My new village...

Today my kids went with my parents to finish up some shopping and look what they got me! I have wanted to start a village but just never had the space for one. So this year that is what the kids gave me for Christmas. I was so excited, I hurried and put it up. I will post more pics tonight when you can see all the lights. Each one of the kids got to pick out a building and they each picked out way cool ones. Riley got me the cinema, Anika picked the beauty shop, Brashae the one with the train, and Heber picked the fire station. Carm has a beautiful village and I hope that one day mine looks as good as hers does. I hope we can keep that darn cat out of it too!

Carving pumpkins.....

My Dad and step mom grew these pumpkins in their garden this year and we got them carved the other night! I lit them tonight and took more pics of them to post on here! I love carving pumpkins but I wish there was a quicker way to get the guts out!

Got wood?

Sunday morning started with a trip to 7-11 to pick up a pumpkin spice latte. I am now addicted to them...Then a trip to my Dad's to drop off the girls and head up the mountain to get wood for the winter. The rest of my family had already gotten theirs but we slacked so they came to help us! So Dad, Clint, Grandpa Ted, Uncle Mike, Riley and I were off like a terd of hurtles...Sorry bad joke.

This is my little man helping me mark wood...

This is the only proof that I was there as I was taking all of the pictures!

Here is my Dad the hero! He is so awesome and he and my step mom are such awesome people! They help us out all the time and we appreciate them so much.

This is my Grandpa Ted who helped supervise this whole operation!

Here is Riley again this time with an ax! Look out world!

Here is my Uncle Mike the tree faller downer...Don't know what else to call it...LMAO!

We had a fun time and got a lot of wood and now we have a toasty warm fire which is so nice! Thanks so much to all who helped us!

Surviving Camp Flaming Gorge

We had a family reunion with Carm's (my step-mom) family in early June. My aunt lives in Dutch john so we decided to have it up there this year and that way we could all spend time on the Gorge also. It was a pretty fun filled weekend. Carm rented a condo at Flaming Gorge resort and it had enough room for all of us and the kids so we wouldn't have to drive up and down the mountain every night. We had a blast on Saturday playing on the lake and taking some fun pictures. Here are a few of them...

My stepmom Carmen, My dad, Clint, Heber, Cara,

This is all of us who attended the reunion this year!

The little cousins drying out after swimming in the cold water!

This is the Carter Creek Bridge. When my Dad was in high school they to jump off this bridge for fun but now it is illegal because of how dangerous it is!