Family Pics

I thought I would have all these awesome photos of our family because Jeebs' love for photography, but truth is, they are few and far between. He does have 3 jobs now, so I'll give him some slack.

So now, after Tara arranges things for us we got a couple of cute family pics. Hooray!!

PE yesterday

Wednesday is PE day on the trail. It's really the only way to do PE and we will take advantage of it until it gets too cold. I love it and the kids love it after I finally get them going and they stop grumbling. 

And just because Ezra is a cool dude...

Attack of the mink!

Labor Day was fishing with these two

They caught big monsters and I did not. It may have been because I was too busy running from the hissing mink. After Glen smugly caught 2 white bass to cut up for bait he put them next to his tackle box and let page and me have the monster fish spot. 

We sat there watching our bobbers and listening to the rustling of the high grass next to us. It was a mink. He finally got brave enough to come out and look at us before he scampered back into the grass. After a couple of times of this song and dance I told Page to throw him a chunk of fish so he would have something to nibble on. We knew that's what he wanted. Apparently, that wasn't enough for the little sucker because before we knew it he was slowly sneaking his way to the cut fish by Glen's stuff. Page took out his knife and was about to go full Hunger Games on his tail before he realized he's never been in the Hunger Games. I stomped at him turn go to politely usher him back from whence he came when he commenced hissing at us. Hissing at us! After we had given the little jerk a piece of fish! That was the turning for Page. If you're gonna hiss you gots to go. So, after unsuccessfully deterring him from his first snatch and run he weaseled his way back over, but we were ready and even more determined. As the little punk eased closer to the whole fish we went crazy; yelling, screaming, and stomping...and laughing hysterically. Page whacked at him with his tackle box and I stomped yelling, "skidlippplbuuubbbskldiiiblu!!!!!!". Everything happened so quickly, but eventually Glen came over to see what the heck we were screaming and yelling about. He quickly assessed the situation, grabbed a rock and knocked the ever loving snot out of the thing, landing it in the water. 

After a couple of seconds he resurfaced swimming in a circle. I thought Glen broke his leg, but he managed to recover, jump out of the water and run back to his first stolen treasure. We didn't see him again that day. Page wonders why he always gets in those kinds of situations when he's with me and I honestly don't know. I think nature just has it in for me. See post about the coyote. 

This is school

Cagey is doing a delicious history project and I'm thinking he's going to win cupcake wars some day with how much he loves to bake. This project was to find a recipe with corn and make it for your family. We chose corn meal pound cake. It was yummy. 

Also, we got to go to the Ogden temple open house. It was cool to show my chillens everything in the temple since it will be a little while before they can go. Actually Taylor will be able to go in less than 2 months, which is crazy. 

And yes, I counted it as a school day field trip. 

Pretty sure this is just a dream

I am still in denial that summer vacation is over. We are still trying to get into a routine, but after a marathon morning of visiting teaching we got a little off track. But, but, I got my visiting teaching done. 

Mookie is so in love with her new shoes. I always find a ton of pics on my phone after she's played with it and I found this little shoe pic today. She was calling them her glass slipper.

Tonight we drove up to the Mt. Timpanogos temple for FHE because mookie has been asking to see the temple nonstop. Cagey felt sick so he stayed in the car, but I snapped a pic of these three actually loving each other for a second. The blessings of the temple never cease to amaze!

Going fishing with my Taylor...

We can walk to the river from our house. It's awesome. The cleanliness of my house is probably suffering, but the fish are calling so...

We caught 7 between the both of us. Taylor's fish was bigger.

I think we need to take these with us next time- they're huge! Maybe they'd help us catch huge fish. It couldn't hurt.

Mooks in the morning

She is such a toot, notice the stack of books behind her? Yeah we have to get started with school. Blagh. 

But first, I finally hung the baskets I got for the boys' room. I hope they hold up, pretty sure I got them in a stud, but this is me we're talking about.