Mid November Miscellaneous

Cam updated her profile pic on Facebook - Beautiful !
She's been able to talk with Josiah on Sundays, and has finally received his snail mail.  She is busy busy with work and wedding plans.  

Lovin' the hot tub :)

Bren's dad, Jeff Claussen died this past week, on November 14th.  He had Parkinsons, and has been slowly declining for some time.  This picture was taken in 2011 at Manda and Bren's wedding. 
Jeff leaves behind his wife Lee, and only son, Brendon.  

These girlies love to decorate Grandma's Christmas Tree.

Leaf Lady

Man, I thought I loved fall (because the mowing is done), but this leaf pickup is NOT FUN !! 

Zac is making progress on the Dog Room expansion.

I helped CJ set up some things at Morgan Merc

The boys will have their first wrestling match with North Summit next Tuesday.  Treyson, Ezra, and Luke Woolsey were voted team captains. 

Front and center is Thatcher, with his middle school choir group at Family Tree

Got a kick out of this ! 

Had to get a picture to go with it :) 

Marnie Christensen sent me this picture.  She loves Thatcher.  She's an aide at the middle school. 

 

Beautiful Fall

Chad Hawkes took this picture - with a drone? 
It has been a beautiful beautiful fall in Utah

Now that I'm retired, I've got one week before I head to AZ to help 
Amanda.  The yardmaster has put me to work ! 

New toys.........

It's coming along ! 

 

Rich Family - September (besides football)

There was the Homecoming Parade, and all three boys were on floats for football, but I didn't get any good pics :(

Tagg went on his first DATE with Aubryn Jones to the HOCO Dance.  

Good group of boys

The Yard Masters worked in the rain on Labor Day

Another Yardmaster problem.............
Weed eater WHACKED and broke a window at River Cove that needed to be replaced :(

Notice our boy in the STRANGE family pic?
Thatch hangs with Bode and the Nelson family so much, that they had him "stand in" with their family pic (haha)

Treyson with date, Gentry Criddle at the HOCO dance 

Most of these boys (all?) are on the football team. 

Treyson won a pair of Air Jordan's at a BYU football game that he went to with friends. 
Everyone was sure jealous !  It was a 1 in 1000 chance.  What luck ! 

On our way to Tagg's Manti game. 
Zac and CJ are boring car riders (haha) 

Thatcher hurt his knee/femur with a BAD bone bruise at football practice, and missed the last 3 games of the season. 

Treyson had a birthday - 18 years old

He prefers PROTEIN over Cake

And Zac also had his 42nd birthday on the 28th.
Where have the year's gone? 

 

Baby Treyson

Baby Zac

Miscellaneous happenings in August

The squash bugs killed our pumpkin and squash crop.
We lost 99% of our crop.  So disappointing.

Rog is working so hard - he is really tired at the end of the day.
It's hard with the boys back at school and football, and the bulk of the mowing falls to him. 

I'm so happy we live in such a beautiful valley as Morgan.  We are BLESSED.

I got Paris and Azula all shaved up............and then we lost baby CHA CHA (not Chi Chi).  Paris had Cha Cha, and she was poorly from the start.  Lived about a month, then died :(  We gave Cha Cha to Annette Prescott, and then decided we were going out of the goat business.  Paris and Azula headed on down the road to a good home courtesy of Steve Bell. 

We planted Giant sunflowers from last year's Giant Sunflower seeds.  They have grown so tall, and we love them !! 

The garden crop is on.  Corn, Cucumbers, Tomatoes - YUM 

I made a beautiful Apple pie.  It was delicious.  Made from apples from Mom's tree.

I'm cutting back on office work at the Assessor's office, in preparation for my retirement in October.  I've been out helping Roger (The Yard Master) - I guess you could call me  The Yard Mistress (haha).

Canning is always fun.
Roger is such a good help to me.
We did salsa, tomato juice, and sauer kraut

Aaron Venz showed us how to dry out onions ! 

Landon and Kacey went with Yvonne and Steve (their neighbors) to an island resort in the Caribbean.  They had a great time. 

Landon and Kacey's family had Lagoon season passes again

Fun times on Rattle Snake Rapids

Not sure which MLB park, or who that player was..........
But Landon was there for work I think.

Splitting some rotten wood - NO FUN

Glad the boys could help. 

Starting another project.  I think it's called, "Clean out the shed and kill the wasps and mice!"

Tagg and Thatcher still go to The Weight Room
This is Tagg's group

Zac and CJ got a Jeep Rubicon.  They plan to go on some "Jeeping" adventures.

Kelly Wilson and Haslam are going to be the new wrestling coaches this year.  Roger is talking with them after a football game. 

Treyson is a Senior, and is playing on the Defensive line

Tagg is a Sophomore, and plays the same position

Thatcher has many friends who also have older brothers who play for MHS.
They have a great time at the games watching. 

Thatcher is playing too in WFFL