Cozy and Colorful Fall Pix

Ahhh...family togetherness... Yes-that's Ed wearing Johanna's glasses. He's facinated with them-though they're not like Mia's-they are breakable, and he's doing his best to help Johanna into contacts

Quintisential fall-leaves, trucks and boys-don't you just want to join in?

Our VERY LAST berry pie-just picked on October 24! Ed "helped" by arranging the berries-I think he was just trying to hide the fact that he'd eaten most of them. Can't you see that guilty look on his face?

The owl cupcakes I made for my Halloween recital-aren't they cute?

Fall happenings

Is this really 2009? At our house you wouldn't know it-in fact, for portions of General Conference-Camden had to hold up our lovely-right out of Star Trek antenna so we could get proper reception!

The poor little kitten! Ed visited a farm with his preschool and there were a whole passel of kittens for the kids to hold. It was very cute and didn't mind Ed holding it too much.

We had a fun time picking grapes last friday. We didn't get there until almost dark, so we had to pick fast. The kids all had fun running around the vineyard in the light of the moon. We picked an 18 gallon container full, plus three buckets. I got 35 quarts of grape juice out if them and I'm going to try and make a batch of grape jelly. They smelled so good!!!! The vineyard really was lovely-you could smell the grapes as you walked around. Ahhh...nature.

Cotton Candy Cuties

I really love this picture of Mom for some reason.

My kids have never had so much cotton candy as they did at the Hoth reunion in Logan, UT. I got lots of great pictures with their treats-to cute! I can look at them, but not have to wipe cotton candy off myself afterwards.

School Again

Eddy started his preschool this week. It was at my house first. On Tuesday we made tye dye shirts for them to wear on fieldtrips. Today they were ready, so I had everyone put them on and we took a picture-so cute!! I think it will be lots of fun for Ed. He gets lonely without his brothers and sister all day.

Every year those kids keep getting bigger! I feel like these first day of school photos come around all the time, but the kids in them keep changing-bittersweet.....Johanna looked so grown-up going off to middle school with her friends. Check out Johanna's friend's 80's outfit-skinny jeans are coming to get us, ladies!


Johanna seems to really like middle school though-I hope she has a wonderful year and keeps on becoming the girl she should be.



Just the two boys at Hunter Elementary this year. I think they are both liking school. Logan is enjoying his one day a week challenge program. Camden says his teacher is both mean and fun....? Let's hope the fun side wins him over-especially since he's in a "loop" and will have her for 1st and 2nd grades!

Wyoming

Our family (sans Ed) about halfway up Twin Peaks in a field of beautiful wildflowers. Logan, Cam and I turned around shortly after this point, but Blake and Johanna went the whole way up and back-9 hours of hiking!!!!

The whole gang in the back of grandpa's pick-up right before the hike.

This is how big Ed said his fish was

Eddy and the fish he helped catch at the cabin pond

Johanna coming down the zip line over Blake's uncle's pond in Rexburg-so fun!! We celebrated Grandma Call's 80th birthday with a dinner, family pix, and lots of swimming, boating, canoeing, and playing in the pond. The kids had such a great time. We didn't leave until after 8, which got us back to the cabin after 10 with a load of tired kids.

All the boys canoeing in the pond

Blake and I after a session at the Rexburg temple-beautiful!

We had lots of fun in Star Valley, Wyoming recently! Katy and Mia came to visit us at the cabin-which we loved! We enjoyed a short ride in a motorboat over Jenny lake. After disembarking, we hiked to Hidden Falls (pictured here). Katy and I had to "walk" with Mia a good part of the way...whew-what a workout! Aside from the mosquitos, it was fun though.

summer stuff

Here's a few pictures of what we've been doing. Cam's birthday was fun-after caming in a yurt overnight with Grandma and Grandpa Thurman, we came home to presents and this cute cupcake alligator cake. Johanna and I had a fun time making it. We've had tons of cherries over the last few weeks. It's been wonderful! They were so beautiful and delicious! We gave a lot away, but ate as many as we wanted-love it!

Last weekend, we all (except Johanna, who was camping) ran a fun run. Logan came in 2nd and would have won a prize, only he was wearing my number-oops! Cam and Ed kinda cheated-they couldn't make it the whole way, so we lobbed off a bit of the course.

What's not to love about summer?

I just love summer. I love not having a schedule, I love not having to make cold lunch each morning (pb and J everyday...boring!!), I love just hanging around the house with the kids playing, I love reading books while lounging in the sun, and the last minute trips to get ice-cream. We took the kids to the ice-cream shop that Logan made a model of tonight. Everyone had fun and only two of us didn't get ice-cream on their shirt (I was NOT one of them). We read books from the library-library reading program time! Anyway, just had to share why I love summer.