Oh Sarah!!!!!

This picture was on my cousin Brooke's facebook page today. So excited....it better be good!

Speaking Out

Provo City council voted to go ahead with the Provo Northwest Connector project. Which means a four lane $30,000,000 highway will plow right through the middle of what little remains of the city's beautiful farmland. It also would cut through our families back pasture. I know this kind of thing sadly happens all over the country, new growth crowds out old beauty. What just doesn't make sense is how completely unneeded this highway is. AND SO... my sister Sarah has decided to fight this thing anyway she can. She wrote an article for the local paper, you can read it here on her blog. If crap like this makes you mad too, please help us by speaking out and be sure to join Citizens Against Provo's Northwest Connector Highway on facebook.

Goolish Delight

So here is the "really scary" story by Ava about our Halloween costumes this year: The Vampires, Luke and Daddy, drank your blood mom and killeded you and then you were in the mermaid lagoon and me and the turtle saved you. The end.



For her first Halloween Ruth was a turtle. We crammed this little baby into...

this unstuffed giant turtle stuffed animal. It was pretty darn cute.

Luke won some vampire fangs at the school carnival and so he wanted to be a vampire this year. Jeremy and I copied him.

Ava wanted to be a mermaid and we had some fun with her hair. (For Sarah, Karen and Brittany: "Now to get Ariel's hairdo it's really simple. First twist hair up into a ponytail. Attach a shell from Virginia :) Add many many flower clips and finish with some spray on glitter and there you have it, an easy step-by-step princess hairdo.:))


Halloween donuts from Grandma Barker and hot cocoa for breakfast.

Pumpkin carving fun and guts.






Looking at their pumpkins out their bedroom window.

Our creepy crow, rat, spider infested porch




Even the dogs dressed up. Duce was his usual lion and Fred was Teen Wolf.


Eating chili out in the backyard before trick-or-treating. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Ruthy Rue

And it begins...the nicknames from Jeremy. Our poor kids have a million different names and Ruth isn't left out. On her list so far, Ruthy, little Rue, Cheeks (I think you can see why), and Fall-to-it (???). One thing we all call her is sweetheart because she is just as sweet as they come. I couldn't have asked for a better baby. Watch her turn on me now that I typed that. Well at least for now she is sweet and chubby and we just can't get enough of her.

Tummy time



First bath

First smiles

First time sleeping in a drawer. Just kidding. My friend Rosemarie took these last two darling pictures of her.

We miss you!

I am really missing having my mom here. I miss having her come over in the mornings to help me get Luke off to school. I miss her dinners. I miss her taking Ava to the park. I miss our wasting time together talking all day.:) She is the best. Oh yeah and Papa John came out too. ;) Love and miss you both. XOXOX

A Special Day

We blessed our sweet little Ruth on October 16th, it was such a pretty fall day. Her blessing from Jeremy was beautiful. We were lucky to have most of our family there with us.

I made her little dress, Grandma Barker got her the pretty light pink flower for her hair and Aunt Elizabeth crocheted her beautiful blanket. I thought she looked like a little angel.

Grandma Patsy got her these beautiful flowers and we made stew and pumpkin "bussert".

Thanks everyone for coming and enjoying the day with us.