Winner!

All of kids enter in the Walgreen's coloring contest. The winner received a $20.00 gift card, and Tyler won!!

CONGRATULATIONS TYLER!!!

Random Happenings

Cute Nathan loves talking on the phone with his Nana. It's cute to watch how excited he gets when the phone rings and he hears her voice! He still isn't speaking much, but loves to babble gibberish.

 For Tyler's Birthday he wanted to go to Nightmare on 13th Street here in SLC. So we did and it was a blast!

 One of my callings in the ward is Mid-Week activities Coordinator. We held a craft night with several different craft the sisters could choose from. We had over 50 sisters in attendance. It was a great turn-out and a FUN evening!

 The boys love putting Scott's clothes on and stuffing pillows inside. They are such funny sumo wrestlers!

 One of my dear friends, Stacy, came to SLC for a visit. We went shopping and here we are taking a little break.

 A huge deer in the front yard of my cousins home! She gets a ton of deer that come through her yard all year long!

Scott's new calling is the Scout Master. He loves it. They have already gone out on several camp outs and participated in many different activities.

 We bought season passes to the water park and it was such a great idea! We went every week, sometimes twice! We'd meet friends and family there all the time. Here is our last visit, with lots of cousins. This is Brynnlee, love this picture! And Tyler went down this scary ride too!

 DATE NIGHT!!! With some awesome cousins!

 For the BIG GAME (BYU vs. U of U) we all dressed up and had a little party. Too bad that game SUCKED!!

It's FALL!!!!!!!!!! My most favorite time of year. These colors are magnificent!

Kelsey's BIG day!

 Here is beautiful Kelsey and her new husband Colten on their BIG day!!

 Kelsey's Papa is in England serving a mission and wasn't able to attend, but this web cam was great!

 This is where Kel gets her good looks from, her mom Angie!

 Brynnlee, her older sister, and boyfriend Zac. They too make a great lookin' couple!

 Later that night at the reception!

 The Boyce's and good friends with Alex Boye! He didn't only come, he DJ'd and sang. It was a party!

Congratulations Kelsey! We love you!

Reflections- Diversity Means...

 This year the theme for Reflection was/is "Diversity Means..." It was fun searching different ideas with the boys. I had each of the boys choose two categories to submit. Here is every ones photography.
Tyler took the above photo of Gavin holding colorful M&M's.

 Here is Jackson's photos of apples, my favorite by the way!

 Here is Gavin's photo (with a little help from Will!)

 Here is Will's photo of the eggs. Below is another photo Will took of one of our chickens. It's not part of the Reflections entries, but it was a beautiful shot!

Those are the photographs they each took and they also had to choose another category as well. Will wrote up an article. Jackson made this cool material pattern, Tyler drew his hands in all different colors and Gavin drew lines with many different colors. (I'll take pictures of those and show you later!)The younger boys already found out who made it onto the next level. Gavin's BYU/U photo, and Jackson's material collage. YEAH! Great job boys! Will's deadline is next week...so we'll see!

Craftin' Away...

 It was a long 4 day weekend (YEAH!!) and the family and I spent most of the time having fun! We went to the movies, the zoo, some went camping, working on Reflection entrees (more on that later), reading and crafting. I made that cute witch (above) which was a lot of fun. My friend in the ward cuts wood out. I panted it, sanded it and stained it. (It's missing a cute crescent shape for the hat...darn kids!)

 These two (cut out by the same friend) were made last week in a Relief Society craft night activity. Easy and fun!

 I also made this cute board over the long weekend. Again, it was simple to make and fun!

I haven't had much time lately to craft, so this was a rare occasion. I have a few more Halloween things to do and several Christmas ones I want to complete this season. Cross your fingers I can get to them all!!

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We rented 4 cute kid videos today. The little boys just loved to choose their own movie!

Thanks Melissa for this great info!!

Gymnastics Training Center

 (Please excuse the terrible pictures! My camera has been giving me trouble and unfortunately I don't have any great shots from the awesome party!! UGH!)

For Tyler and Jackson's birthday party we rented out the gymnastics Training Center right by our house. It was super fun! We had 45 kids and 25 adults in attendance!! Here is Tyler jumping of the mats into the foam pit. The most popular activity at the center.

 I jumped in a handful of times, which was really fun. It took forever to claw myself out of it though!

 Here's Greg jumping! The kids and adults had a BLAST!!

 Cute Nathan and his cousin John were the biggest dare devils of them all! They both would jump in over and over and over again! They were so cute to watch!

Here's my mom even trying it!

Thanks everyone for coming and spending this special evening with us!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TYLER and JACKSON!!!

Tyler's Baptism

 My sweet Tyler had a birthday and turned a magical number, 8. This is a big deal in our family, like many of yours. Tyler has been excited for months about the opportunity he has to be baptized. It was such a wonderful event filled with happiness and love.

 Right before the event took place we were able to get some shots of him with Scott in front of the font.

On Tyler's special day we had a lot of friends and family in attendance. The kids from his primary class came, grandma and grandpa, Nana and Papa, cousins from out of town, friends from Provo and lots of family in SLC.
THANKS everyone for making this day a little bit more special for him!

SwagBucks

Here is a link to sign up for SwagBucks if you are interested!  This is an awesome web search engine that you can use to earn extra points and redeem for Amazon Gift Cards.

If you want to know more, let me know!!!

Sun Flowers!

 I planted a bunch of sun flowers all over the yard in the springtime. Most of them I have picked and I am starting to dry them out. The heads on these are HUGE! A couple of my neighbors said they've never been able to grow them so large before...Cool!

There are so many of them and about 5 others I need to cut down soon!

Dried Apples

 Our neighbors are huge gardeners around here. I LOVE it! We barter some of our produce to each other and give a bunch of it away. The neighbor across the street has peaches and pear trees.  I bottled a ton of pears and made pear sauce with it. YUM! One of my neighbors next door had a ton of extra apples. I made a bunch of canned applesauce and we decided to dry the rest of them. It took only a couple of hours and it was a fun project. All the kids were involved!

 One of my other neighbors made this dehydrater many, many years ago. We borrowed it to dehydrate the apples. It took about 20 hours and we ended up with 2 huge zip lock bags FULL of apples! YUM!