Fall & Football

 We had a great football season. Well we did but Dixie did not. They came so close to winning so many times! So aggravating for all of us. But we were faithful followers and we went to Colorado and California and Utah for as many games as we could get to. Leavitts went to Grand Junction and Christina went to California with us to watch. After every home game we got into a groove and went out to eat dinner with Leavitt's. In fact it was sad when the season came to an end and we missed our Saturday night suppers with them.Our waistline was glad when that came to an end though!

This year Hayden was #88

The grandkids loved seeing Uncle Hayden play

 

Nice photo bomb Coop!! 

Megan was a trooper giving Hayden up for practically the whole fall while Hayden played football. It wasn't until after Spring Ball that Hayden made his final decision to leave the game. It was hard but it was time to start concentrating on his career and his new family and hang up the cleats. Great things are still in store we are sure. We will miss the games and watching him play. We have been watching one kid or another for so many years when next fall rolls around it will be a shock to have no games to go to. Maybe it's time to start hitting BYU games more I guess or we will go crazy.

Engagements

Hayden & Megan got their engagement pictures done Oct 16. They sent me some on my phone:

So I cropped them down and saved them to the computer. Her mom tried to email them to me and that didn't work sending only 3 at a time. We tried lots of stuff. Finally we used dropbox and I got a whole bunch more pictures. They were all so good! Pretty photogenic couple!

See it's about impossible to pick a favorite. Even the setting was pretty amazing.They are all pretty fantastic.

The Corn Maze

Christina was down for her fall break and while she was here we gathered up Ashley and the boys and went to the corn maze in Moapa. The only thing we forgot was the bug spray so I's say it was a great afternoon!

Great little photo spot

Our Selfie

We had fun picking out a few pumpkins to take home

They had questions at the intersections. Your answer determined which direction to take. Very cool.

 

 

Find Chris and Coop

Christina tool this amazing photo. With one filter it looks like the maze is on fire!

Grandparents Day

Yea Grandparent's day! Our first one at Bowler. I was late meeting Rees and then we spent f.o.r.e.v.e.r at the book fair. Which was cool except we were in a huge rush to eat our breakfast then. And dang it was a great spread. Now I know breakfast comes before shopping. Who knew? We got our pictures taken but I never did get any so I don't know what happened to them? It was a fabulous morning and then I walked Rees over to his classroom. That's when I saw Bowler Elementary for the first time in forever. Wow has it ever changed. I didn't recognize the place.

The Flood of 2014

Well it happened again! Right in the middle of all the construction of the flood project and everything we had a heck of a downpour. In fact it rained almost 4 inches in Moapa and caused such a mess.

 The water rushed over the I15 and pretty much wiped out a big section of it. People were stopped on the freeway because the freeway was gone so they closed it for days. It was a huge mess.

Henry road in Moapa

While the water was rushing down the freeway an old couple decided they were going to turn around and drove into the water. As a result their van was swept away and right down the center on the freeway and came to rest under the underpass. The man who reached out to try and help them (she was opening the door and trying to leave for pete's sake) ended up with a broke arm. He was lucky that's all that happened because they were all swept away.

I-15

 The river almost wiped out our semi-constructed Cooper bridge. It pounded it pretty good so it was amazing they were able to salvage any of it. It was so sad to see it.

But the partially completely flood project saved our backyard as you can see.

 

After it was all over I found this and thought it was just about the funniest thing of the whole week.

Flaming Gorge

Over the Labor Day Weekend we finally got to check out Vernal and Flaming Gorge. It's a place we had never been to and had always wanted to see so we loaded up Christina and off we went.

We started off with a lunch at the Dairy Keen in Heber City. Quite the setup!

 It took a couple of hours to get there but as always we enjoy a good drive especially if it's to a place we haven't been before.

Definitely a good point to going to Vernal!!

The town of Vernal was so well kept with flower boxes everywhere. Very nice place. Lots of dino theme stuff there of course.

 The Temple there is so different but very beautiful. We walked all around it.

 So this is Flaming Gorge. Quite pretty but a few less trees than I expected for some reason. It is really high up so it's quite the climb to get up there.

The dam looks alot like the dam at Boulder City I think.

Our selfie

 Our dessert definitely deserved a picture. There went the diet!

Our first fall colors of the season. One lonely little tree in the Heber City valley. We were so excited to see it though. It was an awesome day. We thoroughly enjoyed it.