Christmas @ Temple Square 2010

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!

Well Done Elder Brady Garry Cowley!!

My baby is finally home after two years serving a Mission in the Georgia Atlanta North Mission. He arrived home on December 9th at 2:50 p.m. Christmas is here!!!!!!

Picking my parents up from their Mission.

My parents were called to serve a Service Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Nebraska on one of the Church's large cattle ranches. My sister and I got to fly in and pick them up to come over when their mission was over. We had a great time and maybe one day Steve and I will be able to go on a mission of our own.

This is the VERY LARGE plane we flew on.

Cute Sister Crump on her horse.

This is one of two "bucket babies" thats mother passed away giving birth to it. It's fed with a bucket and will come right up to you.

Wouldn't be a farm without a big John Deere


One of the houses on the Ranch they lived in.

View from the house.

Did they grow up in the horse and carriage days?

Cows were everywhere!

More cows....

Ready for the long road trip home in the Grand Marquee pulling a U-haul. Hahahahah...

Sad to say goodbye. Very well done Elder and Sister Crump!

T-Minus 29 Days!!!

29 MORE DAYS UNTIL MY ELDER "BRADY BUNCH" COMES HOME!!!!

**Witches Night Out**

My friend, Carolyn had a bunch of us friends over for a fun "Witches Night Out" a few nights ago. She had fixed us a great dinner with a fun night of games, prizes and we made a darling witch hat decoration. We had a blast!!! I have the best friends in the world and am so grateful for them!!

I LOVE Conference Weekend

I just love conference weekend. Not because I get to sleep in, well that doesn't hurt, but I love being with my family, all together listening to our Prophet, the General Authorities and the good yummy food. It just recharges my batteries and fills my spirit with gladness and thankfulness for the many blessings that I have. Did I also mention the good food too?

"To express gratitude is gracious and honorable, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live with gratitude ever in our hearts is to touch heaven." President Monson

Yummy homemade Conference Popcorn

To top it all off, the brothers got along good and Jordan even trusted Bryson enough to cut his hair.
side note: I'm not too happy that he cut it into a mow hawk! ugh!!

Fire! Fire! Fire!

Last Sunday night the 19th this is what we saw from our patio out back. This is the mountains behind us in Herriman. What had happened was Camp Williams was doing drills during the day Sunday on the machine gun range and there were high winds at the time. All it took was a spark from one of the guns and with the high winds it took off very quickly! A lot of Herriman City got evacuated because the fire was raging out of control and headed towards their homes. 3 homes were lost in the fire and many others have smoke damage. Schools in the city were closed the following day. It took firefighters a few days to get it under control and eventually out. It was a pretty scary sight that last Sunday night. Fire and Emergency crews did an outstanding job through the whole thing!! This is what we get living in a nice quiet rural area, but I wouldn't trade it for anywhere in the world. As my Grandma would say...."Bluffdale is a pretty little town"......

I Sure Do Miss This Boy!!

Sinking The Boat

The boys wanted to go fishing up at Strawberry on Labor Day so we hooked the boat up and headed to the lake. It was a perfect beautiful day and we even started catching some fish until I noticed that there was water pooling up in the back of the boat where I was fishing. I asked Steve if this was normal and with a concerned look on his face he opened up the engine part of the boat and water was seeping in through a hole in the boat. Where the hole came from we have no idea. Needless to say that as we were sitting in the middle of Strawberry Lake our boat was slowly sinking and sinking. I'm so glad that I am married to Mr. Gadget Man who can fix anything and he quickly sprang into action grabbing the pump and pumping out as much water as he could. It was good enough for us to make it back to the dock before we sank to the bottom of the lake.

Notice the stream of water being pumped out of the boat.

Good thing they are small enough to climb right into the engine.

At least we caught some fish before we would have been the fish if we had sunk.

Our Thumbs Aren't The Greenest

We thought we would try planting a garden this year. We have planted a few garden's year's past, but haven't for a few years. We decided that this year would be a good year to try it again. We really aren't the best gardeners, but we do our best and believe it or not we have been getting a few vegetables from the garden that have been "edible". I don't think that Macy's will be calling us anytime soon to sell them vegetables. I do have to say though, I am pleasantly surprised that they have tasted good and the kids have even eaten some.