Pumpkin Carving (night before Halloween)

Tagg drew a Frankenstein on one side of his pumpkin, then decided he wanted something else.  He was pretty adamant, and knew EXACTLY what he wanted.



Thatcher sitting on Treyson's HUGE pumpkin.



Before the carving started.



Now they are REALLY getting into it.  Notice Moroni in his gloves :)  He must not like the slimy GUTS that dad's have to pull out when their kids won't - haha

Thatcher tried digging his GUTS out with an ice cream scoop.

Treyson and Kaydence work well together.

Brightyn loved the noodles from my soup.  We had three different pots of soup, it was delicious.   Rolls too!!  Grandpa and Grandma D came, and also Grandpa and Grandma Ben.

Helping Pays clean his out, through a teensy tiny hole.

Zac had to keep enlarging the mouth, so that the little pumpkin could fit inside (being eaten by the big one).



This girls was ALL SMILES !



She would either say - CHEESE.............

...or TA DA !!!  over and over

Pays with his finished GHOST pumpkin.
Ooooooooooooo........

The whole Crew !! (mostly)

Ta Da - again :)   I just love this picture.

Treyson's

Tagg's

Thatcher's

Payson's
Brightyn had one too, but I guess I didn't get a picture :( 

Wrestling

We went and watched the boys wrestle last Thursday night.
It was great !  They all did so well. 

The first match, Payson and Thatcher wrestled each other.
It was intense, and fun, and there were tears, and happiness.
As a grandparent, we just want each of them to have a good time, and I think they did. 

Thatch is "ready to wrestle" !!

They had their cousins cheering them on !!

Thatcher took this photo - so cute :)

Sometimes they had to be coaxed..........

....and deals were made - bargains struck.......

Coming together to see who could "hug" the hardest........

.....and then throw the other one down :)

Fun Times

a few more tears...........

Getting enough courage to go BACK out there - ONE more time.

Ready..........

Set............

SMILE !!  

I did it Dad !!!

I knew I could :)

4 cute little boys.
Payson, Dustin Rock's son, Thatcher, and a Miebos kid

Then it was time for the bigger boys.
Tagg did really good.  He is a scrapper !
I don't have many pictures of him because my phone ran out of memory, and I had to use Roger's.

Treyson wrestled AWESOME !  Here he is wrestling a kid named Lane, who outweighed him by about 40-50 pounds.  Treyson dominated the entire time.  He has sure learned alot, and he was really aggressive, and kept him down.

Good Job Treyson ! - #2

We are glad Tagg is wrestling this year.  He is in a hard class, with John Rock's grandson, and the Pace kid (Tiffany Pentz's son), and a Venz kid.  He really gave it his all and was really aggressive.  

Go Tagg !!

Good job boys !!
Tagg is #5

New Homes !

It seems that 2015 is the year for selling and buying homes in our family.

Zac and CJ sold their home in July, and will be building next year.

Landon and Kacey just purchased this home in West Haven.  It is in a small community development just off of 2550 N and 1900 W.  I was able to visit their home last night and take a tour.  It will be a nice home for them, and they love it.  

Manda and Bren sold their rental (not this picture), and then bought a new home (see below), and are now in the process of selling their old home (see above).  I'll miss this home.  They bought it in 2011, when the market was really depressed, and are now selling for a substantial amount more due to the rising market. 

This is their new home, in a great area.  I haven't seen it in person yet (on the inside), but I'm looking forward to when we go down around Christmas.  Hopefully I won't have strep throat again !

Mostly, it's about building a fence :)

This picture was taken last week, just as the sun was setting.  This is looking west, down the North property line. Poles are ready to be cemented in.

Thatcher, ready to head to Pre-school.  Wearing his trusty patch :)

Three rugrats in the tub.  I think this is the night Landon and Kacey went to the Jazz game.

Friday I helped mom and dad in their garden a little bit.  They had it mostly done by the time I got there.  I walked over from our house with Lucky.  We found a new path, that takes us down through the corn fields, it's much quicker !

Cementing the poles started Thursday evening along the South property line, and we continued on Friday afternoon.  I carried 20 bags of Sacrete to place at each pole.  They each weigh 80 pounds.  That's 1600 pounds folks !!  Yeah Crossfit !!

Thatch just hung out.

Measuring each pole, leveling just right.

When Rog got home, he joined in the fun.  We were able to get them all in across the back of the property by Friday night when Zac and CJ had to leave for a date night with Lindsey and Moroni Wardell.  They went to a dinner and movie.

Such a good lookin' cuss :)

Saturday morning we started EARLY !  It was still pretty cold.   We started at the east side of the North line, and worked our way West.

Landon came up, and was able to move the pipe all around the perimeter.  This pipe is for the top rail, and the middle rails.  He also put out the rest of the Sacrete on the North property line, which saved my back !

We had all of the pole cemented in by about noon, then took a break for lunch, then...............

.......went down to the Property and cleaned up the chips from the stump that was removed.  It sure looks different !

I just love fall - everything looks so beautiful.  We are sure hoping that a bunch more leaves fall, and it doesn't snow, so we can go over them with the lawnmower one more time.  It makes cleanup in the Spring SO MUCH BETTER !

The garden is all put to bed, and we just finished it by spreading out the wood chips (from the stump).

Working hard.

We moved to the shop, and Tagg cleaned while Zac built a "jig".

He needs to make grooves/saddles in each of the cemented pole for the top rail to lay in, so it can be welded in place.  In order to make them all the same, he constructed a "jig", which is a pattern piece made from metal that he can slip over the top of each of the poles, that shows him just where to make the groove/saddle.

Zac had quite the audience.

Here is the finished jig.

Back to the house for relaxation and dinner.  Ironman came along ;)

This boy sure loves Grandma D's Salsa !

Sunday morning the cutting of the grooves/saddles began.

After using the jig, and cutting the grooves/saddles, the top rail fits nicely in place !
It is now Wednesday (as I post this), and all of the saddles have been cut in the cemented poles, and all of the top rail has been laid in place and is awaiting the welding.  Last night, Zac was building another jig to use on the middle rails, because each of them needs to be notched on each end.  I'm sure he will continue to work on this all week, and I think his plan is to hopefully get everything welded together by the end of next weekend.  Hopefully the weather holds !!