To cap off our week, we ended it with our trip to Temple Square and my birthday. You stop counting after 30 right? ha ha. 31 isn't so bad, at least I can't tell a difference. You don't have to act your age anyway right again? I had a great day with all my boys. We saw the movie Secretariat, which is Excellent, had a wonderful dinner that Richard cooked for me with our parents and then we went to the Senior Ball at the High School to watch the b-ball girls and of course Duncan's girlfriends. I had a great birthday and I always have a great time spending special days with my adorable boys and of course my hubby.

Here are a couple of pictures of Clayton. He is so funny and thinks he is so big! He loves to do what ever Duncan does and he LOVES the cats. This is our new little kitten, "Bullseye". She doesn't mind the attention too much. 

Blowing out the candles

All my boys
Virginia Tech played for the ACC Championship while we were eating dinner. The boys were all in their VT attire and Tech won! Duncan saw the Hokie bird and so life is great :)

Temple Square

We took a trip up to Temple Square this last weekend to see the lights. The weather was nice and of course the lights are beautiful. The boys had a good time and Richard and I always have a good time when we are doing something with the boys. We love this time of year at our house and it has been a few years since we'd been to Temple Square. If you get a chance, I suggest you go! 

Christmas Tree Hunting

Well it is that time of year again!!! Merry Christmas!

We headed off to get our Christmas trees Saturday after Thanksgiving and as usual had a great time!

My children think that Grandpa and Grandma are lots better than mom and dad and so they both headed to ride with them on the four wheelers, instead of with their mom or dad!  Duncan ended up riding with his Dad, but Clayton hung out with Grandma and Grandpa the whole way!

I'm glad they like Grandpa and Grandma though:)

Some day I'm sure they will hate me for their cute little hats, but they are so warm!!!
They are cute, even cuter in real life:)

Our little driver...

Home we go with ALL the trees!

November

Here is a little peek at our house lately...

Someone is getting pretty big-

We've been swimming, courtesy of Mr. McKay

We had all sorts of fun and Duncan is getting pretty good at floating on his back as well as swimming!

I have a similar picture of Duncan doing this at just about the same age- yes, they are ALOT alike :)

This is my old horse Jake. Long story short, he is in "greener pastures".  It has been an adjustment looking out my back door and not seeing him standing in the field or walking out to check on him and make sure he was warm enough and so on. He is a fixture on the farm. He was the horse that everyone got to ride for the first time or if they had never riden a horse because he was our gentle giant. You trusted him with anyone and all of the grandkids have taken a ride or two on him for the first time all by their self.  He was 35 years old, pretty old for a horse, and has been my best friend since I was a kid. I spent countless hours riding and spending time on him growing up. I hope my boys are able to have a pal like him to spend their childhood/adolescence on riding and enjoying horses. He gave us all lots of fun memories and good laughs. We will all miss him. 

Grandpa and Clayton after Thanksgiving dinner- Poor Grandpa:)

There is always something fun to do at Aunt Kecia's house. Air hockey, ping pong, you name and they have it to keep us all entertained.

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving too!



Halloween and more

Look at this, two posts in November already! Maybe I will get caught up!

Here are pictures from the last week at our house. Halloween seemed to be a week long celebration this year! Duncan was Iron Man and Clayton was an adorable little duck this year. To start off, we went to the FFA's pumpkin decorating contest (which we supplied the pumpkins for) on Wednesday, then Thursday we opened the pumpkin patch for its last night of the season, which turned out to be very successful I think. Duncan had his party at school on Thursday since they didn't have school on Friday and then Nephi had its Halloweentown celebration Friday after noon. The kids had fun trick or treating the main street of Nephi. On Saturday we fixed fence with Grandpa Phillips so the cows could be moved and then hurried home for more trick or treating. The trunk or treat is always fun and then off through the neighborhood we went. Duncan loves to walk through our neighborhood with his dad and go to "every" house. Both the boys had fun and they gathered up plenty of candy to last us until Easter I think! 

On Sunday we moved the cows out to the pasture, tagging all of them first. Duncan and his cousin's had all sorts of fun helping and running the chutes then we hurried home for our first annual pumpkin launching contest. We called it family home evening for the month and had Richard's parents and all of my siblings over to launch pumpkins and have "dinner in a pumpkin". The pictures are self explanatory.... my husband is the biggest kid ever and let me tell you, everyone got a good laugh. We had enough fun that everyone insisted we do it again next year. Enjoy the pictures!

Catching Up!

Well.... To say the least I have taken a hiatus from the blogging world! Our house has been crazy busy and we've been having lots and lots of fun. The easiest way to catch up is to put it all in a slide show so, here you go.

We've got all the fun things we've done pretty much from August to October (all the things I haven't posted) So enjoy the pictures and hopefully the month of November you will see a few more posts! :)

My Big Boy

I can't believe my baby is in Kindergarten!! Yep, it happened! And... we all survived the first day.  He was excited and loves his class. There are lots of friends in his class from preschool and they have a good time.
He also enjoys his teacher quite a bit, along with the playground and the computer lab:).

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We are off! One last picture at the house and then off to school!

It is so fun to watch him learn and grow- we hope you enjoy Kindergarten!!

Summer Fun

Our baby boy is getting so big! He loves to push the tractors all over the place and is so much fun.




Grandpa's Birthday- he had lots of help with his 73 candles!





Fishing with lots of good company! The week end before Labor Day Richard and Duncan went fishing with Aunt Sandy, Aunt Linda, Uncle Jeff and cousin Arie. They had lots of fun and brought home lots of great fish for dinner. Duncan is quite the little fisherman!

Labor Day Weekend

Catching up some more, here are some pictures from Labor Day weekend. The Pay family always has the family reunion on this weekend. They go camping and have all sorts of fun. We took our 4 wheelers with us and went on a few rides. We took Richard's brother and his two kids with us on Saturday morning. Everyone had a good time I think and we stopped and took them down in by the creek then rode up on top of the trail. The kids had fun trading places and riding. Duncan rode his 4 wheeler up to the top and Mom rode it down:) When we got back down, we of course had to play in the water and that is always a favorite place. Clayton was just enjoying being out and about. He loves to ride, just like his brother, and had fun in the water and riding his trike all week end.
On Sunday we took the boys and went back up to a waterfall in the creek. We all got in and played then we walked up the creek and climbed up some little waterfalls, tried to catch fish and had all sorts of good fun. We were all soaked but Duncan thought it was great and I must say that it was fun. After that, it was horse rides with Grandpa and then we headed for home. We had a great weekend. Enjoy the pics!

























I was on call on Monday and so the boys all hung out at home.This is what Dad came up with to entertain the boys... Creative yes, and I must say pretty safe according to Dad's opinion, plus they both had a ball. They rode like this for a good 30 minutes! What a life!