Thanksgiving in Moab

We had a fun Thanksgiving weekend. We ate a wonderful dinner with Mike's family in Salt Lake. After a yummy dinner and great company, we left for Moab. We hiked all day Friday and most of Saturday. We hiked to Morning Glory Bridge and Corona Arch (probably our favorite hike) on Friday. Saturday we hiked to Landscape Arch and Double-O Arch in Devil Gardens. The weather was great. The kids had so much fun and did a great job hiking (well, Addie spent most of the time in the backpack). Kyler is our little hiker and rock climber. We hiked over 11 miles those 2 days. Go Ky! We would love to camp inside Arches National Park sometime. Moab is just amazing! (Picts to come)

Happy Halloween!

We had a fun Halloween! Addie dressed up as Tinkerbell. I was Peter Pan. (I got called Robin Hood a lot. But the funniest was when someone called me the Jolly Green Giant! HA!) Kyler was the star, though. He was Sonic the Hedgehog. My mom made the costume. It was amazing, I thought! (I helped just a little.) At the Cache Valley Mall, he won Best Overall Costume in his age group. He won Disney on Ice tickets! Fun! We had a great time trick or treating, too.

A Fall Walk up Green Canyon

I love fall. It is REALLY hard for me to say goodbye to summer.

But, when the fall colors come out, it's ok. This walk was on a

beautiful Sunday afternoon.

A SPOOKY Halloween dinner

Halloween is a fun holiday. To celebrate, I decided to cook a fun (and very simple) Halloween dinner. We had Mummies (crescent rolls and cheese wrapped around a hot dog) and Brains (a head of cauliflower with cheese sauce). Yes, that's cheese sauce. It looks disgusting, doesn't it? I tried making the sauce from scratch and ended up burning it and it went an ugly brownish-yellow color. I thought, "Oh, that's alright. It adds to the Halloween effect." (If anyone has a good cheese sauce from scratch recipe, send it my way. Mine always ends up flour-y. I don't really like Velveeta, but it would be yummy compared to this!) Anyway, the cheese sauce didn't taste good at all. Kyler's face says it all. And I'm not a big fan of hot dogs, but I did it for the kids. It was fun.

We are homeowners!

We moved into our new home on Sept. 19th. It's in North Logan less than a mile from Green Canyon in a sub-division called Green Canyon Cove. We love being so close to the mountains. So far Mike's been mountain biking three times and we've enjoyed the canyon fall leaves while hiking. We love our new home and our neighbors are really nice. We love having our own home!

What a great tip!

I wanted to share an awesome tip I found in a magazine. I tried it tonight and I thought, "Pure GENIUS!"

My three year old Addie is not a good eater lately. Kyler was the same way at that age, but he grew out of it. I figure Addie will too, but I wanted to make things a little easier while we are going through this stage. In the magazine Real Simple, it has an idea of what to do when your child eats little or none of their meal. Let the child roll dice to see how many more bites they are to take, and then they're done. Addie had so much fun rolling the dice, she ate everything on her plate!

Lake Powell on Labor Day

Who could pass up a September trip to Lake Powell? Even though we were there in July, we had a blast again this time over the Labor Day weekend. The kids LOVE Lake Powell (just as much as the adults) and jumped in the lake with their life jackets over and over and over. Ahhh, Lake Powell is my favorite place!