Happy Halloween

When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam,May luck be yours on Halloween!

Tagged "Randomly" by *Annie*

* Share six non-important RANDOM things/habits/quirks about yourself

* Tag six RANDOM people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs

* Let each RANDOM person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website

1 ~ I have the hardest time concetrating because I'm always thinking.

I feel like my mind NEVER stops!

2 ~ I am obsessed with PICTURE FRAMES!
3 ~ I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to doodle!

If there is a pen / pencil / marker etc. laying around, chances are... I'll be doodlin' with it!
4 ~ I REALLY, TRULY believe there is nothing better than family AND there is no one better

than my DAD!!
5 ~ I haven't touched/smoked a cigarette in almost 10 months, pretty big accomplishment after

6 years of the habit (minus pregnancy)!!

6 ~ I read Quotes online EVERY day. They are my inspiration!

I'm tagging All Ya'all

Carry laughter with you wherever you go...

The other day Ben and I were shopping for accessories for the J's costumes! We had been a few places (ok maybe a few too many acording to him) when we ended up at Shopko in West Jordan! While minding my own business looking at the Halloween makeup I turned around to this... All I have to say "thank God I had my camera"

Everyone who knows Ben knows how silly he can be, it just so happens that I caught it on camera!

After trying on all these masks we decided he should get 1 and wear it Trick-or-Treating...

Here is the WINNER!!

Thanks Ben for the laugh but most of all, Thanks for the LIFE LONG memories!

PICTURE TAGGED by Jeri...

Here is the "6th" Picture in the "6th" Folder on my computer! Don't you love it!!

I TAG:
Candace
Chelsie
Kaysie (Hopefully new pics of the twins)
Melissa
Christie
Alicia

Deer Hunt 2008

As you have seen in previous posts my little family has been anticipating the 2008 Deer hunt for quite some time!! We have all been pretty excited; talking about, thinking about & planning exactly how and what were are going to do.

The PLAN:

Bens plan: Get up at the crack of dawn, pick up Grandpa Steve and hunt...hunt...hunt...

My plan: Get all 3 boys up and ready, make lunch and get up the canyon by noon...

Jaden's plan: Hunt...

Jack: Anything as long as it involves looking through binoculars...

Jensen: Also anything, preferably something where Dad is...

How the PLAN turned out:

Bens leaves the house around 4:30, picks up Grandpa and is on the mountain at 5:15,

by 6:45 he has hiked to the top and is on the look out. 7:45 sun comes up DEER HUNT 2008 has offically opened!! 8:15 Ben takes a shot, and gets him... 8:45 he calls me and tells me to get the kids and come now! I explain that it will take some time to get 3 boys ready for the day let alone to spend the day in the mountains, then I ask if he has seen anything. he proceeds to tell me that he already got one (the excitement in his voice was priceless) SO, I get off the phone and start rushing around then another call from Ben saying I don't need to hurry, it's going to take forever to get the deer down the mountain and to the truck so I start taking my time, sticking to the original plan. Then ANOTHER call, this time the excitement is gone...something is wrong... Ben tells me that he is not going to be able to get the deer, the mountain is too steep and thick to drag him out. He tells me to still come up and we will have lunch and let the kids have their kicks "hunting"! Around 11:30 the boys and I are in the car and on our way (it should be noted that thru all the up's & down's I decided against lunch, the kids had their lunchables and thats all that mattered) Ben calls again this time he says, his brother and friend were on their way to help him. He also tells me that it is going to take a long time so the boys and I probably wont want to wait. Well... since Me and the 3 J's were almost up the canyon and they were all excited (actually...Jensen was sleeping) I didn't want to turn around. I decided we would just hang out with Grandpa Steve for a bit and let the kids do what they wanted!

Here is Jaden, this is Jampa Brad's huntin jacket he couldn't go with out and the bandana... I still don't know the significance.

Jack throwing rocks down the mountain! Looking at "bear dunnels" (tunnels) ~caves I think is what he really meant~ well, at least that was his story!

Jensen, preparing to throw a rock down the mountain. Happy to be out in the fresh air!

Grandpa Steve and Jack on the hike!

Jack's new best friend and him "spotting" buck or bear dunnels...

Lunch time in the bed of a truck! Jaden made his lunchable pizza with a cookie on top, sick huh?




























Here was our "snow adventure" (another from the mouth of Jack)

After a couple hikes, lunch, a snowball fight and wearing out Grandpa Steve the boys and I decided to head home.

It wasn't for another 5 hours or so that Ben called again. He said they were finally at the truck with the deer, it was about 5:30...it took more than 9 hours to get that thing down. They had to gut it, and slice it to get it to the truck SICK!!

I'd love to show better pictures of Ben's prize BUT it looked kind of like the butcher section of your local grocery store, who wants to see that on a blog??




This is 1 of the few pictures that I took of the animal, and those are the antlers from the deer!!

Bedtime Prayers

The other night when the boys and I were getting ready to say our bedtime prayers. Jaden and I usually take turns everyother night saying them and Jack just kind of assists!! Anyway, I told Jaden it was his turn to start but Jack interrupted and said he wanted to say them tonight!

So this is how we usually start:
~Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this day... ~

This is how little Jack started:
~Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this STEAK... ~

Oh my heck, I can't believe after all these nights he thought were we thanking God for steak!!

Jaden and I were laughin so hard that we had to start all over!!

Jadie and Ben, Opening Morning Deer Hunt 2008

Birthday Girl

Monday the 13th was my Friend Michelle's Birthday. Last Saturday we decided to celebrate with friends, food, fun and of course...DRINKS!

Shauna and Michele AKA "Dick-Head"
The Cake

That there needs a WAX
Ben and Jan goin' at it!!

All I have to say about this...

Don't leave your camera sitting around at a party where drinking is involved,

this is 1 of the many that my lil' Barbie took!

Shauna and Me! (I don't know why I have pregnant nose!!!)

A HUNTING we will go, A HUNTING we wil go.....

So, this weekend is opens the BIG HUNT!

My Benny Boy has had anxeity for days, even weeks... getting ready for this Saturday October 18th 2008! We have been up in the canyon several times "spotting" for the buck he is going to get!

As you can see, NOTHING... not even a BLIZZARD stops this boy!

The kids LOVE the drive, for some reason it is (almost) the only time they don't whine.
Here is Jaden (Ben in the back) He INSISTS on getting out of the truck EVERY time we stop!

Isn't it amazing what 1 day of good weather can do for a Deer Hunter!!

We see you...

I swear this Doe is looking at me like I'm going to be an acomplice

to the murder of her husband and baby's Dad...The truth is, I'm going to!!

How can something so beautiful be so scary?

BEAUTIFUL...

PROOF: Jensen (Ben's baby boy) LOVES to go Spotting!!

Odds & Ends

Here are some RANDOM pictures of the last week or so... "JamPa" and the boys

Love you Dad!

Jack playing a game at Cabellas

This is my FAVORITE!

Can I be any luckier??

Jack, Jaden, Jensen

So sleepy...

"You take it like this Bend"

(Jack showing "BEN" how to use the camera)

This is a serious DORK but a serious GREAT FRIEND

"What?? I'm just playin' with this little springy thingy on the back of the door"

To you...

Friend, Acquaintance, Mate, Bud, Pal...YOU!

"I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way."