On Wednesday, September 24th, Grandma Sue flew into Idaho Falls! She spent the next week here while we were off of school for spud harvest break, and it was awesome having her visit. We went shopping on Thursday, went to Caleb's football game against Thunder Ridge on Friday (Bobcats won by a lot), and then my brother, Aaron, and his con Colter came to visit on Saturday and Sunday. While they were here, Josh was on his bike ride to Utah, so they didn't get a chance to really see him, but it was still fun. We mostly just hung out at our house, played Cover Your Assets, and chatted. While they were visiting, we kind of tentatively planned out a lake house trip at the end of July next summer in Wisconsin.
Aaron and Colter left on Sunday afternoon (we didn't go to church), and then my mom left on Wednesday afternoon. We also went to Fat Cats and went mini golfing, played some arcade games, went out to dinner at Red 8 (twice) and had lots of fun just hanging out! I wish she lived in Rexburg. Maybe someday...
While grandma was here, two big things in the world happened. 1) President Russell M. Nelson (our prophet) passed away at the age of 101. That was already a sad day. Then, the next day, someone drove into an lds church building in Michigan and started shooting, killing 4 people and injuring others. It was all over the news. Nothing like that has ever happened in one of our churches before, so everyone (even non-LDS people) were shocked. I guess the guy was a veteran and had some PTSD issues. It was very sad. They General Conference was only a few days later, so it kind of left the church leadership scrambling probably. Dallin H. Oaks spoke at conference, and he is going to become the next prophet/president of the church.
After spud harvest was over, we went back to school on October 6th and got back into the school year swing of things. Our lives have been busy going to Caleb's football games every Friday night, taking Avery to tennis on Tuesdays and Thursdays and piano on Mondays with Claire, and just doing other random things here and there.
The weather has been beautiful and the trees have been showing off their oranges and yellows. It hasn't snowed here yet, but it has been rainy this weekend and it snowed un the mountains. I am NOT ready for snow, but Caleb is counting down the days until Targhee opens so he can start snowboarding all the time. He has been kind of getting sick of football lately to be honest, but it's sad for us to think that he only probably has 2 or 3 games left. They really haven't had a bad season, but they've lost a total of 3 games (Rigby, Hillcrest, and Skyline) but those three loses combined were by a total of SIX points. They lost to Hillcrest and Skyline both by ONE point, and they just played Rigby and lost by 4 points. It was such a good game too. I thought we would get creamed, but we were ahead for a lot of the game. I think the Rigby fans were shaking in their boots. A turnover in the 4th quarter basically cost us the game. It was so sad.
Senior night is this coming Friday, so I will have more pictures to post then, but here are some football ones I have for now!
Also, Gabe is back in his first area of Aranjuez and is a zone leader and is training a greenie (Elder Plewe) with his other zone leader companion (Elder Taylor). They have been pretty busy he says, and are teaching at least two lessons a day in Valdemoro. He gets transfer news this coming week, but I really think he will probably stay there at least one more since he is only halfway through training a greenie.
Here are some pictures!
