Thanksgiving in Montana 2008

We were blessed enough to be able to go to Montana and spend the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend with Amie and Matt's family this year. Crazy maybe. We took three teenagers and a big dog. We traveled mostly at night. Bad for us, we were tired and arrived around 2:00am but great for the dog and kids who slept most of the way. I mean good for us!!! :0) Peaceful most of the way. They all did pretty well traveling. We had great weather all the way. After entering into Montana in the middle of the night, while Barney was driving, a deer ran out in front of us and we hit it. It took us totally by surprize and it took us about three miles before we could stop. the deer hit the center of the grill and didn't do much damage to anything other than the grill. It could have been so much worse. Our prayers were definitely answered. We were all OK and so was the car. there is still alittle fur on the grill. We arrived on Thanksgiving Day. We slept in alittle and then the boys played football while we got food ready. We all went to the Church that evening so we could eat with about 20 other friends of Matt and Amie's, where we would have more room. It was so fun. Nice friends. The guys played basketball and the kids played in the nursery and the mom's cleaned up and everyone was full and happy. Here are a few of our favorite moments while at Matt and Amie's.

Dog friends

Matt and Amie's Golden Lab, Molly, and our Black Lab, Buddy. Such good friends now. They were so excited to meet eachother. They have played together the whole weekend.

Amie's Haircut

I cut Amie's hair. Well ... just a trim really. This is cute but it is before she styles it. Wow Amie, you're a babe!

Bryan jumping on sleeping Matt

Sick grandpa

Sick Grandpa taking a rest break. Poor gramdpa, hope you feel better soon, we love you.

Sam's bare Butt

Sammy's loosing his pants while he plays with the empty box.

cuddling Sammy

Alittle cuddle time with Sammy

Jac and Sam

Having fun with Sam and Jac. So cute!

Christmas pillowcases for Post boys

Sammy's early Christmas present from Grandma Anderson

A Christmas pillow case

Jacob's Christmas pillowcase from Grandma Anderson

Thanksgiving at Amie and Matt's in Montana

Mom and Muffin day with Dalton Nov. 2008

Here is Dalton, 6th grade at Wellington Elementry School with Carolyn for an early morning "Mom and Muffin" breakfast together with lots of other moms and classmate friends. We had fun seeing so many of our friends and sharing some good juice and muffins.
Dalton realy was having fun!!!

Baptism Day for Dixons

Proud father with sons, John and Brian. The boys got baptized last week, Sat. Nov. 8th 2008.
Here they are with the Elders who taught them, on the day of their baptism. Elder Wilson and Elder Jackson. The boys were confirmed at church the next day.






This week the boys received the Priesthood, Deacon and Teacher.

Yeah for them! Good job boys!

Dalton joins our family in November.

This is Dalton. He is the newest member of our family. He has been with us for over a week now. He is 11 years old in the 6th grade. We have alot of fun with Dalton. We recently got Dalton a Journal and he loves writing in his journal every chance he gets - many times a day sometimes.
Welcome Dalton!

Beautiful Fall Season

I love this time of year. The Fall is so beautiful. Today the leaves have been falling like crazy. One good storm and it will blow them all off the trees and cover the ground. We are all helping to get ready around here for the snow to fall soon. I hate to think of that yet. I just want to enjoy the little bit of warmth left to this season. Warm days, crisp and cool mornings and evening. Awesome! I love it. But.... I do enjoy the winter, sort of. We need the moisture and love to see the changes, which later makes me very anxious for Spring to get here and see COLOR again, which I love. Oh, I just love being here in Utah. I can't believe that God created so much beauty to behold in this whole entire State, especially the quadrant of the State that we live in. So much to see and experience up close and personal, all year long. People used to ask me what there was to do in Utah, I would always say, "get out of the house and look around. There is so much to see and do". There is camping, fishing, boating, hiking, Biking - on road and off road, motorcycling, dunebuggying, 4-wheelin' of many types, on and on and on. Last year we went with my sister Terry and her family down near Hanksville on an all day hike. I thought she was trying to kill me :0). We walked for hours and hours throught beautiful very deep revenes that you could practically touch both sides at the same time in most places. They we several stories high. Many places had so much water that we had to swim for a long ways just to get across. It had recently rained. All of the animal dung on the whole entire desert had been washed down to these rivers we swam through. Yikes!!!! The dirt was red. We were covered with red dirt and dung and wet. Fun!!!! Thanks Terry. I couldn't walk for days after that. I told her I thought she loved me but now I wasn't sure :0= jk. Mostly it was just fun to be together. We did survive. We slept well that night for sure. If Terry and Gene ask you to go hiking with them, well, ask alot of questions first. Like, when were you there last? How long did it take? Are we likely to accidently spend the night out in the rocks? You just never know what kind of adventure you might get into with them but look how exciting their lives are. Good job guys!

Fall yard work all together

Today we all worked hard in the yard, getting ready for Winter. The boys all shoveled and moved dirt with the wheelbarrels While Barney worked so hard cutting down down a huge Lilac bush growing through the fence. It was out of control. He filled in the dirt the boys brought over and leveled it out. I picked up all the branches that Barney cut and stacked them onto a trailer for going to the dump later. It felt so good to get this done. There is still more dirt to move and alot of concrete around the back of the house which is totally flaking apart and needs to be replaced. Another, expensive, project for another day, maybe in the Spring! John went to the movies with a friend with his earnings from the day. Fun! John turns 15 on the 12th of Nov. Not long now. Cold Stone Ice Cream, here we come in only 11 more days. Yeah!!!!

Moving Dirt and Cutting down Lilac Tree

The boys on Halloween

Bryan (on the right) wearing the "Molit" wig (from Joe Dirt). John (on the left) looks like one of the Mod Squaders - Linc. He's missing the big gold chains. Notice the blue pick in his hair. They are lovin' it. Cute! they had lots of fun.