I love sunsets! Especially in the winter.










This is the sunset in Beaver, UT on 11-29-08







Here is what the sun was shining on at the same moment.








Smashing pumpkins is fun, At least for the cows. My mom asked if we could give our old halloween pumpkins to the cows on grandpas farm so here we are smashing them up. Grandpa always enjoys counting his cows. Today we counted 15, at least 19 times!

For Thanksgiving we went down to St. George. We love to go to Snow canyon and play in the sand dunes. Here Chris is showing the boys how to make some awesome leaps.

This is Aly on her 5th birthday. She had a great party by the way. But I would like to point out that she had no bangs in this picture.






Just a few days after her birthday, Aly was playing in a body pillow size pillowcase, and zipped herself inside. Well, she caught her hair in the zipper and just figured she would solve the situation herself. So she hopped over to the scissor drawer and managed to get a pair out and proceeded to cut herself free. Well, she had to cut right to the scalp and about 3 inches long. Notice the kinda empty side on the left of this picture, there is a hole because there is no hair there! I had to cut her bangs back pretty far to give her a little balance! Then while I was cutting her bangs she moved and caused me to cut more than I was planning on, and so her bangs got pretty short. Luckily hair grows back!

Here we are having fun at Liberty Land in Lehi,


Lydia loves skeletons, I am not sure why. She loves to poke their eyes!

October 28-31, 2008
I am crazy, I know, but this year, we needed a new roof, and by golly that is what we got in 3 1/2 days! Blood, sweat, tears, and a piece of my thumb are all up on that roof. Luckily I had a lot of help and we can rest assured that the roof will not leak for at least a good 10 years. I was surprised how many people thought it was strange to see me working on the roof, don't all housewives reroof their homes?











As you can see, I laid around a lot on the job!











This is the damage I did to my thumb 1 hour into it! It wasn't that bad of a cut, but I went into shock anyway, and barely got off the roof before I started to black out. Luckily Casey was home to take care of me and get me bandages. The good thing about fingers is that they heal really good. If you looked at my thumb today, you wouldn't have guessed I almost smashed it to bits with a hammer!

Mini Update

Well, Stress takes a toll on me. I admit, I am having a hard time hacking this motherhood stuff. My house is a mess, my kids are unruly and I don't get a full 8 hours of sleep as recommended by the FDA. Now, those of you who have known me for years will testify that I very rarely, like 5 times in my life, have had a zit. Well, I must be going thru puberty finally, because my forehead is covered in them. I am just devastated! This picture is after 3 weeks of actually washing my face every night (something that I NEVER do) and 1 week of finally treating it with OXY Clean, (which really makes me feel like a teenager!) They are smaller, but still there! Ugh, I know, poor Molli! Whah Whah Whah.


As for the rest of the clan, same old same old. Dalton got his cast off finally, and he is really happy about that. He finally gets to do some fun stuff like Karate, and he loves it! Casey is taking the class with him too and they have a blast. Speaking of Karate, Tyler and I have also been taking a class together. I am the oldest in the class. That is kinda humiliating being 32 in a class with a bunch of 8-11 year olds. But now Tyler and I are Yellow belts and we are in a class of teenagers! Maybe that is where I got my acne! Alyson was 2 weeks shy of being allowed to take a karate class so she will start next month. Pretty soon we will all be able to gang up on poor Russ with our Karate skills.

My friend asked me if I would roll the fondant for her son's wedding. Well, they turned out, ok. Charm City Cakes won't be calling me any time soon. It was fun to experiment though.







Look at Lydia and Alyson just laying back in the shade, eating pringles! They know how to kick it!







This is on Womens Confrence. My friend April had an extra ticket to go to Salt Lake and see the Confrence, we were in the 8th row. Really nice seats. It was fun to see all the General Authorities and Presidencies of the Church.







This is Isis our cat. She lounges on her back all the time.







My sleeping angel

Time marches on.

Casey turned 7 on August 13th. As usual we had a pool party.









Casey, finds any excuse to have fun. We emptied a bunch of old water bottles in the front yard, and that became a huge water fight. Luckily he was the wettest guy there!









We got to go to Boon Docks, Tyler loved the bumper boats.









The biggest thing to happen was that Dalton fell from our blow up waterslide and broke his arm. Check out the s bend in his wrist. He sliped it right off the growth plate on the Radius and cracked the Ulna. Well, the patched him up good and now we have just 2 more weeks in a cast. Poor guy missed a lot of fun swimming, jumping on the tramp, soccer, and especially riding his bike. But we survived the pain and itching so far, just a few more days.






Aly and Casey are loving soccer. Aly is the fly away hair girl on the left in yellow.







Lyida is about 15 months now, and she has learned that crying is very effective in getting what you want. So this face, messy and frustrated, is a very common face around our house. We just think it is the cutest little pout.







Our dishwasher tried to burn our house down. Check out these burned wire caps. And no, it wasn't poor wiring on our part. We had a Bosch, it cleaned great, but the wires that came from the control pad grounded on the frame, and caused a power surge, and melted the power cord. Nice. So now we need a new dishwasher, and we are not getting a Bosch or a KitchenAid. Bad experiences with both. Anyone have wonderful machine you would recommend. So far we have gone thru 4 dishwashers in 9 years. Something Wrong Here!