We need music on our blog. What song do ya'll think is fit? We are a Happy Family or some Elvis for Dad? I nominate Nate for this.

Lexie and friends going to the high school championship football play offs (at the U, I must add). I don't know how much of the game she saw with her hair in her eyes.

Go UTES (on Sat.). Its going to be rowdy! You know we have three Ute grads in the fam.

I told my girls that they can cheer for the U, because of their Dad-aka a Ute fanatic. And to find their spouse at the Y. I think that is wise advice.

Look at Syd's ear. Weird! All the great advice I have whispered in her ear is now evident.

Oma looks great for 83. A good thing she does her daily exercises with her cane.

Sydney at our favorite place, Jamba Juice

Lexie Lou on Halloween wearing the tutu she made.

Chris on the Golf Course

Conner Can Smile

Hello Family,

I'm hoping this will work, I'm such a goof when it comes to this blogging stuff. I will try to keep in better touch with everyone, as the few times I have been on it, I enjoyed it. Hope everyone is doing well.........looking forward to seeing everyone on the Holidays!

Cheers!
Ang

Meeting my Utah Family

Uncle Nate is a pro at this baby thing. Hopefully he'll have another one soon.

Help? I don't know who this crazy lady is... j/k we love Great Grandma.

Maybe one day I'll have enough hair for Aunt Tiffy to style.

After holding me Aunt Angie told my mom she wished she could have a baby :)

Sydney is one of my BFF's. I love her.

Handsome Boy...hanging out at Grandma B's. Between my mom and Grandma I was held 24/7.

Getting excited for Halloween!

Cougar was a ducky. He only made it to two houses before he decided the party was over and went to sleep.

Halloween

Spookier things are afoot! One little girl passing by our house thought it was real and was almost in tears. The kids thought it was funny! Our neighbor across the street was wondering what Randy was up to and then decided she had rather not know.

Cayden was Survivor Man, Madalyn a diva named Pumpkin Spice, Cayleb was a snake for our ward Trunk or Treat and then decided to be an army man which was never on the list until Friday morning, (his other options were dragon, superman and pumpkin), Makayla was Twister the board game and Makenzy was a ladybug on the leaf. Our other option was baby on the hip or growth on the wart - the first wasn't too original and the second was a little complicated; wart costumes are hard to come by!

In the other picture we went to the Cedar River to see the salmon run - the largest sockeye salmon run in the U.S. except for Alaska. It was really neat to see them swimming upstream and making their nests. As you know, the salmon is an icon of the pacfic Northwest and were one of the lunchpin species that susutained human populations for years. Cayden has also been studying the salmon life cycle in his class. These salmon migrate from this river just minutes from our house to Lake Washington, then to the ocean. They spend about 2-4 years in the ocean and then make the trip back to their birthplace by swimming through the Ballard Chittenden Locks (Nate and Ash went with us there), back to Lake Washington and up the Cedar River because they can only reproduce in fresh water (Mom and Dad and Randy's sisters have been to the River with us).

M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E. Micky Mouse, Donald Duck...... I can't remember the rest of the song. FYI, Brittany Spears is a former mouse-catier (sp?). Too bad she turned into a FREAK. Maybe money is the root of all evil.

Cutest Little Minnie Mo

Sierra heading off to her Halloween dance party. (Little did Mr. Disney know what he started). Thank you Grandma B for the costume. We love you and Papa Bear. If you would like to come to your 101 Halloween parade, give Syd a call. BTW, I have some real fun Halloween recipes-from yummy soups to spooky, sipping, witches brew- if you DARE!!

Go, John Deere, Go!

Sierra's future car.

Sierra, Syd and the pumpkin patch

A beautiful day at a local pumpkin patch. My honor roll student, Lexie, was home doing a project

:(

The finished result

Pretzel Hugs

Pretzel Hugs and face mask

EASY Halloween treat

Great for kiddos to make. No mixing. These are the HOT thing in our neighborhood.
FHE, visiting teaching, neighbors, school teacher.

Pretzel Hugs

1 bag of waffle pretzels
1 bag of Hersey's Hugs (stripped with white choc.)
1 bag of M&M's (with out nuts). Halloween ones if the store has them.

Pre-heat oven to 200 degrees before you start. Line cookie sheet with pretzels. Unwrap hugs and place one on top of each pretzel. Place in oven for about 7 mins. or until hugs start to lose their form. Remove from oven and top each hug with 2 M&M's. Allow several hours to set or place in the refrigerator or freezer if you are short on time.

