Camping in Lovell Canyon

We have been promising Max a camping trip and with soccer it's been so hard to plan a time to go. There was no school Friday so we left Thursday after school and drove up to Level Canyon (which is thankfully really close to us) for a short camping trip.

We also wanted to do some of Max's scout requirements. Here he is building and starting a fire with Danny. He also helped me set-up the tent (which we mostly did all on our own).

Danny's excited for his dutch oven dinner! Which was yummy! And Danny also made a yummy dutch oven breakfast. Good food while camping is a must!

We stayed near the fire most of the time, because it was cold.



The kids always love climbing trees! They also enjoyed a morning hike and collecting gun shells.





Sleeping could have gone much better though. It was cold! I had planned to bring a couple more blankets and forgot. Daisy cried every 2 hours for her "pink blankie" that she happened to keep misplacing. And I had to get up and pee every 2 hours, which is never fun camping! The first time I asked Danny what time it was it was only 10:30, I thought the night was never going to end! At one point Daisy would not stop screaming so we put her outside the tent for a time out and Van and Walt started crying for her. Van was all nice saying, "Daisy want to lay here?" We only put her outside for a few seconds, but Danny and I thought it was cute how Van and Walt cared for their sister. We had a lot of fun as a family!

Danny's 33rd Birthday

For Danny's Birthday (on October 17th) we cooked tin foil dinners around our little homemade fire pit.

We had peach cobbler and ice cream for desert.

And enjoyed being together as a family. Happy Birthday Danny, we love you!

Worker Walt

Walt is a hard worker and enjoys every bit of it! This is a skill that he has been born with (which will hopefully stick). When ever possible he wants to be the one to vacuum and he really does a good job! He's quite obsessive as well, when I say, "You're all done." He points out all that still needs to be vacuumed up. When ever we need something done we call on Walt and he's always happy to do the job!

Soccer Time

This year we have all three "big" kids in soccer and I'm coaching Hanna's team again.
Max looks so big here. He actually is one of the younger ones on his team, but he was still the tallest so of course he had to get the biggest jersey, which I hate how big it is.

Me and Hanna ready for the game! It's been fun to coach Hanna and her team.

This is Van's first year and he is also one of the youngest, but of course you wouldn't guess that.

Max has been playing goaly a lot this year.

Good game Thunder Bolts!

Good game Pink Coyotes!

Coach Jen

Silly Van

Good game Sea Monsters!

Great Gandma Mike

Great Grandma Mike came to visit! She stayed for a week and a half and this time we kept her in mine and Danny's room and kept her off the stairs. It was fun having her here. Daisy, Walt and Grandma Mike loved taking naps together.

Sadly, I didn't take more pictures while she was here and she left while Max and Hanna were at school so I only got pictures with her and the younger three. We sure are going to miss her, but now that she's in St. George maybe we'll see her more often.

Walt loves to pet Grandma Susan's dogs, mainly Diamond. I think he uses them in replace of his blankie.

After I took a picture of Walt with Diamond of course Daisy needed a picture with her too.

Daisy and Walt

Walt is officially weaned from his blankie. He lost it for a couple of days then he found it, so then sadly I had to hide it from him. I couldn't let him have it back because he had already past the hard part, but he did just fine. Walt loved holding his "gangkie" on his head, sometimes it sat like a turban on top. I'm keeping it in his memory box, now we need to figure out how to get rid of the thumb.

Daisy is not yet ready to part with her blankie or should I say that I'm not ready to deal with her for those first few days or weeks without it.

Daisy is in the Princess dress-up stage. As soon as she wakes up she puts on her dress and her dress-up shoes of course!


Daisy loves Walt playing dress-up with her, thank goodness he only has a desire to wear the shoes I have not yet seen him in the dress. Notice the shoes?

Daisy has become quite the boss of what she wants Walt to do when they play together. One day they had their dress-up on and Daisy was telling Walt where to go and he was following all her directions. A little while later he was done playing and he took off his dress-up shoes, which Daisy was not happy with. She began to chase him with the shoes and was screaming at him to put them on, he tried hiding from her but she quickly found him behind the couch; poor guy.

Another story about "Bossy Daisy"...While playing with dolls the other day (notice it's all Daisy's choice in toys) Daisy said to Walt, "In 2 minutes you say 'your welcome' and I say 'thank you' okay Walt?" Walt said, "Okay...Your Welcome" Daisy yelled back at him, "No, in 2 minutes"!

It is so much fun to watch them interact with each other and I look forward to watching their friendship grow. We love you Daisy and Walt!

"Family Night"

Our family went to the Fair last Thursday night, without Max. He gets so stubborn and he decided he didn't want to do his homework, so he stayed home instead. We locked up the computer and the t.v. so he just had to "hangout" on his own while we were gone. It was such a hard night for me though, I wanted this to be a fun family night together, but I knew that I had to stick to the consequence. After getting home I tried to get him to do his homework one last time and then he would be able to watch t.v. before bed, but he still wouldn't do it, he said "I can do it during 'Fun Friday' since I already lost it". I was so embarrassed to send him to school the next day without his homework done. What is even harder, is when I feel like it doesn't bother him to miss out on these fun family activities. It's not like that was the first time he has chosen not to go with us because he didn't want to do something he needed to get done. I am just hoping this is just a stage that will pass soon!

My camera ran out of batteries, but I got a picture of Van on the airplane.