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A cabin we will build

A new Angel Moroni- MTN Crane Can do it!

"Let's build a Temple..." was a song I remember from my childhood and here we get to help at our own Temple right down the street.

When this opportunity came up Paul jumped at it! This was an honor for our crane company to replace the burnt Angel Moroni with a new shiny one.

The boys didn't want their pictures taken they were more interested in Angel Moroni-do you blame them?

Mom & Mike joined us for the event along with camera crews, newspapers and many spectators (mom of course got her picture in the newspaper).

Each Angel Moroni is autographed! Skyler is in the back checking his text messages:)

Here you can see the burnt trumpet and arm this happened from lightening a few months prior. One crane held up the man basket with people in it to attach the Moroni to the other crane.

It was Porters 1st Birthday! He got to share it with his family at the Temple:)

I had this sign in my car from a marathon & thought I'd cheer on the crane operators. They got a kick out of it!

Witches Nite Out

Witches Nite Out is always a good time!

Check out them pumpkins

Mom, Me, Desi, Danielle, Rebecca & Paula (Danielle's Mom)

We checked out the Witches store-way cute!

Can't get enough dancing

Go Desi & Danielle!

Crazy Beheaded bride

Witches Nite Out

Cub Scout Halloween Party

Grandma Cher Cher's Halloween Party

Creating our pumpkins for the Party

Mardi Gras Pumpkin or Gender confused:)

I saw this on a blog last year and loved it!

Creepy Dinner

Totally random costumes for the beginning of October:Paul had to have his belly hang out for his Truck Driver outfit, Logan wearing a extra dragon costume from last year, me in an 80's get up and P-Town is our little Zebra.

Dessert:Cat Litter

Logan would not touch it!

Wee Witches

On their way for some weeee fun!

Coloring Station

Crazy Witches

Callie's & Arianna's Balloons popped right before the picture:(

Logan was not quite sure about the face painting-but he gave in and got a pumpkin!

Cornbelly's

We hit Cornbelly's with my mom on the 1st day it was open-it was not crowded at all!

Some funny characters

These bouncy jumpy things are so much fun!

We got lost in the kids corn maze!

Porter is obsessed with water

Boo at the Zoo

When we got to the Zoo all Logan could say was "Let's go to the Giraffes first" which happen to be the furthest point away from the entrance. I got my workout.

I brought my little critters to the Zoo on members day and it was crazy.

The baby elephant is the cutest little thing!

Family Outing

Its October!

I love October-pumpkin bread, treats, costumes, pumpkin patches, and decorating.

Thanks Aunt Britt for the Halloween Pancake molds-way cute!

Running around Grandma's with part of our Halloween costume on.

My mom is always trying to take pictures of us but most of them turn out like this...so I usually give up!

Happy Pumpkin Days!

Millions of Peaches

Pick Em

Cut em, Cook em & eat em

Paul's Grandpa Wankier is the greatest Grandpa ever! He taught me how to make peach jam-he had a station all set up for me with my own apron and everything. We made a batch of jam and had a fabulous time!

BYU Football

GO BYU! We got some awesome Season tickets this year. Too bad the 1st home game was against Florida State-so sad:(

Sky + I in the tent at half time=too many calories. Chocolate & Carmel fountains, ice cream, popcorn and my fav hot dogs with special sauce.

Here's Aunt Meg & Jeff who joined us for the Colorado State Game.

We ran into the Hope Family who I grew up with in Temecula at the

Utah State Game.

RA RA RA RA RA RA RA

Fall Soccer

Our cute Little Logan got to play with a bunch of his buddies this fall. There were only 6 games so I figured no big deal. But as always we were doing so many things that Logan only made it to the first 2 games-oh well-he did great.

Running with his tongue out

Tongue is still out

The first game he scored his first goal (in the opponents net) we were all excited regardless.

Go Logan Go!

Memorial Day Tradition

We hit our usual destination during the 3 day weekend...Park City. We love checking out the Showcase of Homes (this is the 1st time we hit all 15), eating yummy food and having fun with the boys.

Logan loves his Aunt Megan but as he calls her "Megan with glasses" (thats honestly what he calls her because one of his sitters' name is Megan). If she doesn't have glasses on he tells her to put them on.

Alpine Slide

Chairlift ride

We met up with Em and Matt for lunch.

Cheese...show us those toofers.

