Steve and Kate

My brother Steve had a bad accident in his UPS truck on friday, he completely rolled his truck and by some miracle he doesn't even have a scratch on him. His truck was totalled and so was the other car that was involved, and the other guy involved in the accident wasn't hurt at all either. I am so thankful that he is ok, and I am hoping that his job will be ok also!

Our first lost tooth!

Savanna lost her first tooth this morning! She has had 2 loose teeth on the bottom, but has not even let me hardly touch them. This morning we were in a hurry to get her to the bus stop and I was brushing her teeth and I saw some blood and there went the tooth, it must have been really ready because it came out without any effort. I felt bad because we had no time to really celebrate the event. I did hurry and take her picture as we were running out the door. She couldn't stop smiling, she was really excited about losing her tooth and to tell Easton all about it!

Yellowstone Bear World

Mitchel petting the pig at the petting zoo!

Leah trying to help Treyton feed the deer.

Savanna feeding the baby deer!

Ruth, Mom, Savanna & Easton feeding the deer

Treyton and I loved this ride!

Mitch, Cooper, Easton, Savanna, Elijah and Ruth

The kids at the petting zoo, checking out the pig!

Ruth, the kids and me! (I feel bad that Mom & Leah aren't in this picture)

Today we went on our annual trip to Bear World. My Mom likes to take the Grandkids every fall, they love it and it is a great tradition. Today was a perfect day, the weather was beautiful and it was kids get in free day, and they got to ride the rides for free. They loved it!!

We all met at my parent's house to leave together from there. When it was time to leave we had to take two seperate cars so I said, "let's go!" Treyton ran right to my Mom and would not leave her side. It was really cute because he wanted to go with her, and when I came to try to get him to go with me he grabbed her hand and wouldn't have anything to do with me. He loves his grandma! So he got to ride with Grandma.

Where were you?

I saw this on Jodi's blog and thought it was so cute, so I decided to do it myself

20 years ago I was:
1. I was 15 years old and a Sophomore in High School at Bonneville
2. I tried out for Honeybee's and didn't make it, I made a goal to make it the next year so I worked my butt off all year (literally!)
3. I got a job that summer at Baskin Robbins! That is where I met Jodi for the first time, and got flashed!

10 year ago I was:
1. Working at Melaleuca in the Forecasting and Planning Department, making the big bucks-yeah right!
2. I think that was the year I went on the cruise with Sara and had one of the best vacations of my life.
3. Moved into an apartment with my cousin Audra and we had a total blast being single! But also scrared to death that I would never get married.

5 years ago I was:
1. Savanna was 1 year old and I was barely pregnant with Mitchel.
2. Living in my little house on 20th Street, and serving in the Young Women's presidency and loving it!
3. Reid started his job at the INL this year, we were happy he was able to quit working at the Jail and that we could afford to start building our new home.

3 years ago I was:
1. Living in our house on Sandy Dr. with two little children, and trying to decide if it was time to try for our 3rd baby.
2. Put our house for sale on Sandy and sold it in just 7 days for the price we were asking (lucky to sell before the market started to weaken.)
3. Was enjoying my job as Office Manager at Koala Kids.

1 year ago I was:
1. Busy with 3 small children-4, 3, and 1o months old!
2. Spending many hours a week practicing the piano for the primary program. I was scared to death. But it was probably one of the most inspired callings I have ever had, just because I really had to work hard and pray for Heavenly Father's help to get me through it.
3. Walking every night with Jodi and Sarah, and trying really hard to lose weight while following weight watchers. (I need to get back on that!)

This year I:
1. Trained and did a 1/2 marathon- yeah!!
2. Went to New York City for the first time with my sisters and Mom- left the children with Reid for 5 days, and it was wonderful!!!
3. Am still the primary pianist, but definately not practicing like I should. ( This year I have Angie also doing it, so I have really slacked off!)

Yesterday I:
1. Got up at 6:00 am and ran 5 miles on the treadmill.
2. Went to Koala Kids after Savanna got home from school and made cotton candy for our annual Back to School BBQ.- I came home covered from head to toe in sticky cotton candy!
3. Stayed up too late watching Larry King on CNN. I am obsessed with the Presidential Campaign.

Today I:
1. Couldn't get up this morning to exercise because I was so tired from yesterday!
2. Went to work this morning at Koala Kids late because I couldn't get up this morning!
3. Got Savanna and Mitchel's Halloween costumes- They are cute- Savanna will be a witch this year, and Mitchel wanted to be Batman. (Trey will be Mitchel's costume from 2 years ago a Dragon.)

Tomorrow I will:
1. Try to get up early to exercise before Savanna is off to school.
2. Mop the floor since Treyton spilled 7-up on it and it is very sticky- I just did this 3 days ago!- GRRR
3. Try to balance my checkbook and pay bills, and hopefully just stay home and try to enjoy my children a little!!

Next Year I will:
1. Possibly have another baby- Yikes!!!
2. My goal is to be driving the same vehicle (we kind of have a problem with constantly trading our cars in!)
3. Sending Mitchel off to Kindergarten.

Blackfoot Fair 2008

So this year we didn't plan on going to the fair. We decided that it was just to hard with little kids. But at the last minute my Mom called and wanted to go on Friday. So my Mom, Sara, me and my kids headed down there for the afternoon. It ended up being a lot of fun. My kids were really well behaved and we rode the ferris wheel, went to the petting zoo, and had some lunch. It was so cute to watch the kids feed the animals at the petting zoo. I got some cute pictures. We also had one of the those old fashioned pictures taken, and it turned out really cute.

My eye, my eye!!!

So now just imagine this picture with an eye patch over one of my eyes? Wouldn't that distract from the picture a little? Luckily I won't have to wear one.

I have been meaning to post this for a few days, but on Tuesday I had a near miss with my eye. I had just gotten home from work and was getting the van unloaded when Treyton found a socket wrench in the complete disaster area we call a garage. (This is another story.) I knew that my 1 year old should not be playing with a socket wrench so I had to chase him down to get it away from him. I picked him up and tried to take the tool away, and he did not appreciate that in the least bit and so his arms and legs started flaying uncontrollably and in the comotion of it all the socket part of the wrench went straight into my eye ball at full 1 year old force (actually he is almost 2.)

You can see the scene, I'm sure if any of my neighbors saw me they would have reported me to child protective services, because at the moment of impact it hurt so bad that I dropped Treyton as I fell to me knees in agony. With my hands up to my eyes screaming "My eye, my eye!!" I thought for sure that my eye ball was going to be gone. Luckily I had no more than a little bit of red eye, and a major headache for the rest of the evening.

Labor Day!

Savanna, our little gymnist!

Treyton enjoying the slide!

Mom & Kate trying to stay out of the wind

Cooper, Mitch & Savanna stuffing their faces with donuts! Yum, yum!!

I was a little depressed this morning because of the weather, I just wanted to wrap back up in a blanket and go back to bed. But unfortunately when you have little children that is just not possible. So instead we made some plans with my family and went to the new playground at Tautphaus park and had a picnic and let the kids play in the chili weather. For some reason they don't even notice that it is cold. It was fun to get out though and to do something besides sit in the house and watch T.V. and do laundry.