Utahn or Utard

I am lucky enough to be able to visit with my Mom and Dad for the next 5 days. I arrived LATE last night and aparently my luggage decided it needed more time in Vegas so it did not arrive with me. Oh well. I did find the best shirt in the airport yesterday,however, I refuse to pay twenty dollars for a t-shirt so a picture will have to suffice. Sometimes I'm torn between what is funny and what makes Utahns look like "Utards" as my brother says. You judge.

Last month my Brother Ralph, his wife Kristina, and their son Benjamin came to visit us. Benjamin is SOOOOO cute. The kids had a great time playing with him, especially Hillary. She is such a little mother. Thanks for coming guys.

Lettuce and Tomaotes

The other night we were making taco's and Pat was in charge of cutting up the lettuce and tomatoes. Hillary REALLY wanted to help so I figured why not? So we set her a cutting board up next to him and gave her a butter knife. She actually did pretty good and they had a blast working together.

BOO!

So we had just about the most perfect Halloween I've experienced since I had kids. The weather could not have been more perfect. It was warm enough that we didn't have to put jackets on - but not hot. All my kids were just the right age this year too. Hillary understood what was going on and was able to walk all night without a stroller. Bre is almost too old - but managed to get a lot of candy despite her age. Connor started to understand people and figured out if he acted shy and quiet - he got tons more candy. I was way lazy in the pumpkin department this year and got these Mr. Potato Head type decorations. It only took about 5 minutes to do (four of those were spent deciding who would get what eyes, nose, mouth etc). So enjoy the pictures.

The turkey pumpkin was what Hillary made at pre-school this week. Cute huh?

Did you ever have one of THOSE days...

Have you ever had one of those days where you wished with an unparalleled desperation that you could climb back in bed and start over? All the things you'd do different are screamingly obvious? You'd pay better attention to the "signs" and take action early to avoid just being able to react. I've had a month like that. My boss told me the other day if I didn't have bad luck I wouldn't have any at all. Boy is that right. Not that anything has happened directly to me - but one thing or another has affected just about everyone I love this last month. And not in a good way. So here I am still trying to pick up the pieces and put them back together. I won't go into details because those of you who know me well enough know them already and those of you who don't - trust me you don't really want to know anyway. But in my attempt to start putting everything back to right - I'm determined to get back to my blogging. I have so much to share with you, where to start. I'll start way back before everything went sour. My sister and her husband(Bill) and son(Dylan) came for a visit. We all went to the Dinosaur museum and had a blast. They have Great hand's on things and pretty good fossils.

So here's to catching up on the blogging. See you tomorrow.

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