Fall Break

Four day weekends are what we live for!  Although we wait and wait for these weekends, and then they fly by and here we are on Sunday evening having to go back to school & work tomorrow.  But we had a great weekend and had tons of laughs and fun, enough to get us through to the next long weekend.  On Thursday, we took Frank to Lagoon.  We figured the daytime would be best for him during Frightmares, less to be scared of. 

Friday morning we woke up early to head down south.  The drive down only had one blooper, and it had nothing to do with the fact that Dave let Owen drive his brand new truck down.  Davis pulled the handcuffs for his costume out and got stuck.  They had a safety release, but it didn't work.  We ended up having to call Dave and Owen in front of us and have them pull over to have Dave break them off his wrist.  This was funny the first time he did it, but what was really funny was that he did it 2 other times during the weekend. 

We spent Friday in Milford visiting Grandma Stewart.  Dave had some vacation days that he had to take, so they also went down for the deer hunt opening on Saturday, but Friday they hung out with us.  We took the kids horseback riding.   I'm happy that Dave's cousin has horses, and that he is more than happy to let the kids take them out riding for the afternoon. 

After visiting Milford, the kids and I drove to Toquerville.  The Halloween Carnival was this weekend and since our schedules all worked out, we wanted to spend Fall Break down South. 

 

Now, it is late and I'm exhausted.  We have school & work tomorrow, and the only advantage of going tomorrow is that we are working toward another day off next Friday.  The only way to get to that day off is to go, so I will go to work because I've already got some fun plans for next Friday. 

 

Made it to Frightmares

We've been wanting to go back to Lagoon for Frightmares, it's just hard with football every weekend.  We finally made it last night, only problem is that it was the same night the whole state of Utah was able to make it as well.   We still had a good time, walking around and seeing everything, but the lines were too long to want to wait for the rides.  We will get back again before they close for the winter, and ride all our favorite rides one more time before we have to wait 6 months to be able to go back. 

 After fighting the crowds for a couple hours, we decided to get the heck out of there and we ended up at DQ for an icecream treat. 

Heartbroken

Owen had an abrupt end to football season.  He went to the surgeon today and has to get an MRI to check for a torn meniscus in his knee.  He is so upset.  I went to the game today, and my momma heart broke into a million pieces as I saw him watch the game he loves with all his heart from the sidelines. 

Here are some pictures from happier times, when he could play. 

Davis has had a fantastic season as well!  His team is going into the playoffs on Saturday, after winning as Region Champions.   He takes it all in stride, and just acts like it is any other day.  Good luck on Saturday!!

And our soccer player, she plays hard and wears herself right out.  Her season is about over as well, and the team is heading indoor for another season.  Gator is also starting basketball on Saturday. 

 As a defender, Gator doesn't have much of a chance to score usually.  At her last game, it ended in a tie and she got to participate in PK's and she was so excited to score a goal!

 

 

Picked out our Pumpkins

When life is busy and stressful, I'm so glad that I am able to save a few minutes for holiday fun.  I was upset because I couldn't remember the address to the pumpkin patch we went to last year.  I wanted to go to the same one again.  Last year, there were advertisements everywhere for the one in Hooper, but I didn't see a single sign this year.  I asked everyone at work, and even put a post on Facebook, but nothing worked.  Driving home from picking up Owen (one of the stressful things, because we had to meet with the athletic trainer who suspects he has torn his meniscus) we turned down 12th street on a whim and found this darling pumpkin patch.  It is now my favorite, and I'm so glad I couldn't find the same one we went to last year. 

 Like every year, we picked out an ugly pumpkin.  Just like I love "Charley Brown" Christmas trees, I love ugly pumpkins.  We buy one and place it on the steps with all the other pumpkins.  Everyone/thing needs to feel included. 

There is beauty all around

 

I feel at times like I just hit the repeat button every day when I wake up.  We go to work/school and then it's home to laundry and cleaning and practice or games.  And I love my life, I really do.  I love watching my kids in their sports, I love the time in the car that we have with no distractions so we can talk and I like my job, but today we had to break out of the routine and go see the fall colors.  There was lots of yellows and reds are starting to show, but it probably was a little early, but it was still beautiful.  My camera isn't great, and it doesn't show the amazing color of blue that the sky was this afternoon, but the greens and yellows with the blue sky and fluffy white clouds were so pretty.  I love this day every fall when we go for a drive.