Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to Memorie Sue!

I wrote you this little poem, in honor of your birthday...
Happy Birthday to You!
I hope you get a new shoe!
Actually, probably two!
Happy birthday to you!

...And even if you don't get new shoes, you should at least have a yummy cake....

Love you Memorie Susie!
We're all hoping you have one of the happiest birthdays ever!

State

So Friday evening after the Halloween carnival and trunk or treating mom and dad packed Jake and Zac into the car and headed to Rexburg and picked up Mem. Then they headed to Pocatello where they all spent the night in Sky and Lac's basement. The next moring, early, Mom, Dad and Mem got up and headed out toward Boise to cheer Ben on at state. Jake and Zac stayed at Sky and Lac's and played with Sky, Lac and Abi. Mom, Dad, and Mem finally found Eagle Island State Park and were there in time to cheer on the girls team, and then help Ben prepare for his race. Then they cheered on the boys. Ben came in 19th, and their team got first place. The only Teton sport that made it to state, and the Boys took 1st and the girls took 3rd (eat that football that didn't win a single game this year). After the awards mom, dad and Mem got back into the car and headed back to Pocatello to pick up the boys. Mom, Lac and Mem went shopping for a little while then they returned and packed up the car and headed back to Rexburg to return Mem. They arrived in Rexburg at about 11pm and after dropping Mem off, they headed home.

On another note. This morning in Victor it started sleeting, then it switched to snow, but it wasn't sticking, and then it switched again and started sticking. So everything is turning white in Victor this morning.

FALL!!!!

Over the weekend the men worked on putting plastic on the stacks. It is getting colder and snow will fall any day now(alright so we already had snow once, but it will fall and stay any day now) crops are in, which is good. Cross country season ends in two more weeks. Friday is district, and chances are excellent that both teams will go to state, which is next Saturday, November 1st. And in fact seeing as there is about a minute and a half difference between 1st man and 7th man the chances are good that they will do well at state. Ben is very busy doing XC and the play. The school is doing into the woods and he has the role of the baker. The play is the weekend before thanksgiving. Then sometime after the end of XC wrestling starts up. That boy really needs to decide what he wants to do. He is just having so much fun and he is definately busy. He is scheduled to take the ACT this Sat in Rexburg, and then will hopefully be able to get a ride home with someone after he does baptisms with our ward that evening.
For more XC info like records and race results and race times a great web site, which is way fun to look at just to see the stats. www.athletic.net

Pray for sun

The gloomy sky is preventing dad from being able to get the dew off the grain so it can be cut, once the sun comes out, the heat should dry the grain right out and he'll be able to cut grain. Sky came home this weekend to drive equipment. You can take the boy away from the farm, but you can't take the farm out of the boy. Ben is in Boise this weekend. He has a race today. He is currently working on registering for the ACT, but he forgot his username and password, and his e-mail account is inactive. We all hope he'll be able to get the information in time to sign up for the ACTs. Jake and Zac had fun birthdays. Jake's was monday, and he got to pick out his own gift after the race last friday. He chose a BB gun. Zac got to pick a new bike. The farm owed him one, so he picked out his new bike, and then for his birthday he decided he wanted a hamster. He should get it this weekend.
The story about Zac's bike, he left his bike parked leaning against the gate post of the field he moved pipe. No one ever used the gate, and that got it off the road. Well that day they decided they needed to come and get a cow, so they drove the trailer to the field and when they drove it through the gate, his bike tipped over and the bike got run over. So the farm owed him a new bike.
Oh, pray for sun at least on the south end of the valley so dad can get his crops in.

Update!

