The last few weeks have been very busy, sometimes fun, sometimes hard and always busy. Kyle sent us a box with new pictures from Germany. He has been transferred to Eisenhutten Stadt right across the river from Poland. He and his companion who is fresh from the MTC are reopening the city for missionaries. It sounds like he is doing well.

Chris spent The first few weeks in October playing soccer. His team won the district JV tournament. He dressed up every day during homecoming week. Monday a hippie, Tuesday on opposite day he dressed in U of U red shirt, shorts and hat. (He is a big BYU fan and so on opposite day Chris dressed like a U fan), Wednesday he wore Homer PJ's for cartoon day, Thursday Chris became Obama for "Nerd" day and Friday he wore orange and black hair and clothes for "Tiger " game.

Terry started bag pipe lessons and he practices faithfully! He uses a "chanter" pipe because he isn't yet the proud owner of bag pipes. I feel happy we have a big house so the noise isn't too bad. One day Terry's playing woke Aiden. He put his hands over his ears, found his shoes and put them on and ran to the door telling Becca he wanted to go home.

I have been busy helping prepare a "Super Saturday" Relief society event. It went well. Karen, Kelli and Julie are so good at organizing and developing events like that so I didn't have to stress at all. Becca made some beautiful fun crafts that I will post later in case some of them are Christmas gifts. Becca and Jana decided to work on crafts late to try to finish. Julie stayed with them until midnight, and I had to leave around 10:00 but Becca and Jana worked until after 2:00 AM. Crazy!! I wished I could have had the energy to stay. We laughed until we cried while we worked.

I couldn't believe Becca had enough energy to craft as she has spent the last week moving. She and Jacob downsized to a cute little house not far from the Boise Temple. They will miss their big house but the economy has not been kind to mortgage workers and this will be better for them.