This n That

I haven't had a lot of time to post anything lately, and when something comes up, I forget to take a picture. So I have a few things here and there that I thought I'd mention. Here is a recent picture of Maizey, she's all cute and fluffy. We have good days and bad days with her. The worst was last week, she got into 1/2 stick of margarine and ate the WHOLE thing. She threw up all night... YUCK! She looks so funny when we bathe her, she looks like a cat! Conner thought it would be fun to take a picture of bath time.

This year, Conner and Kaylea have decided to raise turkeys to auction off for Thanksgiving. They will be able to earn a little extra Christmas money by doing this. Most of you know my fear of turkeys, and I have been helping feed and water them for a couple of months now. I guess when you raise them from chicks, they don't seem so scary. We are raising them with three other families, so my family actually only has 6 turkeys, they're getting so big and plump! I hope they taste yummy!

While we were at the high school on Saturday after Conner's game we saw a Ferrari, we don't see many of those in Grantsville. Conner couldn't pass it by without a picture. He looks good next to this car, don't you think? He thought it was pretty cool.

Too Close for Comfort

I haven't done a very good job of staying up on my blog. I started school, and that, along with work, young women's, being a wife and mother, has really kept me busy. I have a story to tell about our Labor Day weekend.

On Labor Day, Steve decided to take his horses up into the mountains. He would ride Dakota, and pony Cheyenne. He has done that several times this summer, and always tells me what a great job they do. They really are becoming great horses. But on Labor Day, that all changed. He was riding through a river, with brush on both sides, and he doesn't know what happened, but his horse freaked out and started bucking and bucking. He tried to ride it out for a while, but the horse was heading for a tree, and Steve was afraid he'd be knocked off. He decided to jump off the crazy horse. He got his left leg out and the horse bolted. Steve's right leg got caught in the stirrup. He was dragged for a short distance, then fell, and Cheyenne ran over the top of him.

Of course Steve didn't have his cell phone, so he had to get up, catch and trailer his horses, and come home while he was hurt. It wasn't bad enough to take him to the hospital, but he had scrapes and bruises all over his body. It's been a week, and he's still really sore; his ribs, ankle, legs, arms, and shoulders. I feel really bad for him. I took a picture of his bruises on his leg, we think Cheyenne stepped on him here, but Steve really doesn't know what happened... remember this is a week later, it's hard to believe how bruised he still is.

His calf and ankle on this leg were really swollen, but that's gone down quite a bit. I think the Lord preserved him, because he had stake conference this weekend, and he had to speak a couple of times. All I can say is this was too close for comfort.

The season has started

Saturday was an extremely busy day, Kaylea had her first cross-country meet in Tooele. I love cross country, because of the pretty places the kids get to run. This race was up Settlement Canyon in Tooele. Grantsville lost about half of their team and their coach to the new Stansbury High School this year, so it will be interesting to see how they do. Kaylea's time was 21:45 for 3.2 miles, she did really well, but is in a really fast region, she took about 15th place.

Conner also started his football season. He was really excited to start playing. The game was pretty discouraging, they lost 34 to 7. They lost about half of their team when Stansbury High school split with Grantsville High school, so the boys are trying to get used to each other. Hopefully that was just a rough start to a great season.

In the picture below, Conner is making a tackle. For being the smallest guy on the team, he's still pretty tough. He is really excited to have his friend and our neighbor, Ryan Egan on his team this year. Ryan's mom, Krysten is the team mom, and does a great job.

Wish us luck... GO COWBOYS!!!

Time to catch up

I have had so much going on, it's been hard to keep up with the blog. My sister, Jamie and her family came up for about a week. They were bringing Sage and Zach to Utah for a wedding reception, and then taking them to college in Cedar City. It was a lot of fun having them here.

School started, and my life is like a whirl wind. Conner started Jr. High school, Kaylea decided to take early morning seminary this year, Steve has college classes...day and night, and I decided to start college again. It's quite funny, I take the same math class as Steve, and the same computer class as Kaylea (who is also getting college credit for it).

Besides school, we thought it would be fun to get a dog!I know...call me crazy, but look at that face!! Isn't she adorable?? Her name is Maizey (MAY-ZEE) she's a maltese, yorkie mix.

Even Stevie likes her, although he calls her a little rat. I love her most days, but I'm not sure if I was ready to take on house-training a new puppy again.