Plowman Family Dinner/October 2026

For monthly family dinner, we gathered at Mike's and Jana J.'s home in Layton on Sunday, October 25. The menu consisted of a variety of soups, together with Sarah's salad, fruit, veggies, and (provided by JB) pumpkin brownies and chocolate chip cookies.

October comes with the highest number of family birthdays in the year: those of 18-year-old Kira, Jana J., Steve, nine-year-old Ike, Ben, and yours truly. They sang "Happy Birthday to You" to us, and the kids blew out the candles on their cookies and ice cream.

This day fell on Ike's actual birthday, so he opened a number of his gifts.

As it was the last Sunday before Halloween, many of the kids (the niblings) wore their Halloween costumes. We got to see McKenna as Michelangelo of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Christian as some monster ... thing, Katy as the White Rabbit, Danny as a soccer player, Graham as Marty McFly, Tanner as Pikachu, Ike as a ninja, Sadie as Belle, and Sam as Batman:

Just for fun, Christian paused for a pic with little Paisely, in which he ate (consumed) Paisley.

I guess you had to be there! It seemed funny at the time.