I'm Famous!

Ha! Ha! Ha!
No snow in Heber until today and it just dumped. In about 7 hours we got 7 inches. I went out to take a picture to send to Darryl. He was in Florida for work and I thought, 'While I'm at it I'll send it to the news too.' Well it ended up on the 10 o'clock news and I still run into people that mention they saw it. I offer autographs but no one has gotten one yet. I wonder why? LOL

Thanksgiving

Aunt Heather and Grandpa pulled the cousins in the wagon at Grandma's house. This is a picture of Zack pushing with Melanie and Kade in the wagon. They had so much fun even though it was FREEZING outside. We had a great time and Bosshardt's for Thanksgiving. All of Aunt Diane's family came too. Lots of cousins = lots of fun!

Polar Express

Kade and Dad with their tickets!

Clint loved looking out the window on the train ride.

What a great family picture with Santa. He tried to take Kade to hold him-- bad idea! Clint had never met the jolly old man so he was frightened by him too. When Santa asked Kade what he wanted for Christmas I think he was so confused at what was happening. It was the 19th of Nov. so we hadn't gotten into Christmas yet and he had no idea who Santa was and why he kept asking what he wanted for Christmas. Kade's response was, "A popcicle." The santa just looked at us like, 'You poor parents can only afford a popcicle. How sad.' The odd thing was as soon as Santa turned to move on to the other kids Kade decided he was his best friend and jingled his bell for him. Santa was busy and didn't respond.

Kade and Clint ringing their bells and singing Jingle Bells.

Happy Halloween

Kade was going through a Peter Pan phase so it was a no-brainer as to what kind of costume I should make for him for Halloween. Seeing as how Clint didn't seem too into dressing up and the fact that we were only going to knock on a couple neighbor's doors Clint was a poor excuse for a firefighter costume. As luck would have it the boys had pinkeye that day and weren't all that excited anyway.

Birch Hallow

Sweet! This hike was a repelers dream. After 11 repels and fabulous sights you can't help but love it. Darryl and I were able to leave our boys with Darryl's sister while we went hiking with his dad, brother, other sister, and a friend. Such a great time. Darryl had done the hike before but did an extended version. We didn't have time for that so we had to hike back up to our truck. After lots of bushes scraping you and pulling your hair and wandering around, which felt aimlessly and I think at times it was, we finally arrived back to the truck. It was so worth it though.

Lots of People

There were people everywhere! While we went on our Birch Hollow hike we stayed at Ann's house (Darryl's sister). To add to it her husband's sister came the night we were there and had to have her kids sleep at Ann's too. They were in town for a something and had rented a hotel room but something happened to their reservation and they ended up with a small room so they asked if they kids could stay at Ann's. They have a beautiful big home in St. George luckily so they were able to accommodate us all. They have 7 people in their family and with all the company there was a total of 18 people eating breakfast!
Kade really didn't want to leave, "Zack's house." It was a sad moment. He loves the cousins.

Tantrum

Clint was being cute so I thought we'd do a little photo shoot. Well it was going well until I wouldn't let him have the camera. Holy mood swing Batman! He's pretty cute when he cries though.

New Trick

I figured it out! Clint finally could reach to turn the light on the oven. It may seem insignificant and kind of is, but for him he was so excited with his new trick. He use to watch Kade do it and then he would try so hard to reach with no avail.

Cousins

I don't think until now did Kade understand the word cousins. They are now his favorite people. Darryl's sister and her family came up from St. George to ride the Heber Creeper and stayed with us. Kade thought it was great to have friends over 24-7. The day they left Darryl and I went to his mission reunion and so we left the boys with my sister-- cousins again!!! I wish we all lived in the same town so they could play together all the time.

Slots

I've never experienced slot canyons before. WOW!!!!!!!!! They are amazing. Redmond Minerals had a Lake Powell retreat for their employees and spouses. The retreat spanned 3 weeks, with different groups of employees going down for 5 days. Darryl got not only got to go the week I went with him but he got to stay and help the other groups with hiking and skiing. What fun! In preparation for this retreat Rhett had asked Merritt Aho and Darryl to find a great hike for the group. Well, this gave me the opportunity to be included too. The three of us went down a couple days early to scope out some trails. It was a good thing we did. We discovered many hikes that wouldn't work and only one that would. It was so worth it. These pictures were taken on the hike. It's called the Labyrinth fork. I wish everyone could go there. It is just awesome. The other hikes can be described as this: brown milky water up to your chest that smells as though you're walking through the sewer ponds. While you're walking through things are hitting your legs-- you'd really rather not know what it is, you just want out of there. But the worst, yes there is something worse, is that as you take each step they aren't sure steps you sink in the mud and if you don't kept stepping fast you sink deeper. Even going fast you sink up to your thigh. Scary! And for some odd reason when you're done you're glad you did it but don't really want to do it again. Yet, you do it again and again as you go through each trail.