HAPPY HALLOWEEN

I HAVE BECOME A HALLOWEEN SCROUGE. NO DECORATIONS, NO PUMPKINS, NOTHING. BUT I DID HAVE ONE COSTUME IDEA THAT EMBRACES OUR FAMILY AND WHAT MOST OF US WOULD LIKE TO BE......

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SKI BUMS!! HA HA HA

TREES

THIS FALL JEFF FOUND A GREAT DEAL ON SOME PINE TREES, SO WE DECIDED THAT WE SHOULD PLANT A FEW BEFORE WINTER SETS IN. THEY SAY THAT FALL IS A GOOD TIME TO PLANT TREES AND WE HAD A SPOT THAT WE NEEDED TO CREATE A SCREEN SO THAT WE DONT HAVE TO LOOK AT WHAT IS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE.

SO WE PLANTED THESE:

SO WE DONT HAVE TO LOOK AT THIS:

HOPEFULLY BY NEXT YEAR OUR NEW SCREEN AND UPCOMING PLANTING AREA WILL HELP BLOCK OUT THE VIEW.
disclaimer: this post is not being posted to be mean to my neighbors, just an update on our yard and because i choose not to have to look at the neighbors. And yes, it really is a pig farm.

SOMETHING TO WORK ON

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say,

"I used everything that you gave me."

--Erma Bombeck

TOP TRUCK CHALLENGE

LAST WEEKEND WE MET BEN AND MICHELLE IN TWIN FALLS AND WE WENT TO THE TOP TRUCK CHALLENGE AT MOUNTAIN HOME. IT WAS A DAY FULL OF DIRT, MUD AND CARNEGE. IT WAS FUN TO SEE WHAT PEOPLE DO TO THIER VEHICLES JUST FOR THE HECK OF IT AND LITTLE TINY TROPHY.

CRRAAZZY!!!

CUTE PICTURE

I REALIZED THAT I MISSED BLOGGING OUR JACKSON HOLE ANNUAL FILM PREMIER. "LITE THE WICK" WAS THIS YEARS NEW TGR MOVIE. THEY EVEN RODE THE 3-D WAVE WITH THIS MOVIE. GOING TO THIS MOVIE HAS BECOME A FUN FAMILY TRADITION.

A QUICK VISIT TO UTAH

LAST WEEK I HAD A LITTLE TIME OFF AND SO I MADE A QUICK TRIP TO UTAH. I CALLED MOM AND TOLD HER THAT I WOULD BE THERE ON THURSDAY MORNING AND THAT WE WOULD BE GOING TO LUNCH AND MAYBE MAKE A QUICK TRIP TO TAIPAN. A FEW QUICK CALLS AND TEXTS MADE AND KAREN, AMANDA, DAYNA, HAILEY, MOM AND I MET AT ZUPPAS IN LAYTON FOR A YUMMY LUNCH. I FEEL VERY ASHAMED THAT I ONLY THOUGHT ABOUT TAKING PICTURES OF OUR CUTTIE HAILEY AND THAT I TOTALLY FORGOT TO GET A PICTURE OF MY MOTHER. SORRY MOM :(. WE WENT TO TAIPAN AND HAILEY WAS A TROOPER, SHE WAS TOTALLY KICKED BACKED IN HER STROLLER, BUT FINALLY SUCCOMBED TO THE SHOPPING AND FELL ASLEEP. WHAT A SWEETIE.

PUMPKIN PATCH

DAYNA SENT ME THIS CUTE PICTURE OF HAILEY THAT SHE TOOK OF HER IN A PUMPKIN PATCH IN CALIFORNIA.

CONFERENCE WEEKEND

WHAT A WEEKEND... BEN AND MICHELLE CAME UP TO SPEND CONFERENCE WEEKEND WITH US AND MICHELLE WANTED TO DO APPLES, AND SO WE DID ALMOST EVERYTHING APPLE. WE MADE APPLESAUCE, APPLE BUTTER, DRIED APPLE SLICES AND THEN MADE PEACH COBBLER, SINCE I HAD AN OVERABUNDANCE OF PEACHES. (LIKE I SAID ALMOST EVERYTHING APPLES)

BEN AND JEFF WENT UP TO BLACK CANYON IN THEIR RIGS AND WATCHED THE GUYS FROM THE 4-WHEEL DRIVE CLUB BREAK THEIR RIGS. WHILE THEY WERE GONE, MICHELLE AND I DID APPLES WHILE LISTENING TO CONFERENCE. WE ALSO MADE THESE CUTE BOWS THAT I FOUND ON A FUN BLOG. CLICK HERE FOR THE INSTRUCTIONS. WE HAD THE PERFECT IDAHO WEATHER THIS WEEKEND, NO WIND AND GREAT TEMPERATURES. WE COOKED STEAKS OUT ON GRILL WHICH HAS BEEN SOMETHING THAT WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO DO MUCH OF THIS SUMMER BECAUSE OF THE WIND.

ALL IN ALL IT WAS A VERY NICE WEEKEND.