Mountain Man

This summer my Dad moved up to his Mountain Home up Parley's Canyon. He is going to live their year round and will have to snowmobile in and out during the winter. He has pretty much made the place self sustaining. It has emergency water, power, food storage. Greg is so jealous, I think he would move there in a heart beat!

Dad got this ski lift from snowbird and made it into a porch swing. The girls loved it!
We went on a "walk" which turned into a pretty big hike but it is so beautiful up there and the kids made it the entire way (with only minimal whining!) I do love it up there but honey... I think we have to be city dwellers a little longer!

Scarecrow Festival

Greg had a day off on Friday so we took the kids and met my Mom and Grandma at the Scarecrow Festival. It was such a beautiful day!

My cousin Kenny's kids Kenelle and Steele came with Grandma.

The kids favorite part were the helicopters that landed and took off.
They got to sit in one and talk to the pilot.

Last weekend we were just working in the yard enjoying the good weather and the girls decided they wanted to ride bikes. We have been trying to talk Katie into taking the training wheels of her bike and learning to ride it but she's been to scared. She finally gave in and let us try it. We were out there forever and no such luck this time around... maybe in the spring!

Of course Brielle wanted to try also... truth be told I think she could have done it if we spent a little mroe time with her. I just can't let the little sister do it before Katie! Besides I think she would hurt herself because she doesnt pay attention and would run into everything, I don't need any more trips to the emergency room this year!

Greg was working all weekend at the Home and Garden show and so me the girls made treats for some neighbors... well the girls ate the treats anyway

We also picked all our grapes and made grape juice. YUMMY!!! I love eating things that we have grown, since my Garden froze and all my tomatoes got ruined... this is all I have!!!

Pumpkin Patch

HaPPy BiRThDaY to YOU!!

Its nice having Greg and my birthday's so close together. We are always gone for Greg's birthday every year because he always wants to go to the bug show. This year though Cherese helped me make his favorite cake (German Chocolate) from scratch... It turned out OK but would have been better if we didnt have to eat it at noon so we could get on the road to come home.
Happy Birthday! I hope you had a fun trip and nap in the car while I drove the entire 6 hours home...!! Love ya!!!!

Sunny Trip Part 2: Vegas

For the second part of our vacation we headed to Vegas to see Greg's brother Brent and go to the VW Bug show.
We haven't been to the strip in years because we always just stay with Brent but we thought it would be fun for the kids so we went to the Bellagio gardens and to Caesars Palace.

Saturday was the VW bug show... The last few years they moved it to this really nice outdoor mall so the boys get to look at bugs for hours and the girls get to go shopping and play at a really fun park. Fun for everyone.

So heres the delima. Greg has been wanting an orange bug forever, but lately both of us are really liking this really pretty brown that we saw at the show.... which do you think he should paint his bug???

Sunny Trip Part 1: St George

Anytime the weather report forcasts cold weather we can't wait to get out of town. So this weekend we went to St George and then on to Vegas (more about that later)
We always love to hike up and around the DIXIE. The girls loved the narrows and our entire family made it through.

Then we went to check on Greg's bug. "Big Mike" as he is affectionately called has been working on it for a few months and the pan is all together and so Greg really wanted to go for a ride.

The body is having a little more difficulty. When Greg bought it he thought it was an original ragtop, semifore but I guess both those had been cut in later and done poorly. Then it had been hit both on the front and back. So Mike has his work cut out for him to make it perfect! He says it will be done the end of Oct... we'll see! Poor Greg but at least its getting worked on... its been sitting in our garage for 5 years.