Kenny and Jeni Romney

October has flown by for us. We had a great Halloween with all the kids. It started with school Halloween parties on Thursday in each of their school classes. Then Friday afternoon all the kids were able to come to work and trick or treat there. There is a big atrium area in the middle of the building that they set up tables and let the kids come around and give them treats and goodies. Then Friday night the ward had a Halloween party and they go to trunk or treat. Then came Halloween on Saturday. We also carved pumpkins on Saturday. Each kid had their own. So, yes we have more candy then we know what to do with. But I have implemented what is called Dad tax, so I get to pick out any candy that I want from the stash, which usually amounts to a couple of reeses peanut butter cups, baby ruth bars, and blow pops. J

Some other notable things that are happening are Anna and Becca continue in gymnastics and Andrew is Karate. Corbin started playing basketball with the YMCA program, I am helping assistant coach. He had his first game on Halloween day. They are all having fun in their activities.

I am recovering well from my knee injury. I will probably have surgery to have the ACL repaired, hopefully I should be back to 100% by spring time.

Well I hope you all had a Happy Halloween and we look forward to seeing some of you for Thanksgiving.

Love,

Kenny, Jeni, Corbin, Anna, Andrew, Becca, and Daniel

Mike and Paula Nelson

The first one is Joseph at the Rain Gutter Regatta at pack meeting. His boat named Katherine took 6th place over all in the pack, he earned a cute ribbon.



The next pictures are of us at Anderson Farms where we went to pick our pumpkins at the pumpkin patch. Mike picked one for Katherine as well. We had a great time there.



Then there are pictures of the girls at their pre-school Halloween Party on Friday. They popped popcorn and then had a parade. It was really fun, the girls had a great time.



The picture of all of us together is at a Halloween party we were invited to at someone's house. We all dressed up and had a great time.



Then the last picture is from last night at the ward trunk or treat.



Happy Halloween !



With Love



The Denver Nelson's

Reed and Summer Romney

October has been a fun-filled beginning of fall for us. We went to Stahlei Farm, a local family farm where they have a petting zoo, pumpkins, a slide that drops the kids into a huge pit of dried corn, and a corn maze. It was lots of fun. Dallin could've spent the entire time on the slide and he loved falling into the corn. We left with animal poop on our shoes and corn in our socks...but we had fun!

We carved pumpkins later in the month but unfortunately they went bad within a week and we weren't able to have them on our porch for Halloween. (Yes, it's still in the 70's here in St. George!)

We survived Halloween...and hopefully without many cavities! Dallin was "Luke Skywalker as a X-Wings pilot", Avery was Chewy, Reed was George Lucas, and Summer was Teresa Eckert (sound editor for Star Wars...meaning she didn't really dress up!) Our ward had a dinner and a trunk-or-treat at the church pavilion and parking lot. After about 3 minutes of trunk-or-treating Avery totally grasped the concept of Halloween and LOVED it! She walked around the entire time with a roll of Smarties in each hand and a big smile on her chocolate-covered face. Dallin was thrilled to see that another boy in our ward was dressed up as Darth Vadar so they had a little light-saber duel after the dinner. (Dallin won.)

David and Tiffany Steele

Benjamin playing on the Tractor at WAY Fruit Farm

Silly Pumpkins!!!

Bowling with Gramps......Benjamin LOVED bowling and at one time was beating Gramps!

Fall in Pennsylvania

Robin Hood

What a cute kid!!!

So we have had a fun month....its getting cold and even snowed for 3 days!!!! All I have to say about snow is i hope no more comes all winter!!! That is what I am praying for..... Anyway fall is beautiful here in the North East!!! We love all the fun colors. Grandma and Grandpa came to visit and it has been a blast. We know that we live SOOOO far away but we are very grateful for their efforts in coming to see us. But since they have been here....we went Trick-or-treating at the mall....Benjamin did not want to put his costume on and was soooo scared from all this costumes and didn't really like Halloween this year...but it was still fun for us to get his candy and eat it!! We went bowling with G&G Romney and Benjamin had a blast....that was his first time going and he has been talking about it ever since. There is an awesome restaurant in downtown State college that we went to and I think that they had the best Alfredo I have ever eaten! Penn State as an ice cream creamery that we got tasty delights there.....Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream came to Penn State to learn how to make "the best ice cream." We also went to the Way Fruit Farm and had homemade cooking for lunch and fresh apples right from the tree....also homemade apple cider donuts....sooo good!!! So we wanted to THANK Grandma and Grandpa for the wonderful time and thank you for spoiling us!!! Please come again soon....and anyone else can come and visit too!!! Love you all...the Steele's

Grandma and Grandpa Romney

Grandpa and Grandma Romney at WAY FRUIT FARM

Grandma and Grandpa Bowling with Benjamin

Trick or Treating at the Mall in State College PA.....

Mom and I are in State College, PA with Tiff, Dave and Benjamin.

It is Halloween night and we are busy passing out candy to the

people that are stopping by. Benjamin was a very cute Robin Hood,

but was not quite sure he liked the other costumes.

We flew to Pittsburg and drove about 4 hours to State College.

They call this the jewel of PA. It is very beautiful here - very much

like the Philadelphia area.

Dave took us on a tour of the Penn State Law School. It is a new

building and is very impressive. The library and study areas are

very nice. We are very proud of David and his hard to get into

law school and the work he is doing to pass with top honors.

We had a great time in Salt Lake City for the Witch's night out celebration.

Mom, Aunt Marilyn and I went out to the Homestead Resort and

checked out all the activities that we can plan to enjoy next summer when

we all show up for next family reunion.

I hope that you all listened to teachings of President Monson in the October

conference. His message was "Have you done any good in the world today?"

I hope we are all thinking about how we can practice this council.

We love you all and we look forward to the next two months for the

Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays.

Dad - Gramps - Mom - Grandma