Fall Break

We went down to grandpa and grandma's for fall break this weekend. Well, just Friday and Saturday.

Grandpa's apple trees are loaded and the kids had a great time helping him pick apples and make apple juice.

Mostly Ty, he is the one that enjoys working, the other two help a little but work makes them sweat so it might hurt them.

This is the kids helping grandpa press the juice out of the apples.


We used to love these wax lips at Halloween time. Grandma bought some for the kids. Muffin thought hers were pretty cool. She wore hers most of the day.


We went out shooting the 22's on Saturday. The boys loved that. They had a great time. My oldest is taking hunter safety next month and it is about more than he can stand to start hunting. He wants to ask Santa for a .410 shotgun for Christmas, so he can start pheasant hunting with his dad and his dogs.

We are still working on form.

The guns are a little big.

While we were standing out there shooting one of my kids were saying how cool it was that grandma and granpa had the desert on one side of them and mountains on the other. The night before as I was laying in bed I had been thinking about how that was one of our favorite things about living down there as kids. My kids love going down there.


Thanks mom and dad the kids had a great time this weekend.

Take Me Out To The Ballgame

My husband has a friend that has season tickets to the Owlz games. His tickets are right behind home plate on the first row. Not that there is a bad seat there anyway. He gave us his tickets on Monday and since our daughter wasn't home we took the boy's.

They are learning a lot more about baseball, and they loved it. Our oldest sat and told me the rules the whole time as if I didn't understand what was going on. It was fun to see how much they got into it.

Hiking Fun

Today we finally got some sunshine and no rain for the first time in about 2 weeks. My husband had to work an afternoon shift so we decided to go hike the grotto trail that we promised our kids we would do last week. But we couldn't since we got rained out. Today it was perfect hiking weather.

In case you are wondering what the grotto trail is, it is this fun little trail up our canyon that is a very easy hike and at the end has this fun waterfall. It is pretty cool. I really want to take my scouts up there.

Mom & the kid's including the dogs

Dad and the kids

The waterfall

Night Before My Ride

I decided to do this in 2 posts or there would be a million pictures and a lot to say.

We went to Logan on Friday. You would think my kids have never gone anywhere before. We took them to the LDS Logan Temple,

to the Gossners Cheese factory, and then we had to hit the mall since my son's shoes decided to give out on him. We ate at Cafe Rio and then went back to our hotel so our kids could swim. We had to stay in Tremonton, since even 4 weeks ago I couldn't get a room in Logan.

My kids lounging in the hotel