These are just a few highlights from our North Carolina trip. If I knew how to make an album I could put plenty more amazing photos but I am clueless as to how to do that.

I had to get this picture off my camera because we just took it last night of our girls with their pile of pumpkins. See I planted pumpkins last year and not one came up so this year I went a little crazy and planted quite a few and it would seem as though they all came up. It was a fun little trip for our girls out to our own pumpkin patch.

I decided to post this picture to let you all know why I have not been very good at keeping up with my blog this summer. We had a wonderful garden this summer, I have been very busy weeding and harvesting all that we grew. And that was just in my spare time. We also had some amazing summer trips. It is hard to believe that summer is over it just flew by. Our garden is finally done except some tomatoes that are covered by blankets and tarps. We just picked all of our pumpkins and Henley sold one right after to Nana, but we have many more and Henley is anxious to sell them. There are a few tall skinny ones and I told Henley I want to keep one of them and she said "That's okay mom I will just tell them they can't buy that one." She is quite the sales girl she tried to sell Nana the smallest little green one we had but Nana told her she wanted a nice orange one.

Our Family Home

Some of you might have already heard that our family home burned down, which is just awful but I can't tell you how grateful I am that Dad, Carol and Hieron are all safe. As sad as it is the rest of it is just stuff. And they will also be able to live in the trailer on the other side of their property which is blessing. It is incredibly sad that the old house will not be there anymore. When Dad was down here this fall we talked about it and He just loved that old house and all the memories he had there. I am going to head up there in a couple days to help them get situated and help them find and collect everything they need. Carol and I talked today and she said they might have everything they need stashed out in one of Dad's trailers it is just a matter of finding it.:)

Our Spring Break

We planned a last minute trip to California for spring break. We spent a couple days in Indio, California which is in the desert and it was almost ninety degrees a very nice break from our cold weather we are having. We spent some time swimming and catering to our girls who were not feeling good. We found out on this trip that Henley gets a little car sick. We got to spend some time with Grandma and Grandpa Futrell who Macey had never met. We also spent a few nights in San Diego, where we got to go to SeaWorld. Which I highly recommend. The whale show there was awesome. We loved it! Henley loved it so much she forgot all about her ears that had been hurting her. And of course we spent some time on Coronado Beach which was beautiful.

Pomerelle Ski

After 7 years for me and a few more for Eric we were able to go skiing yesterday. We had a lot of fun. We were the first ones on the hill for night skiing and it was snowing so the snow was completely untouched. It was beautiful! And we got to get all of our insecurities out without being seen because about an hour after we got there the swarms of young men and young women came for mutual. It was a wednesday and a lift ticket was only 5 dollars so that is what a lot of the wards were doing for their activity. It was great to see a lot of people we know even though you could hardly recognize anybody with their goggles on (a must have in the wind and snow.) It was a great date night thanks to Nana for watching our girls.

Our Girls are Feeling Great

Henley has pretty much made a full recovery and hopefully she is not contagious anymore because we have returned to life as normal. Oh I almost forgot she does have a new ouch! I was taking the garbage outside and I gave Henley an assignment to take the bathroom trash can back to the bathroom and she completed her assignment quickly and tried to follow me with her arms full of all her treasures she was going to bring to town with us. Only she thought that I had gone downstairs and apparently she tried to follow me and fell. I came into find her screaming and all of her toys scattered down the stairs. I don't know exactly what happened because everytime I ask her the story changes a little bit, and so does the bruise on her right cheek. It has been red, blue, purple, and yellow, and is now finally fading.