Leaves are falling all around on the roof top on the ground

As we were trying to clean up all the leaves tonight Brody could not get over all the leaves falling off the tree and all of them on the ground he just kept running in them falling down in them and rolling around in them.

Then he wanted his brother with him

He thought it was pretty funny when Ray would blow them at him and he was throwing them at the same time.

He tried to get more off the tree but when it didn't work he went back to running in them.

Snow Globe.. and Snow?

The new toy. Saturday we went to Lowe's and while we were there we stopped to look at all the Christmas things, it was cool and rainy so it made it even better to be looking. I found this little snow globe and handed it to Brody he loved it his new best friend.
He played all day with that thing, it plays 11 Christmas songs over and over and over.
he studied it until I thought for sure he would be tired of it but he would not put it down
Even when he could hardly keep his eyes open he was holding it. Well worth the money. I was thinking it may have been a little to early for something like that but then we woke up to this....
Thank goodness not to much but enough for me and the middle of October.

Are you ready for Fall

We thought with the last of the warm weather we better get the yard cleaned up and get the Halloween decorations out.. Of course Brody Loves to follow his Grandpa.....
What would a lawn mow be without taking out a sprinkler.? I think we have replaced more this year than ever.. Never fear it happened again tonight
At our house Jon absolutely HATES spiders so what did we have to put out??? You got it a Great Big spider web

Ray loves the pumpkins so we line the house with those.
Brody just likes to help. After a long night of helping Grandpa get the yard ready he was just happy to hold a pumpkin.

The Utah State Fair....

After waiting for a year it was that time again the UTAH STATE FAIR.. We love to go and EAT our way through the fair Corn, Corn dogs and Fried Snickers???
We Always go and there was no getting out of it even if Mom did trip and Fall at the "BLIND CENTER"
Brody did not like the pony ride, he really wanted nothing to do with it but Grandma made him go I have waited all year, Last year they wouldn't let me tie the car seat on the pony!
So all night long Jamie had been saying how she could not wait to eat the fried snickers but we wanted to wait until Jon joined us to get one. So we get in a line that is a mile long......no joke! and when it is our turn to order they say NO MORE Snickers!!!
I really thought Jamie was going to cry.. Look at her face she really was. Then the lady at the counter says I have two left and if no one in THIS line( there was 2 lines one for ordering and one for picking up) wants one You can have it Jamie starts to jump up and down. Thank goodness no one did and she got her fried snickers...

She was the happiest girl around I think that the people waiting in the 2 lines got a bigger kick out of seeing how sad she was when she thought she would not get one and then finding out how happy she was one she did.

Colter Bay,Old Faithful, Jenny Lake and Paul Bunyon?

Over Labor day we went to Colter bay to Relax...
And see Buffalo and 2 Grizzly Bears. We, well, Mom and I saw them Ray was parking the car and Dad was trying to get out of the car... You will have to ask why there is no pictures... We were CHARGED by the two little things... Of course the Ranger was there and told us to go......... so Mom Tried to run I knew I could not run so I just stood and held my Mom's arm and told her not to run.... I think that they were just playing (the bear cubs) but the ranger made everyone very nervous. It really was a flash before your eyes kind of thing.
And the Yellow Bus
More animals
The Tetons (Yes that is snow you see.)

And play with the dead trees. Ray pulled over really fast and said "I Want to push a tree over" so he did with a little help from Mom.. they pushed and pushed and when it fell it was really loud of course Dad and I yelled TIMBER......................

They really did push the tree over.

Bronson and Kristy say GOODBYE to the Snow.

Bronson and Kristy have decided that they do not like the Snow anymore and needed to get out of it. They have moved to St George. As we were helping them move it really hit me how lucky we are to have all lived so close together and having them gone is making me sad. I am Truly greatful for my family and having such a close tie to all of them.






We love them and will miss being so close to them but know that they are having a good time living the dream that they have... Tiffany is the one that is very happy now because she only has a SHORT hour and and half drive.

Pioneer Celebration July 25th

We were lucky enought to get tickets to see the Osmonds and the Tabernacle Choir singing in the conference center. After all that had gone on we were not sure we could make it but after running to Traxx and running to the conference center we made it... haha not an easy task for me. it was also 100 that day

Here we are in the conference center all together........ oh wait one person is missing we will call him PISTOL PETE! get the clue? He had to sit outside with a few other pistol petes..
Bad picture because of the no flash rule but the Osmonds did a wonderful job and we are so happy we got to be part of this wonderful celebration they all got flowers at the end.
This picture of the Temple is something I needed at the time we feel so bad for what little baby Dax has to go through and this setting really did bring a lot of peace to all of us.
After the concert we meet up with Linda and Mike and Margie and Duane so of course we needed to get a some what family picture.