A Big Fish Story

Last week Eric was invited to go to a private reservior

 in Nevada to go fishing with a 

couple of his buddies.

  They left Thursday night and drove to Wendover 

and hit a couple of casinos

 and did a little gambling

(what else would you do in Wendover?)

 and then 

got up Friday morning and drove 

another 1 1/2 hours to the lake called 

Chittendom Reservior.

  The 3 of them sat in their float tubes

 from sun up to sun down.

  Eric caught one nice fish around 11:00

 but the afternoon appeared to be real slow. 

 After having a tangle in his line 

he cut the line and replaced

 the fly he had been using all day

 with a jig.

  That seemed to solve the problem.

  After that he caught 3 more fish.

  The one in the picture was the catch of the day.

 It is the biggest trout ever caught in his fishing career!!!!

  That one fish made the 3 hour drive all worth it.

Great Winter Project

Take your crocheting tools...

and add some thick colorful yarn...

and you get this cute hat!

Last year Kalen saw these tools to make hats and

thought it would be fun to make.

  So we bough several colors of yarn and

all the boys have made numerous hats over

the last little while.

It seems to be a great winter project

It's fun and quite easy and keeps them busy!

I think we are ready to try some scarves!!

You can buy the tools and yarn at the craft store or even Wal-Mart.

Pumpkin Carving

Halloween just wouldn't be complete without the carving of pumpkins. 

 Im not so sure we even did pumpkins last year.

  It's always great to have to use your hand to dig out the gross slimy guts and seeds.

  Then to have to design a face for the pumpkin can be somewhat challenging. 

 Our pumpkins turned out quite unique.

  This was Kash's first Halloween.  He quite enjoyed the guts and seeds!

 

 Happy Halloween!!

Can You Tie A Knot?

What a great bunch of kids.  We love 'em!

Are we tying blankets or watching the game?  You decide.

Our family spent the evening tying a couple

of blankets to donate to Primary Children's Hospital. 

Ashley's work asked for any donations and we figured we can 

all tie knots so we should make a couple blankets.  

We had lots of helpers.

P. S. Im trying to redeem myself after my earlier post. 

I can be nice.

Hairstyle of the Week

                                        Are mullets making a come back?  

                                                I hope not!!!!

                 Did these two plan their matching outfits?

For all of you who have been contemplating 

 a new hairstyle I have got the perfect one.  

This 'mullet' hairstyle is great for someone who...

 Likes long hair but doesn't have the time to style it.

Likes a wash and wear style.

Likes long hair but hates it in their face.

Likes short hair but needs to be able to pull it back.

or

Just can't decide if they want it long or short.

This style gives you the best of both worlds.

The easiness of short hair with 

luxury of long hair.

Here's to the return of the 'Mullet'!!!!!

Ok so this probably isn't the nicest entry but I hope it makes you laugh!!!

The Best Day Ever!

                                                                               Mason #23
                                                                                 

                                                                            Final Score

                                                                                
                                                                    Ready on 3rd to score

Some people may not agree that spending 5 plus hours at the baseball field in one day is a fun day.  Well I do.  Let me just give you a little re-cap of the sports events of the day.  This day was all about Mason.  He has been playing in a tournament over the UEA weekend. He played 2 games on Thursday and 1 on Friday.  Having won all three of those games meant he played on Saturday morning at 9:30 am in South Jordan (at 11000 S. and Redwood Rd.).  Even though Mason woke up not feeling so well with a sore throat, headache and cough he was determined that he still wanted to play.  So we started our perfect day by leaving at 8:30 so we could be to the park ready to warm-up by 9:00.   Mason played the first hour and 15 minutes and then we had to rush off so we could get to football by 11:00(which is on 78oo S. and 5500 W) to warm up and play a 12:00 game which lasted an hour and a half (and we lost 20 to 14 to Bingham) and then rush back to the South Jordan game where we would be late to the 1:30 game.  This craziness also involved changing out of his baseball uniform into his football uniform and then again back into the baseball uniform.  The 1:30 game was the championship having no time limit and playing 7 full innings, that is unless you end the 7th inning with a tie and have to go on to an 8th inning tie breaker inning. We did win the game 14-13!!!!!  When it was all said and done the game lasted 3 hours and 15 minutes. Mason played awesome.  In a game on Friday he hit a home run a triple and a single all in one game.  Today he made a great catch in center field.  And threw a kid out from center field going to 3rd base. The weather was awesome the games were awesome.  There's no better way to end the fall baseball season than the way we did today.  Lets just do the math on how much time mason spent playing sports today  1hr 45 min. + 1 hr 30 min. + 3 hr 15 min. +1 hr. 30 min. warm-up time=8 hours!!!!  Way to go Mason.  I love to watch you play!!! 

Fall Favorites

Fall Favorites

1.  Changing colors of leaves-I love the reds and yellows and greens.

2. My neighbors burning bush as I walk out my door.

3.  Candy Corn-not many people like it.  

4.  Buying hay and corn stalks to decorate my porch.

5.  You can leave your decorations up till you put out the Christmas decor.

6.  Tortilla soup.

7.  Good candles-pumpkin,wassail, spice scents.

New Blog

So I decided to change our blog.  I was having technical difficulties with the previous one. Hopefully this will be easier for those of you who were not able to access the other one. You can still view the old one but I will only be updating this one from now on.  Happy blogging!!