Autumn Fun!

Aw Halloween.   A time of spooks and goblins and the beginning of the end of my diet.  Alas!  This year our cousin Sam came to join in the fun.  Yahoo!  Miranda just wanted to be a glow stick person (is that a thing?) but it worked out great because we could always find her no matter how far ahead she got.

 I know it's hard to tell but this is Amber with her best friend Kate.  Amber loves Phinneas and Ferb.  Bethany went trick-or-treating with a friend from school and didn't even let me take a picture of her costume.  She went as a super hero from a Five Seconds of Summer video.  Oh boy! She is definitely a teen.

 This year we had our annual Hurst reunion in Uncle Dale's recently built barn.  It is awesome!  He and Bev just returned from their mission and they were the ultimate hosts.  As always fun and games were plentiful and the food was divine.

Bev has put up photo montages all around of various themes.  This one shows the history of Uncle Dale and Black Oil.  Another has huge pictures of her and Dale's parents from back in the day.  I'm not gonna lie.  This is right up my alley!

 Miranda, Amber, Bethany, Collin & Rory waiting for the other cousins to arrive.

 Aunt Sheila made this bad boy.  So cool!  He was almost too awesome to eat - but we did anyway.

 The barn from outside.  I want one just like it.

Amber and her cousin Emery discovered that they were soul mates when it became clear that they both obsess over Minecraft.  They were inseparable for the rest of the evening.  They went out exploring and Amber found this pretty horse whom she named "Snowflake".

And a couple weeks later it was Thanksgiving.  Here is my handsome boy with his cousin Rory.  Yet another female he has wrapped around his finger.

In order reenact the above throwback picture, this is how Becca and Chad celebrated turkey day...

As you can see, neither of them has matured that much in the last few years.  The Thanksgiving quote of the year comes from Amber who reports that the way to prepare Thanksgiving dinner is to, "Find a turkey, punch him in the face, give him a piece of your mind and stuff him in the oven."

And this is how the LC young women bring in the Christmas season - with a spectacular night at the bowling alleys.  Once they learned to keep their wrists straight, they weren't half bad. Love them!