Celebrating Millie's blessing at the Fairbanks house

 It was great to have Lori and Amy Mortensen come to the Church and the Fairbanks home to visit for a couple of hours.  Kate and kids came from Pocatello also - fun to have five daughters here.

 Here are the Smith and Mortensen cousins - plus the star of the show - Millie!

 Dan and Lindsey and their four beautiful daughters!

 New daughter  - proud and happy parents.

 Proud and Happy Grandparents - so many people love Millie!

 Four cute sisters - wonderful granddaughters.

With Aunt Jennie - who came from North Carolina for a week to help out - Lindsey lived with her when she was just home from her mission and helped her with Grace and Sophie - ten years ago!

Millie's Blessing at the Church

 All the wonderful Priesthood brothers who were in the circle for Millie Vivian Fairbanks blessing.  Great job Daddy Dan - Grandpa Smith said sweet Millie was wide awake and just looking around at everyone.

 Proud Grandparents - Vivian Dianne and Samuel Harold Smith.

Happy Parents - Lindsey and Dan Fairbanks.

More Homecoming Parade

 It was a beautiful day - all the kids loved playing with Aunt Polly.

 Here we are waiting for the parade to start.

 BYU Air Force ROTC - second largest program in the country - outside the Military Academies.

 Cougar Marching Band.

 Cosmo came to our party!

 He sat down on Keenyn's small camp chair - and then pretended it was stuck to him as he stood up - Isaac to the rescue!

 Richard Cowan - blind professor- received an Emeriti Award...he was teaching when we were undergrad students in the '60s.  Blind people amaze me!

 Millie enjoying the parade!!

 This robot gave out candy!

Last float was Cinderella - the little girls loved it!

BYU Homecoming Parade Oct. 10th, 2015

 Darling girls enjoying their breakfast!

 Homecoming - 2015 - 51 years older, 40 pounds heavier and much older and wiser!!

 Homecoming 1964- Spurs marched in the parade.

 Beautiful sisters -missing Heidi, Kate and Emilee...really fun to have Jennie around for a week.  Lindsey with Millie in the baby carrying thing - Linds said she had her in it and opened her stove and leaned over to take dinner out - just in time remembered her daughter was in harms' way!  Jennie said she did burn Grace doing the same thing.

We set up to watch the Homecoming Parade near the announcer stand - he played fun music and asked everyone to dance - so we did!!

BYU Homecoming Pancakes

 Saturday morning we met the Kroebers, Fairbanks and Williams at the BYU Law School parking lot for the Free Blue Pancake breakfast - here is the line of us waiting for our pancakes.

 The cooking tent - they really put out the pancakes!

 More family waiting in line.

 Blue Pancakes - with blue berry syrup, or strawberry, or maple - and whipped cream!  Heather brought her own peanut butter and maple syrup!

 This ESPN photographer followed sweet Sadie all across the parking lot and then Chris and Briella!  Wish we could see our relatives on TV!

Here are some of the family eating their yummy pancakes.

Kate's Presentation at Activity Days

Kate presenting at their ward's Activity Days - she did great.

 Part of her degree requirements are to present to a community group of at least three people.

 Good flyer and the girls enjoyed learning about safety.

 Kate had a meter thing that registered decibel levels - Kate talking was about 60-65 - then Kate asked the girls to scream and shout and it registered over 160!!

The girls asked good questions about noise in their environment.

Twin Falls Trip

 Friday, Oct. 2nd, we drove to Twin Falls - twin reasons - see Amy and attend the Temple.  On the way over our sweet little Montana Ford Ranger turned to 250,000 miles - old reliable!!

 Here is the cutest Librarian in the World - at least in the USA!  Amy has been released from being RS President and now works in the Nursery - she loves it!

 Here we are at the Twin Falls Temple - our first time in it and it is beautiful - wonderful art and decor.

 This is the house of a lady I visit teach ... last Halloween she had a big pumpkin on her porch.  Halloween night someone knocked it off and smashed it in her flower garden.  She thought she cleaned up all the pumpkin guts and seeds but this spring she found several pumpkin seedling sprouting.  She let them grow and ended up with all these wonderful pumpkins!

 More than we have and we planted them on purpose!  Katie said - classic - something good coming from something bad!

This is the post card we received telling us we need to have our teeth cleaned - it's been six months - we'll wait another six - thank you!