Thriller

I conned Sherri into going with me to Thriller.  It was a lot of fun.  We went and ate at Heaps and watched the show at the Covey Arts Center.  Of course I loved it, It's Halloween, my favorite.

MOAB

The Kids: Luke, Braden, Sydney, Carson, and 

Brandon (just missing Whitney)
Thanks to my mom and dad for letting us

borrow their 4-wheelers

Delicate Arch in background
After a wet hike to the windows.  Brandon, Matt, Mark, 

Luke, Sydney, Braden and Carson

We planned a quick weekend get-away with the Manookins to Moab.  We had so much fun and they were so great to show us around.  We were totally clueless.  I haven't been to Moab since I was 17 and Mark can't ever remember going.  Sydney was so excited to go with Carson and even more excited when he brought his friend Braden, a new crush for the week.  She goes through them about as fast as toilet paper.  We stayed in some pretty swanky KOA cabins.  They didn't have much, but the kids were extremely excited to stay in a log cabin with bunk beds.  Even though the weekend was pretty wet, we managed to get in a couple of short 4-wheeler rides to Gemini Bridges and Metal Masher and a few hikes to the arches.  I can't believe how much bigger Moab is than I remembered and there really is a LOT to do there.   We look forward to going again.

Mark's Job

Mark had to take my camera out on one of his jobs the other day since he left his at work.  Now I have 500 pictures of dirt, but I thought I would post a pic of what he works with.   Since I never have really understood what he does.  This is a track mounted screen plant he started up in Hanksville.  His job it to go out and show the people who rent their equipment how to run and maintain it.  He has really loved his job change.  He gets to meet a lot of people and loves it.  

SFHS Jr Drill

Sydney's cousin Allison is on the Spanish Fork Drill Team this year, so she got to teach Sydney, Emily and Josie for a couple of weeks to perform at a JV game. 

Camping in Payson Canyon

Nicole, Mason, Sydney, Aiden, Kalei, Ellie,

  Luke, Erika, Ryan and Sage                                           

My beautiful baby boy

We closed out the summer with a camping trip with my family or at least those who could make it.  (Clint's family, our family, Grandma, Grandpa, Dayna's kids and Sherri's kids)  The kids had a lot of fun building hut's, roasting marshmallows and walking around the lake.  We had great food and I learned a ton of different ways to make a tinfoil dinner.  Who knew??

Sydney or Sidnei

Sydney may look just like her dad, but she has her mothers attitude.  (This is not a good thing.)  From the day she entered this world she has had a mind of her own.  Sometimes it's a blessing.  She has been very independent.  We joke she could easily survive on her own if we just sent her some money.  Sometimes her stubbornness is a curse.  Picking clothes to wear, how to do her hair, where we are going, pretty much anything is a battle.  

But sometimes it just makes me laugh.  The other day she came home and told me that Sydney can be spelled different ways.  I asked her what other way it could be spelled.  She said with i's or ee's.  I said yes, but dad and I decided to spell your name Sydney and we love it spelled that way.  Well she said I like it with i's.   That was the end of the conversation.  

The other day she came home from school and I was looking at all of her work from school.  She had six pages she had spelled her name Sidnei.  I asked her why she was spelling it that way and she informed me that is how she will be spelling her name from now on.  (Pretty sure that no one has ever spelled Sydney that way.)

Now the one blessing to having a child with your exact personality is you know exactly how to manipulate them.  For me, it's guilt.  It works like a charm on her as well.  I told her it hurt my feelings that she didn't like the way I spelled her name, got a really sad look on my face and she's completely committed to keeping her name Sydney.... At least this week. 

Motacyca, voom, voom

Luke hopes one day to be a great motorcycle racer like his cousin Logan.  Everytime he sees one he goes on for an hour repeating.... Motacyca, voom, voom.  It's pretty funny!

Mark's brother, David, just built a motocross track in Mona set for it's grand opening in October.  This is Mark's latest claim to fame.  He's very proud.  It looks awesome and we are very excited for them.  Take a look at the website mountainwestmxpark.com