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We said goodbye to David's sister Becky Patterson last week.  Becky past away last Saturday, September 15th after a 2 year battle with leukemia. We were able to take a week off of work and life to go to Utah last week to spend time with David's family and attend Becky's funeral.  Our heart's ache for Becky's wonderful and steadfast husband Garon and her three beautiful children.  They will fare the worst in this story but we are grateful for Becky and the wonderful life she lived.  We will miss her laugh and blushing at her frequent off-color jokes.   David was able to give a really great talk at her funeral and  the spirit we felt was so strong.  I am so grateful for the gospel perspective we have.  For the atonement of Jesus Christ, and for temples and the opportunity the we have to be with our families forever.  

Summer 2012

 Summers are for riding bikes, playing in the mud, enjoying the outdoors, and playing with friends, and that's exactly what we did this summer.

 The kids learned to ride their bikes without training wheels!

 We got dirty in the mud and dirt while we were camping at our family reunion.  We also played hard with our Adams family and had tons of fun and I got about 2 picture of the whole thing so if anyone has any more, let me know.

 We ate a lot of fresh veggies and berries from out garden and they were so delicious!

 We went to Wilson Springs Pond a lot and fed the ducks. 

We ran and played and got sunburned and swam and visited family and worked and went to bed late and ate popscicles and ice cream way more than was good for us.  I guess you could say it's been a good summer, You can't ask for more than all of the wonderful things that we got to do.  I love fall but I do hate saying goodbye to summer, I love the warm days and the flowers, the fresh food and the smell of a freshly mowed lawn, the sound of crickets singing at night, and eating lots of ice cream.  I guess  if I ever get lonely for summertime, I'll just break out a half gallon of Dreyer's and eat my cares away.    It just might be a great Autumn after all. :)

Recentness

Just a few random things we've been up to. 

Goofy boy

We decided to try to go up to Silver Creek  a couple a weeks ago on a Saturday.  The weather was beautiful and warm and it smelled so good up in the mountains.  However, we didn't make it to Silver Creek because the roads were too snowy.  It didn't dampen our spirits though, we got out and walked around for a while, played in the snow and then warmed up in the nice, warm sun. 

Some nice people took a  picture for us when we stopped at Kit's Diner in Horseshoe Bend.  It's a quaint little cafe right on the Payetter river.  Super cute, but don't get their pizza.

Easter birthdays

Clare's birthday this year was the friday before easter so we combined two of my favorite things, easter and Clare to have an easter birthday celebration at Carla's house.  Shelby and Adam hid eggs for the kids.  They had a blast finding them and as a bonus, they also found a baby bunny!  Well, actually the cats found the bunny and we rescued it.

Getting ready to hunt easter eggs with the hunters and hiders. 

filling their baskets

Counting up the loot.

He just wanted a little taste, it looked so good, and it didn't mess up the cake too bad!  Poor little Carson sampled the cake before we had a chance to stop him. He was pretty sad when he got caught.

Clare the birthday girl.  Love this little girl who is getting so big.  I wish she could stay like this forever.

The second most wonderful time of the year

If Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, then easter is the second most wonderful time of the year. In my eyes, it's a tossup between the two. I LOVE easter. For the reasons listed in the printout below. If you are looking for a fun easter decoration that the kids can help you with, you could do the easter banner that I have above. Just cut strips of varying widths of scrapbook paper then have the kids paste them on a little square of paper. When it dries, cut them out in the shape of an egg and put holes in them. For the letters, I just transfered the letters using carbon paper, cu them out with my exacto knife, then pasted the colored paper I wanted on the back. Easy. The kids had a ton of fun!

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!