It is amazing what a little food coloring will do to breakfast...

North Logan Pumpkin Walk

It has been fun to move to a new town and create some fun traditions together. We have heard so much about the Logan Pumpkin Walk from several people. We thought we would join our other Loganite neighbors the Millers and walk with the pumpkins. I was amazed at how much time and effort was put into this production. These were some of our favorites.



The kids also had a good time putting their faces on these characters. They got a kick out of it. We will certainly revisit next year.

Girly Girls night

This week I got to go to Salt Lake to spend some time with some of my favorite girls. Tori got us all together to see the Odddesy Dance company's "Thriller" ( to see the promo video go here) It was so good. In the opening performance I had chills. It was so amazing. When it was all over I could have watched it over and over again. I am definitely going again next year.

I spent the night with Steven and Kari. They recently bought the Beatles Rock Band so we jamed out for a few numbers then totally crashed.

The next morning my mom and I took the kids to Gardner Village to see the witches. We bought some really yummy cookies, and did a little window shopping.



I had a really hard time leaving. I love to spend time with the girly girls.

Happy Haunting

Booty shakeolicious...

Since Brad and Claire’s G-mas, G-pas, aunts, uncles, and cousins live too far away to randomly come over during our wild dance party nights, I had to post these videos so they could bust a move with them. Wish you could have been here.
I just want to know which one of you educated Claire on the booty shake???

GNO Witchy Style

Last Friday Randy volunteered to keep the kiddo's so I could go to a GNO in our neighborhood. It was fun to cackle, call each other witchy names, eat chocolate, and share a broomstick with some wonderful witches.

Thanks Leslie for a great evening.

Happy hour...

Bath time always makes my kids happy. No matter what mood they are in.

A priceless gift

Randy is impossible to surprise. In the 12 years I have known him I have only surprised him once. He always catches on when I try to pull the wool over his eyes. Keeping things disclosed even his feelings is quite a task for him.
Not only is it difficult to keep things from him, he can’t keep things to himself either. I always get my birthday, Christmas, and anniversary gifts well in advance. He can’t stand to keep the surprise from me.
Needless to say I was not shocked that I got my anniversary gift one whole month in advance. Even though it was early I was SURPRISED!!!




He printed my blog from last year into BOOK. I can’t believe that I wrote a book. I was so thrilled to hold the hard bound copy of MY writings in MY hands. All 183 pages. English was my WORST subject in school so this is quite an accomplishment for me. Obviously it is not published and there is not a soul who would want to buy a copy, but I will cherish it because it is mine and I am proud.

Thank you Randy…it’s a perfect gift. (Even if it came a little early)

We got snow.

Brad sampling the first snowflakes of the fall.



We keep telling people how much we love Cache Valley…

…that is we loved cache valley all summer.

We have not experienced a winter yet.

I hear they are pretty intense this far North.

Good thing I love the snow.

I have a house of sickies

Our family has dodged sickness for quite some time. We were long overdue for serious illness. Brad was the first one to get sick last Tuesday. He came home from the babysitter feeling crummy. That night he had really high fevers that made me nervous. We took him to a doctor and he said he had respiratory influenza. We stocked up on medicine and settled in for some serious isolation. That night his fever spiked to 105.1. I was terrified. Even though I have worked as a nurse in a pediatric hospital, I still felt helpless and frightened. I had to seriously fight the urge to rush him to a hospital. I had to keep telling myself that there was nothing they could do at this point. I had been vigilant with fluids so I knew he was not dehydrated and his breathing was adequate. He was not having seizures. It was hard to sit there and wait. After what seemed like hours his fever broke and I was able to breathe again.


Claire started to get sick on Saturday. She was miserable. She just wanted to be held and snuggled.
We had made plans earlier for my parents to come and spend conference weekend. They still wanted to come for which I was very grateful. My mom made her famous rolls which made us all feel better. Randy went Elk hunting with his dad over the weekend and came home Sunday night with a high fever and chills. He looked terrible. I was fine until this morning. I feel crummy with a fever.

Hope this all ends soon so Brad can go back to school and Randy and I won’t have to use up ALL our vacation time on sickness