October 26,2008

Well what a week. The weather has been cool but beautiful. It has frosted every night and the leaves are really turning colors. It is simply beautiful. Every morning I drive the bus I watch all the changing colors and the watch the leaves fall from the trees. The ground has been iced with a little frost and a slight low lying fog hangs on the ground in spots as the sun peaks over the mountains. I've seen some beautiful Kodak moments, but the boss would not be happy if I stopped the bus and took pictures. So I store them in my memory pod in the brain. Once the sun comes up it has warmed up in the sixty and it has been a nice fall. All though we have had to burn a fire in the fireplace at least once a day.

Has you can tell this week was Erik birthday, number two. It was on October 23, on Thursday, but we celebrated it on Saturday hi dad was home. Aunt Shelly gave him a moving dinosaur and all his brothers gave him a dinosaur. Grandma and grandpa got him a pair of pants and shirt, and his mom and dad gave him cloths too. His mom made him the cutest dinosaur cake, she had to leave it at our house to keep it save till the party.

Here is a picture of Sarah. What a look. I think she is all ready thinking up things to do when she gets bigger.

October 20, 2008

WELL IT FOOTBALL SEASON IN EMMETT IDAHO.... WE WENT TO CALEBS LAST FOOTBALL GAME ON SATURDAY. CALEB IS THE BIGGEST KID ON HIS TEAM, I KINDA FELT SORRY FOR THE OTHER GUYS. I ASKED STEPHANIE IF CALEB WAS SUPPOSED TO KNOCK THOSE LITTLE KIDS ON THEIR BUMS LIKE THAT EVERY TIME. SHE SAID ' ITS FOOTBALL' HE JUST PUSHED THE KIDS OVER LIKE THEY WERE AS LITE AS A FEATHER. THEY HAD A LITTLE RED HEAD THAT WAS PRETTY QUICK. SO THEY WON. CALEB BLOCKED AND THE OTHER KID RAN. IT WAS FUN. JOE AND ERIK HAD FUN RUNNING AROUND AND JAKE WAS GLAD WHEN THE WHOLE THING WAS OVER.

MATT GOT TO BLESS THE SACRAMENT TWO SUNDAY AGAIN. I CAN NOT DISCRIBE THE FEELING YOU GET WHEN YOUR CHILDREN SERVE OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN. I WAS SO PROUD OF HIM AND THE REVERANCE THAT HE SHOW WHILE PARTICIPATING IN THIS SACRED ORDINANCE.

MATT, MIKE,CALEB, JOEY AND STEPHANIE ALL WENT HUNTING THE OTHER DAY. THEY GAME HOME EMPTY HANDED BUT THEY DID SEE SOME TURKEY'S, ONLY THEY HAD NO TURKEY TAGS.

THE WEATHER HAS BEEN REALLY NICE THIS PAST WEEK, IN THE 60'S AND 70'S. BUT I FEAR IT WILL CHANGE SOON. I GOT THE FIFTH WHEEL WINTERIZED, THE POOL PUT AWAY AND THE BOAT ALL TUCKED IN FOR THE WINTER. I REALLY HOPE I DID THE FIFTH WHEEL CORRECTLY. IT ALWAYS MAKES ME NERVOUS THE FIRST TIME I DO ANYTHING LIKE THAT THE FIRST TIME.

September 13, 2008

Grandpa celebrated his 52nd birthday on Thursday October 9. He has a great day, the boys "surprised" him with 4 bags of peanut butter Halloween m&m's. One bag from each boy. Then Grandpa received the best birthday card ever from Porter and Peyton. It was so perfect, grandpa said that it was the best card he ever received. He laughed and laughed. It had words like on the Star Wars movie, floating out into space with Space ships. It said
A
long
long,long,long
long time ago..........
Then you open the card and the theme music to the Star Wars Begins to play and you read in bold print....................YOU WERE BORN. Pretty Cool. We are told the Porter picked it out . That makes it even better. Shelly game over after school and made grandpa a chocolate cake with white frosting while I mowed the lawn and did the yard work to surprise grandpa before he woke up.

Matt had his last soccer game today. They held them to only one goal in the first half. I actually thought they might win, but then came the second half. They still played well but we lost 0 to 5.
Uncle Matt got to play in both halves, he did a good job. He has learned a lot and improved a bunch. One of the Hispanic dads is trying to put a team for the indoor legal in the valley. They play a lot on Sunday, but even if Matt can practice with them it will help him a lot.

September 11 2008

It snowed in Boise, they recieved an inch and a half. Can you believe it. Bogus Basin recieved 5 inches and it is snowing there to day. Matt had a soccer game today the first game in the district tournament. They played the number one seat, Skyview, they lost 6 to 1, but they played very well. Matt played about half the game. the wind blew really hard through the whole game. It was only about 35 degrees then subtract the wind chill, it was very very cold. They play again on Monday at 3:00, I don't get to drive them this time. The fire in the fireplace feels really good this evening.

October 10th 2008

This has been a very busy October. We have done a lot of canning, the tomatoes have produced very well and I made a couple of changes on my sweet and sour sauce and it really turned out well. Erik and Joey would come over and help me pick all the tomatoes and we finally got Erik to understand that you only picked the red ones. So he would pick a tomato and hand it to me and say red, red matoe. The boys love jumping on the tramp with Uncle Matt, he is so good with them and he loves having them around. I was afraid that has he became a teenager, his nephews would become an annoyance but he is happy to have them around. At least as long as his friends aren't here.
Sarah was having fun with grandpa. She is starting to really look at the world and recognize people and voices. She will smile and get all excited when she sees her grandpa and grandma. It is fun, we like it. She is getting little chubby legs and you notice there is a little red in her hair. Hasn't she changed? She looks different every day. Soccer season is here in full swing. Grandma getting to to watch two games at the same time. Jacob got to play goalie in the last have of his game he did really well. In the first half he was a forward and he did a fantastic job. I can see him doing very well in soccer. He is quick and he can read the ball already. Joey and Conner are on the same team. Now those games are interesting. Conner likes doing summer saults and is not at all interested in the ball, how ever running an chasing kids is a lot of fun. Joey understands the concept of chasing the ball and if you kick it you get to chase it some more. So why then do you want me to kick it into the goal, because then I can't kick it any more. He really likes jumping up and down and skipping the the best. It is more fun watching kids all do their silly thing. You definitely do not go to those games to watch "soccer".BRRRRR it was cold.

Joey and Conner in yellow Jacob in the green shirt