September 2012

 We started our month out with a camping trip to

Clinton Lake!

It was our first time camping with Rae

and she did fabulous :)

We went with our stake and Madi was more
than thrilled that all her "big sisters"
would be there to play with!

Rae really enjoyed the chocolate and marshmellow

part of the evening :)

Poor Trev, I totally blinded him with the flash!

Here are a few of our friends from

other wards.

Stephanie and Sarah are in the same ward

and Roseanne and I are in the same ward as well.

We had a few other friends from another one, 

but they weren't so sure since it

had been raining earlier in the day.

In the above picture you can see that my hair

magically grew 18 inches!

I decided to get hair extentions

while I was going through the awkward 

stage of growing out my hair.

I loved them!

The next morning we went down to the lake

and were saddened but how gross

the beach was.

There were dead fish up on the mud on one side.

We found a decent spot and the kids clearly didn't mind at all.

Trevor and I decided to leave

and luckily on our drive out we found

the REAL beach and called our friends over!

Here is Wyatt, Madi and Raelee 

either playing house or dinosaurs!

(That is what they always choose to play)

Here is one of my bestest buds out here,

Roseanne and I soaking up some rays!

We didn't want to miss the Huff 'n Puff

this year,

so after camping we got washed up,

picked up a pizza and headed down

to Lake Shawnee for the hot air balloons!

We are so glad we didn't skip out this year!

We had so much fun and enjoyed getting

to know Dave and Holly a little better.

They had just moved in to start their first year

of school.

Dave and Holly

On September 11 

we got together with our fellow

JRC members, as well as local fire fighters, cops and paramedics

 at the local food pantry.

We were able to tour all 

the different vehicles and learn more about what they do.

Afterwards we had a little pow-wow 

taught by the food pantry and one of my good friends Renee,

who works for the red cross!

The girls riding on a real bike!

Hopefully we never have to take a real ride

in one of these!

Madi, Wyatt and Rylee.

Madi and Wyatt on the firetruck!

This is where everyone started up the service project.

They had an amazing line up and got so much done!

What they did was fill backpacks with food

to send home with kids over the weekend

that wouldn't get enough food.

It was a really cool experience to see all these

guys working together for an amazing cause.

There is Trevor in the green striped shirt in the middle!

It was SO hot in there, I felt horrible for these guys.

We left feeling very blessed for what we do have,

and were happy to teach Madison

a great lesson and showing her 

how to help serve others!

My friend Roseanne had a birthday this month!

AND she also found out the sex of her baby

ON her birthday!

Talk about a sweet gift.

Well, technically she had the tech text our

other friend so she could make a cake

with either blue or pink inside

and THEN she would find out what she is having!

Great idea right?

Someday I will probably have to steal this idea!

We played a bunch of games guessing what she was going

to have.

We also tried mixing up weird names

to name their baby.

It was hilarious and such

a fun way to celebrate her birthday!

Here she is with her hubby Zach and son Wyatt.

We are singing just before she finds out!

And it's another boy!!

Zach was right!

We are so excited!!!

Camping again!

We seriously went camping every weekend

this month.

It was fabulous!

This time it was just our little family.

Here is daddy cooking us some incredibly delicious

breakfast.

These two were happy as clams just

digging away at that dirt!

Here was our view of Lake Perry

Trevor and I were kept up all night

by a raccoon and a skunk! 

They kept coming right up to our tent

and we were so nervous they were going to get into

a fight and we would get sprayed!

Luckily the only bad thing that happened was

just a little lack of sleep!

Heading down to skip some rocks.

This NASTY spider we found was only a few feet from our tent!

Can you imagine if that thing got inside.

YUCK!!

I LOVE HER LIPS!

Not only does she give great kisses,

she makes the cutest faces!

My sweet baby dolls!

I did it all alone this year,

but I was determined to put up some peaches!
I chatted on the phone with my Grandpa so it was
 like he was here right?

They weren't as good as our regular Brigham City 

peaches, but they worked :)

Someone enjoyed a little alfredo

while watchin' mama work!

In the middle of waiting for my bottles

to finish boiling out back,

Trevor came dashing into the house

with the most terrified look on his face.

The girls were at the table eating and

he sternly insisted I go out front with him.

He had been mowing our front yard

( out here you have to do it TWICE a week cause it grows like crazy )

and the grass was extra long this time.

As he was going along he all the sudden heard

screeching and a bunch of little creatures scatter

from the mower.

He instantly killed the mower and observed

a tiny burrow in the middle of the yard!

It wasn't even a HOLE, 

just some dirt scootched to the side with

grass laid down in the bottom.

There was still one tiny bunny inside,

thankfully alive!

Together we looked all over and found three,

we did find a fourth hiding behind the tire of his car
 after the picture was taken.

I made a few phone calls and was instructed to

place the bunnies back in the burrow

and cover them back up with the grass and place

an X with yarn over the top so we knew if the mother

had come back.

The mother only comes at dusk and dawn to feed

so we had to wait till morning.

She came and luckily these little guys

grew and were big enough to go out on their own

just after a week!

The girls had fun going out every morning

to see if they were still there.

Poor Madi was sad when they were gone,

she really wanted to keep them as her own!

We went with Roseanne and Wyatt to the nearby fruit

farm for apple slushes and cider donuts!

Madison wanted to make her

own birthday card for Granny Tanny this year!

I loved it!

She drew Grandma as a queen!

She also wrote a get well card 

for Grandpa.

He had a horrible kidney stone.

The picture shows Grandpa in bed and Grandma

and Madi are there serving him cookie soup!!

Grandpa and Madi have a thing with cookies :)

One morning during breakfast we noticed some 

hot air balloons passing through our backyard!

Great way to start our morning and end our month!!