Kids first Parade

On the 24th of July we participated in the annual Parade in Kuna. The ward puts on a huge breakfast, then we all go in the parking lot and decorate our bikes and strollers and follow behind a work tractor with a trailer and lots of bailes of hay.


Kids who don't have bikes can ride on the trailer. This year we all decorated our bikes, even grandma Wiser came along for the fun. But by the end of the loop Hunter and Jesse were on the trailer and I had 2 bikes that I walked to the finish line.

Even decorating the bikes was more fun than the kids wanted to have. Jesse rode his scooter and didn't want any streamers on it. We try so hard to provide fun activities for our kids and the attitudes we get for our efforts. Man

My hardest quilt yet

So this is the quilt I started back in 1996 and was too afraid to pull it out and work on it, but after having made so many quilt block quilts this year decided to try it. It is very time consuming and I haven't worked on it for about 2 wees, so it won't be done in time for Christmas, but at least it is coming together. It is called the "Ohio Star"

It takes alot of patience to get the triangles lined up just right because if the triangles are off then when you sew them to the squares they don't fit right. I am excited to get this quilt finished. I just am not sure how to sew the green inbetween the squares.

I put the blocks on my bed because I plan on putting a green about this color between them, I really hope I can pull this off, if not it has been a great learning experience.

Kids drinking from a lion

This is a sight I have always wanted to witness. My kids drinking from the lion at Hogle Zoo. Every time I want to take them, there is a reason that comes up that I don't get them there, but this trip I was able to take them there and best of all Phil was with us.




Hunter drinking from the lion.








Jesse Jumping on a trampoline with a bungie attached. They had him jumping so high up in the air that it even scared me after a bit Jesse was too scared to keep going but it was fun to see him jumping so high.

Fun Fun Fun

This is the first time I have tried anything so adventursome. It was a zip ride and it was quite exerlerating. It was hard to breath it was going so fast. I did great till it was time to stop and I didn't know how it was going to stop. I look up and the platform is there but I am still going full speed. Suddenly it just ended and I was thrown forward in my seat and then it shot me backwards when I ran out of forward momentum. That was the scarriest part.

Here is Jesse climbing the wall. It was hard and the handles were far apart so the kids couldn't climb very well. I was hoping the person at the bottom could pull on the rope to help them climb but they didn't so they were just trying to get up.

Hunter climbed very high. He is more agile and was able to find a few footholds that allows him to climb up quite high. It was fun to see them climb.

We decided to take a family photo because the fall leaves were so beautiful and we were all together. This one captured the niceness of teh day, and some of the fall colors.