Bear River Lodge

The last week in September my family had a little reunion together and birthday celebration for my dad up at Bear River Lodge. It was so nice to be up there with everyone and the cabins we stayed in were super nice and lots of fun.


It was the perfect time to go up with all of the leaves changing colors. We went on a ATV ride up in the mountains that was filled with beautiful views.



Brooklyn's helmet was so big that most of the time it was just hanging off her head in her face, but she was a trooper. All the kids loved the ride. Micah was our navigator so I wasn't surprised when we ended up on the hardest trail we could have gone up, which later we found out was called "Dead man's Traverse". After a few very steep and rocky hills Hannah was not quite sure she wanted to finish the ride. Especially after the part where we tried to cross a bridge that was not made for a 6 passenger ATV. We were close to sliding down the embankment into a little stream and Hannah's side was the closest. After that it took her a little convincing to continue, but we did and I think she enjoyed herself for the rest of the ride.

We even got pretty close to a few moose. Can you spot it in the picture?


There was lots of good food, great company and the kids loved playing with their cousins. We had a great time.
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Work Party

Jake's company had a summer party at the beginning of September. The food was great and the entertainment was fascinating. The kids LOVED it. They had a reptile guy come and he brought a few little, and big, critters. He first brought out a big tortoise that weighed about 75 pounds. It was huge. He had little tortoises, he brought out some lizards, scorpions, tarantulas, boas, and pythons. I was so surprised that the kids were brave enough to hold each one, especially surprising for Hannah. William was in heaven! Brooklyn wasn't sure what to think. As for me, well I came away that night with 40 mosquito on each foot! My kids didn't get a single bite. I did take pictures of my feet because they looked so bad but the picture didn't turn out. It looked like I had some sort of disease, and they itched like crazy for about a week!







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School starts

Hannah's first day of school. Her teacher is Mrs. Clements but she had a baby a few day before school started, so her substitute has been Mrs. Kolby, who has been great. She is very excited to have her real teacher come back soon. Hannah loves school.

William started Kindergarten this year and absolutely loves it!! He was so excited to finally be able to go to school. He informed me he is the tallest in his class besides his teacher. He is a head taller than most of the kids in his class.

All lined up on the first day of school ready to go into class.








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Katie

So I came to post about Katie turning one and I found a post I had not posted yet about her at 11 months, so here is that post first.



Katie is now 11 months old. Her 7th and 8th teeth are coming in, and she has discovered standing on her own. She loves it and it seems like she treats it like a game, seeing how long she can stand up each time, waiting for the praise of everyone around her. I can't believe that she is almost a year old!!


Katie turned 1 on August 8th. We had a pancake birthday party the night before with my family, and Ben made some great pancakes.




I wasn't feeling so good on Katie's birthday so I let Hannah make the cake all by herself, except the oven part. I think the cake turned out great and Katie loved it!!

All of Jake's family came for her little party. We had a great time. After cake and ice cream all of the kids got out the High School Musical music and had a dance outside. They were all so fun to watch.

Things I love about Katie...
I love that she is happy all the time, (as long as she is fed and rested) and it is so easy to get her smiling and giggling.
She LOVES music, and whenever she hears music in the house somewhere she will stop what she is doing and say, "daa,daa" and start her little wiggling. She loves to dance.
Her first steps where over the 24th of July and withing a few weeks she was walking everywhere. She loves being able to walk, sometimes she will just start walking in circles.
It was nice that she mastered the stairs quickly since we have plenty of them in our house.
She loves dogs and gives her stuffed dogs plenty of love. When ever peaches comes over she goes crazy, and peaches is so patient with her.
She has a special blanket that she likes to carry around, and she loves to be tickled.
At her one year appointment she was in the 95% with her weight and over 100% when her height, which means she is very fun to cuddle and she actually likes to cuddle. I love it!
She is the greatest and we love her so much!!

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Highland Fling

We went to the highland fling parade at the beginning of the month. I have never seen a parade with more candy. The kids loved it.


Here is most of the candy we got. See the excitement on William's face? Or maybe it is the sugar high he is probably on. We are still trying to get to the bottom of the bowl.


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July

On July 20th, our sweet Martha went into the MTC and will be serving in Omaha, Nebraska and the Winter Quarters visitor's Center. What a fun mission!! We will miss her, but are very much enjoying her letters.


The 24th of July

We went to Nevada for the 24th of July. The kids had a fun time riding on the float in the Parade.


John Deer tractor "I think I can"
New Holland tractor " I know I can"
Get it? haha. (My dad sells New Holland.)
Just a little plug for New Holland.



All the cousins.

There was a little program after the parade that my family participated in. We did a few pioneer songs, and stories, and the kids did a little heel-toe polka.





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Swimming

We have loved going swimming this summer! It has been nice to see the kids get more brave each time we go... even Katie. The first time we put her in the water she cried the whole time. Now she loves to relax and watch the kids play.

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