Crazy Frontrunner Trip

Last weekend Michaels family all decided to go on Frontrunner and ride to Salt lake and eat lunch and then come back.  Now if anyone knows Michaels family they know that they are always running late and it is always crazy.  Well this trip was as normal.  We were all to meet at the Ogden station at 1:00 pm to catch the 1:15 train.  Well we had to beg the engineer not to leave because grandma was on her way and was just pulling into the parking lot.  We all safely got on the train there was about 30 of us.  It was a fun little ride the kids had fun hanging out with their cousins.  We got to Salt lake and the craziness continued.  We decieded to eat at Applebees all of us!!  Needless to say it was the slowest lunch we have ever had, I think Applebees was in shock over how many of us there was.  It was a long day I think next time we will just drive and meet everyone down there. 

Pumpkin Patch

Last week we went to a Pumpkin Patch in Hooper.  We went with my parents and my sister and her kids.  It was so fun..it was $5 for an armful.  So of course all the men thought that they had to be tough and carry as many pumpkins as they could.  We got 12 pumpkins in all and only paid $15 for all of them.  They werent little ones either they were all good sized pumpkins.  We will for sure go to the same patch next year!!

Halloween Cookies!!!

A few weeks ago we decorated sugar cookies for Family Home Evening.  We had a lot of fun.  The twins are very creative and did such a good job.  Jex enjoyed eating the cookies. 

Conversation of TWINS!!!

As many of you may know we recently got a new puppy.  Well this morning I put her outside to go potty and then I got busy with other things and asked Garrett to let her in so he went outside to get her and he noticed that she had gone potty.  We are still training her so she gets treats everytime she goes out and goes potty.  So when Garrett came in he went to get her a treat and Alex had beat him to the treats and was getting it for her.  Well as most children do they began to argue and of course I stepped in and told Alex that Garrett really needed to give her the treat since he was the one outside with her.  So Garrett gives her the treat and then asks "I wonder what these taste like"  Alex then says "They taste like STEAK, I tried them yesterday"!!  I was laughing so hard.  Then he says "Yeah I took a little nibble"

Camping Aug 6-9

We finally was able to take a camping trip this year.  We went up South Fork canyon to the Willows campground.  We went with Grandpa and Grandma Clough.  We had a blast.  Our good friends the Bettridges were the campground hosts this year so it was even better because we got to hang with them all weekend.  We really enjoyed ourselves.  The twins got a little adventurous this time and they stayed in the tent 2 out of the 3 nights that we were there...they said that they had fun.  We of course had fun because we werent cramped in the trailer plenty of room to move around.  The kids played in the river and rode their bikes and just had fun with their friends.  Thank you Dad & Mom for inviting us to go!! Thank you Bettridges for having us in your campground and playing with us!!

NEW HOUSE!!!!

On July 1st we moved into our new home. We love it here. We moved from renting a 3 bedroom 1 bath house to owning a 3 bedroom 3 bath house with a room and bathroom in the basement to finish. Can I tell you how nice it is to finally not have to share a bathroom with 4 boys I LOVE IT!!! We are loving our neighbors and love our new ward everyone is very nice. Here are a few pics of the house more to come later.

This is the front of course...we have a little waterfall in the front. We have enjoyed sitting on the porch listening to the waterfall at night.

This is the formal living room.  You cant see it very well in the photo but we have the first verse of "Praise to the Man" on the wall and a canvas print of the prophet.  We love this room it has been so nice to have a place to sit and have FHE and a place to sit and think.

This is the Kitchen. We fell in love with this kitchen it has everything we wanted and more.  It has High Mac counters and it has tile throughout the whole main floor.  We have tons of cupboard space and counter space.  We have enjoyed it a lot.

This is the family room.  It is so nice to have a room to put the TV and not have to have it in the living room.  It is a very large room and we have such an open floor plan that it can be seen from the kitchen.

This is the covered patio.  It is nice to BBQ and be able to eat in the shade and let the kids play outside.

This is the backyard.  We have a huge garden and a lot of room for the kids to play.

Well that is the New House...we love it.    We welcome all of our friends and family to come and see us and play at our new house. 

4th of July!!

Our 4th of July was a little crazy this year..we moved right in the middle of it all.  We started moving two days before and we moved two days after.  We did celebrate it with family.  We have a family tradition were we spend the night at my uncle Jeff's house the night before and then we get up and have breakfast and go to the Clearfield parade.  Well with us moving we were both exhausted so we sent our kids to stay over night.  Thank you Grandma and Aunt Shelly and Uncle Jeff and Aunt Carolee for taking care of them...they had a blast!!!  We went over in the morning and had breakfast and then went to the parade... we then hung out at their house all day and then watched Fireworks that night...it was a fun filled Schofield day!!!