More deer downtown

 Driving to pick up the little girl I mentor, there was this buck deer in her neighbors yard.

 couldn't get very close - but the biggest horns I've seen on a deer in town, deer behind rock, but rack showing!

Halloween Party

 Saturday evening, October 19th, we had the Lewistown Ward Halloween Party.

 Dad was the old referee and I wore his Letter sweater from high school and my witch hat.

 Here Dad looks like the Zombie Ref!

 Natalie - YW that I visit teach her mother and we have become good friends.

 Cup Cakes for the cake walk.

fun party.

Downtown Deer - Bucks

 I was driving downtown last week on a side street - there were three small bucks just eating on people's bushes.

 I stopped the car and got out the camera and they didn't care a bit!

When another car came from the other way they decided to run for it!

Back yard Tree

 The tree in our back yard looked so pretty last Sunday coming home from General Conference - I got out the camera and took a picture of it! from the back and the front.

 So we had freezing nights and light winds and this is the tree a week later!  Fall is upon us!

Two school age boys that live next door came over and played in our leaves - throwing them at each other, etc.  We loved hearing them laugh.

Pheasant Hunt - Quilting

 Stan and Dad with the pheasant - Saturday October 12, 2013

 More of the same - two good looking men and one beautiful bird!

 Riddick the wonder dog joined them for the photo.

 Julie busy sewing - Riddick helping!  Actually he laid down on the fabric when we had it on the floor.

Quilting the crib sized quilt - fun day!

Auction

 There was an estate auction at the fairgrounds Friday and Saturday.  The paper listed over 30 guns so Dad wanted to go out and check them out.

Can you believe one person had all these guns, wait - yes you can, I think some of our family members have this many - no name but his initials are Sam Smith!!  (Robert Kirby saying!)  Shobe Auction online - go other and see if you want us to attend the auction and what high price you want to pay for anything they list.  

Flowers and Snow

 We had a weather forecast for snow and cold so I toke one last picture of our pretty flowers in the front flower beds.  - notice the Halloween decorations on the old pump!

 So pretty - I also picked a bouquet for the kitchen table... looks and smells good!

 Here's the snow on the flowers - now they are all brown and will be recycled on FHE this week.

 I subbed at a 5th grade class on Thursday and Friday - the kids were happy about the snow at recess - but all had wet feet - in winter all the kids have boots...but only a couple brought them on Friday.

They took their wet shoes off and placed them on the heater to get them dry!!  They went to library in their stocking feet - I checked before with the librarian and it was okay!

Salmon from Sam

 Sam brought us a box of smoked salmon from AK when he came to Utah - thanks so much son!

 This recipe was in the box and sounded good - so we made it for dinner one night last week.

Oh my!  It was delicious - course it began with a half cup of butter and a cup of sour cream!  soooo good, and we ate it for three meals - thanks again Sam for thinking of us.

Georgia's Blessing - Sunday September 29, 2013

 The Fairbanks family on the steps of the Church after Georgia's beautiful blessing.

 Mom and Dad and sweet Georgia Mae Fairbanks.

 Great Uncle Wayne and Aunt Janice Mortensen, Grandma and Grandpa Smith at the church.

 Pretty Mommy and Baby.

Cute slipper socks - pink ballerina ones!

Mission Reunion

 We had a mini mission reunion - since our Pres. and wife couldn't come!  Here are the Larsens, Andersens, Daniels, Smiths and Whiteheads - plus Sister Pat Apgood.

 Around 20 young missionaries came and it was fun to see them, hear their activities and meet their wives, girl friends!

Sister Susan Everette and I gave each other a foot massage!!  love her to pieces!! she's from NC and is going to school at LDS Business College.  Sure hope Pres. and Sister Hendricks can come to the next party - maybe in April?

More Sadie's Birthday

 Sadie liked opening presents - with Dad's help.

 Uncle Sam had Olivia and Talus enjoying his video game.

 Grandpa enjoyed holding sweet Georgia during the party.

Lindsey gave Sadie some of the old puzzles you kids used to play with - she loved them!  Aunt Emilee and Pikes gave her some cards - she loved playing with those also - fun party.

Sadie turns two!

 Sadie had a great second birthday - here is her Hungry Caterpiller cupcake!

 She loved the umbrella her mother gave her!

 All the kids loved the puppets from NC!

 Birthday girl with Uncle Sam - came all the way from Alaska to help us celebrate!

 The Fairbanks family - happy day.

Baden and Sadie playing with the puppets.

Olivia's Preschool Zoo trip

 We met Olivia's Preschool Group at the zoo - it was a cool morning but sunny.

 Their teacher gave them an animal page to look for the animals and put a sticker on the page - fun!

 The Polar bear exhibit was a deep sea diver cleaning with a vacumn thing!!

 Three monkeys!

 Rhino's

Olivia found all the animals - and learned and had fun!