Wood Cutting

Last night we went to get wood up the canyon. Mountains in the fall are one of my favorite things. Last year at this time we had Isaac and his family visiting and they went with us last year to this same place. While we were there last night Isaac happened to call from Afghanistan. After to talking to him about how the weather and senery were almost identical to last year, it made me stop and think about how things in our lives change and how sometimes things are the same. It often is amazing to me how the hand of the Lord is sometimes very strong and changing and sometimes very subtle with no less power. Anyway even the kids helped out. Maclain and Bridger had fun picking up and stacking the wood in the trailer. But the best part for all of them was climbing on the giant pile of trees. It makes me happy that my kids love being outside doing whatever it is we might be doing.

Bear Lake

We went to Bear Lake over the weekend, to combine the TOU with some family camping time. It was a lot of fun. The leaves had started to change and we had some thunderstorms. It was beautiful. The kids had a blast playing in the sand and riding their bikes.

Top Of Utah

Alex and his brother Phillip ran the TOU marathon on Sept 20 in 4hrs. 19min. Alex also wore Isaac's number, because he ran it with them from Afghanistan.
We were parked right by the Logan Temple and even with the temple gate in the way I loved this picture. The boys were fighting over dads metal, so Phillip lent his to Bridger.

Snake

The other day we found a snake in our backyard. The kids loved it. Even Rilynn wanted to hold the snake. She kept smashing it, because it would wiggle at her, so she opted to hold it by the tail. Bridger wanted to keep it forever, I convinced him to let it go in the garden.

SPLASH!

We took a drive to Smith and Moore House, it was beautiful the leaves are just starting to change. We stopped to throw rocks and were trying to decide what the best part is, the rock, the throwing, or the splash. All of us decided it's the SPLASH, the bigger the splash the better. We had a lot of fun.

Grasshopper

We went camping and Bridger found a grasshopper, and loved it and played with it. He put on Alex's back while Alex was sleeping and I thought it was too cute the way all the kids watched this grasshopper. The sad part is after being the center of attention and being poked, squished and mawled I believe this grasshopper hopped away to die.

"Hummy Birds"

This is our Hummingbird Ruffus. He hangs out in our garden every day, and chases all the other humming birds away. We first got a feeder after a hummingbird got stuck in our garage. We got a feeder to try and lure him out, but when we got home from the store he flew out. So we hung up the feeder in our backyard and now we have Ruffus. Whenever Rilynn is outside she spots "Hummy Birds" so we all call them that now. The kids have fun with it, they really think he his our pet, and they help me change his food. One morning Alex left the garage open and a humming bird flew in and I closed the garage not knowing it was in there. Latter Bridger and I went in the garage and heard the humming bird flying around and opened the garage so it could go out, but it wouldn't. When Alex got home he chased it around with a bat wearing the poor bird out till it purched on one of our garage shelves. We had to go so we put the feeder by it and left. When we got home we had an over stuffed drunk Hummingbird. It was so dosile Alex was able to gently grab it and take it to the back yard. We are guessing it was Ruffus since we didn't see him for a few days, but thankfully he is back to chasing other birds away. Soon he will be migrating but we hope he comes back.