Happy Halloween

Today my department at work was a circus. I was the fat bearded lady. I hated my costume especially arouund the cute clowns! But, the circus was really awesome, alot of work though. Ashley brough Merrick in. He was very amazed at everything and had a great time looking at everyone and playing with all the stuff. Everyone thought it was so cute in his monkey costume.

So this weekend I got to go home. It was a great weekend. I went quading in Pismo with Sean and his family. It was super fun. The 2nd picture is at Sean's farewell. The first one is at his farewell party. We we went to Sean's brothers house and had dinner and stuff. we took out the quads and rode them up and down the driveway. Me and mommy went with merrrick. He was amazed by it. It was so cute. So I saw Sean for the last time for two years. I miss him a lot, but i can still talk to him for a week until he actually goes into the MTC. He made me a video of pictures of us from the last two years together. I really like it, it was sweet. Basically i had a really good time in California and I was sad to leave.

Merrick's a monkey!

Me and Merrick with our cute new jackets!

Our little Gangsta

I'm insanley jealous of Jennifer!! Iwant to go to CALIFORNIA!!! but i've got a fun weekend planned with Laura, so i'll have fun anywas, and i guess i'm glad i'm not going home cuase it sounds like the weather sucks:( Such a bust. anywas. love you all. -steph

Yay!

So today is a beautiful day in Idaho! There's no clouds in the sky, the sun is shining, and it's up to 49 degrees! I'm so excited to go home this weekend and see all my family, especially Merrick! No offense to the rest of you. I love you all too! I can't wait to see everybody!

Wow, I have never seen winds like this before. Trees are down all over the place. One house had their “treehouse” fall down, tree, house and all and crashed through their fence onto the road. It is supposed to be in the high 90’s today and the winds are supposed to be a little less fierce. There were so many kids absent from school that a lot of the districts had to shut down. We are keeping Merrick inside, and take Dewy out late at night. Everything smells like smoke. We are fortunate though, we aren’t in the line of any fire. (Steph – I got the picture framed that you painted of the Idaho Falls temple, it looks so cool, now have to find a place to hang it).
Love Mom

Family News

Looking so forward to seeing Jennifer this weekend! She is flying in to see Sean before he leaves on his mission. It will be sad, but finally, he is on his way, and the two year wait begins!
Eric & Mindy are meeting her at the airport around 6:00 and taking her out to eat, her plane leaves SLC at 9:05 p.m. (Delta 1169). So Steph, give Jen a hug and then she will give me a hug from you.

Okay.. here are the tentative Christmas plan.
Jennifer & Stephanie end class on Friday, December 14 and are driving to Salt Lake on Saturday, Dec. 15. hopefully they can leave their car at Eric and Mindy's and they can take them to the airport. Their flight leaves Saturday evening. They will be here until Monday, January 7.

Kevin gets out of school on December 6. We are hoping to fly him to see Eric & Mindy shortly thereafter and drive home with someone from BYU Provo. He will be here until January 6.

Grandma & Grandpa Trent are coming here on their way to a cruise and they will be here on Saturday, January 5.

Eric and Mindy will be here at some point. So I am really looking foward to the holidays and having lots of my family around.

We haven't been to SLO for a few weeks, they are having all away games. We will go the first Saturday in November for their Homecoming game. Kevin has been doing great in practice.

Merrick will love seeing all of you. He is such a doll. He does new things every day. I have a hard time going to work becuase I miss him so much.

Rozanne and Greg Chavez are speaking today at the EFY in Thousand Oaks. Greg is looking at going on a speaking circuit in addition to his invention and being a fireman. We celebrated Rozanne's 40th birthday the other night and when she made a wish and blew out her candles she said she wished for "a million dollars" and then laughed! How many people really get a million dollars?

Love all of you.

