Deer Creek Dam

Here is an article about the construction on Deer Creek Dam. John has been working on the overflow structure for over a year and now is just finishing up.

You can access it at the following URL:http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/286377/17/

It is just Will

Will is so awesome. One day he went out to ride his bike and it was windy so he decided that he would wear his goggles. He is always thinking of solutions; he gets that from Grandpa Scott.

In the Sunday newspaper this past week was the ad from Toy-R-Us (the really big one) and Will has been studying it for a few days. Yesterday he asked us if he could take it with us when we go see Santa durning the holidays. With John's family we ride the "Polar Express" (aka Herber Creeper) and visit the North Pole and Santa gets on the train. He had been thinking how to let Santa know exactly what he wants for Christmas and thought of the solution. I guess that it was just funny to hear him ask us and then to see how excited he was when we told him that he could.

Jason's swollen baby hand

Jason got a staph infection in his hand. We noticed that it was swollen on Sunday night, but we thought that he got bit by some kind of bug. During the night I thought that he had broken his hand. By the time we went to the doctors on Monday morning it was starting to get red and bigger. The Dr. said that he had a staph infection, and that she didn't know how he got it. Usually with staph infections someone might have a cut or some kind of wound that would become infected, but Jason didn't have anything like that on his hand. He got a shot in the Dr. office and just now it is starting to look a lot better. Today he is crawling and using his hand to pick up Cheerios. Hopefully by the end of the week he will be all better.

A bit of the last two weeks

On Saturday night John and I took the kids on the tracks to Salt Lake. Will's face was priceless when we got on the train and it started moving. The kids absolutely loved the "train". When we got to Salt Lake we walked down to the Gateway to see the fountain and get a bit to eat. We had so much fun being together.

Last week me and the kids meet John at Canyon Glen Park in Provo Canyon for lunch. The kids loved seeing John in the middle of the day.

On Wednesday we got together with some friends and had a Halloween party, played some games, and ate alot of candy. Will is a red Power Ranger and Emmie is a pink fairy.

Here is a picture of one of the pumpkins that we grew. This one was one of the medium size ones. We love to plant in the spring to have pumpkins in the fall.

John and I love to be with the kids and do fun things with them. We are always trying our best to do the best we can.

Emmie is so sweet!

Emmie is so sweet especially to her little brother. Jason was crying and she leaned over by his face, patted his back and in the sweetest little voice she said, "Shut-up, baby." She is learning it somewhere.

Conference

Conference was great. The conference could be all be summed up like this...

We are experiencing perilous times now. Trials and hardships will come, but rejoice because in the end the righteous will be victorious. Now is the time to have joy and laughter no matter how hard the difficulties in our lives may seem. Our sorrows can be swallowed up in Christ because he is our Savior and the Lord of All.

Pancakes for lunch

Emmie and Will love pancakes, especially colored pancakes. Emmie and Will was so excited to mix up their colors in the batter; that is most of the fun, and of course eating it too.

Fun filled weekend!

We had quite the fun filled weekend. On Friday night John and I took the kids out to Willow Park for a Christiansen family reunion. Friday night John slept in the tent with Will and Madalyn(cousin) and Me, Jason and Emmie slept in the trailer with Lisel(sister-in-law) and her baby and Ryann. The sleeping arrangements worked out great; we have to share the trailer with John's siblings.

On Saturday morning I got up early because I was in charge of our stake's 5k. I totally got so busy that I didn't take any pictures. John stayed at Willow Park with the kids. Anyways the 5k was awesome, the weather was perfect and we had a good turn out for the first time. There was about 250 people there.

The rest of Saturday we spent out at the park having a great time playing kickball and volleyball. The kids had a blast playing with second cousins and getting dirty. Will loved climbing the trees and just doing a lot of boy things.

I can't wait until next year. Next summer the reunion will be in Idaho. Can't wait.
Just having fun in the warm fall air. It was kind of weird how warm it was. Perfect weather!

Will and Emmie helping dad set up the tent.

Dad and Jason enjoying camp fire bliss.

Could it be She-ra?

When we were out camping this weekend at Willow Park with John's side of the family, Emmie showed us all just how strong she is. This spare tire was leaning part way against another one, but Emmie still pushed it up and over. Yes, Will is just watching while I am taking pictures and no one is helping her. She is really strong. I am sure that she gets it from her mommy.