Softball

Well it's been a few weeks since my last update on the softball team I play with. Well here it is. We are now 1-9. We finally won a game. a sad note is that there is only 4 games left to be played this season. This week the games are early and next weeks games are the late games. You are all welcome to come and watch.

Photos

The photos we entered in to the Arizona State fair are going to be displayed. If you would like to see the ones that will be on display go to our photo blog. The link is on the page.

Today is the day that we found out that my Brother Scott and his loverly wife Emily are expecting a BOY! I am so excited for this new little one to come into our lives. Until the middle of February, I will just have to wait and watch Emily's growing baby bump! With this new one it will bring the count to all three sides of our family to 23! Boys= 11 Girls= 12

Camping

We decided to go on an overnight camping trip just the two of us. We have not really made any time in a couple of months to do anything that we like to really do just by ourselves! So we took off on friday for the cool pines around Payson. We decided to scout out a new spot that we have not been to as a married couple. We hit up the Houston Mesa area, as we were driving to find a campground, we came across a section of the forest that had been in a forest fire earlier this summer. As we were passing this section, your eyes are not prepared for the sadness that you see for all of the beautiful nature that had gone through such a devistation. I felt like crying, this section must have been so beautiful, but all I saw was Black, Charred masses that were trees at one point in time. Seeing that makes me so mad for all of those individuals that are not responsible for their fires when they camp! As Scott and I talked about this devistation, he said that at least one good thing would come from this in a couple of years, there would be a whole new section that would be beautiful with life, and we could see the progress if we wanted to, I think we just might do that!!! We found our camp ground and set if up, we were in a very quiet section. Hardly anyone came through there. We made a new concoction in our dutch oven that we will be making from now on. I just love it when we experiment with foods in our dutch ovens! It was a nice day, but it got a little cold at night, I slept in the SUV because it would be warmer in there, and Scott was not as cold as me. In the morning upon waking up, Scott proceeded to tell me that he was woken up around 4 am by a bunch of Turkey gobbling through the camp with their babies. I told him that I heard nothing, not even the crickets. I love my SUV!! We packed up our stuff and headed out to go home. There was a little craft fair in Payson, we stopped there and got the best Honey in the world, harvested that day! It is so YUMMY! We made it back home in enough time to go on a mini date, we played bowling. And had a lot of fun doing it!! Until our next little trip!

(our little camp ground, just the bare necessities for it: a tent, sleeping bags, chairs, table, dutch oven, water, and food)

The Growl of Anne-Marie

This photo is from Kayla's wedding day, Scott was taking pictures of the kids before Kayla and Bret came out of the temple. He asked Anne-Marie to smile for the picture, and she proceeded to growl at him in the middle of the picture, and here is the finished product of the growl at him. I laughed so hard when I saw this picture and I am still laughing as I am writing. She is such a character, and we love our Miss Little Swiss Miss!!

HOCKEY season is HERE !!!!!!!!!!!!

It is the time of year that I have been waiting for. It's HOCKEY TIME !!!!!!!! For the next 8 months there will be hockey posts for those who care. If you don't care well too bad. This year will be an interesting year. I'll say it now, the Stanley Cup will be decided between New Jersey Devils and the Chicago Blackhawks. And of course NJ Devils winning the cup in game 7. I'm ssssssoooooo excited that hockey has finally returned.