Parker is 10

Here is the birthday boy with some of his friends. He did it up flame style with his birthday cake. I really had to stretch my artistic skills to paint the flames.

Jared on the Madison

Here is Jared on one of his favorite rivers.

First day of school. . .two months later

I know this is a little late, but here you go. It is a good snapshot of how the boys have grown.

It's football time

Here are some photos of the boys in all their football glory. Mitchell's team is in playoff mode and Paker and Brigham have two more weeks of games. Gooooooo green!!!!! I didn't rotate the one of Stockton, but you get the general idea.

A little oops

This little oops happened quite a while ago, but it took me a long time to get the photos off the camera. This has happened once before to a friend of ours who was pouring concrete in our garage. The red release handle on the garage door opener got caught in the luggage rack on the suburban and the door started to come down as I was backing out. Unfortunately, Jared was out of town and so the Suburban was stuck in the garage until he got home and could take the broken panel off. At least when the contractor did it he broke two panels and I only broke one, LOL. Such is our life!!!

The Sound of Silence

The kids are back in school and the house is silent for 8 hours a day. I have only been able to enjoy this silence for small moments because it is the busiest time of year for our family. I am in the throws of running the soccer program. Do not ask me why I am still doing this, because I do no have any children playing soccer. Yet, I am handling all the registrations, checkbook and ordering of t-shirts (complete with preparing sponsor art), go figure!!!! Scouts is in full swing and we have our recruitment meeting tonight. I have spent all day preparing for that and just got finished in time to walk down to get the mail (my 2 mile walk for the day) and walk the boys home from the bus.

All four boys are playing football this year, so the calendar looks like a flight plan for NASA. Mitchell and Stockton both have games today in Park City which is about 45 miles from our house. Their games will typically be on Monday, so I have had to rearrange my work schedule because of the two days that I work, Monday is one of them (of course).

It is also hunting season, so I will soon be a hunting widow while Jared scours the mountains looking for an elk to shoot with his bow. This is usually the only time he takes vacation, so he really enjoys being out in the mountains doing what he likes best.

Tomorrow I hope to truly enjoy the sounds of silence as I sit on the couch and eat bon-bons while watching a chic flick (if you actually believe this, then you don't have four kids), LOL!!!!

Summer Finale

We ended our summer with a bang this year, at Lagoon!!! The kids had a great time and wore themselves out on Monday riding rides and playing in the water park. The older boys experienced the priviledge of being responsible and cruised the park without their parents. They did call every 30 minutes on mom's cell phone to check in with us, but it was a great thrill for them. All they could talk about was the ride "Wicked" and how fun it was. Parker and Brigham are still on the smaller rides, but that will probably change next year. Luckily there was a 2 for 1 special going on, so the kids ended up paying for the whole family to go with the money they earned over the summer. We had a blast!!!