Outings and Such

I haven't much been in the mood for blogging about anything besides Anneca.  Now I have some catch-up to do.  Despite the sadness of her passing, we have had some fun memory-making times as well.

In September, on a beautiful Saturday morning, we set out to explore Spokane's Riverfront Park.  It is a beautiful downtown park, with trails and bridges over Spokane Falls.  They also have the world's largest Radio Flyer red wagon which doubles as a huge slide.  The kids had fun playing on it.  We enjoyed the scenery, the squirrels, the leaves, the hike, the clock tower, and playing briefly in the fountain.

 

Last weekend we set out to explore the Nine Mile Falls area, the Spokane River, Lake Spokane, and a couple of dams along the river.  Very rural area.  It was a cold but pretty day.  At one point, Kyle pulled off on the side of the road and we went on an "explore".  We hiked back in to a mountain and Kyle and the older kids climbed up a ways.  They loved it.  Andon found the perfect walking stick for himself and carried it most of the way.

The two dams we saw were really pretty, in particular the one at the lower end of Lake Spokane. ("Lake Spokane" is really just part of the river but because of the dam, it has essentially become a reservoir/lake.  It really doesn't look at all like a river.)

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We enjoyed our Halloween festivities.  (Mom enjoyed them, too, except the candy aspect.)
Skyler was Batman for our ward Halloween festival then switched to Robin for trick-or-treating.  Andon was a lion that wouldn't keep his mane on for the ward party, so we tried out the giraffe costume for Halloween.  He kept that on for a few minutes, but really didn't want to be outside in the cold.  Even the candy didn't tempt him.  He only went to a few houses and his candy was gone before the other kids got home:).  Kylene was a fairy and Spencer was Annakin again.  I love reusing costumes!