Hee Haw Farms.

Today Bodie and I got to with Truman on his field trip to Hee Haw Farms.

Tiff and her kids are off track right now so they met us there.

Anne, Addie

Truman, Jean, Enoch, Quinn, Bodie

The big slide is always a hit - and Truman did it by himself this year.

Petting the goat, which Anna was not to sure about - look at that face.

Oh my, could this kid get any cuter?!  He is sitting on the pumpkin he picked from the pumpkin patch.

The tractor hay ride.

The Hopkinson kids.

First picture of Tiff and her six kids! Way to go Tiff.

All the kids, even though Anna was being a stinker and would not look at the camera.

I love this kid.

Skeletons.

 We bought our new cousin Nelson this skeleton outfit so he could match the boys for Halloween.

We are practicing for a new brother.

Brothers.

 I looked back in my car to see both the boys sleeping in the same position!  Truman usually sleeps like this so it was funny to see Bodie do the same, brothers.

The driveway.

Oh, where do I start.

Today was not my best day ever.

I was home with the boys when I got a call from Gregg {who was in SL} telling me I needed to rush over to the new house because a dog {who shall remain nameless} had run through our wet cement.  

Unfortunately I was not surprised by the news - "the dog" has been a problem at the new house the entire building process.  In fact Gregg had called the owners yesterday to let them know we would be pouring our driveway today and asked if they would please keep the dog inside/leashed up {by the way it is Midway City law to always have your dog on a leash}.

 My father-in-law met me at the house as my 'back up' since he saw the incident and I didn't have Gregg there to help me figure things out.  I also called the HOA manager and animal control on my way over.  I was so upset - to put it mildly! 

It has been SO wet and rainy here that it has been hard to get our driveway poured, and at this point it has started to hold up other things like landscaping and exterior finish work.  Once the rain finally stopped we could not get our flat-work guy to call us back and schedule a time to do our driveway, stairs and sandbox.  Finally about a week ago I started asking around for recommendations for a new contractor.  After meeting with and looking over bids we hired a guy from Park City to come do the work for us and he graciously squeezed us into his packed schedule.

I say all that to give a little perspective to how happy we were to finally be getting our driveway poured - then this happened.

Our cement guy came over to try and "work out" the paw prints.  The dog was 'ticketed' by animal control and I cried.  I know, silly thing to cry over - it was just such a long time coming {the actual driveway}, so many other subs have been backed up because of it, I am tired, and pregnant, and the drive way cost almost $10,000 - now I have paw prints in it - and we don't like dogs.

 Truman made this sign while listening to me on the phone all afternoon with the HOA, animal control and Gregg.  He knew I was upset and was trying to help out.

I love his picture of the dogs ... with 6 legs and an "X" through them.  And that he wrote "No Dogs"

He asked if we could hang this sign on our driveway!  GLADLY!

At Gregg's request I had already made this sign and had it up at the end of the driveway along with caution tape.

Later today I found this cute note from Truman - I think he felt my pain today.

FHE 4-Wheeling.

The boys have been asking to ride grandpa and grandma's 4-wheelers so tonight we took them up to Cascade Springs for family night to see the fall colors.

We can ride straight from my parents new house {that is under construction} to the trail head.

 Me, Bodie and Grandma {notice Bodie is holding his little red 4-wheeler in his hand}.

 

General Conference and callings.

As always we had a great weekend watching general conference with family.

I think I forgot to mention that Gregg and I received a calling in our new ward.  We teach the 13-year-old Sunday School class, there are 22 kids in our class {that is JUST 13 year olds}.  Just to give you an idea of how big our ward is, we had 100 new people move in this summer adding to the 600+ members already in the ward!!!  We are excited to have a calling together - and Gregg is especially excited to be teaching the youth.

Last Sunday we gave them this simple sheet to take notes and color for General Conference {it has a huge crossword puzzle on the back side}.  If they bring it back next week complete they get brownies and ice cream {they came up with that incentive}.  I hope they watched.

Soccers over.

{Avery, Truman, Hudson, Lance, Gregg

Not pictured: Canyon}

Fall soccer is over and these boys made a great team.

It was co-ed soccer but we ended up with no girls on our team.

Thanks coach Gregg.

Special Leader.

 

 Truman got to be the 'special leader' at school today.  The letter was "d" so for a treat he took his two favorite foods; dill pickles and donuts!  Sounds yummy together.

 Here is his monster face?!

 Here he is with his teacher Miss. Lisa - she is great and they have such a good class again this year.

More Soccer.

I love the look of concentration!

Substituting out and taking a break.

These boys are so cute and so much fun to watch.

Today we had lots of fans on the side-lines.

Grandpa and Grandpa Simons and Enoch.

Grandma Quinn with Anna and Jean.

Cheering for the black team.

School Pictures.

The boys both came home recently with their fall school photos.

Could there ever be a worse picture of Bodie? I know I am bias because I am his mother, it is so bad it's funny.

 His class picture on the other hand I found adorable - look how proud he looks.

Miss. Mignonne, Ty, Drew

Shane, ?, ?, Bodie

{Bodie only knows the other little boys names - not the girls}

 Truman fall 2013.

Paisley, Sadie, Miss. Lisa, Sam, Adele

Britain, Truman, Brooke, Keagan. Ethan.

Here is a cute note Truman's teacher sent home one day.

General Relief Society Meeting.

Tonight my cousins and I attended the General Relief Society Meeting at the Conference center.  My cousin Lindsey is in town from Nevada so it made for the perfect excuse to leave our kids with our husbands and have a little girls night out.

One of Lindsey's best friends from Fallon moved to the Heber valley a little over a year ago - we were introduced when her daughter was on our softball team this summer {small world}.  It was fun to have Chelsea with us - I would take her as a cousin any day!

Look how close we were!  It's hard NOT to feel the spirit in that building.

I don't know what happened or what we are looking at but this is kind of a funny outtake.

April Trent, Chelsea Chambers, Lindsey Schank, me.

{+April Trent  +Chelsea Chambers +Lindsey Schank}

After the meeting we went out for Cafe Rio and then returned home after the pleading phone calls from April's husband - begging her to come nurse the baby :)

What a great evening out - and what great talks reminding me that being a mother is the most wonderful job {because sometimes we need reminders}!

{photo credit: Lindsey Schank}