50 Things to be Thankful for

This year we are making a list to celebrate Thankgiving. It is very heart warming to take a few minutes and reflect on all of the things that we are thankful for. Some may seem childish, those are the things that some days mean the most.

1: Helpful Husbands that come to the rescue in home makeover projects
2: That we found each other
3: Children
4: Amazing Parents
5: Hot Showers
6: New Tires
7: 5 year olds "knock knock" jokes
8: "Family Night"
9: Friendship
10: Being open to all possibilities
11: Falling asleep listening to rain
12: Helpful hints
13: Dinner together
14: Newpapers in the morning with coffee
15: Smiles
16: Flowers
17: Time spent in the yard or garden
18: Snow Days
19: Food, Shelter, Clothing
20: Vacation
21: Seasons
22: Phone calls
23: Late night talks
24: Star shows
25: Mother nature
26: Home made bread
27: Hugs
28: Camp fires
29: Rice pudding
30: Visiting with old friends
31: Surprizes
32: Hot cocoa
33: FAMILY
34: Sleepovers or Latenighters
35: The Great "Getaway"
36: Aunts who care
37: Simple minds
38: Dogs who are always glad to see us
39: Cars
40: Balance
41: Technology
42: Cats who snuggle
43: Sleeping in
44: Flannel sheets
45: Sunday mornings
46: Laughter
47: Understanding each other so well you can finish the other persons sentence
48: Following your bliss
49: Down time
50: Helping others

Cotton or China???

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!!!! Wow can you be live it has been a whole two years? I can't and at the same time I can. Time is such an interesting thing. Today while we were doing chores around the house we wondered what kind of present is traditionally given on a second anniversary. Amazing what you can do with the Internet at your fingers. I found out that the second year gift is usually cotton. The new age gift is china. Either way we bought a little of both this weekend so we are set. Getting ready for the other big celebration this week. I love you the mostest John, Happy Anniversary.

Turkey Shoot

What a great way to spend a weekend. We left on Friday afternoon to go up Left Hand Fork Canyon. We stopped in Brigham to drop Elliot off so he could bring Lena and Megan up to camp with Auntie Mandy & Uncle John. If you have never camped in November before let me tell you it can be cold. In order to be prepared I had packed "everything" you could need. As we left Brigham we decided we needed to stop in Hyrum for a few extras. At the store we met up with Gene. He was planning on spending the weekend with us... he just wasn't sure he was "camping" in November. We bought our groceries and started up the canyon. When we got to the forest service gate it was locked. We scratched our heads and I started to walk up the road to see if I could find any other campers. After getting the details we headed in and set up camp. The temperature was great at 4:00pm then by 4:30pm the sun was behind the mountain and it was getting dark. We sat around the fire for what felt like forever. After dinner we visited and made music and merry around the fire. We saw an amazing falling star show. It was better than anything on TV. We were all getting tiered and decided it may be time for bed....7:30pm. WOW how time stands still when all you have is fire light. So we all turned in by 9:00pm so we could be warm by the fire. The girls loved having a fire in the tipi. It was nice and toasty and we went to bed. By 6:00am the next morning we were freezing. We started a nice fire and enjoyed playing with the dogs. When we got up to make breakfast, everything was frozen. After breakfast we played phaze 10, walked the dogs, visited with our friends and rested. We got our potluck dishes ready for the Thanksgiving Dinner. It was a lot of fun to visit with our friends and enjoy some time in the great out doors. After dinner we went across the street and shot black powder rifles. Grandpa Gene won a turkey. Guess where we are going for Turkey Day???

A Saturday project

We started a project on our bathrom a few weeks ago. Today we finished it. Ok,so it has not been going on for the whole two weeks. In that time we got to stay in Park City over night, got a new puppy, Celebrated Halloween, had family night, dry packed all of the flour, sugar, beans, rice and pasta we had on our shelf.....But today we cleaned the tools out of the breakfast nook and put the finish trim on all of the walls. It looks so neat. We got really into it and put bead board on the bottom half of the wall. The top half is painted "sea foam" what ever you do please don't refer to it as green. The only way it got to be in our bathroom is John thinks it is BLUE!!!

Happy Birthday to you...

This September we celebrated John's Birthday. We had pizza and cake and ice cream. Our friends came over to celebrate with John. Check out the candles on the cake!!! I did the math and bought two boxes. When we were putting them in the cake Madi helped and I lost count. It was a great time and now we just have to make a trip to Cabela's so John can spend his moooolah.

Love you XOXOX

New Addition

We adopted Bella this weekend. She is a 2 month old Border Collie and Rottweiler. Her name is Bella. She looks just like she could be Rex's puppy other than Rex is a boy and is fixed. We got her from a shelter in Park City. We were supposed to be Christmas shopping but couldn't stay away. Rex is very happy to have her here. Snowflake on the other hand is not so happy. She is very much a puppy right now. She loves to chew. We got her a dog toy that looks like a binki and she loves it. If you ask where it is she will find it for you. She and Rex like to play in the yard. It rained all day today and they are a huge muddy mess. Maybe they need little yellow rain suits like I used to have. We will get pictures up for you as soon as the camera begins to work again. (We had an incident with the olives for our drinks on Saturday.)