This is the outcome of another successful hunt. Byron is grilling up his teriyaki chuckar. It was delicious! If you have never just thrown your corn on the grill and cooked it husk and all you are missing out. It is delicious!
We are working on an amazing project at the kids school right now. Our service project for the year is to help raise funds for Deseret International Foundation. For $25. they can do a cleft lip, club foot or cross eyed surgery for a child in a developing country. We have challenged the older kids to earn $25 each by performing acts of service for their family and grandparents. So their service is going to bring smiles to themselves, those they serve and new smiles to kids in one of 21 countries they now help in. The foundation has local doctors who they contract with to do the surgeries so not only do they have an operation but they also have someone to look after them post op. It really is an amazing organization. They do Christmas cards where instead of sending a loved on a gift you can sponsor a surgery and the person you are giving the gift to will get a card with a photo of the child your money helped. Think outside the box people. We are trying to teach our kids about how blessed we are living in this country with all the great opportunities we have. Doug Jackson, in the photo above, came and represented their foundation and put on a great assembly for the kids. He did a good job of explaining why the surgery makes such a big difference in the lives of those who get it. It really was eye opening.
This last week we said good-bye to an old friend. Byron was really sad to let his car go, but alas....little blue has left the family forever. Hopefully he has moved onto greener pastures. He was a good car while he lasted. Our neighbors are all so glad to not have it parked in front of our house any longer....really our three car garage can't actually fit three cars.
This was our 10-10-10 celebration photo. We wanted a picture of the whole family together on this day of 10's. Carter is ten in this photo by the way. So, there you have it.....Oct 10 2010....now we just have to wait for 11-11-11.
Ali spent forever one afternoon dancing around our dog Chewy. Boy is he a good sport! They waltzed and sashayed and boggied. It was a fun dance recital. There was kicking music coming out of the CD player and one happy girl.
We found a new park by our house. We can't tell you where it is though, because it is tucked away in a secret location, not to be disclosed so it will stay our little secret park. The kids were more than happy to play mean spiders on this web. There was lots of hissing and web throwing going on. The park is tucked up in the crook of a canyon and the leaves on the scrub oaks are all turning red. It was beautiful to sit there on the park bench with Byron and enjoy the autumn air. Byron took a little hike to see where this path led and brought me back two red fall leaves. Very sweet. Then he surprised the kids with a trip to Five Guys. They were thrilled to end our family home evening park adventure with dinner at their favorite restaurant. It was a fun family night.
We have been going to the same preschool now for four years...so here we area again at the Pack's Farm Fall Fieldtrip. The kids have fun playing in the hay maze and listening to the farmer read them a story about a giant pumpkin. Then they treated the parents with a cute pumpkin on the fence song. The best part though is picking out a pumpkin fresh from the field. There are hundreds of little pumpkins laid out everywhere and the kids get to inspect and weigh each and every one of them until they find the perfect pumpkin. It took Ali about twenty minutes to make sure she had the biggest one with the longest stem. They ended with delicious homemade chocolate chip pumpkin cookies. What a fun day for their little class.
Ali ran in and our and around and through....so much fun in a hay maze.
We had a few days off school this week so we took off to Ogden's Dinosaur Park with our friends the West's. It is such a fun place to visit and it was decorated for Halloween right now so it was even scarier than usual. Lots of human skeletons laying around with the dinosaurs. Spiders coming out of trees....lots of pumpkins everywhere.
They have a great park there with dinos you can fully enjoy. There is also a tree house slide that is pretty cool. I am thinking about having one installed in our backyard. Of course it would take up the whole backyard, but it was really neat.
We had so much fun playing and chatting with our friends. Tyler and Jagger have been in the same class since preschool. They even transferred schools the same year we did so they have been through it all together. It is so nice when your kids have good friends to help get them through big changes in their lives.
We are having a great fall and I am LOVING that the weather has stayed warm clear through to the middle of October. Byron is getting anxious for skiing though. I will continue to enjoy our beautiful weather for as long as we are lucky enough to have it. Did I mention how much I am loving this fall?
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