Before Halloween I put Gunnar in his costume and told him he was Bambam. He got a kick out of trying to hit me with his club! He's such an angel... Ha,ha:)


























































We stopped by Angie and Rick's house so Grandma Dee could see Gunnar in his costume. Deena made yummy chili and delicious cupcakes and we just couldn't pass them up! Yabadabadoo!
























Here is Gunnar getting ready to head out and go trick or treating. I was surprised at how fast he caught on to the whole concept. But then again candy was involved:) After he chose his piece of candy he would stick it in his bag and say thank you in sign language and people kept thinking he was blowing them kisses. It was funny. We all had such a great time. And the neighborhood got a kick out of our costumes.

Halloween Birthday Party

For My Dad's 64th birthday on Oct 20th we all dressed up in our Halloween costumes, carved pumpkins, and of course ate cake and ice cream. Happy Birthday Dad!! Yabadabadoo!! Meet the flinstones:)

Fall fun!

Gunnar and I at Gardener Village. They were having a little festival during the day. There was face painting and craft projects for the kids to do. This was the best picture of the whole event. Gunnar was being a stinker and every other pic he was either crying or whining. Lets just say it was along day. I'm sure my friends were glad to be rid of us:)
Me, Jill, Heidi.
My friend Jill and her family came into town from California. We all went to the harvest festival in Syracuse were we all used to live and where we first met. They took us on a hay less hay ride to pick out a pumpkin. They had a huge court yard with a bonfire, huge slides, a play area for the kids, and a corn maze. We had a blast! We ended the evening at Crispy cream... need I say more:)

The kids climbed up in the pumpkins and we just had to take a picture.
Gunnar, Hally, Grace, Abby, and Anna.

Gunnar sittin solo in the pumpkins

Jill and I at the Harvest festival in Syracuse taking some time to be kids again!

They had the funnest tractor ride. He took us around and around. It was bumpy and fun.

Gunnar and Mommy on the slides

The BIG 101

My Great Grandpa Ernie celebrated his 101st birthday on Oct 5th. My Mom organized a special dinner for him and we all got to enjoy his special day with him. He lives with my mom and dad. Although he is practically deaf he's in great health and will probably live atleast another five years. He spends most of his time to himself. He reads anything he can get his hands on. He also gives us a great laugh once in a while... like talking in the middle of a prayer cause he can't hear that one is being said:)

I just had to post these pics of the two loves of my life. I feel so grateful to be apart of their lives!

Sometimes the impossible is POSSIBLE!!!

Hurray!!! I have shelves. As you can see I wanted big free hanging shelves. I looked on line and in stores and couldn't find them the width and length I wanted. I even went to the mill where my cabinets were made and they said they would be happy to make me shelves but what I specifically wanted was impossible. Well for those of you who really know me... know that when I really want somthing I usually don't give up. I'm pretty relentless. So anyways I went to my dad and told him what I wanted. I also told him what the cabinet people told me and that if he couldn't figure away to make it happen then I guess that it really was impossible and that I would have to except it eventually... But as you can see it was possible! My dad can build anything, fix anything and like me he doesn't take the word impossible very seriously:) Thank you dad you constantly amaze me and I feel so blessed to be your daughter. Plus it doesnt hurt that I have my own personal contractor:) ha!

My mama and I at women's conference 2008.
It was just the two of us. We had a wonderful
and peaceful time.

No fun :( After a trip to the emergency room with severe abdominal pain. They did blood tests, xrays, ultra sound, and a scope. And they still don't know what the heck is wrong with me!!!??? But they did put me on a couple medications and told me to cut a few things out of my diet and so far so good. Whew! that was a rough couple of weeks:)

"Sweet nectar of the gods" Isn't that what we call
coke??? Well Gunnar snuck a sip and wouldn't put it down. . . AND. . .the mother of the year goes to ME! ha ha!

Gunnar obviously got ahold of a pen and did some art work on his legs. Atleast, it wasn't on the walls. I'm sure that is next!

San Diego vacation

Thanks to Angie and Rick we got to go to San Diego! We had fun visiting with friends, hangin at the beach, and exploring some of Balboa park.










Rick, Angie, Bryson, Josh, Gunnar, Taryn, Taylor & Shannon in front
a huge coy pond at Balboa park. We all enjoyed wathcing the humongus fish swim
all around.















Taylor and Gunnar were so cute! They chased
eachother endlessy around this bench that we are
seated on. The best part was that they kept busy
and we didn't have to chase after them. Ha, ha:)















Daddy helping Gunnar cool off his feet in the
fountain.















Josh and I watched Bryson while Angie and Rick
took a quick trip to the temple. The boys had a
great time running a muck around the room.















Nothing ends the day better than a bath!

Boys in the Kitchen

Gunnar Spotted the Chocolate. . .

Helped himself to the chocolate. . .

. . . And enjoyed the chocolate.

After licking his fingers clean, he then turns to me with a big smile and says, "Mmmmm Nummy". He is so his fathers son :) Whenever I open the fridge, here comes Gunnar running to sample the sweets, it never fails.

I just wanted to take a minute and let all you ladies know how lucky I am to have my big hunk of burning love, Joshie. He works hard, he plays hard, he love hard, and yes take a look below. . . HE CANNEDS!!!

Right below in exhibit A him and a buddy are bottling strawberry jam. Mmmmm Yes, I do have the ultimate package :)

2nd Post

Well, summer is almost gone but we are always so busy. We have had so much fun this past month with our families and each other. I will add pictures in the next couple of days (basically, when I get time to load them into the computer). Anyways, here are some fun things we did...

Starkey Reunion:
This was done in Layton, Ut this year rather than Meadow, Ut near Fillmore. Gunnar had a blast having so many kids around him. We enjoyed watching him getting attention from his loving cousins. One of the days we went to Surf n Swim with the gang which was a blast. Then, one of the nights we played ping pong at our house until early morning which I am still the champ, baby! Things were changed a bit because normally there is a Starkey baseball game but it was the little tikes having the fun with Jay Starkey being the pitcher. Gunnar played for a bit until it was his bedtime. The next day we played the Starkey Basketball Game which was lots of fun then did the Starkey Raffle which is always a blast. We didn't win anything this year although I bought $30 worth of tickets hoping to win a homemade chess set out of nuts and bolts made by Dusty Draper. I should have just given him the $30 to make me one, ha ha.

July4th:
This was one long day but it ended great! We started by meeting the Petersen's (Davin and Kara) at the Kaysville Parade and watched one the best local parades around. Then, we went over to have lunch at their parents house where the women made homemade Cafe Rio pork salad, very yummy with Margie making homemade ice cream roll (That was awesome!). If you notice, I am a food person...ha ha--if there is good food then the whole event is awesome! We then left to Provo to the Stadium of Fire where we watched our favorite Hannah Montana...jk, we had never heard any of her songs until we went there and actually Gunnar didn't like the loud sounds so I took him for a walk under the stadium. Then, after the 2 hr ride home because of traffic we finally climbed in to bed.

Geez, there is so much more but I am drawing a blank. We finally got our lawn in but dont have the extra thousands of dollars for trees, bushes, etc. so maybe that will be next year. We look forward to having our neighbors and friends over for BBQing. I have the world's best bbq being a Traegger Grill--its awesome! Anways, Taryn and I's date night is every Wed being tonight and we are going to have one of my favorites...all you can eat sushi and Benihana's with some friends.

Also, football season is almost here - GO COUGS!!!

The Blog

Hello Everyone,

Taryn and I are writing our first blog, ever. We have been pressured for months to start one and the peer pressure got the best of us. Let's see how we do!