Idaho to Utah

Saturday was a beautiful fall morning. We drove up Big Cotton Wood Canyon and then hiked doughnut falls. These little ones did awesome. Samuel hiked the entire 1.5 trail! Nice work little man. Ruby happily road in the backpack eating her wheat thins.


A bridge where we stopped to throw rocks into the little river.






Susan took me and the kids to Wheeler Farm. We all milked our first cow!
Can't get enough of this little man. Such a fun, happy boy.
At the pumpkin patch. I'm not sure who enjoyed the tractors more, Samuel or his daddy.


We brought two pumpkins from our garden. I placed them on the front porch of our new little apartment in Herriman. The next day there was only one. Who steals pumpkins? So we went to a pumpkin patch to replace it.

They were in heaven being pushed in a wheel barrow. They had a really fun hay ride too.


Last day with our sheep: Erma and Cleo.
Love these two!
Ricky has become quite the sheep whisperer. Maybe with a little help from some sheep treats: Oats and molasses.
My Hollyhocks. They are one of my new favorite flowers along with Hydrangeas.


Whole grain sundried tomatoe bread. Yep, dried tomatoes from our garden. We've already found a community garden here in Herriman. A year without a garden is too long for these two land lovers.
I love this picture of the two of them.


Alex and Ruby Cube.
This wagon was a hit this summer. Samuel and Caroline's Elizabeth. These two are too cute.
Collecting eggs.
Nope, not Halloween, mid-August. Grandma Betty gave this to Samuel. He absolutely loves it!

Happy Birthday Samuel!

Some of the little man's cousins: Elizabeth, Eden, Samuel, Alex, Morgan and Whitney. Sure love you girls!

We had Grandma Linda, Danny, Caroline and their girls and our fabulous neighbors over to celebrate with us.

Cherries, Roosters and a Saturday Drive

So we were rooster owners up until a few weeks ago. The rooster started attacking Samuel. Everytime he would step onto the porch the mean old rooster would charge Samuel. I taught him to carry a mallet and yell "No!" to the rooster but it still kept charging him. Solution: The chopping block. Ricky had the boys from our ward come take care of our rooster. They even grilled the chicken up. Moral of the story: Dont' mess with Samuel.

Saturday drive up to Cascadae. We stopped and played in the river. These two LOVED the water. We decided we'll stop at this little river bank everytime we head up to Cascade.

I thought this was funny. Any similarities??

Check out these baby blues.

Cascade, Idaho

This was our first trip to Cascade. Absolutely beautiful! We'll definitely be back.

Pruning and a net do wonders for fruit trees. We've been up to our eyeballs in cherries! Ricky picked buckets and buckets of cherries and the tree didn't look like it had been touched. We've taken sacks of cherries to our neighbors and everyone we know, made cherry shakes, cherry salads, dried cherries and I still had plenty to can. I canned cherries in syrup, black forest preserves and will top it off with some cherry jam this week. Love Idaho!

How does Dad handle two? Put one in a bucket:)

Samuel climbing the ladder to pick some cherries.

So handsome!

Ruby girl smile from her head to her toes. Sometimes I call her Ruby Cube. Samuel caught on and has affectionately started calling her Cube.

She's my crawler.

Samuel is such a good brother. The other day Ruby was crying so he brought her a book and started "reading" it to her. Lucky girl.

More Cherries!