Omaha Adventure

Leaving early from Spanish Fork, Jeff, Garrett, Evan (Jeff's brother) and Jim (Jeff's dad), took off for Omaha, Nebraska for a week of hunting pheasants. Garrett took all the photos. The above photo is of Bridal Veil Falls in Provo Canyon.

Looking over the Missouri River near Winter Quarters, Nebraska. Below is the Mormon Bridge crossing over the Missouri River.

Boys and their fascination with hot cars. This one I am sure all the guys were coveting.

Outside of Laramie Wyoming is this statue carved out of stone just at a rest stop on Highway 80. Lincoln was truly one our country's great presidents.

How's this for the town's swimming pool. The boys really wanted to stop and swim each time they passed this in Jacksonville, Iowa. It was near where they were hunting. I guess size and temperature prevented the happy occasion from ever happening.

This hawk had an injured wing and was unable to fly. Pretty much this was about all the wildlife fowl they spotted amidst the few pheasants they saw and the few they were able to bag.

Finally, this is the only shot of the boys hunting (Jason and Evan - Jeff's brothers). All in all they had fun although they had an unproductive hunt. The wet weather they have had in the Midwest prevented farmers from harvesting the corn and soybean fields making it difficult to flush any pheasants out of their hiding places.

Busy!

So Jeff and Garrett went to Omaha, Nebraska for their annual pheasant hunt with Jeff's brother Jason. They were gone for a week and look at what I got accomplished! I had already started the crocheted afagan but was able to finish the border. I put up 24 pints of grape jelly thanks to mom and dad's grapes! Then I put on the baby blanket to quilt and just finished binding it a couple of days after they returned. Not bad. Good thing this trip is an annual occasion. What will I put on my list of things to accomplish next year?! Truly I am just grateful for a mother who was patient enough to teach me so much and still helps me learn from her. Thanks mom!

State Volleyball Champs!

Sorry! The pictures are really blurry, but its just becuase my mom took them! haha! That's me on the left end when we were prepping for the opening final ceremony for 1A volleyball. It was so much fun. We spent the night at Amy's (my cheer coach) dad's house then the next moring we went to state.

Us cheerleaders doing croud cheers.

Sierra and I posing for a picture after we won state! Sierra came to Grandma's house with us then we went trick or treating as-guess what?... CHEERLEADERS! Funny coincidence huh?! Trick-or-Treating was the best, we rode scooters around Spanish Fork, we said 'hey' to all the guys we saw while treating, then got sick off of candy afterwards! It was the best!

That's me with the paw-print on my cheek. We were prepping with Piute cheerleaders for opening ceremony.

That us at the opening ceremony. Panguitch is the undefeated champs but Piute is really good at volleyball too, we're just, how do you say it? Oh ya BETTER! Woo go Cats!

Halloween

After watching Kimber and Garrett in the halloween parade, Addison and I were able to help with Garrett's school party. His last one as he is in 6th grade this year. I hope it was a fun one. Garrett walked by too fast for me to get a shot of him in the parade. Temperatures were freezing (literally) and I think that it took the entire school less than 1/2 hour to walk the parade route around the block. Fastest time it's ever been done in since we have lived here in the past 8 years!

Garrett's class after making a big spider web (Addison even got into the action).

Addison and her best friend Jaci. Two peas in a pod. They looked forward to going to Mrs. Owens preschool party all morning long and were so glad when I finally gave them the go ahead to get ready for the party.

Since we went to Spanish Fork after school was out, we missed the Halloween activities in Panguitch. Instead Grandma and Grandpa took the kids trick-or-treating around their neighborhood. Thanks! Jeff, Garrett and I spent the evening watching the Panguitch girls win state in volleyball.

Fall Canning

After a couple of days at mom's, we put up over 70 jars of applesauce and around 30 jars of grape juice. Not bad! We split the goods and both were able to stock our shelves. I love the taste of homemade applesauce and grape juice. The apples all came from Moccasin and the grapes were grown in Kanab at mom and dad's.

Thank goodness for friends. Garrett's friend Jack helped us with the grape juice and a couple of weeks later McKenna's friend Baylee helped us with the applesauce. I wonder if they will ever want to go to Grandma's with us again. We worked them both pretty hard! We were very grateful for the extra hands and Grandpa was grateful that Jack was so proficient on his new riding lawn mower!

Now to make some jelly from the juice! That will have to wait for another day!

Initiation!

After a short morning of looking for bucks in the beautiful fall colors (Garrett and Jeff left the house at 6 am), and after several days of muzzleloader hunting with no success, Garrett bagged his first two point in one shot from about 150 yards away! And all this was accomplished opening morning at 8 am! Way to go!

Looking good Garrett! Your part of the official hunt club now! Good thing Jeff has a hunting partner since Jeff didn't draw for a tag this year!