Waterpark in November??

The kids were begging us to set up our waterpark, which we thought we retired for the winter. We gave in and set it up on Nov. 8th, I can't believe that they actually went on it, CRAZY KIDS!!

Happy Halloween!!!

This year for Halloween we went to a trunk-or-treat at our church. I really like it this way, not having to go door to door and get scared by the weirdos out there. It is safe, you don't have to worry about the candy plus you are just walking car to car so you don't get tired. They had a Chilli for dinner and had games set up for the kids to play, it was a lot of fun! Luke dressed up as two-face, he is from batman, Madi dressed up as a witch, and Max was batman. Oh, I can't forget us, Curt was a kung fu master and Lori was a doctor. Maybe next year we will do a family theme, I guess we'll have to wait and see!

Families can be together forever...(Ut/Wy trip)

We had a great time seeing our family at GG's funeral. Sunday we went over to Curt's cousin Jenny's house for Aiden's birthday, it was fun to be able to be there for that , since we don't get to see them that much. The kids had fun playing with their long distance cousins, we hardly saw them! It was great to see everyone and I'm sure grandma was looking down on us with a big smile, she always liked to get everyone together. Her funeral went well, the kids sang' "families can be together forever", and they did a great job. Luke said it was kinda hard to sing because he was so sad but he made it through. We all miss GG, her caring heart, her humor and her hugs but we know that she is with her husband again and we know that we will see her again someday. We love you GG, until we meet again...

Snow!!! (Utah/WY trip part 3)

We decided to leave for Wy Sat. morning instead of Sun. because the weather channel said that there was a storm coming Sat. night. We left around noon and got up to Evanston Wy, when they closed the freeway down. We were stuck there for around 4 hours, and let me tell you that there is not a whole lot to do there. The kids however had a blast playing in(whats that called, oh yeah, snow)! Madi loved it, she couldn't get enough of it, and was sad when we had to get back into the car. We got back on the road and everything was going o.k. for about an hour when the real fun started. Semi trucks were everywhere, there was black ice everywhere and lots and lots of wind. My kids thought we were going to die! They have never seen this kind of weather and it was freaking them out! Curt asked me to say a prayer, and after I did, it seemed to calm them down. At one point we were on;y going around 20 miles an hour, very scary to drive through a blizzard! Needless to say, we decided that we had enough of driving for the night and we got a hotel room with our cousins. The best was the next morning when Max woke up he said, "Where the heck am I". He was a little confused since he fell asleep in the car and therefore he had no idea that we got a hotel room. The kids thought it was cool that all 8 of us shared a hotel room, one big slumber party!

I love to see the temple... (Utah trip part 2)

I'm going there someday...

While we were up in Utah we decided to take the kids to temple square. We had a great time walking around the temple grounds, it is always so beautifully taken care of. The flowers are an amazing site and of course so is the temple. The kids got to see a lot of grooms and brides that day getting pictures taken, and so they asked us questions about when we got married. I just love their curiosity on this subject! Anyways, we had a great time there and we also visited Brigham Youngs house and had lunch at the Lion's house(good old-fashioned food)!