Park City Mtn Resort had all kinds of fun kids things. We hit all the rides on Tuesday when all the crowds were gone-it was perfect.

Cute Daddy!

Thanks Daddy! I get way too dizzy.

Porter lasted 2 circles before he had to get off:(

Meg and I got to go on the zip line-way fun! And the Alpine Roller Coaster is insane-seriously! I was screaming.

Little Pals Preschool

Logan loves going to Preschool! He loves his friends and his teacher Miss Linda. They even do fun field trips each month. The first field trip was to the Cove's Pond where they did a nature scavenger hunt, fed the ducks and even fished.

This week they took a field trip to Smiths Grocery store-they wore hair nets, decorated cookies and even got a bag full of treats. They do the cutest things!

The week before the grocery store field trip the kids learned about different hats that people wear in our community. I was in charge of snacks so Hello Cupcake had something just perfect...they turned our pretty cute.

There is a sailor, fireman, cowboy and chef.

Hat Day! Except for my kid looks like he didn't cooperate.

The hat Logan chose for hat day was an In-N-Out hat...Logan you have chosen wisely.

We are not a bit surprised!

BYU vs. Oklahoma

Guys Trip to Texas! They had a blast-golf, food and BYU football.

Paul couldn't stop talking about the stadium and big TV screens.

Go Cougars!

They have fans on the golf course because its so hot and humid in Texas.

Four!!!

Utah State Fair

We have never made it to the fair and it was close to the last day so I packed up the kids. We saw many stinky animals, got drizzled on, played a few carnival games where I spent more than the prizes were worth, and ate some high carb foods. Needless to say I had my fill and we can go a few more years before we go again. Boyz 2 Men were playing that night which would have been a kick to see (8th grade all over again).

Check out this kids eyebrows-they make me laugh. And so does the fact that his hair is too long and not done.

Visiting the Cemetary

As kids my mom always took us to the cemetary to leave flowers for her dad aka Grandpa Jerry who I never met. So it only felt right to take my kids when we were in Fullerton, CA.

My mom had a really neat experience with Logan when he was really little- she had a picture of Grandma Corky and Logan went up to it saying her name (and none of us had told him at that point) and said "I know her." And its cute because ever since then he talks about her as if he really knew her (she passed away of Ovarian Cancer when I was 17).

Its amazing what strong feelings come back when I think of my Grandma she was a fantastic hard working woman. And whenever she burnt or dropped something she would say the "s"word and to this day it still makes me laugh.

11 yr old Scouts

Paul and Shane are the Scout Leaders for the 11 year olds in our ward and they helped the boys pass off their Wild Life section by bringing them up to Big Dave's personal zoo!

Ryker & Logan joined in too.

Ace and Miss Billy meet the boys.

Afton is the cutest!

Grandpa Steve

Paul was in San Diego for business so the kids & I joined him and he went his way and I went mine (visting family throughout so cal).

I had not seen my dad for a few years so we were able to stop by Grandma Wandas and meet up. He had not seen Logan for about 3 years and had not met Porter.

Grandma Wanda, my dad, Aunt Connie & Uncle Scott were there to say hi along with Uncle Trent and Grandpa Terry who were not in the picture. I had a lot of great memories at their home with Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter egg hunts.

IHOP

Daddy was out of town so we decided to go to IHOP for Logan's 1st time. He had fun with all the different colored syrups but he did eventually eat the pancakes. It was funny because Logan ordered sausage and the waitress brought bacon and Logan quickly corrected her...i ordered sauage. I was a little embarassed that my 3 year old was correcting her but it was kind of funny.

I grew up going to IHOP all the time and as kids we were even in a commerical because my Uncle Scott's advertising company wrote them. We wore the goofy glasses with the big nose it was the time the rooty tooty fresh n fruity came out.

Matt's Farewell

It was way fun to have a luau for a farewell (easy party planning...tiki torches, roasting a pig (almost! I was so close!) leis, yummy fruit and flower attire. We used dried bamboo leaves to wrap inside and outside the invite-turned out good.

Matt is Emily's boyfriend who recently decided to go on a mission! We love him as much as we luv our Em. He heads out September 16th to the Honolulu Hawaii Mission-what a mission! We promised we would occupy Em's time with babysitting...yeah for us:)

We joined Matt as he received his endowments on Sept 3rd and it was so exciting to be there with his whole family-his closest cousin went through too! We are so thrilled for Matt-he is a fabulous kid and gave an amazing talk at his farewell...my favorite part...I'm in a band.

Sushi at Last!

Carrie & Helen took me out for some yummy sushi! We started with edamame then ordered 3 rolls and couldn't at all finish them. I choose Unagi...eel. Thanks for Lunch!

Day Trip to Heber

Load Up we're goin to Heber! The weather is always cooler, the kids love running wild and my favorite...no phone reception=my husband all to myself.

No worries he has his froggy.

T-Man and Shelf

Crazy Munchins

We made the kids a sandbox...pretty much just another spot they can get dirty.
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Company Party

The Company party is a hit in Heber-we stay at our family property of about 40 acres, it has camping sites, bbqs, tons of sitting areas, basketball, volleyball, swing set, 4wheeling trails and the best part a river runs through it.

Hay rides were a great way to keep kids occupied

Paul Kicking Back

2 engineers+crane owner+crane sales guy+electrician+1 extra able body= their crane design bombed!

Checking out the projects

This is Ruth, Em's mom! She is a life saver in the office and has to deal with all the payroll and billing! Porter loves her when I'm not in the same room.


Uncle Vern

Crane Competition

We had 5 teams compete to build a crane out certain materials in a short time frame. It was pretty fun to watch all the guys at work. They got different amounts of points for load capacity, radius etc.

2 Engineers, 2 Skylers & a crane owner & an electrician=too many chiefs

Their crane was a bust! But the losers got to driver a beater van and crash all the other cranes down!

Logan loves to throw sticks & rocks in the river-his favorite is to play pooh sticks on the bridge.

Porter is obsessed with 4 wheeling-he loves it!

The Mundays made their famous Tri-tip...thank you thank your thank you!

Porter & Kruz are 2 weeks apart!

Temple Dedication

My mom got tickets to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple Dedication (of course...she gets tickets to everything!) and I was the lucky one who got to go with her-Skyler waited outside. We sat in one of the endowment rooms to watch it being broad casted from the Celestial room.

The talks were amazing and once the Dedicatory Prayer begun the Spirit was so strong. I'm so grateful I was able to be there! It was even President Monson's 82nd birthday.

After the service was over we waited in our room to leave, the Prophet and other speakers were leaving first. As I waited by the door a man popped his head in our room and I was so shocked it was President Monson the Prophet of the Lord right in front of me! I was giddy like a little kid-the usher asked the children to come up and none of them did so I went ahead and shook his hand and the only words I could think of was "Happy Birthday" I was still in shock. Dieter Uchdorf and a few others were also with him. He was the happiest cutest man ever! It will be a day I never forget.

I already love this Temple so much! I was able to volunteer as physical facilities and help restock bathrooms and keep everything clean inside and out during the Open House. I was able to clean and vacuum inside the Temple-3 days before the Temple dedication with a few friends. And our crane company was able to replace the Angel Moroni with a clean new one.

I am so encouraged to double my efforts in my Temple Attendance as the brethren have said-The Oquirrh Temple is such a blessing!

10 Year reunion

Elizabeth & I pose in front of the door just like in high school!

Craig Blois was one of buddies who I was glad showed up.

It is so funny because I was so excited to see Eliza even though we live 5 minutes away from each other. It always takes an event for us to get together.

Jill Vasant another one of my good buds I was thrilled to see. I didnt get many pictures because as you can imagine I was talking the whole night. It was like a weird dream to see everyone again.

Hey I won an award...being Married the Longest!

Some of my Fam

I was so excited to see Baby Alexa while I was in Cali I had not seen her since she was born in March. My older brother Garrett the genius-makes my favorite thing in the world healthy ice cream.

My brother in law Todd and Baby Beck! We all went out for lunch then Todd and Paul hit Torrey Pines for golf.

Garrett and his family-Ariana is on my lap and is 3, Jacqui his adorable wife, Ethan 5 and Alexa almost 5 months.

Britt is MIA she was doing 2 different weddings that day. Busy talented lady but she did squeeze me in the morning.

9th Anniversary

We celebrated our 9th anniversary in San Diego while we were down there for my 10 year high school reunion. We saw Wicked for the 1st time and both loved it!

Porter is 1!!!!

Paul bought me this cake pan-way cute but my frosting abilities need to improve.

