Utah County Fair

The last hurrah before school starting was the Utah County Fair.  Here are a few pics I thought you all might enjoy.

Tennille's entries into the fair of peanut butter cookies and drop filled cookies. She was pretty excited that they took 2nd place

JaCoby entered a drawing to which he entitled the D-Age and he was very excited that he took 1st place and beat mom!

Grandma Winkler came up and went with us to the 3rd annual demolition derby. It was most likely one of the best I have ever seen!

 

We loved this wreck!! Amazingly enough both drivers were OK and continued to drive the beat up vehicles.

There was one car that flipped over, unfortunately I can't find the photo to show you, luckily there were no injuries in any of the crashes.

There was one car in the championship round that lost the right rear wheel and tire and continued to drive and hit vehicles and never quit, he came in second place. Not bad for a 3 wheeled sedan. Sorry that some of the photos are so dark, it got late as the derby went on.

Our Little Monkey

JaCoby having a grand ole time climbing the neighbor's tree

Ute Stampede Rodeo

JaCoby having a drink before the rodeo festivities

Mother & Son

JaCoby on the Merry go round at the carnivalMom just relaxing

Some of the Soilders of the 116th myself included waiting for the flag to drop down.The parachuter with the flag coming down to start the rodeo off

Us Soldiers stretching out the flag for all to seeThe Fiesta Day Queeen and atendants

Some of the entertainment of a BMX stunt biker, boy was he good

You can't forget about the Rodeo Clown.

Our family having a great time at the rodeo

What a great day

What a great day this turned out to be and it is only 11:00 am. I bought Jazz tickets to today's game off of Ebay thursday ( as a birthday present from me to me lol)and they came today. So JaCoby and I are going to the game. Pix will be coming soon guaranteed

Pics from Ivins

These pics are taken in Ivins when JaCoby and I went there on a wim the end of december. We had fun and thought you might enjoy them.Yeah I know these should have been on here forever ago but here they are.

Aspynn's birthday cake

Mom, Aspynn, and JaCoby


Lonnie, mom and I

Shelby, Lonnie and Aspynn


JaCoby and I

Lonnie and I

Dad N Donuts

Last friday I had the opportunity to go to JaCoby's school to attend Dad-n-Donuts. I had no idea what I was in for. What it ended up being was the first graders came to the cafeteria found thier dads and read to them while they both had donuts and water. I had a nice time and so did JaCoby. He reads so well. He is on a 4th grade reading level. I am so proud of him.

When is Christmas??????

The other day JaCoby was on the phone with Grandma W and was asked what he wanted for his birthday in November, so he rattled off a few things, than she said "What do you want for Christmas?" and without skipping a beat, he said "I will tell you when it s closer in January!"

So all of you stressin about Christmas according to JaCoby it has been postponed until January. You gotta love kids!!!!

Cornbelly Corn Maze

We went to the Corn Maze at Thanksgiving Point. It was so fun. Thursday JaCoby had the day off from school so we decided to go. We ran through the maze that was supposed to take about 25 minutes....well we did it in 18 minutes. Go J Family. Anyways they had everything there from pig races to a live chicken show to hay rides. There was a couple haunted things that we went through that even scared me. We even got to go on a train ride. Lunch was great.Full of fried corn dogs for me Chicken tenders for Coby and a hot dog for JaCoby and we all shared a big thing of fries. Afterwards JaCoby got to jump on a great big pillow. All in all it was a great day with lots of fun things to do. I even got a carmel apple that afternoon. JaCoby got a cookie. Coby didnt want a treat. We left with a free pumpkin too. That we will be carving this next week. Hope you all enjoy the pictures.

paint job

On Saturday, September 26th, the sellers and us painted the facia and window seals of the house so that it might pass apprasial. They let us choose the color and I chose Cinnamon Spice, which is a brown color. We thought this color would look great. JaCoby has been so excited to paint so we let him work on the front door changing it from the peachish-pink color to the Cinnamon Spice.

JaCoby painting away!!

Before (upper) and after (lower)

In the near future the awnings will be painted the same cinnamon spice color

By the way this past Friday, it appraised enough to cover the loan, which is exciting news.

Happy 11th Anniversary

Well today is our 11th wedding anniversary. My wife is constantly reminding me and saying can you believe we got married 11 years ago? We haven't done nothing too special due to the fact of just moving into our house just a week ago. We finally got our other place cleaned out and turned in our keys in order that we might get a chunk of our deposit back. But hey, we spent it together as a couple :)

Just a side note if you are wondering why I haven't posted any pics lately it is because my camera broke, so we are working on getting another one.

3 Generations

Last week my dad came to visit. This was the first time he had ever seen JaCoby. We were pretty excited for this.

My first pic of 3 generations. We are not related at all are we? lol


JaCoby showing off his turtle that he received from his grandpa. He first named it Sam, then Spike, and finnaly it is Rex. I hope this 100 year old turtle does not have an idetity crisis. :)


A typical pic of JaCoby being silly or should I say normal?



A cool family Pic

JaCoby with his aunt and uncles not cousins. I know confusing.