SALT women's retreat

I got chosen to be a presenter at an LDS women's retreat in Provo on October 14, I was excited and nervous all in one, not really knowing what to expect.  It was nice that LeGrand had the weekend off so we all got to go down.  We just happened to catch the Freshies Lobster truck their last weekend in SLC for the season, it was so YUMMY!

While I was at the retreat LeGrand to took the kids to play at the nickle-cade, have mexican food, and swim at the motel.  My retreat was a great re-charge and went well.  I had made these cute signs for all the ladies that came to my discussion - as we talked about service and following promtings to share the light of Christ.  (I'll use the left-overs as Christmas gifts :) )

First Snow, Silly kids & a Split head

October 2nd brought our first snowfall...I'm so not ready for winter, but I probably never will be!

On one of trips for groceries the kids entertained themselves with the Halloween at Wal-mart!

On Thursday October 5th, LeGrand had gone to his pathway class and I jumped in the shower while the kids were playing - only to be interupted by a screaming Loa, she tends to be my dramatic child so I tried to just calm her from in the shower then I heard Laexin say that it was bleeding bad...so I took it a bit more serious😬 I jumped out of the shower and quickly got dressed then saw this - - - 

Apparently they were playing around and she fell and split her head right on the corner (metal) of my entry table. I continued to try and keep Loa calm but Laexin was doing all the reacting for me and keeping her worked up.  I made her get in the shower and get washed so that I could really see what the damage was - I was able to get a hold of LeGrand at school but he wasn't much help without being able to see how bad it was.  I decided that it didn't look that deep so I took it upon myself to cut the hair around the spot and super glue it together than cover it with a bandaid --and I'm happy to report it healed up great :)!

Potato Harvest 2017, visit to Vernal.

The kids were on Potato Harvest September 18th-29th.  We spent the first week enjoying our fare share of free fries and the kids were loving the time off.  Laexin got to do a little help at the Johnson's, putting lables on potato bags - he was pretty excited to earn some money :)  Then the second week we decided to go spend a few days in Vernal.  LeGrand started work on the pipe which means 10-12 hr days for 2 weeks straight plus the kids were out of school.  So the kids and I went for a couple of days to Vernal. They put the playground to good use!

 Can you spot the kids??

Caught ya!

They wore out the playground, had fun on the 4-wheeler, enjoyed the fire pit & got to pick pumpkins from Papa's garden!  And thanks to the weather not cooperating during harvest, we got a week extension, putting the kids out of school for 3 weeks!