HALLOWEEN

This year for Halloween we had the ward party the week before Halloween! It worked out pretty well my kids loved being able to get dressed up in there costumes and they had a blast. We had a trunk or treat and then we did a small carnival for the kids!! Garrett loved the fishing pond! He would have gone back again and again!

Justin was pretty excited about the cake walk. We had made about 200 cupcakes the morning of the party and I would not let him have one so he could hardly wait to win one!!

Garrett loved his Mickey Mouse costume, he could not get over the fact that it made him fat! Justin wanted to be Batman!

This year Mike searched and searched for a cool design to use for carving the pumpkins but he could not find anything that he wanted so we just let the kids design there own!

Garrett wasn't really into carving his pumpkin he really just wanted Mike to do it for him!

On Halloween night we went to trick or treating to all of our families. The kids had a great time and got lots of candy that neither one of them really ate.

It's Shark!!!

If you know Mike you know that he rarely goes anywhere with out his Leatherman on his belt! Garrett is fascinated with it. You could often find Garrett trying to open the case to get it out and play with it especially when it was not on Mike's hip because he knew he would have a better chance of getting away with playing with it! One night Mike and I were shopping and found a mini Leatherman we knew Garrett would love. We modified it a little by making both the blades that were knives dull. Garrett loved his new Leatherman especially when he got to go to work with Mike because that is where you should use it. Mike's boss must have said something to him about the it being sharp because one day he came home and told me "Mom you have to be careful it is shark you might cut your finger!!" I love this little boy so much he makes me laugh. There is definitely never a dull moment with him around!!

Garrett's First Trip to the Dentist

Garrett had his first visit with the dentist yesterday. He did pretty good. He thought he would do a lot worse so I went prepared with a little bribery. Thank goodness I did. I had to use it. Justin went first and we let Garrett watch him and then it was Garrett's turn. He climbed up into the chair everything was fine until she laid the chair back and asked him to slide his head up onto the chairs pillow. He started to cry. So I pulled out the little gun I had bought him and opened it. Everything was not alright in the world for him but he tolerated it. I didn't even think he would let them touch him, so I was pretty proud of him. (I took some picture of Justin but I was so busy trying to keep Garrett happy that I forgot to take pictures of him.

Neither Justin or Garrett had any Cavities!! Hurray!!

RELAXING

We spent this past weekend in the mountains near Strawberry Reservoir. We had a great time! Because of my recent surgery it was the most relaxing camping trip I think that I have ever been on. My dear sweet neighbors and my sweet husband did all of the work and when I say all of the work I mean all of the work. The only thing they let me do was dry the dishes one morning. I felt really bad that they went to so much work so that I could rest but we did have a great time!

There was a little stream right in our camping area that the kids decided to play in on Saturday afternoon, I did step my feet in and that was all I could tolerate of the ice cold water. However the kids didn't seem to care they played in it for a few hours. There was part of a dam already there so Mike helped the kids to make it bigger and better. Sometimes I wonder who is the bigger kid? Some of us went for a 4-wheeler ride, and on Saturday night we all went to Strawberry for some fishing and to catch some crawdads.

The dirt was so fine this is what the kids looked like after playing in it for just a little while!

The water was so cold that Garrett wanted to play in it but he couldn't take the cold he would put his feet in it and cry.

All the kids playing in the water!


Garrett doing one of his favorite things! Playing in the dirt. I think his motto is "The dirtier the better!"

Little Buckaroo Rodeo

Garrett had such a good time at the Little Buckaroo Rodeo this year at the Summit County Fair. He got to do all of his favorite things while we were at the fair this year. He loved riding the 4-wheeler with Mike while they raked around the barrels and poles.

He got to ride a sheep! I don't know if he loved it but he didn't cry for very long after he fell off!
He got to ride his stick horse around the barrels. His horse must have been out of control because instead of riding around the barrels his stick horse took off past the barrels clear to the other end of the arena!



By the time Mike caught up to him to get him to come back it must have embarrassed him because he started to cry.

Just a cute picture of Garrett and Jonathon after they had run the stick horse barrels!

Whitney Reservoir

We decided to try to take our annual ride into the Whitney Reservoir. Justin was super excited to go so that he could spend the day fishing. When we left Heber the weather was super nice. It was a beautiful day, by the time that we started into our ride it was cloudy and overcast. When we arrived at the Whitney it had started to rain on us. We did not have great luck fishing because of the bad weather but we had fun anyway.

Garrett got a little tired of fishing and decided that it was a lot more fun to play with the stick!

The Carousel

We had a few tokens to the Carousel at the Zermatt that we had to use by the 30th so we took the kids over and had lunch, and then rode the carousel a couple of times. The kids loved it! After we went to the Wasatch Mountain State Park to feed the duck and play at the park. A good time was had by all!

Justin did not think that he would be able to do the monkey bars at the park but with a little encouragement he did it and he did a great job!