Halloween

Halloween this year was quite the deal.  Tracen and Lincoln could not decide what they wanted to be.  Tracen got to dress up for school and he finally decided the night before to be a vampire.  All day on Halloween Lincoln kept changing his mind.  We finally decided to dress him up as a little bit of everything.  When it was time to get dressed he was a zombie, superman, a snowboarder, a scarecrow and a cowboy.  We forgot to get any hulk on him.  Tyler was an angry bird and Jesse was a zombie.  We went and saw Grandma Bev and then ran out to the Calvary Chapel's halloween party.  It was fun for the boys to play some games.  Then we ran Tyler out to Britton's because he's 13 now and too cool for us :)  Then we went to Ann's for dinner.  I had to leave to go to Page for a conference so as soon as we got to Ann's, Mat and Deanna showed up to get me so we could ride over together.  I kissed my scary little people goodbye and ran off.  Josh was a good dad and finished out the night.  He took Jesse over to his friends...because he's also too cool for us and then took the little boys and met up with Megan and Addi and the little kids filled their candy buckets.

Tyler's birthday

For Tyler's birthday party he wanted to take a friend and go to Thriller at Tuacahn.  It was a lot of fun.  I even got a guy with a chainsaw who came up behind me and scared the crap out of me.  The kids thought that was hilarious.  Tyler loved talking to the zombies afterward.  He's such a dork.

I can't believe Tyler is 13 years old!  He is such a smart boy and so talented.  All of his teachers absolutely love him.  They all have great things to say.  He has been playing the cello for 2 years now and is doing so well.  I'm so proud of him and the young man he has turned in to.

Night vision googles

Not the best pictures ever but this is kind of what it looks like when I'm flying in the helicopter at night.

Ty's family party

We had a little family birthday party before Ty's birthday.  Leah and Lincoln were super excited to help him eat the m&ms off his cake.  He planned the cake and helped me make it.  It was very interesting.....German chocolate cake with German chocolate icing, kit kats and peanut butter m&ms on top.  It was really cute and really really rich!

Our little artist

I came home to find this on the wall the other day.  Lincoln's art work at it's best.  I left it there for Josh to see. Josh is talking to Lincoln about why he decided to draw the dinosaur on the wall instead of the paper.  Link says "it's too big to draw on a paper dad"  He says this with his arms all out and all exasperated like he doesn't understand why Josh doesn't get that. lol

Soccer Season

Both Jesse and Tracen played soccer this year.  It was Tracen's first year playing soccer and he did great.  He got into it and played and ran and I didn't have to drag him out there like we did with T-ball.  He had lots of fun.  Jesse played soccer again this year and did great!  He played hard, practiced hard and had fun.  I think that soccer is maybe his favorite sport that he has played.  Again he ended up playing against many of his friends from Cedar City so it was fun for him to be able to see them.  Jesse is number 7 in the red and Tracen is in the yellow.

Hunting

This year we had 3 deer tags during the muzzle loader hunt.  Tyler again was the only one to actually get a deer but we sure had a lot of fun riding around in the mountains and enjoying the trees.  I love the muzzle load because it's right when all the trees are turning colors.  I even went out with the boys a few times by myself when Josh had to go back to work.  One morning Link and I went out alone too.  I'm not sure what I would have done if I'd actually shot something.  I do know how to take care of the deer and I did have some rope but not a great plan for getting it into the truck by myself.  I did see a big deer that morning too but Link helped scare it off for me when he got a little upset that I hiked 5 feet out of his view.  It is possible that we weren't entirely sure where we were for an hour or two as well but we all made it out just fine! ha ha.