Randoms...

 For the pictures that I still love, but have no 'theme'  Our kids (and Mike) often take pictures of each other in Sacrament meeting. I know.....this is why we sit in the back!  Below is a Snapchat....an app that takes a picture and you can add text and it 'disappears' after 30 seconds.  We've talked to the kids about it not really 'disappearing'

 My friend, Brenda, is a professional photo.....she does a great job editing. She sent these photos to me.....

 Little Amanda!  She had this on her phone photos....and below...the kids like to 'recreate' old photos...they did a pretty good job!

 We still had lots and lots of football going on!  We love it!

 Max didn't want Amanda to do homework....look at that face!

 This is Johnny and his awesome hair!  Johnny is part of our Wilgenseth family.  He took Amanda on a date....

 Did I already talk about going to the Ogden Temple open house? It's so beautiful! Probably my favorite Celestial room ever! So great to be there with my family!

 Amanda's favorite dance teacher got married!  Also, Amanda loves Pixy Stix....

My same friend, Brenda, took pictures of our kids.  I don't have all the pictures back yet or I would order some....but she sent me some previews.  She wants to redo Amanda's because she had the wrong lighting, but Amanda still looks beautiful!!

Grandparentals birthday party for the girls!

 Life was too crazy busy lately, so we had to combine the girls grandparent birthday dinners....

 But we classed it up and ate in the dining room...ha ha!

 My Mom and her camera.....and below, my handsome hubby!

 Nice Brandon :)

 Jim & Renae

 Grandpa Gib, Amanda and Grandma Gib

 And with Sydney

 And Sydney with the Arvy grandparents

 Mike modeling a costume for Amanda's date to wear to the Halloween dance

Amanda with the Arvy grandparents!

More Amanda fun...

Amanda downloads her phone pictures to the computer, so I get all her photos in addition to mine.  I just realized I posted about her asking McKay and Corey twice.  Also, I don't know how many of her photos to post, but it is part of her life and our family, so I'll post a few!

 She went to her favorite Haunted House-Nightmare on 13th with wardies...Boston and Maddy (at the time B & M were 'dating') and Ryan Summers and Nate Norton....cute kids!

 She and her dance friends...Such cute girls

 Pictures from her 'day date' with Corey

 After the pumpkin patch, they went back to Brad & Jeni Wilson's house to carve pumpkins...and paint them which turned into a paint fight.

 Maddy, Liz, Susi and Amanda

 Before the paint....

 Their dance group!  Wilson's were leaving for Hawaii the next day.  They were TOO nice to let the kids come over the night before :)

So fun!

Amanda turns 16! What?

When did this happen? Oh my heart....

 Little Manda Panda

Old Amanda Panda!

 Candy poster from siblings 

 Cutting of the Backer's cake!  Brandon and Sydney kept blowing out Amanda's candles before she could.....so (below) she's telling them to STOP!

 Balloons for outside......beautiful sunny day@

Todd Chrisley from her favorite tv show gave her a birthday shout out on Twitter!

Along with the 16th birthday comes dating! UGH!

 She made this poster and we ran to Walmart for the pumpkin and candy and headed to McKay Brown's house so she could ask him to the Halloween dance.  I got to go this time because she couldn't drive!!! I took Sydney, Amanda and Maddy Lloyd.  We parked down the street and Amanda and Maddy headed toward his house just as all the outside lights turned off!  It was after 10pm...They kept going and put the stuff on the porch and then rang the bell and ran across the driveway to hide.  After he went back inside, we went home and then Amanda got a text from McKay saying he had just gotten asked an hour earlier!  So, he offered to give the poster, etc back and I told her yes let's get it and go ask someone else right now.  McKay left everything on the front step and we went back over.  As I waited for her to gather the stuff, I looked on his driveway and saw that they other girl had asked him by drawing a body outline on his driveway!  Amanda and Maddy had run right over it when they ran to hide!

 Amanda forgot to put McKay's name on the poster so she just wrote it on a paper and taped it on.  Thank goodness because she took his name off and put Corey's on!  We drove to Corey's and laid it all out (even though McKay  had eaten half the candy) and then Amanda texted Corey (since it was past 10:30p) and told him to look on his doorstep.

 Luckily, she got to Corey before any other girl and he was super happy to go with her to the dance! Above is his reply.....and a picture from their day date!

 Amanda has been riding to and from school with Austin Keeler and they have become good friends and Mazda Crew buds...more on that later...

 She's been going to football games and really enjoying high school life...minus all the homework!