One More Cub Scout!

Isaac has been so excited to start Cub Scouts after he was baptized. Since he started he has been crazy about earning badges and so here we are at Pack Night getting his Bobcat. He was on a count down for when Pack Night was all month and then the second we got home he went to the calendar to see when the next one was. The next day he was looking through his book looking for the next thing to pass off.

It was weird sitting there with all of our big kids at a Pack Night and realizing that it is all coming to a close. It was kinda sad but fun to know that all the kids are so big now and on to different and new things. I made sure that everyone was there and so did Isaac, he made some calls. It was about time that everyone else came to support him in something. We all know how the littleset kid gets drug around to all the other childrens' activities so it was really nice to have them all there to support him. Isaac was really proud and happy that everyone was there, it meant alot to him.

Long Forgotten Halloween

Apparently I have neglected sharing about Halloween, not that it was way special or anything.It's a good thing we still have Sab and Isaac to remind us to enjoy these kinds of holidays. They helped decorate the porch and made sure all 5 bags or web were put out. I forgot to get a picture of the giant web that covered the huge window and the witch that looked like she crashed into the window.
Our beautiful creations, the barfing one is Travis' and these are all from our garden.

My little Ninja, I had one of these before but it has been a very long time. It was fun to again get to trick or treat in our neighborhood and enjoy that with the kids. There was an awesome spook alley around the corner that was really fun and scary. That family really went all out and they do it every year.

Sab and her friend, she had the face of The Joker but the rest was up to your imagination. C.C. dressed up as The Joker also and he looked so cool cuz his hair was so much like The Jokers. I hate the fact that Heath "Yummy" Ledger is gone. :( I also enjoyed the fact that it wasn't freezing cold and the kids could wear their costumes without a few extra layers.

This was the first snow on Novemeber 5th. It was so exciting and fun but only lasted a few short days. I'm sure there is much more to come.

Merry Christmas?

I know I'm jumping the gun with the Christmas stuff and all but I came across this picture a week or so ago and I had to share it. And since I changed my background to Christmas I figured they could go up together. This is a yard in Lehi. I drove by this last year and thought it was the funniest thing I had seen in forever. I can just picture some older man out putting it up every year with a chuckle. I love the sense of humor of people.

The Best Husband EVER!

Last year for Christmas, beacause we were so broke, Travis gave everyone something special with him and my gift was a trip on the Harleys to Vegas. We took the last possible weekend that MIGHT be warm and headed off. We were absolutely freezing the first two hours but then it warmed up and by the time we got there we were shedding all riding layers we could. We spent 4 days away and it was so much fun and a much needed time of rest after all the wedding festivities and the last few crazy months of life.

We stayed at the Excalibur, very cool and full of the Vegas nightlife. Cured my wanting to ever start smoking again, we were all sick by the second night of eating around all the smoking and just walking through the Casino's. It is surely a different life than most people have seen or probably ever been around, especially if you have never lived in a big city or near one. Travis is definately a city kid, for sure. Rob and Alison meet us down there for a few days and showed us the good buffetts and other cool places to go. I think that there are so many things to see there that you could go 50 times and still never enjoy all that there is.

We hit the Belagio the first morning and then hung out for the water show. The food was amazing. I got hooked on eggs benidict, I used to love that and hadn't had it for years.

The water show was unreal. I was watching it wondering how they make it all work. It was really wild and amazing how far they can shoot the water and how they designed it to all look so cool together doing so many different things within the 10 minute show that it was.
We caught a limo home one night from downtown after watching the light show there. Rob and Alison are so much fun to go with on trips, thanks for making our trip fun. :) It was so nice to just walk around and look at whatever we wanted and not have a kid nagging about being hungry or bored or needing to pee or that they wanted you to drop a hundred dollars on them for something stupid toy that they would hate by the time you got home.
Rob and Alison headed home after another awesome buffett sunday morning so we headed for Hoover Dam on the Harley's. It was so hot out, like 95', and there was a ton of traffic as we got closer but once we got there it was really beautiful. It is so amaxing how they constructed the dam and how the men back then had the knowledge to make something so important in such a quality way. This is right on the border of Nevada and Arizona which is still so weird to me. I said to Travis, "Hey, isn't this where Selma had her baby?" "Fools Rush In", ya I know, random.

This picture is on the other side where they are constructing another awesome structure to by-pass the actual dam. You can see the beginning of the arch, it was cool. Travis was like a kid and had to drop a few pennies off the dam to see it fall to its death and to never be used again.

All in all it was a great trip and we were not all that excited to get home except to sleep in our own bed. We did stop off at Joe Bandito's in Springville for the Aloha Casadilla, you will need to have one if you never have. It's a dive but the food is great. So did I mention how lucky I am to have the best husband ever? He really is so good to me and after almost 20 years of being married, we couldn't be happier!!!! Just what every girl dreams of when she gets married!