Fall Happenings

Brittney and Merinda's cute Halloween costumes. Merinda was Winnie the Pooh (not to be confused with Princess Leia).

 Merinda and Iris going out to eat for Iris' birthday. 

 

Merinda cheering on Aubrey and her softball team at BYU-I.

 Brenden and Ashton, the team's captians, Aubrey, and the rest of the cheering squad, are all from Georgetown, KY.

The team's winning picture (they took first place in their tournament).

 Aubrey visiting Brittney in Salt Lake City,

 and attending her Chile mission reunion (Aubrey with her Mission President and his wife).

Aubrey spending time with her old mission companions (and one of their babies, who has the cutest smile ever!).

 Visiting Bea again in Florence, AL during one of Brad's business trips down south.

 Bea's son Bruce, Bea, and me

Then stopping by the Wrights in Franklin, TN on our way home.

It was so nice going to the Temple with them, and hanging out for a couple of days.

 Debbie's Facebook post ... dinner at Hogwood's was pretty amazing (as well as the company!).

 Even though it was a little cold and rainy, 

the Fall colors were still so beautiful 

during my morning run in Pinkerton Park!

 Our kids (and spouses) who attended Victor Manwaring's (Grandpa) 80th birthday party in Buhl, Idaho.

Eating dinner with all their cousins.

 Victor with all the grand kids (and spouses) in attendance. 

Victor with all the kids in attendance.

 Brad was there via FaceTime from India.

Victor with his better half, Virginia. 

 Brad spent a week in India for work. Above is a picture of him visiting Victor's good friends (Brad's parents served a mission in India several years ago).

Other great pictures from Brad's trip ...

A family of five on one motorcycle, 

 strays hanging out in front of the Kentucky Fried Chicken,

 a family Brad watched from his hotel room,

 and other third-world living.

 Brad did say the food was really good, above is a typical meal which is usually eaten with your hands and some Naan. Brad did get a bad cold while in India (hmmm, I wonder why?) so when he went to the pharmacy to get some cough drops they tried to sell him just one. Brad looked at the guy and then dumped out the entire container and said "this is how many I need!"

 Catching up with Brad's old boss and friend Tak, and his sweet wife Miho.

Brad survived surgery on his cervical spine. He had two vertebrae fused and a bunch of bone spurs removed (it took the surgeon over 40 minuets just to clean-up all the bone spurs). He was in good hands however, the same neuro-surgeon that performed my brain surgery did his surgery. He is now home recuperating, and will hopefully be back to his old self (minus the nerve pain and weakness) by the time we fly to Utah/Idaho for Christmas!