Creative girls (Penny and Diana) / Lights and ribbons at the Whitney home / U of U vs. BYU / Fall leaves / Penny leads martial arts / Israelite daughters / Layth under the piano bench / Visiting the Williams home

Penny and Diana create some fun things.

Ethan Whitney, the oldest child of the Whitney family, died this month. Among other things, Sam and a couple other Relief Society sisters went over to the Whitney home early one morning to put up some ribbons and lights as a show of support.

BYU and the U of U played their annual rivalry football game last weekend. Taylor and Dan came over to watch the game. The Utes ended up winning the game this time.

Taylor made some BYU and Utah cinnamon rolls.

Penny, Diana, and Emmy dressed up as little Israelite girls for our ward's wax museum activity.

The kids had fun at the Williams home one day while Sam went to an appointment with her doctor.

Halloween

 

These are the pumpkins that were carved (or painted) by Sam, Stacie, and the kids. Douglas's pumpkin, the yellow "Verity" pumpkin, was stolen from our porch shortly after Halloween.

Who did the pumpkins?

1 - Douglas

2 - Diana

3 - Tristan

4 - Lydian

5 - Andrew

6 - Penny (and Sam)

7 - Mercy (and Stacie)

Taylor and Dan joined the kids for trick-or-treating.

Penny (cat), Diana (witch), Douglas (peanut butter - and Sam was jelly), Layth (baby bear).

Halloween fun run with Taylor and Dan

 Penny and Diana participated in a Halloween fun run with Taylor and Dan this morning.

They all wore M&M t-shirts for the run.

Having fun with Artificial Intelligence

 We played around with ChatGPT's image generator this week.

I asked the program to take this photo of me, Gideon, Douglas, and Maxwell at the Grand Junction, Colorado Temple and turn us into superheroes.

This is what it produced.

Then I told it to add Jesus to the photo.

This is from a photo of me at the Grand Canyon. I told ChatGPT to add a temple in the background.

Diana at the Layton, Utah Temple.

Douglas and Maxwell at the Orem Temple.

Penny and Diana at the Layton Temple.

Penny, Douglas, and Diana at the Salt Lake Temple.

Layth at the SLC Temple.

Diana

Penny

With Reed at his football game.

Douglas and Krew at the Mesa, Arizona Temple.

Reed and I love the He-Man show, so I turned us into He-Man.

Yesterday (October 14th) was the one-year anniversary of the passing of my dear Mother. I took a family photo and asked ChatGPT to make Mom an angel and have her and Jesus looking at the rest of the family from a distance.

I told the program to remove Mom's wings.

Then I told the program to use a different photo of Sara and Lizzie, but it ended up switching their heads. 😁 And as you can see, sometimes it alters the faces a bit as well.

Family photos using the "Anime" feature.

Penny had fun adding pandas to some of the photos.

Douglas made this one using a phrase that is (supposedly) popular with the youngsters these days.

Sam's uncle, Richard Lowry, took the photo of baby Layth and turned it into this funny video.

Bobblehead Penny

Penny

Diana in a 1990s video game.

Douglas and Maxwell in a 1990s video game.

Douglas and Krew in a 1990s video game.

Denali, Penny, and Diana with baby Layth.

Douglas and Layth

Penny, Tristan, Douglas, and Diana at the Station Park fountain.

#8 BYU pulled off a very close win today against #2 Notre Dame.