Growin' Like a Weed

Look at our lil' Teddy Bear! She's getting SO BIG! She's 5 months old now and can roll over. Yay Teddy! We love her soooooo much. I don't think I can convey just how much Kai loves her either. He is totally enamoured with Teddy. He loves babies anyway, but he's got a real soft spot for his cousin, Teddy. The other day at church we were holding Teddy while Grizz and Cindy spoke and he looked around and said, with surprise and conviction, "MOM! Teddy is the cutest baby in here! She's the cutest! She really is, Mom."

Yeah, well I think so too, Kai-Kai.



Please keep our lil' Teddy-bear in your prayers and thoughts. We're not sure what the official diagnoses is just yet, but Teddy has a mass on her adrenal gland. She will undergo further tests to rule out neuroblastoma, the most common form of childhood cancer. The outlook, however, if that is the diagnoses, is quite encouraging, as most children under the age 12 months are usually cured and go on to lead healthy, full, normal lives. Please keep Grizz and Cindy in your prayers and thoughts as well as they face this trial and tough time in their lives.

Down! Set! HUTT!

It's football season!


Karter comes from a long line of big men who played the line in football and he's got his heart set on being a lineman as well. He may be the littlest lineman out there right now, but he's all heart and he is learning the game very well. He's very smart, perceptive and listens well.

And he loves football. Loves it!

Here he is...my little lineman...#76..wearing his dad's high school jersey.





"MOM! I'm late! I don't have time for pictures!" lol

Mmm..summer food

It's squash and zucchini time!
That means eating alot of one of my favorite summertime meals. Fried squash and zucchini.


It takes quite a bit of time and it's a huge mess, but it's so yummy!


Ummm...yeah. Probably not the healthiest option but oh so tasty!


MESS!

Freakin' Cats...

Oh goody. Look what showed up in our yard. Kittens. Wild little kitties. They're cute to watch now, but they're going to get big and be a bigger problem. They're really quite mean, too.

Last Week of Summer

Summer is just about over! Drink up the last of it now.

Good Job, Karter!

Karter and his hog ROCKED at the Duchesne County Fair this year! His pig won its class and went on to the Star Round. It got mad and started fighting with every other hog in the ring and I was worried that it might get kicked out, but he lucked out. It didn't place in the top 10 because it was just too light, but the judge liked what he saw anyway and came and found Karter to tell him how great his hog was the day of the sale. He just couldn't pick a hog that was that light. If only we'd had 40 more lbs on him. He weighed 235, but was a perfect hog. As it was, he was the #13 hog in the show. Our other hog that Haley Houston showed was the #15 hog. We were happy with that.

There he is...a boy and his hog. He was so happy.



Karter did awesome in Fitting and Showing as well. I was proud of him no matter what the judge's final word was. His lamb didn't make weight, but he still showed it in Fitting and Showing and did well with it too. It came home with us so now we have a sheep that we don't quite know what to do with.

There's the judge looking his hog over once again. You could tell he liked Karter's hog quite a bit. He just kept looking at it.


And here he is when the judge said, "I'm going to go with the young man in the cowboy hat for the #1 hog in this class.". He celebrated a bit in the ring. lol


Whatta smile! He was just beaming after the judge picked his pig in his class.


The judge explains what he liked about Karter's hog....


Star Round. The judge liked the bigger, heavier hogs. The Grand Champion hog weighed 278 lbs.




Star Round pic...rare moment when his hog wasn't fighting other hogs. Mean lil' sucker.


Haley's hog did very well too! She was 2nd in her class and the #15 hog overall.


Look at that awful, pink sunburned pig next to Haley's beautiful piggy.


What a beautiful girl, Haley is. Such a good kid, too. Love that girl!


Kenyon said, "Hello cows!" everytime we went by the Houston girls' steers.


Aww..brotherly love! How much do you think I could've gotten for these two little piggies at the sale?


Kai really wants to be a cowboy. I don't think cowboys ride in bare feet and shorts much though, do you?

Flash Flood!

We've had a very cool and rainy week here in the Basin. It rained so much, in fact, on Thursday August 7th, that there was a flash flood in Maesar, just West of Vernal. A deluge of water rushed down off Little Mountain and washed across the road just before Horseshoe Dugway in between Vernal and Lapoint. Grizz, my brother, was driving home at the time and was turned around. The water washing over the road was over a foot deep. Crazy!