MY HUSBAND TOOK A HIKE

Saturday, Roy and Jerry took a hike up to Blanche Lake. It's above Salt Lake City up one of the canyons. He took some beautiful pictures so I just thought I would share.

YUP, THEY'RE OURS!

For those of you who are familiar with our family, you know that our kids have no fear and are true monkeys. When they were younger, they spent hours on the roof of the shed.












I was wondering when the Grand kids would discover that they could climb up there.

Well, guess what?

They have!

PS. Look at the snow on our mountains!

GETTING READY FOR WINTER

My yard is NAKED!
All the leaves are off the trees and pretty much everything is done.

Roy and Josh are finally fixing the stove pipe for the garage stove. Wahoo, hopefully no more smoke in the house.

Josh looks so cute in his Peru hat.

JUST SOME PICTURES FROM OUR HALLOWEEN PARTY

Franklinstein

My two B's with the same birthday.

Miley J

Yummy treats.

Sheik of Aribeek

Yummy food.

Sheik Son-in-Law

Cousin fun.

LOOK WHAT MY SILLY HUSBAND DID.

He totally creeped me out. We were all waiting at the airport for him to come home from Iraq and we saw this guy come down the escalator and the kids were curious about his clothing and I explained that the men where Grandpa worked wear those kind of clothes. They asked if Grandpa ever wore those kind of clothes and I said no. Well this guy walked right by us and I looked him right in the eye and not one hint of recognition.
Well, we kept waiting and waiting and Liz turned around and started laughing and I turned around the the creepy guy was standing behind us and then it finally dawned on me that it was Roy. He'd stopped at the bathrooms and put this outfit on for a Halloween costume.
It was hilarious once we all figured it out and I could not stop laughing.

With some of us at the airport.

Meeting baby Beatrice.












We are so happy that he is home!

GETTING MORE READY

Tomorrow's the big day! My husband gets home from Iraq for 10 days. I've been cooking and baking all day to get ready for the big party. Grandpa flew in from Burbank yesterday.

The punch is made.

The witch broom treat bags are made.

The candy bowl is waiting.

Josh made it home from Nevada








Fun times to come.

GETTING READY

FOR A PARTY!

My husband is coming home from Iraq for some R & R. He gets here on Halloween day and I'm starting to get ready for my annual bash. The Grand kids are sooo excited. They're going to all go and meet him at the airport in their costumes.







The kids table.

The little boy's table.
There are 5 of them.
Note, no fancy
centerpiece for them!

I made them all Halloween "Crackers" and filled them with treats and am using them as place cards.




Wahoooo! Can't wait!!

EVER HAD ONE OF THOSE DAYS ?

So this is how my day went yesterday. I got up and got ready to go get bricks because it was knock down day for Bekah's old house and I was supposed to be there by 10:00 AM. I drove around into the field to get the trailer fighting off the horses that guard the gate and it wasn't there! I called Caleb and it was at his house so I had to drive back out of the field, fighting off the horses again, and run over to his place to get it. Of course he left the Explorer with no gas so I had to stop and get some. I finally made it out to the house and of course the guy was an hour late so I had hurried for nothing. So I took some fun pics of the kids.

Playing on the big digger thingy.


We exhumed Milly, the guinea pig, that they buried after it died last summer. Got this really cute one of Tyson playing in the trees.



The day before, Bekah and I went out to rescue windows to use as projects. I'm sooo excited because we got about 8 of them.


Then when the guy finally showed up to knock the house down he told us we had to tear out the carpet first and guess what we found under it? Yes hard wood floors!!! I was soooo bummed. If I would have known that, I would have torn them up and used them in my house but by then it was too late. Grrrrr!






Then the fun began. It was so interesting watching the guy maneuver that big machine. First he tore the bricks off the side and his helper used is little scooper thing and loaded up my trailer. Wahoooo!

After it was all down we threw some good carpet pieces onto the trailer and headed off the new house. Bekah wanted to use them in her basement for the kids to play on until they get it finished. I also needed to pick up a crib for my friend.
Half way there the carpet flew out of the trailer so I had to turn around and go back. I loaded it back in and this time covered it with bricks and headed off again.

We thought it was a good idea to drive around to the back of the house because the crib was in the basement and they have a walk out door. It's one of those big ones with built in drawers and changing table. Sooooo, I started to drive across what I thought was just a few inches of water but it ended up being about an 18 inch drop and with a trailer full of bricks, well you can guess what happened.



Yup, GOT STUCK!!!! So we spent the next hour playing in the mud and trying to get it out. No luck. Then being the brilliant girls that we are, Bekah suggested that we just pull it out with her big Yukon. DUH! I guess I'm just used to being stuck without any other option than to try and dig it out.

Well after we got it out, it wouldn't start so I spent another half an hour working on that. Now I am in another time crunch because I have to drive Emma and Neil to the airport.
I finally got out of there ( without the crib) with just enough time to get home, unhitch the trailer, run through the shower and get the kids to the airport.

After I dropped them off at the airport I had just enough time to grab some dinner and get to Alyssa's dance party. Turned out they served dinner!



That's her on the left. Isn't she cute!?!?

After that, I came home and crashed on the couch. Then Caleb's friends, Casey and Ian showed up wanting me to help them make iron on transfers for their T shirts. After helping them for an hour and finally getting rid of them I turned out all the lights and walked down the hall to go to bed and stepped in something. Yup, the dog had thrown up on the carpet.
So that was my day. How was yours?