Liberty Cap Hike

The day before school started we had a family day and went on a hike. Liberty Cap is about 4 miles round trip but very steep. The kids did really well with a few melt downs from Taylor and Paityn. It was worth all the hard work. When you get to the top there is a rock that looks like a baseball cap. The kids are on top of it in the first picture. The view of the whole valley is beautiful.

Halloween 2009

We Finally Did It!

After years of begging(pardon my pun), we finally broke down and got a dog. His name is Brett. So we now have a dog named Brett and a cat named Favre. Yes we love Brett Favre. Good think Minnesota is doing well! Brett is a Golden Retriever and so far he has been quite expensive. He cost $400. Then you buy all the stuff that goes with him $200. Shots and neutering $230. Paityn's trip to the ER $500(she got bit). So the tally is $1380. I'm sure I won't think of that 5 years from now. He has been fun and the kids love him. Paityn a little too much!

Grandma Beth's funeral

My Grandma Beth passed away this summer. She was a really fun grandma. I loved being around her. We will miss her spunky personality.

We were invited to go to Lake Powell with the Steghlemeirs in July. We had a great time. Doug got addicted to surfing. Despite getting lost in the dark after picking Doug up from the marina, it was a really fun trip. After searching in the dark for our house boat we gave up and followed a light to shore. There we were met by complete stangers that were very kind and gave us sleeping bags and tents to sleep in. God definately answered my prayers that night. Fun trip!

Bear Lake Summer 2009

We had a great time (as always) at Bear Lake this year. We went to the beach, pickleville playhouse, and hung out with Grandma Chapman. Taylor founds some new friends on the beach!

Paityn played soccer this year for the first time. She was so cute. When she decided to play she did very well. She usually scored about 3 goals a game and sometimes 1 for the other team.

Catarac Canyon. Yea a new post!

Doug and I had a big adventure this last June. We went down Catarac Canyon. It goes from Moab to Lake Powell. It was kind of slow for two days but when we hit the rapids on day three it was so worth it. We hit a rapid called Ben Hur, because if you hit it you "been hurt!!" It's a long story but I will never forget that wave of water coming at me. Doug will never forget the boat in front of us on top of that wave. He thought it was going to come down on top of us. I thought we were goner's! We managed to stay on the boat and everyone came out safely. Here are some of the pictures. We mostly went with complete strangers. We were invited by our good friends the Skalla's. Thanks Skalla's. It was a blast!

Special Olympics and Juco... Taylor

Taylor did Special Olympics swimming this year. It was his first year. He did fantastic. He is a great swimmer. Grandma and Grandpa came to watch. Grandpa bought him a special olympics Windbreaker. He loves it. Becky and DJ came too.
Taylor was able to go on the field at Juco(junior college world series). Juco is really exciting and fun. They honored all the challenger baseball players. He thought it was really cool! When they play baseball they have buddies. Usually players from local high school team or Mesa State. During Juco they get Juco teams to be their buddies. Taylor's buddy was from Howard. They ended up winning Juco so we were really happy.

Taylor's birthday barbeque

We invited a lot of the young men from our ward. They have been so great to Taylor!