Mom

Merrick Laughing

Merrick giving you a hug

Merrick Sleeping

hey family, well todayhas probably been the laziest day ever! i slept in till 1! but it was much needed rest. anywas, me jen and our roommates went to idahofalls to go shopping. we stopped at quiznos and i saw an old friend from our ward who movied to wyoming over a year ago, so that was a surprise. then we went to teh mall in IF (i guess all the kids call idaho falls IF, it annoys me, but i can't help but say it too) i bought merrick a birthday present, ashley will love it. its very cool:) i also bought some sweaters, very warm ones too! and my and my roomates all bought matching necklaces for fun, they are really cute. and my favorite buy of the day... a p coat! so i finally have a warm church sweater, and it was a steal, my roommate was mad cause she has one and it was like 150 and i got mine for 40$! mom taught me well:) adn we got our second tank of gas since we've been up at school. its amazing, its only 2.67 here! and i got to wear shorts today so the weathers not to killer. mo i told you i could wear my plaid shorts up here! oh and i bought the third season of teh OC!! after marissa shot trey in teh season finale of the second season we couldnt' just stop! so we all went in on it. and in the picture laura is flashing our OC gang sign! haha. and the one of us in headphones is at barnes and noble. i reserved a book, its called how to avoid marrying a jerk! everyone in my marriage class recommends it, and its for extra credit, so its good. also i got an 89 on my first big test in taht class, and i also got an 89 on my big math test. so i'm doing pretty well in my classes. and the ones of us with teh hats is in target, we got a little carried away. it was fun, so thats basically my weekend. oh adn i got to go to the idaho falls temple on tuesday and do baptisms. it was very different from the LA temple. size for one, and also, having guys taht are only 22 baptize me. and the guy who confirmed me couldn't pronounce any names (most of them were from peru or braziel) he must have been from utah! but it was fun. i think thats all the exitment for this week, heres some pics as promised mom, and be good everybody! love you all-steph

Merrick & Dewy

Merrick getting ready for Halloween

Ashley's 25th Birthday

Ashley, mom and dad and Merrick went to BJ's for her 25th birthday. Very weird to have such a small family gathering for a birthday. Ashley got 3 moles removed for her birthday present. WOW!

Merrick Communicating

Well me and Jen enjoyed our trip to utah. thanks again to eric and mindy for letting us and our roomates stay with you. laura is exited for thanksgiving with us, she loved mindy's cooking! we got home safley, and there was still some snow on the ground, some girls made a snow man which is still intanct:) well me jen and laura watched 7 episodes of teh OC last night, we're addicted! anyways heres a picture of me and jen at the saturday afternoon session of General Conference. love you all-steph

Cal Poly Football!

Merrick Walking!

This is our little guy walking!

I'm standing on like 30 feet of potatoes! It was so cool!

POTATOES!!!

So me and Jen are REAL Idahoans now, we harvested POTATOES!! it was a ward activity. Funny thing happened, We were way out in the boonies, and it was really dark. We were supposed to follow everyone home, but we were the last ones out of the farm thing. and our car wouldn't start! by the time we figured it there were only 2 cars and they were driving away! so i chased em! one finally stopped, and it turned out jen had the car in a weird gear thats why it wouldn't start. so we were fine, but for a second i thought we were going to be stuck at a potato farm all night!! scary! haha. oh and i had my first essay graded today. it was for book of mormon. i got a 100% and he said it was well done and he wished all the papers were as good as mine. yay! so its been an eventful day. love you all, and mom, put up pics of merrick! i'm the only one who writes on this thing!

Jen, Dude, Steph on our gorgeous maroon couches

Dude, Mindy, and Eric came down to visit me and Jen this week. It was awesome to have some family here! i really do miss all of you. i didn't get a chance to get a picture with Eric and Min, but we got one with Sean. So there it is. And me and all my roommates are very exited to see General Conference on Saturday and even see the new apostle. And thanks Eric and Mindy for letting us all sleep at your place, i can't wait to sit on your new couches! haha. i took my first big college test today, it was a psychology chapter test and i got an 83% which is a good place to start. i love you all and think about you everyday. Be good family! Love <3steph-a-roo (haha, that ones for you Daddy!)

Here's the pictures of Merrick Eric wanted. The ovaltine picture is on our fridge (for those who don't know). I thought it was a perfect place for it. Isn't he cute! Mom you need to put up a video or a picture of him walking!