Troy and Katie

What a cold beautiful day for a wedding. They're married! WOOHOO! I am so estatic to have Katie finally join our family. I like to officially welcome you to the family. I just threw together some pictures for your enjoyment.

Fall Fun

After a delicious Sunday dinner at my parents house the kids went outside and rolled around in the leaves. I loved it when leaves fell out our house growing up. With my kids playing in them it sure brings back a lot of memories. Here are just a few fun pictures with the kids in the fallen leaves.

Double, double toil and trouble;

fire burn and cauldron bubble.- - - Shakespeare "Macbeth"

We had such a blast with our 2nd annual trip, with our good friends The Collins family, to see the Witches at Gardner Village. This year we ended up having a delicious soup made by Petra. We ate them in bread bowls. It was sooooo good.

We had fun taking our pictures by the witches.....But where oh where was Kiss the Cook witch?

Instead of going for Hot Chocolate afterwards we went to Maceys and had ice-cream.

Fall Recess.....aka UEA break!

Timberlakes 2009

Thank you Janice for inviting us to go make wonderful memories again. For those of you that don't know where Timberlakes is, it is over by Heber. When we finally arrived to this place of Heaven we were unable to pull all the way up into the driveway up by the cabin. We had to park at the top and chop a big Aspen tree that had fallen across the driveway. Janice, my parents, and my family were the first to arrive. Corey got to work at chopping away at the tree. Braxton and Tayden were being great helpers on moving cut off pieces to the side. Everyone was working so hard to get it all moved. Clarissa supervised while eating snow.

One of our favorite things to do is go for lots of hikes. We were able to see quite a few moose this year. We saw lots of deer too but the moose are not always there when we have gone up.

Friday afternoon Corey and I were able to sneak away and go on a hike in the afternoon with just the two of us. The main road we decided to go up was all Uphill. We kept thinking we would stop but then kept saying "let's just go up by that spot up there." Next thing we knew we were are the end of the road. It was beautiful up there.

Feeding chipmunks from our hands was something that everyone wanted to try and do. At one point I was outside and got scared to death because I was paying attention to something else when I felt something run over my foot. It was only a chipmunk but it still took me a few minutes to calm down. And yes more moose. Just beware, if you are by me and a moose starts coming our way, Your life may not be spared. You may sacrifice your life for me......not on purpose either. If you want to see a reinactment you will have to ask me to do it for you. lol (Sorry Kyler).

Hanging out at the cabin. I am sure the chipmunks are plenty stocked now after our visit.

More hiking while the men were gone to the priesthood session of conference. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.

More hiking, some modeling, and some goofiness. (I did not know my sil Sheri was behind me making a face while taking this picture).

Hanging out while the men were gone. (Sorry Braxton, you are not quite there yet). We popped popcorn on the stove top so we could have our Traditional Conference Caramel Popcorn.

The last day we were there it was raining....no snowing....no wait there was blue sky. O.k. so we had all of that. It was freezing. My niece Alexia and I were outside deer watching and decided we were really cold and try to huddle up to stay warm. Janice made a wonderful Chicken crockpot dinner for Sunday lunch. There was good food and fun EVERYDAY!

Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end.