Band Concert

Zack had his 5th grade band concert this week.  He did so good.  This is his first year playing the sax.  He is using Marc's and doing great.  The band played lots of christmas songs and even played a few with the high school band.

Santa

My kids love christmas. I don't think I know a kid who doesn't.  They look forward to getting to go see santa and tell him what they want.  I am lucky that Zack still believes. We found this really fun and real looking santa down at the shops at the riverwoods in Provo. He sits in his own little house that is decorated for christmasw with a real fireplace and the stockings hung. There were no lines and the kids got to take as much time with him as they wanted. It was no nice that there was no hour wait for the mall santa.

FALL

Sorry I have not been good at keeping up with my blog.
I love fall, the colors, the smells in the air, family times, and the holidays. For halloween this year we went our friends the Worley's up to Logan to the pumpkin walk they have up there. The kids had a lot of fun seeing all the pumpkins cut, painted, and designed into different things. It made them start thinking about what they wanted to do for their pumpkins.

This witch was so nice. She would sit there all night so you could get a picture with her.

There were posters like these all over. The kids loved getting to put their faces in the window.

Connor loves sponge bob so we had to get a picture.
The next day we went to the Jensen Historic Farm in Logan. There was so much to do and the kids had a blast. we got to ride a train, ride a pony, feed the goats, chickens, pigs, and others. There was a corn maze a kids maze, slide and hay jump, black out maze, pumpkin patch, squash launcher and so much more. They kids had a blast and the adults too.

Brielle on the pony ride

Steve missed the cow and got Connor

All of us on the train

Connor

Squash launcher
Then came halloween. We carved our pumpkins and the kids were real creative.


Marc and I tried to get in the spirit this year. It was fun.

the scary man, marty graw, phantom, night furry, minnie mouse

My brother and wife had a halloween party at their house so we got to dress up again and go to that. Thanks for a good time, russell and Carrie.

The hunter, the hunting dog and baby

The lost tourist

The scary couple

Arg!!! the pirates

School

Well scholl has finally started and I am so happy and so are the kids. Zack and Connor both get to go all day, but are at different schools, so timing the driving and drop off has been a challenge.

Zack 5th grade

Connor 1st grade
The week of school starting has been a busy one for us. It started last weekend when we went camping at fish lake and went to the Taylor reunion. The kids love going down to Loa and so do I. This year they got to ride a horse, go to the parade and do some fishing.

Marc caught the biggest.
Zack wasn't to sure if he wanted to ride the horse,but he did it for me and Brielle didn't want to get off.


while down there we went over to Fruita in Capitol Reef national park and picked peaches. That was a lot of fun.

Zack and Connor like getting to use the pickers to get the peaches off the tall trees.

We couldn't keep Brielle out of the trees. She thought it was great that she could pick peaches and climb trees at the same time.

Once we got back Zack had his birthday and Connor had his. Both the boys had back to school night on different nights and Connor got to take birthday treats on the first day of school.

Happy Birthday Zack

Happy Birthday Connor
For the boys birthdays we got them eletric scooters. They were so happy. We can keep them off of them now. They are the hit of the neighborhood. They were very suprised and happy.



I wonder if the kids are as tired as I am. I am glad it's the weekend, but the party doesn't stop.

Family

This past weekend all of Marc's brothers were able to get together. His one brother Joel lives in Washington and his other Brother Jonathan lives in St. George. They were able to all come here for a vacation at the same time. We thought it would be nice to do a family picture with all the brothers and their families since we hadn't had one in about 9 years. My friend Lori was so nice to come over and take our pictures for us. It was better then us rying to take it with a timer. They turned out so good. Thank you so much Lori.

All of Marc's brothers and their families.

The boys. They all play so good togther. They big boys love getting togther. To bad we don't get to see Trent very often.

The 3 princessess. They were so cute in their matching outfits. Brielle and Kestyn were almost like twins. From the back you couldn't tell who was who.

So BIG

Brielle was out side the other morning with her friend Adair from across the street, when adair told Brielle they should go ride bikes. Well adair just learned to ride her bike without training wheel, so Brielle tells me she wants hers off too. So I thought well let's give it a try. I padded her down knee pads, elbow pads, helmet, anything that could get hurt I covered up. I took the training wheels off and she was off. It only took her one time trying and she had it. She is still a little nervous about falling, but she could go and stop all by herself without any help. The first time I think I was more nervous about her falling then she was. She just took off and I kept running next to her with my arms out ready to catch her. I can not believe how big she is getting.

Busy Summer

This might be a little long, but I will try to summerize what has been going on lately.
Well it is now almost the end of July and the kids go back to school in one month. I feel like the kids just got out of school and here we are talking about back to school shopping. Our summer has been s busy. We started off the summer by getting Marc a tent trailer for fathers day. No more sleepi9ng on the ground, Yeah :0)So every open weekend has been full of camping trips.

Zack had basketball camp, Connor had wrestling camp, and the both had fishing club. With all that June and part of july flew past. Marc's Dad and debbie came out to visit for the 4th. It was good to see them. We get to only see them once a year. So we got to spend some time with Marc's brothers and family.

Grandpa and Grandma with the grandkids

My brother Russel got married the first part of July. The wedding was great. We are so happy for the both of them and love having Carrie in the family.

Russell and Carrie

All of the family

Jen and Kyler came up and I got to go to the zoo with my 2 sister and Mom. It was a fun day. we got to see a bunch of the shows that we don't always get to go to.

Our group except Mom.

Brielle petting an armadelo at the discovery show.

Connor Petting a snake at the discovery show.

It was so hot that every chance we could we would stand in front of these fans that had water blowing and try to cool off.

We got to see the elephant show. The elephants did all kinds of tricks. The kids really liked this, because they are usually just standing there, so the loved getting to see the tricks.

Me and the kids waiting for the bird show to start. I almost had my head taken off twice from this red parrot. So be carefull if you sit on the front row.
We did a little camping get away to strawberry lake with the Worleys. Marc and Steve still had to work on friday so they left Mindy and me there with 6 kids. Steve's Dad came over after awhile to do some fishing and let the older ones go out. We did some swimming and crawfish fishing from the dock. It was alot of fun.

Zack, Connor, Torrey, and her grandfather went out on his boat and caught 6 fish.

Connor fishing

Brielle swimming

Connor with his hot dog that he used to catch the crawfish. Later we used chicken legs adn they worked better.

Brielle and the twins hanging out.

well I got back from camping just in time to get ready to go to girls camp for a week. I love girls camp, it is so much fun and a great time to get to know all of the girls.


As you can see it has been a busy summer so far and the rest is just as busy. I will glad for school to start so that things can slow down a little, I hope.