October Outings

October has been a delightful month full of fun activities. We were really excited to kick it off with conference weekend. We went down to Utah for my mission reunion and had a great time with the family watching conference. My new favorite part of Idaho is the annual "spud harvest" which gave me two weeks off of work so that my kids could go pick potatoes. Sweet deal if you ask me. Toward the end of the break, we were excited to have a visit from Amy and Chris and their kids. We ate a lot of yummy food, carved pumpkins with Spencer and Alyssa, and went up to my school to play in my classroom. Everyone helped make examples for my art lesson this week.
Right before heading back to school, Mom and Jim came to stay! We also ate fantastic food...including my favorite new homemade chicken nuggets and crap cake...I mean, dump cake! (It really was good, Jim!) Mom came to play with me at school while Jim tried to find Bambi. One night we had dinner and carved pumpkins with Jimmy and Vanessa and their too cute kids, Braden and the brand-new Brinley. While Mom and Jim were here visiting, we invited some friends to go to the Straw Maze.



David and I made it through the maze the first time in seven minutes flat. While we were pretty proud, we headed in for round two to get our money's worth. Sadly, we were not able to even find the end a second time! We wandered around and eventually made it back out the entrance! Afterward, we all headed back to our place for donuts and apple cider. It was an aMAZEing night. :)
David and I were also able to venture up to West Yellowstone thanks to our awesome cousins, Travis and Katrina who run Hibernation Station! They gave us a weekend at their adorable cabin resort for our wedding present and we went up before the snow came!
Of course we ate in style at the local 1950s diner...


We saw TONS of bison...




A bunch of bears...





And other interesting wildlife!





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