Dad is well into harvesting hay and is a little short handed, as Ben is only able to operate the baler because everything else is controlled with the right hand. : ( School has of course been in full swing for several weeks and cros country has had several races. Ben is doing pretty well though he is getting side stitches on the right side, and he can't squeeze his right thumb to distract himself. Jake doesn't like school. No surprise. But Zac at least liked his teacher when he had her before so he could have an enjoyable year, though Jake's gloomy attitude seems to be rubbing of on him a little bit. Mom is still working at the hospital and is taking vacation every time she can manage to squeeze it into her schedule.
Of course lets not forget to mention that Ben had a race yesterday, and he finished pretty well, though he did have a side stitch and he rolled his ankle in the first mile. The cross country teams are pretty big this year. Ben said the girls and boys both have a full varsity and JV team.
Mem is back in school. She started back the first of this week. This semester could be a little more daunting than the semester before.
Zac's birthday is today, and Jake's is Monday. Yay one year older and wiser too. Happy Birthday to you!!!!

Happy birthday!

I just wanted to post a happy birthday wish:
Happy Birthday to Zac, today!
and Happy Birthday to Jake on Monday!

I hope you guys have wonderful birthdays! (Even though you won't read this, some of the rest of our family will!) Love you both!

Now you are 27!

Happy Birthday Skyler! Hope you have a great day. Dad and Mom are thinking of you. Hope you never need your birthday gift!Lots of love from your family at home: Mom, Dad, David, Ben, Jake & Zac.

Well....

This last weekend mom and the little boys went camping with some friends and while they were gone Ben sliced open his fingers. His right ring finger had to have surgery to sew back together the tendon because he completely sliced through it when moving pipe. Needless to say, Ben is no longer able to move pipe or really do much of anything. So Dad now has all the pipe and is starting to harvest. Mem has some stuff she's been asked to do for the ward in rexburg so after those tasks are completed she'll go home to help out dad. Mom was planning a vacation for the family before Ben got hurt, but that has been postponed until a later date.

Mom finally checks in

What a fun family I have, thanks Mem for starting a blog, and now thanks to Mem and Dani I can even add to it!

Fourth of July weekend

Well lets see, Dad started baling, but because it was so hot some of the hay dried to fast, and they(dad and david) wound up stopping, coming home to nap, and returning to finish baling at 3AM. Though friday morning they had to stop because one of the balers got barbed wire wrapped around the intake like three times! The parade was fun to watch of course, and the family picnic went well, lots of food, and lots of fun. Then after we cleaned up the picnic, a lot of us took a nap, 'etcept not mom, 'cause she was at the book sale.
Then we watched a movie or two, and mem made carmel corn, which was 3/4ths gone before the movie was even over, and then mom and the boys went to the fireworks and forgot the rest of the carmel corn, yeay for those who stayed home.
This year the fireworks were set off from the spud, and mom and the boys watched the fireworks from the gravel road. When they went to come home, Jake was impatient and got mad at mom when she tried to get on the highway, and told her to just stay on the gravel road. So to prove to him that the highway would have been faster she stayed on the gravel road. When he saw that the cars on the hoghway were moving faster than they were he decided that it would be alright to go on the highway, but when mom turned onto the connecting road she ran into a washed out area of the road, and cracked her pan! So once they got onto the highway, they had to go 35 because any faster and the car made bad noises! So at the next road they got off again, and after a few more findings of washed out areas of the road they made it home, it taking them 45minutes to an hour to get home.
Oh, Jake was so pushy to get home 'cause he burned his fingers playing with fireworks, like mom told him not to, and when mom had told him to bring water, he said that he didn't want any, so he was burnt without water to sooth it, and anxious to get home, and angry and frustrated, and not very good companionship.
Then the fith, mem, anita, and Megz started back to rexburg, but when they pulled away from the gas tank the park brake light was on, and it wouldn't turn off, so after 45min of messing with it by dad and david, they finally got the brake to release, and then the car wouldn't start, cause the battery was dead. That wasn't a new problem, the Jimmy had had to be jumped three times before that. So dad said, while you are in IF, go to walmart and get a new battery. SO mem took the Jimmy to walmart, where they pulled the battery out of the car, charged it and said the battery is fine, we think it is the alternator, you should go and have them (an auto shop) test it. When mem told dad, he said, "i don't believe it, get a trickle charger and an extention cord and attach them to your car, and if it starts easier tomorrow it wasn't the battery, but if it starts the same, then it was the battery. Grrrr!