Carson playing Flag Football—go 49ers

So far we have done soccer, now it is flag football.  He sure loves sports and living here has given us the chance to explore so many avenues for our kids.  We go to high school football games,  lots of concerts and performance by the kids, and many more to come.

This last weekend while Utah was having the major fire in Herriman, we had our own fire by the Windmill Farms..it closed the freeway and the interstate down for a few hours which is major because we are the main hub area for the semis.

Flaming Gorge with friends

So to say goodbye to the summer and welcome the fall season, we headed to Flaming Gorge with Jenny and her family.  We loaded all the kids up and headed down.  The trailers and campers were all leaving which left us a little concerned just because it was a balmy 58*.  When we got to the lake it was about 65*, the water was warmer then the air.  It was an awesome and amazing day.  I still have a roll of film in the camera I forgot to develop but these are from my camera.

 

All the kids got in the water and all went tubing.  Bryan wasn’t a big fan of it, but he tried it.  It was so much fun.  They jumped off of cliffs and stretched their barriers…….I even let my babies on the tubes, they had a great time.

Small Town Life..

It seems that time does not go slow in a small town..it goes by very fast. We have been very busy. I have been working a lot at walmart, busy trying to get my quilting bussiness going by working on my website creatingmemoriesbyu.com Carson has started flag football, it seems like the whole town does sports. In august we took a small family vacation to Idaho. It was fun we visited the Minnetonka caves by Bear lake



We stayed at a cabin in Montpelier, it was lots of fun....


We went to Soda Springs..The kids decided they didn't like the natural carbonated water. They did think the gyser in the middle of town was pretty cool



So much fun we had...

My Boys

so today while watching the kids play I was watching my two boys.  One who is very tall, a spitting image of his father, a gamer, easy going and gentle, and a mama’s boy.  And then my other one who is very dark complexion, very competitive, also shy, a quick temper, yet lovable, and a daddy’s boy.  Yet they both come from the same parents and yet so different but they love each other and make their personalities work.  I took some pictures to portrait my thoughts.  To my two sweet boys who will forever be brothers together.

Piedmont experience

So today Daniel and Suzy came from Ogden to spend the night so I thought it would be fun to go somewhere new or in this case old.  We stopped and got some water and treats and headed out of town.  The clouds were building up and the thunder and lightning was getting stronger in the direction we wanted to go.  After taking the wrong exit, then missing the right exit we turned around and found the dirt road to our destination.  The kids were a little concerned about the rain coming and especially the lightning.  Our first encounter was with a badger, the kids thought he was way cool, but a little ugly.  After a 10 min ride on the dirt road with me thinking  “if I get a flat tire, who would come out and help us???”  Finally arriving at the kilns, the kids thought it was cool.     They found some different animals,      bats, dead bats, almost dead bats, a little bird.      The kilns were interesting           then we headed up to the town, or the remnants of the town, there more animals, a bunny rabbit and a big dead bird.   The rain came in bits, but we had fun and enjoyed the adventure and yes, we did make it home safely.