Family Day 2012

Family day sneaked up on my this year.  Every year we celebrate the day we were sealed to Anson.  We adopted him at birth and consider him to have always been in our family but we want to celebrate him and his unique part in our family.  So every year we try to do something as a family.  With the prego hormones running wild this fall we caught it just in time.  We celebrate on October 8th but this year that was a Sunday so we celebrated more October 9th, which this year was Columbus Day and the kids had off school.  Grandma Somers and I took the kids to Konow's Corn Maze and we did everything but the maze.  The kids had a blast!  

 All 4 kids at the water pumps racing their ducks down the gutter.

 Anson and Aaron climbing in the huge hay stacks.

 Andrew and I on a cow train.

 The corn silo was the biggest hit.  Here is Rachel running in the corn.

 Anson loved to swim and get buried in the corn.

 Andrew wasn't sure about the corn but once he got adjusted he was all in!

 

After a fun day we invited our special guest, Grandpa Allred to join us for our family celebration.  Grandpa sealed Anson to our family 7 years ago in the Chicago, IL LDS Temple.  We believe families can be together forever and it was a real treat to be able to celebrate family day to the person who made this possible for our family.  After dinner we joined Rick in playing a few games as a family.  We are so happy to be a family and are so grateful for temples to make our family together forever.