Happy Halloween

We carved pumpkins last night and had to get some pictures before all the snow comes tumbling down!

My little moo

Mary has been really sick this weekend with a fever. I finally took her to the doctor today and she has strep throat. It was so bad that there was a rash that appeared today. (How many points do I get for that? I'm such a winner mom!)

Anyway, I ended up taking Sam and Sarah to their friends' houses for late nights on Saturday night because we couldn't all do something together because Mary was sick. She said, 'Mom, I'm sorry I'm all the trouble!' She was feeling really bad that we couldn't do something fun because she was sick.

It was too cute. Get well my sweet child.

Fall is my favorite time of year

It's been forever since I've posted anything, so I thought I'd show you a little of fall at our house. I love the red bush in the front and had to get a picture of it before all the leaves fall off. It's so beautiful! The cornstalks are from my garden. They didn't produce any corn but at least I had some stalks for decoration.

To Germany, with love (or WE LOVE FALL!)

Last Saturday, my sisters and I had a fun outing. We went to one of our favorite bakeries, Schmidt's Pastry Cottage, and had sandwiches and mint cookies, eclairs, and brownies. Then we headed up to Oktoberfest to see some of the fall foliage and check out the festivities. It was just fun to be up there at Snowbird. It has to be one of the most beautiful ski resorts anywhere. We love it! There was many things to do but our favorite was people-watching and listening to the fun polka music. It's always a sight to see the old German gentlemen with the laderhosen that is too short and too tight. (Eewww, gross!) There was a booth sponsored by the Snowbird Spa, so we were able to get 10 min free massages on the chairs. It was wonderful. Thanks dear sisters for the fun time. Love you!

Three Forks Trail--Hot springs

This was on the way back down the trail. It was so beautiful.

Saturday we took the kids and hiked up to these fun hot springs. It was 4.5 mile round trip. There was minimal wailing and gnashing of teeth but we made it! Yeah for us! It was great fun!

Mary trips over her tongue

Ok, to add to the accidents lately...

Yesterday Mary and Sarah and Kennon were playing dress-ups. Mary put on her witch costume that I made a couple of years back, and she came running in to me and said, 'Hey Mom, look I'm a Bitch, (slight pause) I'm a witch!'

Serena and I were standing there just biting our tongues trying not to laugh. She had no idea what she had said only that at first it sounded slightly wrong, then she got it right.

(The picture doesn't have anything to do with the post, I just really liked it. This is Sarah and Mary all dressed and going to a bridal shower for their Uncle Marc's fiancee.)

Ya win some, Ya lose some

Ok, so I have to blog what happened yesterday. Not only will it embarrass me but those who know me will just shake their heads and go, yep that's our Jenny. And oh yeah, it'll embarrass Serena too.

My friend Serena kept bugging me to go mountain biking with her and a friend yesterday afternoon. I've been working out lately, so I was contemplating going with her. We came home from running errands and I pulled out my bike and thought I'd test it out to see if I was up for the ride. Well needless to say I didn't even make it out of the driveway. I ended up flat on my face with a skinned-knee wondering what the hell happened. It was one of the surreal moments where life came at me slow motion and so did the concrete of the driveway. I think it was a combination of a front tire that was too low on air and a brain too low on oxygen. I felt so dumb! I just laid there in the driveway laughing and crying, thinking to myself, 'did this really just happen?' I haven't had a crash that bad since grade school.

Moving on, so Serena was like, 'um, your totally not going on the bike ride with us.' By that time, we were laughing so hard, I had to go inside and change.

Skip forward to 2 hours later. Serena comes home from the bike ride and wakes me up (I thought a nice little nap would help soothe the hurt knee. ;)) She had totally biffed it on her ride. The front tire had completely come off her bike and she landed face first in the rocks and did a body slide. We went to the Insta-care because she thought she'd broken her wrist. The doc took xrays of that plus her femur that he thought she had fractured. But needless to say, she's fine, just really bruised up and sore. It's what she gets for laughing at me. That dang girl, I can't even crash on my bike without her one-upping me!!