September busy, busy, busy

Roxy, Johnathan and their kids came to visit. His brother was getting off his mission, so they came up for that and got to visit. It was fun to see them and spend some time together.

We have a four day school week, so we got a long weekend for Labor day. We left Thursday after school and stayed in Jerome at Aunt Robin and Dustins, then we went on down to Tremonton to play with Grandma and Grandpa Larsen. We went to the park and played outside and had a fun time.

This is the tree I used to climb all the time. I climbed way up in it and then the kids wanted to climb up too.

Grandpa Larsen and Trey dressed up as firefighters.

On Saturday we went to Ogden to meet up with Aunt Laura and went the the Dinosaur park there. It was such a neat place. The kids absolutely loved it.

In this picture there were some animated dinosaurs. When I took Chase into the room he was not too sure about it, and started backing up pulling my hand. I reassured him that they were not real.

Outside they had bunches of dinosaurs to walk around and see. They had a place to dig up dinosaur bones and a playground. It was so much fun. The kids still talk about it.

On Sunday we went to the baby blessing of my niece Rachel's daughter Angela. She's a cute little thing. There were five babies being blessed in that ward that day. I have never been in a Sacrament meeting where there were five babies being blessed.

After the blessing and lunch in Burley we headed on to Rexburg. We spent the night at Blake & Rhonda's house where everyone there came over for dinner. The next day we all got together for breakfast and then headed to the park. We played kick ball. It was the greatest thing for a big group of all ages to play. We were easy on the little guys and hard on the big guys. We had a fun time.

Here is a group of everyone waiting for their turn to kick the ball.

This was a cute picture of Max helping Preston out on a bike.

I love this picture of Trey, Luke and Chase. They are such nice friends and love to play together.

We had some cement work done on our graineries and the boys just had to sit and watch all the goings on.

Here is the cement truck going in the grainery. With the left over cement they made us a little slab to step on as you step off our porch stairs. It looks really nice.

Here is Trey on his first day of school. I was a little wondering how it would go. How things would be different between he and Chase's first day of pre-school. Trey didn't cry at all. He went in and started playing with the trains and he was good to go. He really likes it.

One day this month I made six pies. We gave five away and saved one for us. Chase decided that our pie would be a whole lot better if he decorated it with sprinkles and put the headband I wore for my wedding right in the middle. He suprised me, wow, was I suprised. That was the most interesting pumpkin pie I have ever eaten.

Trey with his name after pre-school. I've realized that Trey likes to destroy the things he makes at pre-school as soon as he gets home. So, I've decided that if I take a picture of him holding it as soon as he gets in the door, then I don't have to worry. I can document it, he destroys it and I throw it away.

We had some trouble with the combine after the guys were done combining the Teff one evening. Our neighbor was combining for us and he was driving down the road with Sterling. The auger had been left out and they unkowingly hit a power pole. They knocked it over before the could get stopped. Sterling said sparks were flying everywhere. It was a crazy evening.

On the 17th Sterling and I had a night out. Some of our friends gave us a gift certificate to the anniversary inn and so we decided to go. It was such an awesome place. We loved it. We picked out the Romeo and Juliet suite.

There was a winding staircase up to where the bed was ontop of what looked like a balcony.

Here's Sterling lounging on the bed. As soon as we got there he had to figure out the tv.

The tv was pretty cool. It was projected onto the side of the wall. You could see it from upstairs or downstairs. It was pretty cool. They gave you all kinds of food too. Cheese cake, sparkling cider, snacks in the evening and breakfast in the morning. Plus there were warm cookies waiting for us when we arrived. It was a nice place. We will definetly go again someday.

This is a picture of our friends and neighbors, MaryAnn, Brooke, and Ginger. MaryAnn and Ginger were baptised on the 19th of September. It was a fun special day. I gave the talk on baptism. I was really nervous, even though it was only five minutes. It went pretty ok, I think. Sterling was able to baptism them and it was really nice. He was a little worried to because he had only said the baptism prayer in spanish, so he practiced beforehand to make sure he'd get it right.

