Christmas Tree

Here is our Christmas Tree up and decorated!

Fire Fire

So last night Russ went out to put the dogs in their pens... and all I hear is "Ju! Fire!!!"

There was a fire in the dry grass and trees right behind our home! I immediately panicked and started running around the house trying to find anything that would hold water... pans, bowls, buckets... I called my parents and luckily Dad rushed down and fired up the Back-hoe he started putting it out with dirt and spreading it out so that it was just coals... and Russ continued to pour water on the fire while Mom and I just kept filling buckets...

We are just so grateful that Russ saw it as soon as he did because in another ten minutes or less and it would have been our house that was on fire!

We stayed up most the night and kept checking on the burn area because we were afraid that the hot coals might start the fire up again... but we eventually went to bed and to our great relief when we woke up this morning it had snowed! And continued to snow most of the morning calming putting down about 4 cold inches of SNOW... The lord knew we needed his help to calm our nerves and cool down the coals!

WE ARE SO BLESSED

cHrIsTmAs TrEe TiMe

Here are some pictures of our Christmas Tree in the WILD! We had so much fun getting our first tree!!! And it fits perfect in our home :)

iPuMpKiN cArViNg!

On thursday Russ and I decided we better get our pumpkins carved and on the porch for all the little kiddies that will be coming to our house Trick-or-Treating! And even if they don't come the pumpkins are there... and that is what is important :)

Here are some awesome pictures of our pumpkins...

Starting out

Russ' pumkin

My pumkin

I'm so proud of our art!

all lit up!!

CONFERENCE

Last weekend Russ and I were able to go to the Sunday afternoon session of conference! We had a wonderful time. I absolutely could not believe ALL THE PEOPLE! That was my first time going to a live session of conference and I was really not expecting all those people... people leaving the morning session, people going to the afternoon session, people wanting tickets, people protesting the church, just tons of people! It was quite hectic.... until we were inside the conference building. Then everything was all right and so worth it! We both loved it and I'm so glad we went!

I wanted to take a picture while we were there but as I took my camera out of my purse... yep you guessed it... the batteries were dead :( Oh well we made a memory!!!

Russ' Elk Hunt in The Book Cliffs

Russ and his bother Brynnen were lucky enough to draw out for the Book Cliffs Elk Hunt!! They were both so excited the hunt went from Sept. 12-20.  Brynnen shot his elk on the 18 and Russ shot his on the 19.  The said they had a great time and saw a lot of county.  Here are some pictures from their adventure...

Russ' horse Chavez

Russ' mule Harriat, and Mitch's horse Brodi

The Book Cliffs

Russ' Elk '09 and the weapon that brought it down :) his 30-06

Packing out the Elk

High Mountain Stabilization

This summer Russ and I had the amazing opportunity to work in the High Uinta Mountains where we worked on a crew of 13 people and had some really fun times! Russ got to operate a trac-hoe and I operated a skid-steer.  We had fun working and that is mostly all we did but we had Sundays off and were able to do some really awesome things; we went on a DEATH HIKE with our friend Rusty who took us to a bally! The view was really amazing and I did love it, but I would have liked it a lot more if my legs were not shaking and ready to collapse at any moment... Russ and I also got a lot of fishing in.  There was a stream right by camp that early in the summer had a really good stream of water that we were able to fish after work a lot of the days.  Then the last fishing trip we did was one day after work and Russ taught me how to fly fish.... It really was a high light of the whole summer!! We had so much fun!! The pictures I've posted are mostly from the "death hike" :D and the others are random fishing trips and scenery.