A day remembered

7am - phone call, panic, what !?!? ambulance, worry

10am - hospital, reassurance, we can do this, so tiny, so still, worry, prayer

12 noon - worry, no word, where is the ultrasound tech?!?!, so tiny, so still, blessing

3pm - worsening, panic, prayers!!, life flight, worry, driving, reassuring

7pm - heart, operation, serious, fixable, worry, take a breath

9pm - unstable, crashing, trying, working, ...........gone, our angel baby

9:30 pm - phone call, NO !!?!?, reassuring, we can do this, everything will be okay

A look back on Octobers past...........

Every once in awhile I like to take a look back through the years.........

Here is this year - 2019
Family Deer Hunt picture

I just happened to come upon this one taken in 2017
Who is that TALL boy who has changed the most ??

Made me want to look back FURTHER in my October files

2016 - a year we will always remember
New Baby Tenzin......... Oh the blessed sweet 11 days we had with him.

2015 - Annual Pumpkin Carving with the Wardells, and if you look close you will see Pays and Bright too !

2014 - Another Pumpkin Carving

2013 - Pays and Kacey
Stopped by at my office during the annual Library Trick or Treat walk

2012  - LOVE LOVE LOVE this pic -
Payson - 8 months old
Such a BRUISER!!!

2011
Vampires and Witches and Ghosts
OH MY !!
They were living at Grandma and Grandpa D's old home at this point. 

2010 - Black Island Farm 

2009
Landon just BARELY home from his mission with Treyson and Tagg

2008
New Home Owners - in RICHVILLE !!
Almost ready to move in. 

2007 - CJ's first? Deer
She is pregnant with Tagg
(btw, she got another one TODAY - I'll post pictures another time) 

2006
Camalama
Happy Halloween :)
Look at the TV in the background
I see a St. Louis Cardinal logo  - must be World Series Time

2005
Three Generations
Cam, Manda, and Me
The only thing left of the furniture in this picture is Roger's chair which he refuses to part with. 

2004 - 5 months old
Just moved back from Arizona to live with us
Such a special time. 

2003
Another hunting picture in the shed at my dad's old house.
Mark (my brother, Roger, Zac (is it his deer?), Richard Brown, and.... maybe Richard's kid
Look at all of the garden produce in the background. 

2002
These were the days!
A BUNCH of boys in our basement playing X-box, having a grand old time.
Colton Winchester, Jake Blomquist, Landon, with Michael Rose on the floor

2001
The Bettinson Bunch
18 years ago........

Such a FUN TRIP down Memory Lane :)

Deer Hunt 2019

We had a wonderful morning up at Round Valley last Saturday.  We met at the shop at 6am, then headed up.  Zac and family hit a deer on Hwy 66 with their General.  Killed the deer, and did alot of damage to the General :(   When we got out into the range, they (Zac, Tagg, Landon) started hiking up the backside of Twin Peaks while it was still dark.   We moved around to the lookout point, and eventually drove down into Little Grove.  It was cold before the sun made an appearance, but by walking we were able to keep our feet warm.  When the sun came out, it was pleasant.  The mighty hiker hunters, hiked down into Little Grove.  No luck on the deer front, even with their trusty brusher (Tagg).   We moved back up to the lookout point, and glassed the front of Twin Peaks, but still no deer!.  We sent Tagg and Thatcher to brush down off the hill, as we drove down lower.  Still no deer.  We drove out of the range by 12:30, just as the storm clouds were moving in.  It was a great day to be together as a family.  Sure hope Kacey and the kids can come next time.

Fall Days

They re-homed them down near the creek at the Property

Football pics

The Season is DONE

Our orange compressor is no more..........
Zac has painted it BLACK and GREY

Breaking open Geodes......

Practicing up for the hunt.  This practice was kind of a BUST.  Zac only had a half dozen shells, then someone in the field we were shooting towards, started walking in that field...........so they quit.  

Not before Grandma got a pic though

And a few more pics - for my wall

These boys are growing !!

How do you like the STEPS/Shelf combo?  

They still need railings before mom will let them sleep there though.

October fun for the Rich Family

Not sure where this is.............probably Black Island Farms?
Fun times for Fall Break. 

Looks like a Ranger Ride to me !

Fun with Friends up on the mountains near the Radar Towers up Farmington, Utah. 

Great times at Grandma Carol's annual Halloween Party
The boys..........

.....and the girls

Entirely TOO much fun going on :)

This is last month, for Homecoming.
Josiah and Cam had a great time.
We can't wait to meet him - one week from today. 

This is his little brother, what a cutie. 

Their FRIEND group from Homecoming

And the girlies........

Another night out with friends, celebrating a birthday

Hello !

Cam sent us a text last night about 10:30 as we were heading to bed.  She is so sweet to us, and always tries to keep in touch, and we really appreciate it.