Mountains, fresh air and Fishing

Carlos loves to fish. He would rather take people fishing as a job instead of 9-5 (or 3pm -3am) job. He and Brian Allen seem to make it a quest to find the best river each week...or so they would like. They do have a lot of fun....his way of releasing all the stress of a long work week.. I do tease him sometimes about how much he loves fishing. There is a country song that goes:

Well I love her but I love to fish I spend all day out on this lake nd hell is all I catch
But today she met me at the door said I would have to choose
If I hit that fishing hole today she'd be packing all her things snd she'd be gone by noon
Well I'm gonna miss her when I get home but right now I'm on this lakeshore
And I'm sitting in the sun I'm sure it'll hit me When I walk through that door tonight
Yeah I'm gonna miss her Oh lookie there I've got a bite...

I would never give Carlos an ultimatum...in fact I would like to be able to go do some fishing myself...next summer when Sam is bigger that should be possible....so you might see pictures of me too.

The Leaves Keep Falling

We have three trees in our front year....two HUGE trees that drop a lot of leaves. I went to Walmart to get a leaf blower (anything to make it easier). I looked everywhere but there was no sign of a leaf blower or even a rake. (this is beginning of November-a warm November). I asked a "knowledgable wal-mart employee"where I could find one. He said that they had to send everything back to make room for the Christmas items. I was surprised since most of the leaves in the valley were still on the trees....OOOPS to Wal-mart. So we tackled the leaf issue the old fashion way as a family...building piles and then jumping in them. The kids had a blast with the leaves. Jacob and Madi were anxious to pick them up ... Sam was anxious to move the leaves by just sitting in them. It went by pretty quick. Nevertheless, our hard work was overturned a week later when the tempurature dropped and so did millions of leaves.. Our yard is again covered. This time I went to Lowe's to find a Leaf blower... It will be easier this time.

Jacobs Spooktacular Birthday

Jacob wanted to have a Halloween birthday party. So we decorated the
house and everyone came dressed in their costumes. We played pin the wart
on the witch, musical chairs and they had to try to eat a hanging donut without using
their hands and then of course the ghost pinata. Jacob had fun and got some fun toys.
It is hard to believe that he is 7 years old...We are so proud and blessed.

HALLOWEEN

We had fun this Halloween between the ward party, playgroup, school and then trick or treating. I usually dress up as a doctor so I decided to do something different and Carlos used the docotr costume (he is sneakily behind the camera). Sam didn't get the whole trick ot treating thing but did leave his costume on. Jjacob and Madison were dashing from door to door. We have enough candy to last the year...but it doubtfully will last through the end of the year.

Gardner Village

I took Madi and Sam to Gardner village to the barnbuddies.. Madison loves horses and was thrilled to be able to ride one. They were miniature ponies just her size.. She rode on Charles. They just walked around in circles..it was like a merry-go-round on a live horse.
Both Madison and Sam had fun petting the animals. Sam really never got close enough, he would just reach out with one finger and say "Daa".