Corn Maze

The other day we were going to take the girls to the park. But the parking lot was full because of soccer games, so we left and decided to try out a pumpkin patch/cor maze nearby. It was a BLAST! It was a little family owned business with tons of cool pumpkins, bounce houses. Kenny and I really liked this and want to make it next year.It's  got pumpkins growing on vines! How cool is that. Very fun.

I came across this awesome quote by Elder Joseph B Wirthlin while preparing for sunday's lesson. I love it:

"I urge you to examine your life. Determine where you are and what you need to do to be the kind of person you want to be .Create inspiring, noble and righteous goals that fire your imaginations and create excitement in your heart. And then keep your eye on them. Work consistently towards achieving them."  

I think this is a good reminder for me. 


 

And Olivia is just cute.

Ghost Cat

I was shopping at Joann's fabrics last week and saw a cat decoration and thought to myself, "I could totally make that myself". And I did. I took the old sheets that used to be hanging as curtains in the camper and made a cat! (I also made some cuter curtains for the camper, maybe I'll get some pics of that) Olivia was watching me make it and wanted to help, I said yah, but didn't think anything of it when I left the room to get something.
When I came back into the kitchen she had scooted the chair over and was painting the cat with white fabric paint that I had used for the eyes. I was a little shocked, but then laughed and let her and Maggie go to town. It's not like it cost me anything! NOw it's our scary ghost cat. She likes to carry it around and put it different places. And they want to show it to our neighbor Peggy, (They are obsessed with Peggy they always want to go over to her house)

Living life and loving it. and free stuff doesn't hurt.

 We are having fun at the park

 Maggie making sod angels

 We went to the mountains to ride our new scooters that Kenny got for free. Let me just say, that Kenny is scrappy. Our friend works as the maintenance guy at an apartment complex in Provo. He said we could have some scooters that had been sitting for years in the parking lot.  Of course there was a gleam in Kenny's eye when he heard this, and now we have two scooters. Pretty fun I have to say. Originally we were going to fix them and sell them to get a 4 wheeler. But we aren't sure.

This weekend we went up to Squaw Peak. It was SO beautiful. Maggie and Olivia picked a bushel of pretty red, orange and yellow leaves. She needed 5 to 10 for preschool this week. We picked  a little more than that. It made me think of John Adams. Weird huh? I read David Mccullaugh's biography this summer. He and his wife were two GREAT people, salt of the earth people. They were also very stalwart in their simplicity. At the end of his life, Adams retired to his home in the country called Peacefield. One winter day close to the end of his life he looked out the window on a winter day and noticed the bbeauty and grandeur of nature. He said something to the effect that the branches on the trees and the icicles were prettier than all the kings and queens he had seen decorated with their jewels.

Summer Ending

Well the last few weeks have been fun. Wakeboarding and tubing with Shannon in Washingston. Camping in park city, putting in new flooring, and mountian biking at sundance. Perfect way to end summer. Now the girls are doing preschool and we will fall into our new schedule.

I asked Maggie what color cat she wanted to get, white, black, brown, or orange, "Pink!" she says!!

I walked into the girls' bedroom and olivia was naked, under the blankets with a big bottle of baby powder.

Olivia is potty trained (ing)

Olivia can most often be found saying, "oh my goodness"

There is something about these girls in cute summer dresses. Irresistible.

We had fun at the ward ice cream social last night. They had a 'candy gun' A what you say? A candy gun. Like it shoots candy out of a cannon. 25 feet. While they were doing it, I said to a friend, I know that my husband already has a plan in his head to make one of these.

You see that handbag, i sewed it. That was so easy and so fast. I want to make some more.
This is the only way i could figure we could do a family picture.

we introduced the pinata to the girls on the 4th of july. Olivia rocks.
We found a feather on our hike. Maggie liked it.
Daddy is Maggie's sherpa.
We are big in to patriotism.
our hike up at sundance on the 4th. It was hot!
CHEESE!
Beautiful girl.
Maggie is such a hugger and a squeezer. She loves to give hugs to everyone in the family. Olivia on the other hand likes to get in to mischief. Pictured here, she found the nail polish.