Our Labor Day Saturday

Today we got up and got the house in order.......er sorda. Then we decided to go for a little 4-wheelin ride. Sam didn't want to go so Me, Kurtis, Mike, and Steph loaded up and went up behind the golf course. It was fun but VERY HOT! We were sweating so bad under our helmets. It is also hard to find good shade up there. At one point the trail got a little steeper than Mike was comfortable with so I took my 4-wheeler up and walked back down to take her up on her 4-wheeler. As I was walking back down the trail my legs slipped out from under me and BAM I went smack down on my butt. My hand caught my fall though and boy does my wrist hurt now, but I have to say myself it was a hilarious fall....I give it a 10!

Later that day we took the girls out to see where supposedly the fault line is here in town. I'm just glad we didn't have an earthquake while we were there!

Johns Birthday

Friday me, Steph and Kurtis took my mom and John out to dinner for Johns birthday. We couldn't decide where to go so we let Steph pick the place. Her choices were the T-bone or Cracker Barrel. She almost chose the T-bone because it was closer, and for those of you who know Steph...well she doesn't like to travel. But she decided on the Cracker Barrel because it was newer. Sam didn't go because she had a school dance, then after the dance her and Maddie hung out at our house and watched a movie and ate chinese food that Patricia went and got for them. Thanks Maddie and Patricia for taking care of my Sammie! Mike went to Springville with us but went to Mapleton to hang out with her EFY friends. One friend had just come up from California. But anyway....Happy Birthday John.

Faculty Party

Nebo View Elementary School had a fun faculty Party for families on Monday out to Paula Batemans home in Levan. She has such an awesome backyard and Paula is such a party girl. We had a yummy dinner with chicken and beef, and lots of salads and deserts. All the kids got to dig for quarters in the sand and do treasusre hunts. They were all broke up into different age groops and sent to different corners. They had so much fun digging for quarters.

Here is Steph and Shelby with their big finds.

Here is Michaela and Makayla with their little finds. HAHAHAH Sorry Mike can't fill a gas tank yet. Keep working on it.

Me and Kurtis did a little skeet shooting. How fun to have a back yard that you can just shoot out of your yard and not worry about neighbors behind you. And "no" I didn't hit the clay pigion. I gave it a good try though! Kurtis did. Guess when grocery prices get to high to bare, I will send him out for a pigion.

The kids played sand volley ball too. Sam and Mike had fun.

Hit the ball Mike!

It really was a fun party. A big thanks to you Paula!

Baby Blessing

On Sunday we went to a baby blessing for Gavin Scott Foger. He is the baby boy of Lindsey and Scott Foger. Gavin is Me and Kurtis' great nephew.

It was a very nice baby blessing and Scott gave Gavin a wonderful blessing. We had a nice luncheon afterwards.


Mike helped Becky with the food.

Sam and Steph played with all the kids.

The kids kept sneaking the food.

Steph read books to the kids.

Steph and Kloie had a good time.

The lunch was very good. Food is always good to me when I don't have to cook it!


Everyone took their turn holding Gavin. He was so cute! Melba and Steph are having their turn.


Every one waiting for their turn! Long wait!


Sam finaly got her turn. She loves babies!

After we ate all the kids were (including mine) were having a great time on the playground.




It was a very nice day. A great time to enjoy the small miracles of life!

Girls Day and Campout Weekend

Well me and the girls finally got to have our girls weekend. We have been doing this for about 7 years now. We take a day when school gets out and spend it up the canyon doing all kinds of fun things. This year we got a bonus! We got to use our trailer for girls day. We had a lot of fun. We actually went up on a Thursday night after I got done with our enrichment meeting up the canyon and while I was at that meeting Kurtis took our trailer up and got it all set up. When my meeting was done we all went and stayed the night. Kurtis left for work at 4:30 in the morning from there and so when me and the girls woke up we started our girls day.

Here is our campsite.

We started off by doing magnets. We thought that would be fun to do so the girls could use them in their lockers for school.

While making our magnets (thanks to our enrichment meeting the night before) we played a game called family fun time. It kept us talking the whole time and laughing. (Thanks for the great idea Michelle!)

Then are legs were getting a little cramping from sitting there so we went on a little walk. It was so amazing and terrifying to see all the massive destruction from the fire just a year ago. But also such an awesome feeling to see all the greenery making its way back. Our campsite was one of the many that the fires ripped through.

Then of course after are little nature walk it was lunch time! Sandwiches and of course my all time favorite........chips and dip!

Then we worked on some picture frames, and easels. Some were painted and some were crafted with scrap paper.

Then came time for the girls most favorite thing.......PLAYING IN THE CREEK!

I told the girls that I would love to go sit in the creek! So....here is my idea of sitting in the creek! Although I did get sunburned knees.......not legs...just knees! Go figure.

This is Steph jumping in the water off a log. Look at Mike's face! I get a kick out of this one!

We decided we needed to be some sort of gang while up there so we called our self's the sun glass gang. Aren't we some cool chicks! HAHAHAHAHA

We had some great times in the water. It's amazing how much fun a creek holds. Expecially when Sam and Steph spotted a water snake. (I think I had the most fun watching them while they did all the screaming). But then our girls day had to end. We had to run Mike down the canyon to go to a party with some friends. So we left our site for a while until she got off to her party. (She didn't get back up to the campsite till after 12:00)

So the rest of us went back up the canyon (including Kurtis) to now just have a family camp out. We roasted hot dogs (cheating I might add) and ate .....yes my all time favorite chips and dip with the hot dogs. We left most of our hot dog sticks back home so we cooked them one at a time. Now that's a way to draw out the dinner.

Then after awhile Kurtis headed on back down into town to pick Mike up and bring her back (and to feed our poor lonely cat). While he did that me and the girls settled down for bed. In the morning when we are camping (usually on a Saturday) we always have what we call a BIG BREAKFAST. We cook hash browns, bacon, and scrambled eggs on our grill. It's not really a big breakfast, but it is when your used to cereal and such. (I'm not much of a cook unless I am camping, then I love too.) So here we are cooking our hash browns (which take forever). And by the time the whole breakfast is done, everything is usually cold......but hey..it sure tastes good!

Mike was wore out from her big party, so Sam and Steph enjoyed a game of life. It's funny to watch them play because they make up their own rules as they go along. So, while they enjoyed that I did something I swore I was not going to do.......I read "TWILIGHT" and yes I did enjoy it. I can't wait to read the next one. I finished this one in one day! Go figure.

Later that evening we did a dutch oven dinner. We did potatoes and yes of course...squash from the garden, and hamburger. It was good. I am beginning to think that we are not very healthy eaters when we are camping.......ahhhh but that's one of the joys of camping i think!

The girls headed back down to the creek while we were cooking dinner and tried to build a dam....well..they called it a waterfall....but .....I'll I could see was a little dam. But whatever it was they had fun building it and it was nice to see them work together for a change!

Then when it got dark we all settled down (girls in pj's) to watch a movie. We watched RV....that is until the generator ran out of gas...ooops.... sorry.... movie is over! Time to go to bed. So we did we went to bed.

We got up early the next morning and headed on down out of the canyon. We had a baby blessing to be to in Orem. It was sad to end the trip, but hopefully we can get a few more in before winter decides to visit us.