Pumpkin Carving Night!

Last night we had our annual family pumpkin carving night. This is by far my mom's favorite activity out of the whole year. This year especially because we tied her bday into it. (Happy Bday mom!) It's always fun to see everyone's creative side.

I created a little man of squash.

Ain't he cute?


Justin did a ghost!

Kaizley and her pumpkin!

Dawson loved scooping out the goop!

We take this seriously. No messing around here! haha.

Seattle October 2009

This last weekend my sister and her husband Payton and us, took off to visit the Davis family in Seattle!! Oh boy, we had a lot of fun! Here are a bunch of pictures from the adventure!

The first two days while Jayson and Jeri worked Julie, Payton, Justin and I took off to explore the city. This was Payton's first time going to Seattle so we took him to the normal Seattle sites. (Pikes place.. and what not) It was fun spending time with just my sister and Payton.

At the "gum wall" in a cool alley right by Pikes Place:

As you can tell we had fun at this spot. haha! Or, at least Julie did!

We also added our own signature to the wall. 2 J's. We'll see if they are still there next time we visit!






We also went to the Seattle Aquarium.
It was fun being able to touch and see some of the sea life.







Saturday we went to the Issaquah Salmon Day Festival. According to Jeri this is World famous and was 2008's most popular event in the world. (or something like that!) It was a HUGE event. Tons of people, booths, food, entertainment.. etc.

Ellie and Gibson enjoying the festival...





Jeri and Ellie havin some fun!:


My bud Gibson:



Sunday we went to a cute little place that had a bunch of little stores and a train that the kids could ride. It was a really cute place. Here are some pics from that.

The kids riding the train! They were so excited!


Ellie cracks me up! Love her "cheese" face.










We had so much fun! Can't wait to go back!
:)

My brother Jayson came to town this past weekend, so we took advantage of the time and went on a four wheeler ride with everyone, and then enjoyed some time sitting around a campfire eating dutch oven cobbler. (yum) It's always fun to get together as a family and spend time together. Hopefully one day soon we will have the WHOLE family together. We missed you Amber, Jeri and the kids!!

Ever been to Almo, Idaho?
That is where we went for Labor Day weekend. It's a nice small town in the middle of no where!
My dad's band was heading up to play Saturday night at Almo's last summer weekend bash. We figured it would be fun to just go somewhere different and explore on the four wheelers. It was actually pretty fun!

We saw plenty of dirt roads, cows, sage brush, and who could forget these cute little donkeys!

We went to City of Rocks:
Nothing to exciting, but cool to see.
I didn't take really any pics because we quickly rode thru the park. Apparently our four wheelers aren't legal to ride on a dirt road. ahah. We later found out that it was legal- but the guy that pulled us over has a thing against four wheelers.


Can you see the man?



We also drove for miles into the middle of no where to find an AWESOME canyon. It was such a nice day! As you can see we covered some ground! Around 100 miles round trip!


Dad, Payton, Beemer and Tag - in the buggie
Justin on the wheeler...
The city celebration was quite the success. I was amazed at how many people showed up. We enjoyed the night eating good food, great entertainment (Wasatch Back Band), and people watching. (there are some strange people out there! haha)

Good times!

This will probably be the last before and after picture of our house. I know you are all bummed about that!

Yesterday we had our new windows installed. That was pretty much the last major thing needed. Justin and I both agreed that windows made a HUGE difference, both outside and in. We are so excited to be able to open our windows for some fresh air! The wood framed windows would open- only if you had a sledge hammer available.

Before:

After:

Whats next on our agenda now that our house is pretty much done??
The yard. It has been very neglected. (as you can see)
Anyone want to help? ;) (I'm not much of a fan of dirt and weeds)

Sorry to bore you all- but this is exciting to me! haha!

This last weekend we installed and painted our new front door!

Here is a picture of the old front door... complete with water damage, dirt, scratches and cob webs:
(It doesn't look to bad in the picture, but if you were to walk up to the door on any given day you would think that you were going to be walking into a haunted house. It was bad!)

The new door...

Looks SO much better doesn't it??

By now Justin is probably wishing that he didn't know how to do everything! I swear, there isn't one thing that he can't do! He's the best!

This last weekend we took a ride up to Mount Logan in the Razor. Sure was chilly! I really thought at one moment it was going to start snowing! You could see our breath! I love being up in the mountains for this reason:

SO PRETTY and PEACEFUL!!