Saturday, November 29, 2008

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!!!

Sunday, November 16, 2008

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!

Saturday, November 1, 2008

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.