Turkey Shoot

Logan dominated the 3rd Ward Elder's Quorum Turkey Shoot again this year!
Since nobody wanted a turkey, they decided to get a trophy that you get to keep all year until a new winner is crowned.  Logan anticipates having this trophy in the living room for years to come:)

Here are couple fancy pictures Logan took of his trophy and one I took of Logan with his trophy.

4 Generations

There's a new Blake boy in town, so that meant that we needed to get a picture of Chap with his dad, Grandpa Ron and Great-Grandpa Cecil.  We got this picture at the Blake family party this month.  Great-Grandpa Cecil even gave him a kiss on the forehead:)

Election Day

Chapter's Blessing Day

 Yesterday was Chapter's blessing.  Chapter wore the outfit that Logan wore when he was blessed.  We also used Logan's baby blanket.  I made the shoes he wore.  It was really touch and go to see if Chap would fit into this outfit.  He gained 3 pounds in the first 4 weeks of his life so I was a little worried.  Logan was a small baby and Chapter is not:)  Logan also wore his "special occasion" tie which is ugly:) He claims he wore it to the temple when we got married and on other special occasions but I really don't think he did, of course I could have been so deliriously happy that I didn't notice his ugly tie, but I digress...

It was an exciting day.  Chapter only whined a little during the blessing, which was wonderful.  He was blessed to have common sense, happiness and a good work ethic among other things. Logan did a great job:)   We had family over afterward for ice cream sundaes with all the fixings and it was so much fun.  Chapter got passed around to all the relatives and got pretty worn out which worked in my favor:)

I'm so glad that I'm married to a man who holds the priesthood and can bless me and our children.  That was something that was very important to me when I chose a person to marry.  I didn't have that growing up and I'm go glad that my children will.  

Too Much Halloween Fun!

This year we thought we weren't going to make it to Bobbi's annual Halloween Party which is always completely outrageously awesome but it worked out that we could go (that's a story we won't talk about) and it was really incredible again this year.

It was Chapter's first Halloween Party and he loved it.  He slept in his carseat or on our friend Lacy all night:)

Here are the pictures I stole from Bobbi's Facebook.  The theme was that one person had to be a vampire and the other person the victim.  Logan decided to be The Count from Sesame Street.  I was supposed to be covered in numbers, but somebody had to be fed and changed and it didn't happen.  The "victim" (me) had to wear blood bags on our wrist and around our neck.  We played a game like the Newlywed game and if you got it wrong you had to suck a bag.  Whoever had the most bags at the end won.  We almost won, but we missed the last question and our friends Jack and Jill got it.  Good job guys, some of those questions were hard!

On Halloween Day it was wild.  Logan went to work at 3 that morning so I had slept on the floor in Chapter's room so Logan could actually sleep.  Then he worked until 4pm and came home for a little while before he had to go back for meetings until about 7.  In between we were fortunate enough to have good enough weather to take pictures of Chapter outside, it was probably pushing 80 degrees, nice but nothing like the Halloweens of my youth.  He was so big and sat by the tree so well!  We didn't take him trick or treating except to Grandma Deb's and we didn't get any trick or treaters at our house either.  Lame.