Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Plums and other updates from our house...

9-16-08
The cute house we are renting has several fruit trees and a grape vine. I got adventurous and decided to try making my own grape juice, and some plum jam. It turned out really yummy! Tate had a great time helping me pick the plums. He kept going one step higher on the ladder, then he would tell me "it's okay Mommy, I'm a really brave guy." It was cute!


Max has learned a whole bunch of new tricks now that he is mobile. His favorite is to climb! He was pretty proud of himself when he made this drawer a stair!
Oh my, bet you can't tell we're ever silly at our house!Tate has decided that his "most favoritest" thing is to play this little guitar we bought for him in Puerto Vallarta. He loves to rock out in his bedroom while jumping on his bed!

The library by our house had a pajama story party last night. All of the kids came in their PJ's for songs and stories. It was really fun!

Monday, September 1, 2008

Labor Day Weekend

9/1/08

We had a great holiday weekend. We went up to Chad's parents cabin with Chad's sister Tanja, her husband Ryan, and their two kids Jaxon and Lindsey and Jaxon's friend Collin. We had a great time! The kids had a blast running around and acting crazy. I even got up early on Saturday to run in a 10k race in Heber. It was a beautiful run through the valley and up into the mountains (although I quickly learned that mountains have hills--go figure!)

On Saturday afternoon we spent the day at a Sheepdog Competition at Soldier Hollow. Our favorite part was watching the "Splash Dogs" competition. The dogs would run off a ramp and see how far they could get. It was such a hoot to watch each dog-some ran right off and others would run to the very edge and then stop and look at their owner like "you've gotta be kidding me!" The boys had fun watching all of the dogs and even petting a few. Oh, and we also saw a duck herding competition. We could hardly believe that these dogs could actually herd the ducks, but they did!

Tate is loving playing the piano
Duck herding!
Max at the dog show
Flying doggies!
...and some not flying doggies!