What's been goin on

FALL

It's fall!  I know it kinda looks like Winter but if it was winter, there would be snow on the ground and the water would be frozen.  But this is pretty much what it looks like around here these days. 

 Snow on the mountains but still beautiful fall colors.

FOOTBALL

Football season is still underway.  Bryce's team is doing fantastic this year and he's having a blast!

Michael and Adam try to make it to as many of the boys games as they can.

I remember last year Bryce begged Mike to let him quit but he wouldn't give in.

I'm sure Bryce is glad he didn't quit last year now.

BTW...these cheerleaders are from the opposing team!

They all had to "hug Bryce"....here we go again.

CONFERENCE  WEEKEND

On General Conference weekend, Adam's sisters and their friends came up and stayed over night with us.

On Saturday morning I found them all set up in my office gathered around my computer watching conference and taking notes.  Awww....makes my heart go pitter-patter!

THE  HOUSE

As far as the house goes.....it's still going.  It's almost been a year now since we started building. 

We are doing something different in our house.  Since we had all of this great alder baseboard and door trim left over from another project Dad did, we decided that we would use it and the wood is nice stuff so you don't want to paint it so we stained it and decided to use a dark color since our cabinets are stained dark.  Anyway, this led us to having to decide what color to paint the rest of the trim and baseboard throughout the rest of the house.  So, we have decided to go dark everywhere.  Next post I will show you how this dark chocolate brown baseboard and trim is looking in the new house.

  I saw a sneak peek today and I think I'm gonna really like it!

A special text message....

Last night I recieved this text from my 16 year old......


Dear Mother...tis I Stephen, Thy seed upon which thy bounty doth fall upon in the years to come.  I am doing homework and will be home later...

Me:  Why dost thou speaketh with such boastful pride?

Stephen:   My heart doth swell with joy of hearing thy voice.  I express with exceeding confidence.

Me:  Thou art my most beloved son but thou must not speak of these things to they brethren or thou shalt perish.

Stephen:  As you wish your Majesty....

Now that's some good Texting!!

The house is coming along.....

Yesterday Mike and his brother Mark worked together all day on the house. 

Mark has been a great help with some of his ideas with certain areas of the house. 

He has done a great job helping to create what we really want instead of just

slapping something together. 

This week Dad did a lot of staining of the cabinets.  Here's a good close up of the stove top

on the granite in the kitchen with the new color on the cabinets.

Here's a view of how the kitchen is looking these days.  We should be getting the cabinet

doors and drawers in soon and then we will get a real picture of what our kitchen will

look like.  It's beautiful!  It's still coming slowly but surely.  We are thankful that the weather

has been good.  We need to get in there before the snow hits again.

Drag Queen?

Okay, so I have to say that the funnest thing about having teenagers is helping them come up with clever ideas for inviting or answering an invitation to a dance.  This is what we came up with for Stephen to answer the previous invitation he recieved to the Sadie Hawkins dance coming up.

We all got a big kick out of putting this one together!

Good Times!

Another funny invitation

I finally looked up the High School activity calander and found out that they have a dance every month during the school year! They have equally as many girls choice dances as they have boys choice dances.  So, Stephen got this invitation the other night to the Sadie Hawkins dance.  What a crack up!

Stay tuned for his reply!

Falling

Went for a drive up Payson canyon Sunday evening. 

It was beautiful!

These certainly were not the best pictures I could get.

But they sure did the trick.  It was absoultely breath taking!

I love the season changes here in Utah!

I hope you are enjoying the Fall as well.

The answer

Had to show you what Stephen's homecoming date did to answer him when he invited her to go with him to homecoming.  We were reading scriptures one night when we heard something hit the front window.  We opened the front door and found this little package.  Which was full of confetti and peices of a puzzle.

So, Stephen sat and tried to put the puzzle together but could not and then he discovered that the puzzle did not even have four corners.  That is when he realized that this was NOT a doable puzzle.

Then we heard something hit the back window and the all the boys got up and ran outside the front door again...thinking that the girls must not be far. I ran out the back door and found this.....

This was lead up to by a long line of resees pieces....

Here's a close-up of the package.  And then Michael, Adam and Stephen came back

into the house carrying one of the culprits!

That was too funny!

Sometimes it's fun to get caught!

BTW....they had a good time at homecoming.....and

Elsie is just as beautiful inside as she is on the outside.

Good choice Stephen!