Elise and Marian McConlogue.  They moved into the ward 3 weeks after us from New Jersey!  They are also in 5th and 2nd grades and Marian is in Emmy's class!  It's the best!

Above: continuing our Sunday dessert tradition with the Thalmans, Wilsons, and not pictured--Blacks and Wileys.
Below:  Ellie Swan and Marian

Noteworthy mention:
cookies from Sue Lyon
bread from Laurie Quinn
Labor Day bbq invite from the Wilsons
Dinner invite from the Shribers
Dinner invite from the Lucas family
Dinner invite to a pizza place from the Wileys

Jake is off!

We have no school today, so Jake is off to Seattle! 

Lucky, lucky boy.