Our life lately

Look at the cute adorable cheesy sweetheart of the front left !!
Bexlee is loving Preschool with Miss Sophie :)

Landon had an operation on his nose to fix a deviated septum.  He finally got the stent out yesterday, and is feeling great and breathing SO MUCH BETTER !  Yeah !

Easton Croxford and Thatcher after their game last week.  They are good friends :)

Treyson getting ready for the Homecoming Dance.  Had to have Uncle Aaron help him tie his tie !  

Thatcher helped me pick up the light along side of the road down to the Property.  I drove slow, and he leaned out and picked them up on the go !  

Treyson with his date.  they had a great time.  

Thanks to Bishop Fawson, Rhonda Carter, the Toone Family, and the 5th ward Priests and Teachers, we got 200 bales of grass hay hauled and put in the barn in no time !!  We are truly blessed.  Roger was sure worried, because he's 63, Zac was recovering from Covid, and Landon was recovering from nose surgery, and we didn't know what we were going to do. 

Joseph Belinski, Tagg, Treyson, and the Toone brothers

The creek is almost empty.  I guess they are holding back water in East Canyon Dam for next year.  I've never seen it this low at this point of the year.  

We facetimed with Bright, and she has lost another tooth !! 

My sweet friend Angi brought me a fall surprise :)  

And Grandma is loving Crossfit !! We are all so proud of her.    I'm hoping I can keep up with her as we leave for Seattle today for a girls trip.  Just me, Grandma Ben, Amanda, and Camryn. 

 

How does our garden grow - Pumpkin/Squash Patch

May - we are getting started

Some industrious guy (Dad) decided to plant 4 rows this year !!!
10 per row, that's 40 plants folks

It was a struggle at first, and they weren't sure they were coming up, so they planted MORE - Yikes !!
Roger puts his grass cuttings here to keep the weeds down. 

June - they are coming up pretty good. 

And a little bit more.............

We water 3x a week, and every day we water, we remark on how much they have grown. 

July - WOW, they are taking over

and more...................

Until finally, you can't even walk between the rows......

If you look close, and push the leaves to the side, you can see pumpkins and squash. 

Most of the garden is put to bed, but we are waiting for a frost to knock down the leaves/vines. 

There we go - mid September we got our wish.  Now you can see patches of orange and yellow. 

Wow, I wanted to get a total count, but seriously there were WAY to many, we are talking hundreds if you count the baby ones. 

Harvest day in full swing.  Sure glad Erika and Aaron and Lizzie came to help. We were missing alot of our crew due to COVID, but we got it done. 

We haul the vines down to the burn pile with the tractor. 

We had quite a few BIG MACS this year 

At the end, we had two big trailers full of pumpkins and squash.  Some of the different kinds of squash were Butternut, Buttercup, Acorn, Blue Hubbard, Green Hubbard, Banana, Pink Banana, Sweet Meat.  For the pumpkins, we had Howdens (traditional), Big Macs (huge monstrosities), wee be littles, baby boos, and a few green "Cinderella" ones, and some yellow ones, that we don't have any idea what they were, and some striped gourd like things.  

All in all it was a GREAT year for growing pumpkins !!!

 

HOCO Parade

Treyson on the JV Football team float

Thatcher on his WFFL little league football  float

Tagg and _____Saunders after the parade

On the way home - driving me CRAZY !!

Tagg on his WFFL Little League football float.  Next year he'll be on the High School Freshman team. 

 

More of September

Gotta love PEACH season.  Mom makes the BEST pies !!

Football is going on strong.  We have FOUR boys playing.  Treyson - Morgan JV team, Tagg (above) WFFL, Thatcher (WFFL), and Payson for West Haven Grizzlies (WFFL).  It sure keeps us hopping !! 

Cam got another baby in the family.  Her cousin Josh's 2nd baby.  

More football !! 

Cute girlies (at a football game) 

Canning is almost done.  Another batch of Tomato Juice oughta do it. 

And more BIG BOY football !!