Just What the World Needs...More Gibsons!

Finally! Today we finalized the adoptions of Parker, McKay, and Bryson to David.



I was talking to a friend of mine and mentioned that we had a court date and she said, "I thought that happened a year ago." Well there are lots of hoops to jump through. It was much easier (and quicker) when I adopted Parker and McKay in Utah, even though it took extra time to get the approval of their tribe.

But now it's done. We've added 3 more Gibsons to the world in one afternoon. To celebrate we went to dinner with Grandma Gibson at a Chinese Buffet (boys' choice). What a relief to have it done. But now comes all the paperwork to get their name changed on everything. Ugh!

Happy Halloween

We started preparing for Halloween last week by having Sinister Ravioli with Pepperoni, Eye of Newt Salad, and Bones for dinner.

Parker as Ceasar for the ward trunk-or-treat.

McKay was in charge of the mummy wrapping station.

Bryson's friend from school-Carson, Bryson, and his friend from church-Duncan. Bryson dressed up as Murtag from the Eragon book series. His main objective this Halloween was to be a character where he could spray his hair black.

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Want to hear a funny little "whoops"? Bryson has started playing with Carson recently, but I don't know much about his family. I know I see Carson's Dad picking him up every time I pick Bryson up from school. So I wondered what kind of job he had that he could pick up his kids everyday at 3. Anyway, Carson's mom left a message on Tuesday night asking if Bryson could come to their church Halloween party on Wednesday. Our trunk-or-treat was on Wednesday, so I called to decline, but found out that their's was earlier in the day and Bryson could go to both. Of course, I then invited Carson to trunk-or-treat at our church. His Dad seemed to hesitate, so I said, just drop him off with Bryson if he can go to give him some time to think about it. He did bring him over and they seemed to have a great time at both churches' events. When I dropped off Carson afterward, I told his Dad I was sorry he brought home so much candy and mentioned that we had about 100 kids at our event. When we got home, Bryson told me about the event at Carson's church. There were games like ours, but not as many people and not very many kids. At the end Bryson said that Carson's Dad gave a talk and told them how we are like pumpkins and the gooey, gross insides are like sins and we can clean them out by repenting. Then we are like a jack-o-lantern and the light of Christ can dwell in us for all to see. Nice analogy. Bryson mentioned that Carson's Dad seemed like he was in charge. It then dawned on me that Carson's Dad is probably the Pastor of one of our local churches. That's fine, except I invited his son to our church activity, then told him how many more people we had come to ours! Whoops!


I know this is a little blurry. He didn't have all his accessories on for the picture. Murtag is an archer and fighter.

Spooky Graveyard Pudding for dessert at McKay's Halloween Party.

McKay's Halloween party on Halloween night. Everett, Lucas, Adam, and McKay in the picture; also Chris, Andrew, and Neal came. I warned them that I had inventoried all the eggs, shaving cream, and toilet paper, so I would know if they decided to sneak out and pull some Halloween tricks.

Happy Halloween!

Happy Birthday, Parker!

Actually his birthday was yesterday. Another year has come and gone and Parker is now 17. I have included pictures of his cake. I was thinking about it and Parker doesn't often get a cake of his own. He doesn't usually invite friends over for a party, so I don't do a special cake for that and we usually still have cake left over from McKay's birthday 5 days earlier so I don't want to add another 5 days of left over birthday cake to our diet. So I was happy McKay's birthday party isn't until next weekend when he'll get his cake, so I could focus on a cake for Parker.

Yes, it's a hamburger. Parker is a hamburger connoisseur. Parker's holding up some lead-free solder he got for his birthday for an electronics course he is taking. He insists that his school is using leaded solder he wanted something safer. It may have something to do with Da'd (Parker's abbreviation for David) always coming home with stories of saving humanity with analyzers from XOS, starting with lead in toys.

For the first piece of cake, Parker insisted on cutting is out like a bite was taken out of it. Yum!

Today is Friday night and Parker, McKay, and McKay's friend Adam are out with Parker's scout troup on a campout/paintball activity. It'll be interesting to hear the stories.