From the Same Mold

We had some pictures taken of Christian since he is 3 now. I found the pictures of Tyler when he was 3. These two nut balls are so much alike.

W. Michael Black, Esq.

Love this guy!!

Two years ago this month Mike made the decision to leave a big, secure, successful firm and join a new firm in its first beginnings- Mitchell and Barlow. Mike had known JB from working with him at Snell and thought things would go well at Mitchell and Barlow. And they have!! It is scary when you have to take a risk, but when you know someone is going to work as hard as Mike does it is all going to work out.
Thanks for all your sacrifice and hardwork honey!!

Home Sweet Home

This September marked a milestone in our marriage.
We have lived here in this home in Bountiful for over 4 years. That is the longest we have ever lived in one place for the 12 years we have been married.

Aug 2008- Present

Glengarry Cirle Maitland, FL Dec 2004- Aug 2008

Harbor Cove Apts. Gainesville, FL Aug 2004-Dec2004

Pleasant Grove, UT Sept 2001- Aug 2004

With my Parents in Fruit Heights, UT while building PG home June 2001-Sept 2001

Starcrest Apts Orem, UT Feb 2000- June 2001

This post brings back a lot of memories. Friends, wards, adventures, remodeling, babies being born, etc.... Good Times!

Updates...

Since I am a total slacker with blogging lately I am going to through all things random happenings into one most so we can look back and remember when.

Christian has pretty much potty trained

Amy and Riley have been inseperable this summer

Been visiting with Grandma Midge. I even got to fishtail braid her long hair one day. I have always loved to play with my grandma's hair.

Brigham has been having bad night terrors! Not sure what is causing it. Maybe nervous about Kindergarten. Maybe it has to do with watching Power Rangers all day everyday. This particular night I found him screaming in the kitchen trying to put another shirt on over the one he already had on. It seemed I had calmed him down and got him back into bed. Mike woke up in the morning and saw him here asleep on the stairs with no shirt on.

Made another car seat cover.

When we came home from Blanding we found our daddy rouen and a female mallard dead in the pond along with all Mike's pond pipes torn up and floating in the pond. Also a male mallard hand a hurt wing and another female had some damage to her hind feathers. We suspect a dog. Anywho it was real sad for Katelyn. She has lost many ducks in the past year and she has been good to bury all in this graveyard.



It couldn't have been better timing than on Sept. 11th we had our old Mama Rouen hatch 13 babies and K hatched one more for her later that night.
I found this little guy still by the nest. Turns out he is blind.. for now. We are hoping he is just a late developer, but we are going to hang on to him either way.

Then on Sept 17th we had another Mama hatch 11 babies.

Thats is a total of 25 new ducklings!! 32 ducks in our backyard right now!!

1st Day of School

Thanks to grandma for fixing a yummy breakfast and for taking all these wonderful pictures!

Dad bestowing his wisdom on the new students or teasing them about their new clothes

One of my Homies! Christian was still asleep

Can you believe 4 chillins in the same school? 6th, 4th, 2nd and Kindergarten!

What a handsome/ darling group of children... all ready to learn!

or maybe not...

No!!! Please don't go...

Too bad Grandma didn't catch me soaking my feet popping some Bon Bons!

Labor Day Weekend

We also went down to Blanding for Maggie's baptism. It was a great occasion and the Lord rewarded cute Maggie with rainbows right after she was baptized. It was special!

Everyone all dressed up

Daver enjoying the Sabbath

We went up Sunday evening to have a devotional and practice shooting the bows. Came upon several good buck as we were driving up but they spooked when they heard the van door open.

Telling Grandpa a scary story

Labor Day Weekend- Four Corners

While the guys were up on the mountain some of us headed down to see Four Corners. I was the only one that had been there. Not even Marcia had been.

I knew they had recalculated the exact point and redone the marker since I had been there last. I was way impressed with the new Four Corners.

Christian was there being a pill

Excited that they still had the Indian peddlers there too.

Grandma was teaching Tyler how to take a good picture.

Jessie posing for Grandma

We stopped in Bluff and Twin Rocks Cafe for some yummy lunch

It was sunny the whole trip and then on our way back to Blanding we came upon a freak hail storm. It was so bad Lori had to pull off because there was NO visibility. It was a bit scary, but we made it back safe and sound.

Labor Day Weekend- Bow Hunt

Mike and his brothers drew out for the bow hunt this year down in San Juan County on The Blues. Mike had been so excited. He and Tyler had been practicing their bows and anticipating this event all summer.
Curtis had the camp all set up when we got down there to Blanding. The boys headed up the mountain.

(the only photo courtesy of Brent)



Mike said this first morning was the prettiest sun rise. The colors were vibrant!

They saw lots of turkeys and saw some bucks.

Curtis is a regular Rrrrrobinhood (get your r's a rolling)! He split his own arrow. Pretty cool!