Merry Christmas! Love the Webre's

2017 Halloween

"Halloween, Halloween, Lots of Fun on Halloween!..."
This year we went with a farm theme...because who doesn't do a theme these days? We're with it! So below are things found on a farm...including poop (thanks Chris)!

Katie announced she's adding to their vegetable patch in the spring. Yay!!!

I know this bee loves this flower!

And here's the whole farm!

Clara and Brielle

Ayla

Evan and Alden

Taycee and Kaden

The traditional ghost cake with glowing eyes...

Flashlight "witch hunt"

Dinner in a pumpkin...(also love the glasses on my hat)

Find the "?" in the guts (spaghetti)

Hunter put together some "feel bags" with guts, maggots, eyeballs, and fingernails.

Jason also put together some great minute-to-win-it games.

2017 Fall Fun

Here are some pictures I haven't blogged yet from the last month or two.  Descriptions will be below.

The Romers from our ward invited us up to Bear Lake to their cabin. We spent a couple of days riding our side-by-sides in the area. It was a fun time! --and the first time all year I've been for a ride! The mud on our Polaris came from me driving through a puddle where I thought dad said, "Go fast", but he really said, "Don't go fast!" Oops! 

This picture was taken up Cold Water Canyon with Julie and Amy. It was a fun little jaunt with beautiful fall colors.

 The picture above and below is taken from a hike which started over in the Liberty area. The Hike is called Mule's Ear and starts up in the North Fork Park where we cross-country ski. It was a LOVELY hike with Julie, Sherrie, Machel and I.

This is the Ogden Waterfall Hike. Scott and I went with Mike and Sherrie.

This is Pineview Reservoir. Norm, Sherrie, Joan and I biked around as far as the trail went. Lovely!

Joan Argyle, Sherrie Webb, me and Norm

Me, Sherrie Webb, and Joan Argyle

This bike trail is called the Legacy Parkway Trail. It starts at Farmington Station and follows Legacy Parkway. Eventually it joins in with the Jordan River Parkway trail (which google says goes for 43 miles). We went for 15 miles and turned around and came back. I was BEAT! It's a fun ride though. I thought it was a miracle I could walk the next day, but I felt fine. I'm lucky to have fun friends and family who like to do the things I like to do!

Although this looks like the same group on the same day, it's actually a different day and a different ride. This was the Ogden Centennial trail. My favorite time to ride it is in the fall. It is SO beautiful with the very many leaves falling and changing colors. Love it!

Julie and I and Sherrie hiked the Indian trail starting at the top of 22nd street in Ogden and ending at the trailhead on 12th street. We loved this trail. It took us about 2 1/2 hours.

Hmmm...I wonder what the purpose of this little shack is. We loved the dog bowl chained to it to give your dog a drink. But, alas, no dog with us.

Cook Family September/October

Wow! So much has happened in the last 6 weeks and so much going on right now! Yesterday was our first official day building with our group. Our house is still getting a foundation laid, so we'll get the first 5 houses to the point where contractors come in for electrical, plumbing etc. and while they are doing that we will start over on the last 5 houses. 

As we were driving up Saturday morning at 8am it started snowing and I was like noooooo! But then it stopped after about 30 minutes and it was sunny (but still kinda cold!). The winter is seriously going to be miserable but we'll just have to keep reminding ourselves that we get a house out of this in the end!! And 60K in equity! Josh hired a "volunteer" to help with about 10 of our hrs per week. His name is Franco and we really like him. Super easy to get along with and a hard worker. 

For those of you who may not know, I joined a choir and I am LOVING it. Seriously it's the best, just what my soul needed. So we had our first concert a couple of weeks ago and Anna came with her boyfriend Scotty. We went out for ice cream with them afterwards and got this new style where they spread it out really thin on a big flat surface and get it super cold so it hardens, then they take a spatula and push from one side so that it curls into this cute little coils of ice cream. Nothing spectacular about the quality of the ice cream but that place was packed! It's a novelty thing I guess.

Clara is super fun right now. She had a phase where she was obsessed with seaweed but a week later she's not digging it anymore. She also loves to take everything out of a drawer/container, etc. and then put it back in. For a while she would grab everything she could find in a room and stash it in one place (see above picture). Clara is also extremely opinionated and determined to have her way and control everything. So that's great. But I'm bigger than her so I usually get my way. 

She is now overjoyed to be using a spoon and fork to feed herself and often wont let us help much. So meals just take like 5 times longer, NBD.

