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Octoblur: Fire & Halloween

My dinner before the Canyon Jazz Pop Concert
haha




Lucy with her good friend Emma :) I adore her!

I told them to start a band already!
(here is their album cover)

Lucy gladly sings alto and Henry is one of the jazz pianists
(as well as percussion, vibraphone, etc)

October was busy...there was the vacation part

the basketball season beginning part

oh, and my favorite part! Halloween!

Lucy rockin' out for a choir halloween party

visiting Elder Stannings in Bakersfield for his last Sunday. He is the real deal. He joined the church in Boulder while in high school. We are big fans of Byron!


Spent a day in SF
glorious

the halloween windows at Britex: RIP fast fashion

date with the best guy to spend my time (and life) with :)

the next day the Santa Ana winds were howling. SCE turned off the power so I had no way of knowing what was happening. Then the LAFD helicopters came and refilled behind my home on the hill...it didn't seem like a drill this time...so I went out to see and found this


I took Chester and Audrey and headed down to get Henry at Canyon. Lucy got stuck in gridlocked traffic and she couldn't get home. Law enforcement would not let anyone into Sand Canyon. So we were separated :(




We were evacuated at 3:30 am. We were reuinited withLucy at midnight by the grace of good people we knew in another ward. Being a cop, he drove her home for us. It was so good to be together again. Clay flew in the next day. We picked him up and headed down to Carlsbad for beds at Marty and Diane's home and some Juanitas :)

signs of Halloween in Leucadia :)

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We were able to repopulate our canyon late that night so we headed home! 
What an experience. 
We have never dealt with fires but we were prepared with a 72 hour kit that we just restocked the previous Monday night.
 There is so much peace in being prepared and leaving to make way for first responders. 

The next day I made Halloween costumes!
Sewing is good therapy:)
Here is Dr. Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Candace from Phineas and Ferb!

PHINEAS!

Lucy and Emma
we headed to another ward party since ours was cancelled. Emma was the fairy godmother from Shrek. Adorable!

Chester has been reading Harry Potter so he wanted to be a Hufflepuff for his "real" Halloween costume :)


Audrey dressed as an elephant who annoys her brother
haha


My sister came out with Ella, Daniel and Jonah :)
the winds stopped, our power came on!
just in time for her to save our halloween!

Audrey made a jack o' lantern cake

Audrey found a quote that said "You know what you call people
 'who don't like halloween? You call them boring"
haha
Henry doesn't really like it...or Clay

Marcie and I stole a few hours away to magic mountain



Most friday nights have been spent at the Canyon football games to watch Henry and the marching band. He has a good time doing it. 
He is a performer :)

And they did really well in their competitions too!


And here is my October project. 
I made a goal to do a make a month!
And Audrey wanted a Halloween skirt
And I cannot separate Halloween from Charlie Brown...or Thanksgiving too :)


Octoblur was one for the Collins memory books 

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