October is over

October just flew by, it is hard to believe we are well into November already. My kids even said it is hard to believe the second six weeks of school is over, Emily said it felt like it was still the first week. We had a wonderful time on Halloween. Our friends the Dimon's came and stayed and went trick or treating with us. It was so fun to see them again. We did our traditional trick or treating with them and the Hardy's. They got a ton of candy. We gave most of ours to the missionaries, they loved it! I will try and send pictures later of everyone. We finished up soccer today. Tyson's team took second place. Justin's team did really well (they don't keep score at that age). It was a great soccer season with great weather the whole time, which is very unusual for Lubbock. We are looking forward to a few more free nights now that it is over. I am hoping the weather stays warm for one more week so we can get our garden cleaned out.

I got a surprise visit from my Dad and my Uncle Floyd last week. It was so much fun to sit and visit with them for an afternoon. I wish they could have stayed longer, but I know they needed to get back to Beaver. Ryan was afraid of them at first, but that is all he has talked about since they left. He keeps saying Grandpa is going to come and sleep with him again.

Jeff got put in the Bishopric this month. It is the same Bishop, he just replaced one of the councilors who had been in with the last Bishop too. Everyone asks me how I feel about him being in the Bishopric, and I am not sure what they want me to say. I am happy to let my husband serve wherever he is asked to serve.

Justin's Soccer Game

The score was 10 to 1. It was the second quarter it was a corner kick and ty was kicking for the thunder and Cameron missed it and I got the ball and everybody on the other team was in the goal and I scored and we won the game.

by: Justin Cluff

A Day at the Zoo

This year, the BYU-TCU football game was at Fort Worth, so we went to it. The day after the game, we went to the Fort Worth zoo. The Fort Worth zoo is amazing! It has all sorts of different kinds of animals. I think that my favorite animals there were the chimps, the elephants, the penguins, and the jauguar. I took a ton of pictures, over two hundred, (my mom wasn't too happy about that.) Well, I loved going and seeing the animals, and I hope that we will be able to go there again sometime!

By: Emily Cluff

Happy Reunion on a Sad Note

Many of you already know that we lost one of our friends in Iraq two weeks ago. He died after complications to an appendectomy. It is such a sad time, and we have mourned with the Johnson Family. His funeral was this last Friday. Many people came, and we had the opportunity to reunite with many of our old friends. We were all sad that it took something like this to bring everyone together again, but it felt so good to be around so many familiar faces. It made me realize how important friends are. The whole weekend the scripture story about when the sons of Mosiah were reunited after their mission kept coming to my mind. It was so wonderful to see that everyone was still strong in the gospel. I am going to do better about keeping in contact with old friends!

Toothless Wonder

Justin lost his first tooth this last week. I am always amazed at how much older they look once they lose that first tooth. It makes me sad to see my little boy growing up, but he sure loves being older. Ever since we moved into our new house the Tooth Fairy has had a hard time finding our house, we figure it is because we live so far out. This time the Tooth Fairy came after Justin was already out of bed, we assumed it is because he gets up at 6:00 and it is still dark outside. Maybe someday the Tooth Fairy will figure it all out!

Meeting My Hero

We went to see the Cougars play against the Hornfrogs. Before the game we went to a tailgate party and Ty Detmer a.k.a. my hero was a guest so I got to get his autograph. It was exciting to meet him in person. But the Cougars lost . It was fun meeting Ty.

Bye for now,

Tyson J. Cluff

Oh, to have a girl again!

I just had to down load this picture of Abigail playing with her Baby and Stuffed Barney. It has been a long time since I have had a child interested in dolls. People can say what they want about nature, nurture, but the difference between my girls and boys is definitely nature, not nurture. Abigail loves to pile all of the dolls in the stroller and push the stroller around. She just learned to walk a few weeks ago, so she is not very stable and she gets very angry when the stroller runs into something! I am excited to be able to buy more girl toys for Christmas!