Before and After

Sunday
Wednesday

They say we will have a repeat performance this week, although not as severe.

Brant

Falling Down

We had a winter storm for a day here in Colorado. The snow was heavy, so some branches fell down from the trees. No branches fell from our trees, but lots of BIG branches fell from our neighbor's trees. Above, you see the biggest, with my friend showing the size comparison. About an hour later, after this branch fell down, me and my friend were throwing parts of this branch over the fence to our neighbor's yard, when he slipped, and fell down. He screamed in pain, so I helped him inside, thinking he didn't do anything bad to it. I looked by his knee, and saw a slit through his snow-pants. I looked into the gap, and saw a HUGE gash. He went to the hospital, and got 14 stitches. Yes, 14! In one day, two things fell down. And by the way, he's doing very well, can walk, but can't bend his knee presently.

Ty

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween!!! 

A friend of a friend saved us with these Batman capes this year.

Ivan is wearing one from the Zirker costume box of years gone by.

Learning to mow G&G's lawn in the rain.

Here's an interesting article on Mitt Romney. I think the writer gives the Church a pretty fair shake.

Mitt Romney on CNN.com

October recap

Raya's solution to fighting cavities. "I'll just wear my fake teeth all the time." I'm not sure how effective that will really be!

Our scary pumpkins. Yes, the jigsaw came out but that picture looked the same as last years shot. We're trying to teach the kids, the bigger the holes, the bigger the light. We're getting better each year.

We borrowed a tag-along from a friend, it hooks onto the back of Kevin's bike, sort of like a tandem. I pulled the bike trailer and away we went on a 10-ish mile bike ride around the resevoir. It was really fun. The kids did amazingly great and we didn't have any flat tires, thankfully! We stopped in the middle for a picnic and then kept on trekking. The girls took turns in the bike trailer and decided the tag-along was way more fun. I think we have officially out grown the bike trailer. (Not that I mind, pulling an extra 50 pounds up hill was no treat for me!)

Old Growth Cedar

I was traveling home on Friday coming up the grade between Julietta and Troy when I got behind this truck. I had the camera in one hand and steering with the other and hoping he didn't hit the brakes while I was looking through the camera.

We had a fun ward social Friday night. Cornbread and chili and then trunk-or-treating. The cultural hall was packed and so was the parking lot. The weather was mild and a good time was had by all. Today is the traditional Halloween dinner and then trick-or-treating with the locals tomorrow night. There was frost on the punkin this morning so fall is here and winter is just around the corner.