Las Vegas Baby!!

Over the weekend my friends and I packed up and headed out!! We left the kids and the husbands home and we got the heck out of dodge! Our adventure started Sunday morning leaving Delta at 11:00 we stopped in Cedar City for a potty break and some lunch. While we were eating at Applebee's a man left us a note on our car stating how cute we all were and wanted to know if any of us were single! This made all of our day! It's always nice to know that someone else thinks you look good!! We hit Vegas around 5 o'clock! We went to the Tournament of Kings the fist night and little gambling but I wasn't so lucky so I quit pretty quickly!! It's not really that fun when your not winning! Our second day there was our big day! We went to MAMA MIA! It was amazing I highly recommend seeing it!! We all fell in love with the movie when it played in Delta(Yes we have a movie theater here!)When the play was over the night was still young so we found an awesome band playing the best 80's rock in the casino, we decide to sit and listen. Most of you know that I can't just sit and listen, so it wasn't to along (okay a half of a song)and we were all up and dancing!! We danced the night away literally we got back to our room around 4 in the morning! Boy am I feeling that, I haven't stayed up that late since I was dating Greg!! We have decided that it is now tradition that we are going to go every October!

I had to get a squished penny for my collection

Will Cast Spells For Chocolate

We love to go to Gardner Village to the Witches Night Out! It is a ton of fun and there are a ton of crazy people who love it as much as us!! It has now become a tridition for the girls to go every year! This trip to witches marked our 4th year! We keep saying that we are going to get totally deck out in full witch gear but we have yet to accomplish it! But we have managed to all ware hats once! Oakley and I LOVE the carmel apples form Afton's Candy Shop they only sell them during the month of October so we load up and eat them for the rest of the week!

Oh LuLu

Here is another funny from the mouth of Kara that I have to share! To start out I need to tell you a little bit of history so you can get the humor of it all.... Kara has a rag quilt that my Mom and I made for her when she was tiny, well actually she has 3 (one is a travel size) she would stand at the washer and cry while it was in there. We quickly made her another one, now I can rotate the wash days, and have a clean one ready to go, with out putting the poor girl into complete hysterics! 1 of the 3 or sometimes all of varieties goes everywhere with her! Kara loves the fuzzy edges of her blankets, she will rub them on her lips and nose, as she moves her tongue in a sucking motion.(weird I know) She has worn all of the fuzz off around one blanket already so we sewed around and clipped the edges again so she would be back in business.....So now on to the funny part as I am snuggling with in her bed she asked me "Mom am I addicted" my reply was "What?" so she repeated her question " Mom am I addicted" so this time I responded with "to what?" and she came back with "To FUZZ!" I laughed and then told her yes you are ADDICTED TO FUZZ!Where the addiction all began!

I Have An Announcement!

I'm excited to announce that I gave my baby calves their very last bottle....
OH HAPPY DAY!!!

Oakley Is 9!!

10 '08

Oakley, I can't believe that you are nine!! Wow how much you have grown! You started out life only 6lbs. 5oz. and only 19 inches long! Now look at you! You are so beautiful! I would like to tell you one of my many favorite Oakley moments from the past years! You were the best baby never! You loved to be out in the barn yard with your Dad, I will always remember the time when you were 2 and we just bought some baby calves that had been raised on bottles. Your Dad and I unloaded them into the pen at our old Hinckley house. You were right there behind us the whole time, in your little Levi jacket, mimicking your Dads every move, never once afraid of the cows and calves, after we were done you walked into the pen and stuck out your tinny little hand to the calve and it latched on and begun to suck! I thought you would have been frighted by it but Oh no way!! When the calve stopped and let go of your hand, you chased it around the pen wanting it to do it again! I knew from that moment on that you were going to be our little Cow Girl! Shortly after this you started your famous phrase, when you were asked what you wanted to eat, the answer always was "Poop and Hay!" and it hasn't ever left! Oakley you are such a joy to have in our family. I don't know what I would do with out you! You are such a big help to your Dad and I! I love you so much, and want you to know how proud I am of you!
Love, MOM

01 '07Team Penning '08Camping '08

Greg had a Birthday!!

Yesterday was Greg's Birthday, I was excited this year because he is usually hunting on his birthday and we don't get to spend it with him! I had been asking him for a week what he wanted to do for his birthday and got no reply, I decided that meant he just wanted to be home! So then I started to ask him what he wanted me to make for him for his birthday dinner and the answer I he gave for a few days was I don't know! So yesterday morning I asked him one last time with if you don't tell me we will have sloppy Joe's! The answer I got that time was then we will eat sloppy Joe's! I gave him one more chance, on my way to town I called him and asked again he said surprise me!! So all afternoon I slaved away at his favorite Chicken Cordon Blue with rice and a creamy mushroom gravy all made from scratch! I also made him his all time favorite cookies Pumpkin Chocolate Chip. After all my hard work in the kitchen we all sat down at the same time (that doesn't happen around here to often) as a family and enjoyed a great meal! What more could you ask for!

Greg, we love you so much and are so thankful for all you do for us!! You are my best friend and the love of my life and wouldn't know what I would do with out you![{Wink!}]

This picture is of Greg Team Penning at the State Fair this year!

I love my cowboy!

It's Cold Out There!!

We have broke out the heavy winter ware around here!! It has snowed each time we have gone out to do our chores......Brrrrr...... One thing about the cold weather it makes my want to bake and make projects. The Martha in me comes alive!! So around here we have had roasts for dinner and homemade soups and lost of Potatoes! (I'm going to gain my winter five pounds if I don't quit it!!) So the Martha in me started a Halloween throw quilt. My project was funded by the Granny Smith's Basement!!(up to our armpits in fabric ring a bell) It was fun to put together now all that is left to do is have it quilted!! I am happy to post that Kara is Feeling better and I made it to the school to eat lunch with Oakley! Thanks to our Super Dad he flew threw the door just in time for me to leave. He also supervised the plumbing problem in the basement!! He is the Best!{[Wink]} Here is a pic of Kara all wrapped up when she was sick! I love to watch my kids sleep, they are so peaceful and then they wake up!!