  

 Went and spent a couple of days with Heather and Mom. It was so fun! Heather and I got to go on a short hike and do some bentonite clay face masks. Ayla and Vera are quite the entertainers. This is them dancing to the "Barnyard Dance". Not pictured are the scrumptious caramel apples that we made (this is the third year now so we've definitely got to keep the tradition going). 

 
Anna and I made peach jam and raspberry peach jam together! It was so fun. We're holding the leftovers here that didn't make it into the water bath. I've also been dehydrating peaches, pears and apples and they've all turned out delicious! I think I upped my homemaking status a few notches this summer. :)

 A few pictures from peach days. Clara danced a long with the dance teams and the bands. We enjoyed the prayed for about 10 minutes and endured it for another 20 or 30 before going home. :)

Been doing some fun fall hikes and drives. Can't get over the colors! This is Anna's BF - Scotty. We all like him a lot and i'm hoping he's the one!!

We moved in with Natalie (Josh's sister) exactly one month ago. It's a pretty sweet set up. They watch Clara for us on Saturday so Josh and I can both work on the house. I watch Max during the week and our rent is very low. We have a little kitchen and no dishwasher. It has been good character building! I just listen to books or podcasts now while I do dishes, clean, etc. so I don't mind the chores so much anymore.

Fun day at the park and a lovely fall stroll down Provo Center street. Don't the babies look like they're having a ball? ;-) 

 
Sunday "Siblings Dinner" with Josh's Utah siblings. Classic BBQ and s'mores.

We were able to get all seven of us, from what we call the MTC "dream team", together for a short hour a few weeks ago. My old boss, Heather, is on the far right. I worked closely with these people and love them dearly! It really was the dream team. And now I'm planning to go back to the MTC and be a teacher again for about 10 hours a week. Natalie is no longer working full time so she'll be able to watch Clara while I take a few shifts.  I'm absolutely elated! 

Captain America Saves the Day

Movie Dialogue

Bad Man - Ughhh
Narrator - "What are you gonna do bad man?"
Bad Man - "Im going to take away the princess."
Princess - "Don't get me!"
Bad Man & Princess - Grunting and crying
Narrator - "And the princess was taken into his cave."
Bad Man - "Ugh no one save the princess."
Captain America - "I will save the princess!"
Princess - "Save me... Help Meeeeeeee"
Bad Man & Captain America - Fighting noises
Princess - "Thank you"
Captain America "I will help when I can."

Kanarraville and Bryce's 2017

Cedar City Trip

Sept 21-24, 2017

Julie has a friend, Annette Johnson, who lives close to Cedar City, so we decided to take a trip to visit her (along with some of Julie and Annette's other North-Ogden friends) and do some fun hiking in the area. We were not disappointed!  Each hike was amazing!

We got there Thursday night. Annette fed us Hawaiian Haystacks and then we went to a play called "Tavern" on the SUU campus. It was pretty funny, but I had a hard time staying awake (I think it's my age). We stayed in a house just down the road from Annette. A friend of hers lets people stay there or sometimes rents it out. It worked great for us!

Friday morning we went on the Kanarraville Falls hike. It was beautiful and much of it was hiking in the cold stream, so our feet were frozen! But it was worth it! Here are some pics.

Here we go! Dani, Annette, Julie, Michele and Me
 (paid $10 for parking just below this trailhead)

The first of three falls with a fun ladder to climb

This second ladder was a little sketchy, but Julie and I made it!

After the Kanarraville Falls hike, which was about a 3-hr adventure, we headed down the road a ways and did the Spring Creek trail. The first 1/2 hr of it is not as interesting, but once you hit the slot canyon it was spectacular again.

We ate dinner that night at Rusty's, which was a great restaurant! We thoroughly enjoyed it all - bloomin' onion, sweet potato fries and salmon --Mmmm Mmmm.

Saturday we headed to Cedar Breaks National Park and Bryce Canyon. WOW!  It was breath-taking.

This is Cedar Breaks National Park

The clouds rolled in as we started hiking in Cedar Breaks park, so we soon left for Bryce's National Park.

The Queen's Garden

Standing in the Queen's Garden

We hiked the Navajo Loop in conjunction with the Queen's Garden

There were a LOT of switchbacks leading up to the top.  

Pretty amazing, right?

We ordered pizza from The Hub by Annette's house for dinner and then watched the Women's Conference which we pre-recorded. It was very nice. For a treat we had ice-cream sandwiches with chocolate syrup (she prefers caramel) and nuts on top. Yummy.

Sunday we went to all of Annette's church and enjoyed it very much. She fed us spaghetti casserole for dinner and then we headed home. We hope to make it a yearly event!