Pixtons

I wrote this out a few weeks ago and when the computer shut down it erased it all.  It's taken me a few weeks to finally decided to try this again.  Here is a summary of what we have been doing:

We decided to keep Julia home for another year and just let her play and be a kid.  She is my buddy and we are having a great time together.  She turned 5 and had a minion birthday party and Isaac did a magic show and made balloon creatures for everyone.  Patricia is in 1st grade and doing well.  I chaperoned her field trip to an apple orchard.  She turned 7 and had a cup cake party.  She also started piano lessons.  Caleb is in 3rd grade and just earned his wolf and 4 arrow points.  We'll see if he can get a few more before his birthday.  Isaac is in 5th grade and is on the safety patrol helping out before and after school each day with the kiss and ride (car pool people).  He is on the robotics team again this year.  Alex is in 6th grade which is middle school here.  He loves it and is on the robotics team there.  He is playing the clarinet at school this year and really likes it.  He turned 12 and is now a decon and passes the sacrament.  Today he was set apart as the secretary in the decon's quorum.  Rachel is in 8th grade and decided to be in the year book club as well as the JNHS (Junior Nation Honors Society).  As for me, I got a new calling.  Two months ago I was called as the Relief Society secretary but since the primary program was last week, I was doing both callings until today!  I finally got to go to Relief Society today.  Bruce finished building all the shelves in the garage so he could finally park his car in the garage again after our van displaces everything.  He also put in a basketball hoop two weeks ago with the help of the boys.  We have all really enjoyed shooting some hoops!

We had a fun Halloween.  Bruce took the kids out trick or treating while Rachel and I stayed home and made home made donuts and answered the door for the 5 people who came (we don't get many trick or treaters).

Here are a few pictures for fun:

A minion Isaac made to decorate for Julia's party

Digging the hole for our Basketball hoop.

Alex in the hole.

Mixing the cement in our nice little turtle pool.

The final product!!

Patricia picking apples on her fieldtrip

Bruce made room for his car!!  Yeah!

Isaac as safety patrol.

Alex was ordained a decon by his Dad--BRUCE

Julia wanted an Elsa dress for her birthday

"Dr. Nafario" visited Julia's party and showed us how to make jellies  :)

Here are our  "school pictures" that Bruce took for our wall:  (sorry you'll have to turn your head sideways because I don't want to change these all! )

Yes Alex is missing.  He got a bad hair cut and wants to wait until his hair grows back.  :)

That is all for now.

Love to all,

The Pixtons