Abby Preschool
October 2006

This month was really busy for us.
We moved into our first permanent
spot since the move to Utah.
We are renting a patio home in
east Kaysville and building a home
in west Kaysville. Josh started back
where he left off in the first grade at
Heritage Elementary. Abby also
started school. This is her first year
of preschool. She goes to Sam Morgan
Elementary just up the road from our
rental. She LOVES it. She has become
so independent and so empowered all of
a sudden to take charge and take control.




















Abby on her first day of preschool.
















Not to be outdone...This is Jantz on Abby's
first day of preschool.

Trick or Treating
Halloween 2006




















Abby, Jantz, Josh and Ryan Ericksson




















Jantz hung in there for one street and
then called it good. He was much more
interested in seeing what was going
into the bag he was carrying.




















The rest of the night he was focused
on getting out, whatever went in.

Carving Pumpkins
October 30th 2006

















































































The finished product.

Games

The kids made some scary bean bags
and a couple of cardboard cut-outs for
a halloween bean bag toss.




















Then we had a jelly bean spit and a donut
eating contest.
















Heat 2
















Jantzen cheated, but he's two so how can we
hold it against him.




















The kids picked their favorite pumpkins.
Among the pumpkin winners were Brandon
Simonsen with the spider pumpkin, Aunt Bax
and Uncle Glen with the ghost pumpkin as well
as Grandpa Mac with the ride to spookeyville pumpkin.

1st Annual Donahoe Family
Halloween Party!

We had our first ever Donahoe family halloween
party on October 29th. It turned out fabulous!
The kids planned some games and we had a
costume and carving/painting pumpkin contest.
We were so impressed with all of the pumpkin
entries and especially the costumes! We think
everybody had a really good time.




















Uncle Sam is a skeleton groom and
Aunt Mel is a witch with "yoda" who could
not find his mask at the time of this picture.















Grandma and Grandpa Gibson were hockey
players. The costume inspiration must have
come from Grandpa's recent conversation with
Wayne Gretsky on his trip to Phoenix just days
before the party. Hailee is just ducky with Abby
the spider witch and Jantz the monster. Also,
Josh, without the mask and yoda with the mask
(see picture below with Grandpa Dave.)