A Rather Blustery Day

Get ready for another picture heavy post. You know what they say, "a picture is worth a thousand words." so you see, you really win in the end, I'm sparing you a thousand words. :)

 

There are about 2 months out of the year that the wind doesn't blow around here and those months are July and August.

So the wind is back and Tuesday was a "rather blustery day" (name that movie)

 

Dad is in the middle of beet harvest when that blustery day causes trouble with the power lines therefore causing the power to go out, therefore causing the beet dump to close. can't dig beets when you can't dump em'. Mom is in town (thank goodness) taking Scott to work and getting parts and what not, because that's her life during harvest. Anyway so dad goes home because who wants to sit in a tractor if you don't have to. When dad gets home he finds this: (minus the grandkids and Scott;) )

 

 

 The wind blew their 50 + yr old elm tree down!!!

Scott is a tall guy check out that root ball! Braiden and Brody are climbing on it like a jungle gym.

 

Those of you who have been in my parents yard will know how big these trees are. The one that blew over is the one in the middle of the back yard.

 

Look at the root ball on this thing, this is Braiden Brody and Hudson standing next to it

 

Trampoline is history...

 

 

 View from the house, you can't even see into the backyard!

 

 

 

 

 Christopher standing on top of the root ball

Nate surverying the damage.

 

 

We went and rented a wood chipper to chop up the small branches, the logs will be cut into firewood. Can anyone say, "firewood for life"? 

 

He had a hard time keeping up with all the branches we were hauling over.

 

 Christopher in the thick of it.

 

Christopher and Casey had fun playing Paul Bunyon

 

 

 Dad finished beet harvest (yay!) Sat morn just in time to help out :)

 

 

Jim too!

 

  Making progress!!!

 

 

 

Poor thing! I logged (no pun intended) alot of hours on that thing when I was little.

 

The beet truck full of wood chips...

 

 

My brothers and I...and a nephew... and a couple of nieces.

 

The fam, minus Kristy, Kailey (the ballerina) Braiden, Brody (were at the Boise State game) Ethan and Bella (were at a soccer tourney.) and Lillian was inside taking a nap.

 

 Regan and Christopher being gutsy.

 

 

 Em

 

 

 Regan and Em

 

 

Can you believe with that massive tree falling over the only thing that was really damaged was the trampoline!!! Blessed!

 

There is still a ton of work to be done but we made good progress! I love my family!

 

I wonder....

 

No one was home,

So did it make a sound when it fell?????

 

The Pumpkin Patch & More

The football season is over. Brody played his last game on the 11th, he did great this season scoring lots of points! He's really got this game figured out, until next year at least when he becomes the underdog again.  Braiden played his last game on the 13th.

 

"Hi Mom!"

 

 

 Here is Braiden playing center (getting ready to hike the ball)

 

 

They had a small team this year so Braiden got to? had to? play on offense and defense, so if he was ever on the sidelines he was begging, "Dad, put me in. Dad, put me in"  He loves the game!

 

Nate and Braiden (#33) leaving the field.

 

 

So now that football is over and the yard work is very minimal what shall I do with all my free time?

hmmm lets see:

feed the missionaries

go to pack meeting

fight a case of strep throat

orthodontist appointments

get ready for the primary program

cut up a tree (more on THAT later)

and

 

go to the pumpkin patch:

 

 

 Brody

 

 

Hudson

 

 

Braiden

 

 Joslyn

 

 

 Hey, even mom and dad went to the pumpkin patch!!!

 

Braiden and Brody finding their way through the corn maze.

 

Friday evening was beautiful, perfect for hunting for the perfect pumpkin!

 

Here's some great news!

 

This little pumpkin

 

 

is POTTY TRAINED (cue hallelujah chorus) It was my goal to start when we got home from Disneyland. In my mind "when we get home from Disneyland" meant maybe the Monday after we get back or sometime that following week, when I get caught up on the laundry. Well when we got home we had 3 diapers left so I kinda had to do it right then. So Saturday morning the panties were on and I was taking her potty 200 times a day. :) Well Joslyn is queen of the potty and was accident free by Tuesday!! Not to say that she hasn't had an accident here and there since then but she had it figured out! Yay!

Out of the crib, out of diapers, my baby isn't a baby anymore! and NO it isn't time for another .;)

Days 3 & 4 Disneyland!!

Get ready for the longest post in the history of mankind.

 

"The happiest place on earth!"

 

 Family picture in front of Sleeping Beauty's castle take 1:

 

 Family picture in front of Sleeping Beauty's castle take 2:

 

Family picture in front of Sleeping Beauty's castle take 3:

 

Come on guys it's only 8:30 a.m. ;)

 

The park was decorated SO cute for Halloween

 

 

 

 Cara, Travis and Dillon:

 

 

Even the Haunted Mansion was all decked out:

 

 

 

Visit to Toon Town...Mickey Mouse here we come!

 

 

 

 

OK we can go home now (just kidding)
Gotta see Minnie too!



Joslyn LOVES Mickey and Minnie on TV but in person, she wasn't quite sure. Hudson was at the perfect age for meeting the characters.

 

Playing at Minnie's house:

 

 



 







 

 

 

Some other characters we met:

 

Tigger:

 

 

 Pooh:

 Rapunzel:



 

 

I waited in line for 45 min for Joslyn to see Rapunzel. whhoooweee! It was SO worth it though. Joslyn loves the movie Tangled she even has Rapunzel's dress on! You can see how excited she is... HA! Once we were out of there she was so excited to tell daddy that she got to see "Rapunzeled".  I guess she is just a little shy around her favorite characters.

 

Rides:

 

Nate, Hudson and Joslyn on Dumbo:

 

The whole fam on It's a Small World:

The kids LOVED Splash Mountain we went on that one again and again! Look at Hudson having a blast, I love it! Nate is trying to not get wet.

 

 

Braiden, Travis Hailey, Jake, Cob and ?

Lucky for us Joslyn's favorite ride was right across from Splash Mountain...The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh we probably did that one 10 times, she LOVED it!

 

Another favorite was Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters which again was perfect because the little ones could go on it while the big kids went on Star Tours and Space Mountain, Brody was NOT a fan of Space Mountain though. :(

 

The Haunted Mansion was decked out in The Nightmare Before Christmas, I like the original mansion better :/ We all LOVED Pirates of the Caribbean they've added Jack Sparrow here and there since I've been.  We were Sad Sad Sad that Indiana Jones was closed. BOO! There's always one right?

 

A little down time after dinner:

 

Sword fighting with their Jack Sparrow Swords



Waiting for the parade to start:

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The parade was awesome!! The perfect ending to a wonderful 4 days!