Cornbelly's at Thanksgiving Point

Uncle Phil showing Brady how it's done.

SO FUN! Phil came and stayed with us in Provo while he was running the Mechanical Bull at Cornbelly's pumpkin patch. Brady and I came to visit a lot and play! Thanks Uncle Phil! It was so fun having you stay with us!

Brady's First Birthday

Grandma Marilyn came to visit for Brady's First Birthday and surprised us all! She rode down in Ben's car with his friend to SLC and will fly back! Everyone knew but me!! Brady loved playing with Grandma for the weekend and we loved her babysitting!!:) What a good surprise! Brady had a FUN Birthday at Aunt Becky's with new toys and friends/family to play with. He also ate new foods (beans and meat) and...loved it, but changing that diaper later wasn't fun:) Happy 1st Birthday Brady!

Cousins

Dylan and Brady playing together at Aunt Becky's during Thanksgiving. Dylan is 6 months older than Brady, and they had lots of fun playing together.

It speaks for itself

You know you're addicted when....:

You have to have your Dr. Pepper in the shower with you.

Johnathan Derrick is the "addicted" subject. He asked his mom to bring him his already opened Dr.Pepper to him in the shower. I just had to capture this moment that I died laughing.

so we went and helped rake leaves last saturday morning at the temple, i froze my arizona ace off!

Out of the Loop

So last night I got a text from Chris that says "How are you...? Have you heard about Carson, Colton, and Cameron?" and I would add "Mekelle?".
So I skipped the reply text and just called him cause I knew there had to be some long explanation.
Man, I have sure been in my own world and out of the loop lately. So...Colton just had his appendix taken out; Carson just ran a marathon and Cameron and his wife Maggie are Preggie again. And Mekelle broke up with Matthew and he moved out and now she wants to move to Idaho?
Sheesh. Quite the news about everyone in one lump sum. I don't think I could handle it. I think because of the internet I communicate less with my family. Blasted facebook and blogs. Although they are great tools, if I get some sort of status update about my family I feel like I know what's going on and I don't need to call. But family, I'm sorry, but I do need to call more often. Sorry we haven't kept in better touch.

Congrats Carson, you are a stud, I can't believe you ran a marathon- I didn't even know you were training or thinking about that.
Colton, man I'm sorry you've not been feeling well, but I'm glad you're alive. I hope you have a good recovery and get back in shape for school. I love you and I'm gonna call you today.

love Hermana Megan

Sometimes crappy projects are worth it.

I'm on vacation this week (Aug 24-28). Got some projects I want to try to accomplish. One of them is the downstairs bathroom plumbing. I have procrastinated this one for over a year. So I decide to go get all the parts to do the job. I have to dig out more dirt on the outside of the basement wall where the plumbing is and discover that the septic pipe is broken. What??? Even though this is a "crappy job" (literally) it has to be done and I'm actually glad I was able to discover the break. Who knows how long the sewage had been leaking out into the ground. The pipe is about 4' down in the ground and had I not had the other leak (that was the plumbing problem in the first place) I would never have known our septic pipe line was broken. We have been without water and toilets since 5pm today (Monday 8/24). Hoping I can get it all put back together tomorrow.

Thanks to Ben who helped me do some of the digging. It helped me out a lot. Too bad he couldn't shower before going to FHE . lol.

Phil's CJ7 at Monkey Rock, near Rexburg, ID

Dylans First Birthday!

We celebrated Dylan's first birthday at our family reunion on the Oregon coast. He just started walking about a month ago. He is a great eater and loves food and loved his birthday cake! At his first birthday party we invited the "nieghbor campers" and played Duck-Duck-Goose and had an Elmo Pinyata! He got some new clothes, a pool, and stuffed animals and had lots of fun! Happy First Birthday Dylan July 25, 2009!

race up the sand dune

Phillip, Robert, and our cousin Lonie raced up the sand dune on the Oregon coast near Pacific City at our family reunion. Robert clearly won, but Phil did the best dance (wink):). We had so much fun!