Horse Riding

We got invited to a Dutch Oven Dinner at the Leake's. Great food, great friends, great fun. Rachael definately had the most fun.

Happy Birthday David!

Our handsome red headed son turns 22 today. He's always been our little David, but he's not so little any more. David has become a handsome young man. He loves to spoil Rachael, and she soaks it all up. He is a great uncle to Austin and Sean. We are proud to call him "SON".

Happy Birthday David!

The house will soon be warm . . .

The blower motor went out on our furnace this summer. The furnace is 30 years old, so we were faced with having it replaced. We put it off as long as we dared. Looks like we waited about one week too long, since we had snow falling over the weekend. Gunthers Heating and Air Conditioning are working in the basement right now replacing our old Heater with a new energy efficient one. It will be warm tonight.

Cycling Season is Over

Our last bike race was on Saturday. We drove to Ogden for the Harvest Moon Criterium. The wind was blowing, the rain coming down and as we got into Ogden, the snow arrived. The race was first postponed and then canceled. We didn't want our cycling season to end this way, but we have no control over Mother Nature.

Since we had a whole afternoon free now, we headed to the movies and saw "Game Plan". Great movie! All three of us enjoyed it.

David, Rachael, Jessica, and Beth

Celebrating Rachael's 12th birthday. What a cute bunch of kids!

My How We Have Changed

This picture was taken just a couple of months after Richard and I got married. Beth is 16, Steven 14, Jessica 13, Carla 11, and David 9. They all have grown up to become beautiful adults.

Beth, Steven, and David live close to us, Jessica in Arizona and Carla in Texas.

Good Week for freebies

Last Saturday we went to R C Willey to enter a drawing for a $2500.00 spending spree. But our name was not drawn. However we did win tickets to the BMX bike competition in Salt Lake this weekend. We each also got $25.00 off a purchase. Richard got a arm band to put his IPOD in when he runs. Rachael got some headphones to use in the car with the DVD player. I added my birthday money to my gift certificate and got a digital picture frame. It has been fun this week looking at all of our digital pictures and loading them onto a memory card and showing them on the picture frame.

But the freebies didn't stop there. On Wednesday we went to the Cougar Coaches show at Ken Garff Porsche. Rachael and Holly each got a BYU t-shirt. We also a backpack type bag and 3 coupons for a free milkshake from the ICEBERG. (YUM! YUM!) We will probably go by there on Saturday for our free milkshake.

But that wasn't all. On Friday night we went to the Cougar Pre-Game show at Macey's in Orem. We had hoped to win tickets to today's sold out BYU v Air Force game. but didn't win them. As we got into the car to head for home, they asked a trivia question. "What is the name of Amanda Dickson's book?" Richard suggested I run into the store and see if they have the book. So off I went. They had the book, "Wake up to a Happier Life". I hurried over to the KSL booth and gave them the name of the book. We won a $100.00 gift card to Maceys. Thanks KSL and Macey's for our groceries for the week.

What a great week!