Chase decided that he want to make a pack to go out with. He went out and found a stick and one of my not so nice washclothes and made himself a nice little pack. I thought it looked really great.

They started digging potatoes by our house and so we went to watch. We went out into the field and Chase found this really crazy potato that he just had to show everyone.

We rented out half of our farm to a guy who planted it all in potatoes which we have never had on our farm before. It was kind of fun to have something different. The kids really like watching them dig the potatoes.

Annettes sister Areta came to visit for a few days and we were able to each breakfast and dinner with them and chat for awhile. It was nice to catch up.

Chase's First Day of School and August

Keegan fell asleep with a sucker in his mouth while I was giving him a hair cut. It just looked so cute we had to take a picture.

The two bigger boys after their hair cuts. I told them they could have a sucker if they sat nicely for me. They were so intently watching Winnie the pooh. Which is of course, their favorite show.

Chase and Trey splashing in a pool of water at Grandma Johnston's house.

Trey and Keegan playing with trucks at grandma J's house.

Chase adn Keegan looked so cute sitting in the back of the truck. They got up there and looked like such cute little buddies. They are pretty nice little buddies.

Keegan and his dirty face. You can really tell he liked his dinner. It's gone from his plate, but all over the place.

On August 11 we tried to go to Glenn's Ferry and watch the Three Rivers Crossing. We had 20 minutes to be there by the time we made it to the exit for Glenns Ferry. It should have taken us like 5 minutes to get there. That didn't happen. There was a backup on the freeway because of a train, and sadly we did not make it in time to see the crossing, and neither did hundreds of other people. It's too bad. I guess this was supposed to be the last year they were doing it.

At least a bunch of us were able to get together after we didn't see the crossing and have a picnic together. We had a nice time talking and eating, and catching up while the kids played.

The kids all had a race. They raced and raced and raced. It was fun for them. Poor little Luke was being drug along a lot.

A picture of Emily and cute littel Evie.

We froze lots and lots of corn this year. It seems like we did it for days. I didn't get a picture of us in the house, but here's one of the guys shucking the corn outside.

Keegan and his corn.

Here's a picture of the guys moving a grainery. They ended up putting cement in the bottom of it so they can fill it with grain or corn.

We decided to take one last outing before school started. We were going to take the boys camping. The day we left I had a terrible headache, I now think it was a migrain. We went and watched Monsters Versus Aliens in 3D. The kids loved it and have been quoting it ever since. I was feeling so crummy that Sterling decided to just get us a hotel room. We stayed at the Oxford Suites in Boise. We've stayed there before and really like it there a lot. We went swimming and downstairs in the place for soda and lite appetisers. It was fun, even with my headache.

Bajio's was right next door, so we walked there and just in time too. They were closing, so we grabbed some food and took it back to our room.

Here's a picture of the Boise temple just right outside our window of the hotel.

The second night we went camping at a lake up in the mountains by Burley, Idaho. The lake was lake Cleavland. It was above the Pomerell ski hill. It was so beautiful there. We stayed up there with Sterling's sister Robin and her family. We went hiking on a fun little hike.

The boys and Sterling, hiking up the hill.

The lake was so peaceful and beautiful. The mountains were pretty too. I really enjoyed it up there.

The kids roasting marshmallows, they had a really hard time because it was so smokey.

The next day we went down to Burley and let the kids place in the storybook playground. They love this playground. It is super fun.

We then went to the Gossner Cheese factory and bought some Ice Cream. They have splendid ice cream there. It's sooooo yummy!!

The place is way cute too. It makes you feel like your in Switzerland or Germany. The ice cream is almost as good as over there too.

This is Chase on his first day of school. He did so well. Chase's little friend Ginger and her mom MaryAnn took Chase to school for his first day. We thought he'd have less anxiety that way, and he really did well. I had some people say that he was pretty confident. He likes school, he does think that it is too long. It is a long day, but they learn so much. He does have his off day, but he mostly likes it.

Here are Chase and Ginger coming in for their first day of school for the year.

Chase and his teacher Mrs. Ellsworth. I can tell he's a bit nervous in this picture. He really likes his teacher a lot.