Since Brian was working on UEA and we couldn't go anywhere my mom, niece Teggan and my kids decided to go for a hike so that I could also try to get some pictures of my kids (I will now leave that to the professionals.) We headed out to maple canyon, somewhere i have been wanting to go for a long time. I haven't been to Maple Canyon in a very long time so we weren't sure where the starting of the hike that I wanted to go but eventually we found it and so did everybody else. I also had forgotten about the couple of hard spots as well but we all got over it with only a little bit of tears.
It was lots of fun we saw quite a few dead things that I think fell out of birds nests but we did see one little live snake that I think after playing with it to much eventually died.
Here are a few semi good shots that i got but like I said we will find a professional to take pictures next time.
This is my niece Teggan is she the cutest thing ever! So sometimes I wish that I looked like her then reality hits when I look in the mirror. I guess I will have to deal with it cause plastic surgery is too much.
Chaetton was a monster! but I guess that is how they are when they are one.
NO I did not tell Ashton to get in this pose he was just goofing off but it turned out to be cute, weird but cute.
Bam cheesing a way. He tried really hard to take pictures if only his eyes would stay open.
The boys looking their best.
After many failed attempts everyone started to look like this
we decided it was time to go to the pumpkin patch. A girl that I work with has a pumpkin patch that you go and ride to the patch on a tractor pick you pumpkin out ride back while eating a doughnut and apple juice so we decided to go on out. Bam got to choose the tractor we got to be pulled with it was red for Utah Utes of course.
The kids in the pumpkin patch. Ashton and Bam picked the biggest pumpkins I could hardly get them back to the tractor.
It turned out to be a really fun day long but fun! We haven't carved the pumpkins yet, but we will before Halloween I just hope that we can find a pan big enough to cook the seeds cause I am sure by how big those pumpkins are there is going to be alot.
As the above pictures shows some of us at work don't get out alot, so we decided to go to a haunted house. We first went to eat a the Texas Road House. YUM! We told them that it was Angie's birthday since it really is on Halloween. They made her get on a saddle with a spotlight on her. She was celebrating her 26th birthday again! Doesn't she look good.
After losing two of our co-workers (they were too scared to go to the haunted house) we headed over to the Haunted Forest.
Even though we did not see Michael Myers (He is so scary) we had a great time. I would like to tell Ashley thanks for being so brave and letting me hang onto her. (she knows what I mean) Also for Annalisa for closing her eyes the whole entire time it really gave us some experience leading blind people that we may need to use at work, and thanks to Angie for leaving me so the guy with the chainsaw could cut my legs off I really don't need them anyway.
We had a great time, and got the crap scared out of us! Can you guess which ones if any peed our pants? Only those that were there know the answer and since we are so good at following HIPPA we will never tell.
Christmas started out with the kids School Christmas program. It was good except that they decided not to have Santa this year which was weird. Ashton and Bam both did great Bam had a a hard time putting on his reindeer horns. I don't know if it was the mohawk or the fact that he doesn't know how to put on a headband, but he had the whole crowd laughing. 
Of course Christmas was great again this year. Ashton and Bam were super excited they both received an email from Santa this year and come to find out they were both on the "watching"list cause they had not been nice to each other (imagine that)! But they both pulled through and came out on the good list cause they got most of what they wanted on their lists.
Ashton was most excited cause he of course got playstation and Wii games and a basketball hoops game. Bam was excited about everything that he got but he especially liked the zu zu pets. Chaetton got a basketball hoop that he plays with all the time he loved shooting hoops with the safety glasses on! You never know when a stray ball may get you in the eye.
I Had a great christmas and I hope Brian did as well! (even Santa thinks he is hard to get stuff for.) For New Years Brain and Colby went ice fishing while the girls stayed home and crafted, then we all came to our house with some friends and family we played games and even let off fireworks I think that they were the Illegal kind, but it was so freaking cold I don't think no cops were out. I did not get any pictures from that night cause i am the worlds worst picture taker, but I hope that everyone had fun. I had a few New Years Resolutions but have already fallen short! So I just hope that this year will be great and my family and friends will be Health and Happy. Happy New Year!
