Bailey Family

General Conference was great. I love hearing from the prophet and apostles. I can feel their love for us and I hear what God wants me to hear. I decided that I want to start taking casual/candid family photos on a regular basis. Not on a schedule, but just several times a year at convenient times. (Or when I just insist.) So, I suggested this to Rob and he thought it was a good plan and agreed to help with sometimes less-than-willing children. Surprisingly, they were all pretty cooperative. (Alee had a moment, but that's to be expected.) Enjoy -  I let everyone take a turn with the camera remote for the whole-group shots. I have no idea who took which picture (and I kept only my favorites), but Seth was obviously the last with the remote because when we were done and everyone went completely candid, Seth snapped another shot. It's actually kind of cute. Rob watching me as I go take care of the camera. Seth standing in the middle of his 4 girly sisters ...

September is over. Today begins October - first weekend, which means general conference...a time for us to sit back and relax and watch the apostles, prophet, and other leaders teach us and testify of Christ. October also means the weather is starting to cool off just a little. Here's the rest of September... September 15th was International dot day. Alee's teacher asked everyone to wear dots and they read a book (The Dot, I think it was called) and probably did other dotty things. At the end of that week, the kids elementary school had a tree planting ceremony to celebrate its 50th anniversary. Each child got to put a handful of dirt onto the tree representing their grade. Natalie also got a speaking part in a poem read during the 3rd and 4th grade tree planting ceremonies.  (I only was there b/c Natalie asked me to come listen to her read her part. So, I wasn't there for Alee's grade because I didn't know what was going on until I got there and s...