Black Island Farms

Every year the girls in our neighborhood get together and take our kids to Black Island Farms.  It is so fun!  If you get a big group it's only $4 and endless activities!

He enjoyed the train ride, bounce house, slides, pig races, corn box, corn maze, and tractor ride to pick out a pumpkin.

Grandma

My Blog has stalled for a while because I didn't want to go on until I wrote about my grandma, but I wasn't exactly sure what to say.  So I just want to keep it short and simple.

On September 21 my dad's mom passed away; 6 days after her 96th birthday.  It wasn't unexpected, her health had been steadily declining for a while.

I have only been to 2 funerals in my family: my mom's dad died of cancer when he was only 76 and we were just devastated.  He suffered for YEARS and so it was comforting to see him not in pain anymore, but it was really hard.  And it was all happening literally the week we got married so that made things even more difficult.

This funeral was SO different.  It was really a celebration for a wonderful life.  My grandma had been a widow for 33 years (I never met my grandpa).  It was so comforting to think of the amazing reunion she was having with her sweetheart!  And with our knowledge of the plan of salvation and the amazing life she lead, it was really a joyous time.  My dad spoke at her funeral and did such a great job paying tribute to this amazing lady.  Seeing my dad get emotional was the one thing that made me emotional.  I can't imaging having to bury both of your parents by the age of 54.  But he did an amazing job.  And it was nice to see all of our family.  Just a nice day all together.

Donut Falls

This boy...

This boy is going to kill me!  He has been so bored now that Caydence is in school and dance ALL day!  He is constantly hanging on me and causing lots of mischief.

No nap:

A few weeks ago he stuck this huge red bead up his nose.  He always does these things when Danny is at school!  We ran to the instacare (because, of course, it was after 5:00) and $50 later, the doctor just looked at it for 5 seconds and said he couldn't do anything about it.  So the sent us rushing over to the ENT who also wanted to charge me $50, which I refused!  It took him all of 3 seconds to get it out!  Crazy boy.

He always wants to do everything by himself...

And he destroyed my beautiful just-out-of-the-oven zuchini bread!

He's trouble!  I really wish he was in preschool, ha ha.  But I really didn't want to pay for 2 (and possibly 3) years of preschool!  I need to find something to keep him busy!

1st grade!

This cutie started 1st grade on August 25th.

She was so excited for her first school lunch that she packed it on Saturday!

And Will just couldn't stand to let her have all the pictures!

Seriously...

Seriously, guys, I saw wicked 3 times while it was here this summer!  I'm one happy girl.  We win the lottery again the last week it was playing.  I called Danny one day and begged him to enter on his way home from work.  First name called! Paige and I enjoyed ourselves and now I've seen it 6 times!  Love that show!

Davis county fair

We had such a fun time at the demolition derby last year, so we jumped on the chance to go again this year.

We wend a little bit early and let the kids play around.

The noise was a little much for the kids last year, so we came prepared!

We had a great time, but towards the end of the derby a car flipped over (the 3rd of the night) and the officials rushed in to make sure the driver was ok.  One official got right under the car, and the weight shifted and it slammed down right on top of him.  It was pretty horrific.  The paramedics were right on scene and worked on him for quite a while.  They called in life flight, and it landed in the field right behing the arena.  The kids thought the helicopter was pretty cool- I'm just glad they weren't old enough to understand what was happening.  The official ended up dying on the way to the hospital.  They cancelled the rest of the derby and donated all the money to his family.  It was just terrible.  We had such a good time, it was such a sad ending.