I finally painted my bedroom after 8 years!

We had a interesting Halloween. Me and the kids were out trick-or-treating, and I got a phone call from Steven saying that our dog, Marley, already had one puppy and to hurry home. She ended up having 10 puppies! We had alot of fun with them and I even miss them.

Steven did (and is still doing) his part to keep the bird population down

Wesley got to go hunting with dad and grandpa

We hiked to a waterfall up by Aspen Grove, and I got a HUGE reminder of how out of shape I am!


Steven got an elk, maybe this year he'll draw out on Monroe.

We went
camping on Anabella mountain over the 4th of July. We saw a lot of wildlife, and totally enjoyed being away from things. It's what our family looks forward to each year. We went fishing a few times, and even caught a few fish.


Wesley catches a fish Utah Lake (He's got some style!)

We had a cold start to our baseball season. I hope we don't have the same kind of weather this year. We've had games rained out, but this last season we had games that were snowed out, in MAY!

My dad helped coach both the boys teams. They both did great. Jesse's team took 2nd place it state.


I can't wait to start it all over again, except all four of my kids want to play this year, this is gonna get crazy!

Happy New Year!
Okay so it's 8pm on new years eve so it's a little early, but hopefully I'll be asleep by midnight. Yes, I said asleep. I FEEL SOOOO OLD! What am I doing sitting here at my house in my P.J.'s on new years eve and it's only 8 o'clock. No parties, no friends over, not even anything good on TV. How did I get so lame?
Well here's hoping you all have a much more exciting new years than me.

Okay, so I go to get into the tub today to soak away all the stress of the holidays. I fill up the tub, and try to turn it off when the stem in the handle breaks. So this means that I can't turn off the water, and Steven is up on some mountain somewhere hunting. Could these crazy things ever happen while he is actually reachable by phone, of course not!
So picture me sitting in the tub (note: for my sake and yours, picture me in the tub fully dressed) the tub is full already, and I am frantically trying to turn the water off and it's not working. I'm thinking,"what am I going to do, the tub is going to overflow! (It hasn't occurred to me to pull the plug yet, duh!) I haven't finished shaving my leg yet!" Finally I realize that I should pull the plug, and I try to finish shaving my leg, but the tub is still getting fuller. What to do? Oh yeah, get out of the tub idiot! That helped tremendously. So here I am with one leg only half shaved, and more stressed than when I got in to de-stress! Just lovely. By the way thank you to Dave next store for coming and helping me to get it turned off.