Fall Frolics of Family life

Halloween 2009



Tanner as the scary skeleton, 2 years running-YES!
Corbin as the Splendid Red Engine-James
Savannah as Aurora of Sleeping Beauty
Brycen-sleeping at home with Daddy who answered doors for a hour then called me via cell phone and informed me lights were out and he was headed to the basement, out of candy. All 300 pieces!! I came home and rounded up about 100 more. That is a lot of kids being caravan-ed in to our subdivision.













Corbin getting Percy to the station, as he puffs along in the leaves to get a wash down. (I cannot see Percy in those leaves, but he is there). I sat and quietly listened to his make-believe chatter for quite some time.








Tanner loves Fall as do I.















Nathan comes home from work and is put to work as the kid's favorite toy.
Savannah is the sack of potatoes
Corbs and Tanner are along for the free ride.
Nathan has the look of 'here we go again'...













This is what Nathan really wants to do when he gets home from work. But, not for long. Blue eyed Corbs loves him too much and can be patient for only so long. (Tanner went and retrieved a blanket for his wanna be winter hibernation). Tanner is very thoughtful that way.

What are your fun Fall Family Fall Frolics?

Have you Kasota-ed?

Savannah is a little Girl Scout Daisy, her troop ventured to a recreation spot, of sorts.
With a corn maze and colorful plastic balls, it was sure to be fun.










The kids had fun, but Nathan and I had a blast!
It was quite chilly and we had to really bundle up. It took us about 25 min. to get there, we had to call the owners to get them to open up (opened at 11, we got there at 11, not open). We , climbed the giant dirt hill (covered in grass), donned our awesome Potato Gunny Sacks, then down we went! Butterflies literally flying in our stomach as we got air and flew! Big time Idaho fun! Will we return to Kasota Park, you can count on it.

Over the river and through the woods

We went down to Grandma and Granpa's. Tanner drove the tractor with Grandpa. Nathan helped cut down some very tall and very dead poplar trees. One of which we had to dodge to live to tell the tale! Corbin loved feeding the steers apples.



















Grandpa watching on as the head boss.




















Here is a view of the TALL Poplar, that is big Nathan next to it.

















Tanner carving spears and all sorts of boy things.















We hiked Mt. Tempanogas Cave. Corbin did very well. Seth, our cousin from Hawaii was here so he got to come too. Tanner loved have Seth around!
















Savannah, Tanner, Corbs and Seth. It looks like Savannah has grown a stalagmite from her head!





















Hiking up. It was very pretty.




















One way to cool off after a big hike. We ate lunch by the river and I just KNEW Corbs would be tempted. He was and loved it.

all in 20 mininutes

Man, I worked hard. For the majority of my Monday, I did peaches. I finished the last bottle right before we left to spend our Monday night with another family. A little tired and wanting to sit, but what a satisfying day, Until...

We returned from Family Night, kids in bed, supposedly and I decided the kitchen sink was nasty from all the peach skins. You know a little orange and just plain gross. So, what would any sensible person do? Disinfect with Clorax, of course! I guess 10 pm is a little late to start such a fun project, I put the drain plug in both sinks, poured a little chlorax bleach and, uh oh, nature calls, ran to the facilities. But, I sort of forgot about the sweet self-cleaning happening in the kitchen.
Ooops. The sinks were way filled and now overflowing onto the counters, inside the drawers, cupboards and pouring onto the hardwood floors. Oh the site to behold!
My stomach dropped and a slow sick feeling filled my entire body. I quickly began working on the water mess.
Every drawer and cupboard had to be emptied. The floor sopping wet. I hurried quickly but the water worked harder and made some real damage!









I finally finished soaking up every possible spot, went downstairs to finally shut down the computer and lights to fall into bed, but I heard some 'drip, drip, drip' I looked into the room below the kitchen and the ceiling was dripping!
"What a horrible no good very bad day, that's what day it was",


The floor needed soaking up and the dripping caught. The result, after 3 estimates, my 47 bottles of peaches equate to 132.00 a bottle!
The bidding on ebay begins now!

Next....

Next "what we did for our Summer Vacation"
We headed to Spanish Fork for the weekend. Our first stop The Golden Spike National Monument, where the East met the West. Location, out in the middle of nowhere. Near a place where rockets are made and top secret stuff like that. But, the kids (especially Corbin) loved seeing the trains. They fired them up and let them run. Corbs was in train heaven!














Corbin in ahhh as the trains fire up!















He could not get enough, the whistles blew and he giggled with delight!















Then on to Grandma and Grandpa's. Nathan's sister was there from Vermont as well as Nathan's brother that lives in Spanish. Total 8 kids under 8. Busy times, but fun times. Aunt Miranda pulled out the dress ups.




















Savannah dressed up and waiting for the next song to dance to.















Watch out John Wayne, here comes Cowboy Tanner!


We cannot end on a calm note, here is Corbs sporting his fancy moves. Remember, he has sported moves before!

update?

I will be quick, this summer has come and almost gone so so fast! A quick here and there of what we have been up to!

The most important even was the baptism of our Tanner Boy! It was small and so neat! We had G and G's on both sides as well as MJ and Clay (our adopted 3rd set of Grandparents) Tanner's friend Ben and our friends the Adam and Mandy-who is also our Bishop.

Tanner's close friend Jarod was also baptized, so that was neat. Plus, he was baptized on July 4th! How many of us can share that neat date?












Both Grandparents and our little family of 6.









Our adopted Grandparents, MJ and Clay














Kate, Lauren and Savannah on July 4th














Cutest little baby ever!












Mandy's kids and mine in their 4th of July clothes, cute kids!
I was going to add more but I have kids crying and swimming lessons to get to! So later alligators!

Our hike up a mountain

Most every year, my brother and cousin head up a big adventure. My Grandpa brought his horses to Pine Valley Mountain in St. George, Utah area, each summer. He carved his name in a tree back in 1923, my brother and cousin found the tree, to honor my awesome Grandpa, 52 of us Fullers hiked that mountain this past weekend. Totally awesome experience. I brought Tanner Boy. Brycen stayed home with Nathan and Corbs and Savannah stayed at Grandma Thomsen's.



















This is Tanner hiking about 1/2 way to 3/4 of the way up. It was a beast. Tanner had to rethink things through and made the decision to keep on digging. I was very proud of him. 8 miles and 8miles back down, in one day!















Tanner made it! This is Whipple Valley, totally green and beautiful! The last time I did this hike, we camped, but this year there was too many of us and too much gear so we muscled it out in one day.















We got poured on! I am so glad I packed the ponchos, they really came in handy. We also got hailed on. But, it was so neat to be there.




















Here is the tree, "SF" at the top, then it says Stanley Fuller (hard to read in this picture) and the year, 1922. As well, as LM, for Laurence McMullin, the son of Bro. Keith McMullin of the Presiding Bishopric. Awesome! (nope I am not pregnant, just a little soft and standing real sweet).













Tanner adding his name to the "Fuller Grove". Pretty cool. He signed his name "Tanner Fuller", pretty cute.















All 6 boys of my Grandparents' kids. It was a pretty big undertaking to get them all up there. They sang a song in Grandma's behalf. I grew up with these wonderful men, very special people in my life!















52 of my Grandpa and Grandma's posterity up by the tree in Pine Valley Mountain. Awesome!