Pumpkin Pie Facial

2 tsp. cooked or canned pumpkin, pureed
1/2 tsp. honey
1/4 tsp. milk

Combine the ingredients for your face mask. Mix gently and apply to your face avoiding the eye-area. Relax for 10-15 mins. while your pumpkin pie face mask gently exfoliates, nourishes and conditions your face. Rinse with warm water and apply an appropriate moisturizer for your skin type.

Let us know.

LDS Pumpkins

This is possible. The missionaries did the Jesus pumpkin and displayed it at church. If you're really interested I can make and send templates for each one. Let me know.

Conner's 1st Pumpkin

Koester Family Update

Max on baby patrol. He'll lay by baby for hours and let me know every time baby cries. However, he doesn't realize HE'S the one that make baby cry when he starts barking at the other dogs. He thinks baby and mommy are for his enjoyment only.

Luna doesn't mind Cougar, but she's quick to remind us it's time to tickle HER belly.

Daddy loves me so much! However, I must admit I like mommy kisses better.

My dark hair is starting to come in. Who ever guessed my hair would look like my dad's is right.

This is the blanket Grandma B made for baby. He loves to lay on it and look at the lights. The doggies lay around me and make sure I'm o.k. (Don't worry mom is right there as well, just in case the doggies decide they're going to try to sneak in a kiss.) Isn't he getting so cute!!! We're so blessed.

"G" is for Goal

Yeah!!! Cayleb scored his first goal at his soccer game on Saturday. It was big! During the break, Cayleb was bugged that the "green team keeps scoring and my team has no goals." When the game started back up, he got the ball, drove it down the puddle, soaked field and kicked it in the right croner pocket of the net. After that, Cayleb said, "the green team hadad a pooped day" and he laughed! Then we went for ice cream.

"T" is for Teeth

Makenzy just cut her first tooth today. Yeah! October has been a busy month for learning. She also learned how to clap on October 12 and wave on October 14. She erupted into spontaneous, stacatto clapping sitting in the backyard watching Cayden play "Ladder Ball."

Fall afternoon

Looking out the upstairs extra room window, I see a stately tree ablaze in deep red foliage. How incredibly beautiful this time of year is. I love the fall and the spring most of all. The temperature is just right and the flowers are still in bloom. A few of the leaves on the trees around the yard are beginning to dry up and fall off. Because of the abundance of snow last winter resulting in a high water table and the age of the trees in our yard all of the trees had an immense growing spurt. I anticipate many, many bags of leaves to rake up this fall. I'm enjoying the last few days of warm fall weather. The grass is still thick and green and more than once I've heard a serenade of birds from a massive globe willow that resides in the neighbor across the streets yard. The holiday season is fast approaching and I hope that by some miracle we will ALL be able to gather round a warm, comfortable fire at Christmas time and open presents together under the tree. It would be great to have all of the family together. I'm anxious to hold my little grandbabies in my arms and have all of you kids and grandkids together. Mass confusion will abound, but I want to see all of you so badly that I'm willing to gear-up for all of the commotion. Everyone have fun on Halloween. Love, Mom

I enjoyed the darling pics of "big boy" Conner. Dad, glad you got experience WY on a snowy, thirty degree, Sun :).
Our fam up date:
Kev- doing well and trying to stay out of trouble. I gave him a perm yesterday. He looks like he stuck is finger in a light socket, or just saw his ex-wife!
Me- BUSY with family and work (I have had hair appts. every day this week)
Lexie- Working hard at school and cheer. She may do her back hand spring at the game this week. I hope so, since we haven't seen it! Go UTES
Sierra- Getting excited to go out of town to her friends cabin this weekend. Keeping up great grades
Syd- Last week off track and is dreading going back to school. She is starting dance at a new studio this week.
Dog- still in depression and sure needs a groom so she can see again.

Love ya all!!

From Dad

Mom talked me into going to Kathy's yesterday and we left at 6pm and returned around 11pm. It was her birthday and she was happy to see us. She showd us some interesting books that she has including a book of Brigham Young that has every known picture that was taken of him and published in 2000. Also a book about the 1876 Worlds Fair held in Philadelphia with pictures of each fair building and articles about each event. She let mom borrow them and they're neat books. The pictures of the kids are getting cuter and they're all growing up real fast. I'm taking a few day of leave, since I have use or lose. Have a great day.

Dad