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Marshall's Blessing

Thought I would experiment a little and try and copy some of the great pictures I have seen others take. Some of them actually turned out okay.

Wee Witches

Let the Halloween Festivities begin!
After much deliberation between a home made Strawberry Shortcake costume and an easy, store bought Barbie Mariposa, Sydney finally decided Barbie was the winner (maybe with a little persuasion). Connor never even had to think about it once he saw the claws on that Dino costume.

We made our little trip over to Gardner Village to partake in the festivities.
Can't be October without a corn maze
Chase, Sydney, Ikaika, Connor, MarieI can imagine Chase saying, "What is the point of this mom?"

Ikaika got the point. I couldn't get him to stay still for a picture!
"Ooh, I see a witch mom!"
This is Connors first trip to witches.Dylan, Connor, Sydney, Ikaika, Marie, Chase
Like I said, Connor is proud of his claws.

I think this is the point where Connor screamed at me (the music was a little loud) "I have to go to bed right now!"We were all getting a little tired by this point.

Fall was too short!

Yes, we got snow, but luckily it was only in the mountains. I have decided, that snow is great in the mountains, can't it stay there? It can snow down in the valleys a week before, during, and after Christmas, then, I am done. Can it work out that way this year, please?

Good to have Family

We have also been doing a lot of family things lately because my cousin Nik made it back safely from Iraq and we wanted to spend all the time with them as we could before he went back to his station.

Nik and Ashley at the Zoo

And of course we had to slip in one more dough boy night before it got too cold.
Marshall loved being outside!

Fall into Autumn

Okay, I heard that on Noggin and thought it was kind of catchy.

Sydney has been asking grandma for weeks if she can pick the apples off her tree and she finally got to. She even got to climb up the tree, "just like Noah did!" Noah is her friend that she really misses, and always associates with tree climbing because he was/still is quite the monkey.

"Twist and pull mom."

M.I.A

Sorry, we have been very busy lately! I will have a few catch up posts after this, but we have big news. NO, I am not pregnant. We are buying a house!! As many of you know, we didn't think we would be able to qualify because of the new rules on commission-based jobs, but John has been working at a salary based job in Park City as well, and we were able to qualify on that! It has been a roller-coaster ride though let me tell you. Note to all of you getting ready to graduate and looking at get a house: your student loans need to be differed 12 months, not 11 1/2. Really. Well, to make a long story short, we were told we qualified, not officially, we found the perfect house, told we didn't actually qualify because of our student loans, figured out we were able to qualify on some of what John makes at the job he has been working at for over a year, were finally officially qualified, and hopefully we will sign our lives away this week. We kind of had to rush it too because we really wanted to qualify for the tax credit they are giving this year. Anyway, we found the perfect home, not to far from where we are now, that has a finished yard ('cause you all know how I love yard work) complete with sprinkling system, fence, window well covers, and a great swing set. Sydney will be able to stay at her school (no bus though) and I can paint the walls any color I want! We probably won't be able to move in for a few weeks, but I will send pics as soon as I have them. Here is one from the realty website: