matchy matchy

I love when my boys are occasionally matching on Sundays, so cute.

hard working hubby

Are you suppose to stand up as you mow the lawn on a sitting mower?

Laun mowed down all the tall weeds that were between the yard and the crop land. I love the wide open filling.

I also love how many trees and brush he removed from the side yard, now you can see the little section of aspen trees.

I love my hard working man.

The boys and I gather all the tree trimmings and take them to the burn pile.

Laun also repaired part of the wood siding on the shed.

And then started the painting.

It is amazing how much Laun can get done in one day.

beautiful fall day

Today I volunteered at both of the boys school. I made play dough for Porter’s classroom and tested the kids reading in Clayton’s classroom. Since I am always the one who tests the kids reading in Clayton’s class I can easily see their progress. The kids have one minute to read me a short story. Only the words they ready correctly count and then I add up all the words they read correctly to see how many words they can read per minute. Today Clayton read 56 words per minute! I am so proud of him! In the past he’s gotten 37 to 43 words per minute. He is really improving…all his hard work is paying off. Clayton and I read together most days after school and it has made such a difference. It has also been a great bonding time for us.

We raked leaves and the boys had fun playing in them. All this yard work keeps us busy.

Laun tossing Porter up in the air.

This nest is huge.

I love how Clayton’s knees are so dirty…must be having fun.

Cutest boys ever!!!

buddies

Laun putting Porter in the leaf pile. It cracks me up how little Porter is.

Beautiful day- love the lighting in this picture.

 

Then we dropped off Laun at a guitar concert and I took the boys to McDonalds for ice cream cones.

a night out

My sister Laura came and watched our boys tonight while Laun and I went to an African Children's Choir. It was amazing. The kids danced, sang and played instruments. The kids are all orphans and this foundation takes care of them. They had such high energy. Even though I was glad to have time with just Laun, I kind of wish the boys could have joined us because it was so great and they would have loved it. It was definitely a night to remember.

The Ellen Eccles Theatre in Logan (where it was held) is beautiful.

 

typical Saturday

I’ve been playing church volleyball with some ladies in our ward and loving it. Today was volleyball eliminations for some stakes. Our ward team won all six of our games! I took the boys with me, they love playing with all the other kids. Laun got done with his school stuff in time to come and watch the last two games. Now we get to move on and play other stakes since we won!!!

Then we headed home and kept busy with yard work. Laun can often be found in the yard, up a tree, and trimming branches with his chain saw. He trimmed a tree and got rid of some bushes on the side of the shed that weren’t looking too great.

I think the shed is in need of a paint job.

 

Then he removed this wood structure around an old wash tub.

The boys look like oxen trying to haul it away.

Can someone tell Porter to relax a little? Ha ha, I love that boys intensity. I also love Clayton’s smile, like his daddy’s.

The boys love playing in the yard. I’m going to miss this yard when we move.

love snow pictures

The view from our front porch:

The boys and Laun made a snowman in our front yard…that didn’t take them long. It started snowing this morning and by the end of the day a snowman was made.

The nose is a doorknob.

Typical boys…they probably had more fun knocking down the snowman than building it. They were excited to wear their new coats.

let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

Porter was excited to see snow today!

He was sticking his tongue out so he could eat some snow:)

I think the boys are going to love building snowmen.

It has been funny having Lucy in town. On Sunday Lucy’s sister Teresa came over with her son Ethan . They came to church with us and were here for dinner. Today while the boys were in school I took Lucy to the Logan temple. Afterwards we went shopping and she bought the boys coats-yea!!!

Salt Lake

Today we went to Salt Lake to pick up Lucy. Laun and Lucy went to the Body Worlds museum and I took the boys to the Salt Lake Temple and Visitors Center.

They loved the Christ statue.

They watched Book of Mormon videos.

The Salt Lake Temple is gorgeous, it reminds me of a castle.

The boys loved playing in the leaves. It is fun to have seasons.

They carried leaves around with them everywhere.

Then we picked up Laun and Lucy and went to the Church History Museum. Clayton and Porter are such fun ages and so smart. Clayton thought the museum was so cool and wished that he could have all of the stuff at his house:)

They recognized the Prophets. I helped them learn all of the Prophet’s names with pictures (to a song) awhile back.

I think Ezra Taft Benson will always be one of our favorite prophets, since we are currently living in his childhood home.

I loved watching how much fun the boys had today. They know more about the gospel then I realized. Then we got some dinner and headed home. We are excited to have Lucy here and show her the house.