Its your Birthday and you can cry if you want to.

We tore apart the cake for him and then he loved it!

Papa Belcher, Grandma Raette with the Belcher Boys.

Surprise!

My girlfriend Carrie wanted to throw a surprise party for her Grandma Helen (who I adore!) so we had a blast having all her friends over and enjoyed lunch and treats together.

Helen is the kindest & funniest person ever! You just light up when you talk to her.

My sister had a Panini Party so I had to copy her fabulous idea!

A few asked for the ingredients:

1st Panini: Pear, carmelized onions, fontina cheese, sage and ciabatta bread

2nd Panini: Pesto, sundried tomatoes, mozzarella, basil and ciabatta bread

I had my mom make her fabulous veggie basket! It was payback since my sister & I always had to make it for her parties:) Thanks mom!

Lisa and I tried to imitate Nothin' Bundt Cakes and we succeeded!!!

Fabulous Friends and Sisters from our Ward

Lori, Mom and Linda and Danielle in the back...Carrie is not pictured she hid very well from the camera!

Helen with Great Grandaughters Callie and Nikki

Our latest Project

Big Dave got us this wrecked trailer that was left in the tow yard. The guy left the title because he didn't have insurance and didn't want to pay to have it sent back to Nevada...so yeah for us!

We used a tow truck to straighten out the tounge and than we (paul & his dad) welded a new hitch on it.

The front had the most damage!

I was on cleaning duty-glass glass and more glass. Oh and a whole jar of grape jam.

Broken Cabinets among a few other things.

Temple Open House

Whats better than the Temple and cookies!

Say cheeseeee but please open your eyes!

My cute men!

3 out 4...we are doing better.

I was able to volunteer one morning for physical facitilites. I learned where every custodial closet and bathroom was in the Temple. I had a great time I also helped keep the grounds clean. Later on I got to clean the Temple before the dedication and I vacumed sealing rooms and cleaned all the marble thresholds. Any opportunity to work and serve in the Temple was fantastic. While we took the Open House tour we were able to see Elder Russel M. Nelson of the Quorum of the Twelve it was great!

Hold on one second

This is the view I get whenever I try to change Porter's Diapers-seriously he rolls overs and crawls away.

Off to Logan's Room!

He loves pounding the wooden hammer and he is GOOD-

its for ages 2 and above but he's got it down!

Go P-Town!

11 Months

These were actually taken at 11 1/2 months- first time I missed taking pictures on the exact day but anyways it was this time that Porter started walking!

Way better than flowers!

Instead of chocolates or flowers we (Mtn Crane) got Big Dave a zebra for surviving his accident! you wouldn't believe where the Zebra was born...Castledale Utah. They are breeded there and then shipped off to Temecula (my home town) until they are sold.

Dave can't pet him and hold the leash so the zebra just nudges his elbow and arm.

We figured it went well with his collection of animals-goats, miniture donkey, buffalo and now a zebra.

The Grand kids have their very own petting zoo.

Asthma?

Logan wasn't sounding so good so our Doctor had us go to Primary's ER and they didn't like how Logan sounded so they admitted him to the Hospital. For 2 Days.

Looks like our little guy might have asthma-he owns an inhaler now!

Camp Awards Pack Meeting

I made little tents to hold the boys awards! The boys did awesome and received tons of belt loops and pins for their hard work at camp.

My attempt of an inside fire.

Edible campfires for the activity and treat.

Our cute Cub Scouts

This is the Place

I cannot believe I have lived in Utah for about 10 years & I have never been here! It was fantastic & I cannot wait until the kids are older to participate in some of the crafts and games.

A replica of a 1 room home that housed 10 children.

Logan & Nathan found a checker board to play

Logan getting his daily shave

Waiting their turn

All aboard-probably the boys favorite part

Paul's Grandpa Evy was the Brick Mason at This is the Place Park for years. I asked someone if they still had the brick mason he told me it went away when he went away:(

Logans 1st time at Miniture golf

Daddys helping out their boys-too cute!

Logan's favorite color is green so he had his green ball and green club. Logan threw his ball in the water and thought it was funny. But he didn't like it when he realized he couldn't play anymore. So good thing for mommy who went wadding up to her shorts in water to get his ball.
Sorry no picture:(

Ryker was awesome at miniature golf and got a hole in one-he was much better than Danielle and I.