Disney Piano Recital

Eli and Chloe were in a piano recital recently. Their teacher thought it would be fun to make it a Disney Movie theme. Basically the requirements were to pick a favorite Disney movie and then play a song from that movie. Chloe wanted to play "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" from The Lion King. Thanks to her Aunt Amy's makeup skills, she became one of the lions from the movie. Eli couldn't wait to dress up as his hero "Woody" from Toy Story and show off his skinny legs in his "jeggings". Oh, you've never heard of jeggings? Kate actually introduced them to me a few months ago-they are a legging that looks exactly like well worn skin tight jeans, hence... jeggings. Here's the funny part of the story. Heather made Eli's costume a week or so in advance just in time for Toy Story 3 to make it to the Kaysville Theatre. If any of you know Eli, you know that he has no fear of doing pretty much anything in front of a crowd. He decided to go to Kaysville Theatre with some of his friends dressed in full character to meet his fans. He was quite surprised that so many kids wanted to meet him that night. "Hey Woody, will you come say hi to my little boy?" was one of many requests that the moms and dads in the crowd would ask. He felt like a celebrity for a moment-he's quite the character.

Fall Break at the Cheney's Cabin

Fall break comes at a great time for everyone...the kids have already been in school for about 6 weeks and with Fall in the air...it's time to get outside and have a vacation. The Cheney's invited our family to join theirs for an unforgettable getaway to their cabin. Here we are posing for the future Christmas card for this year. We thought we'd save some cash and have a combined card for both families...in fact, here's the card everyone...so now we don't even have to send one out-happy? Just kidding, well here's what we did while we had a few days together:

The weather was amazing...around 65 and sunny everyday while we were there.

...and the scenery was incredible too.



One of the first things Josh wanted help with was to take down a few aspen
trees that were threatning to fall down soon and take out some power lines.



Clayton was more than willing to climb up the tree with all his
climbing gear and tie a rope around the top to help with the takedown.



It was no problem for this climber.




The tree removal crew.




Doing the final checks on the ropes and heres a video clip of
the results:

Sisters

...and the cousins.

Best friends

What the??? Eli's new facebook profile pic

Here's a clip of Eli showing off how strong he is...or looks:

The next day we went to Ruth Lake in the Uintahs to do some

rock climbing and fishing. It doesn't look too cold here but it's about 45 degrees.

Heather was content as long as she was sitting in the sunshine.

Now it's starting to look and feel much colder...we had no idea that we'd be

climbing surrounded by snow.

Eli's showing off that he's grown this past year...this is his jacket from last year.

Clayton's fine with the cold weather...the disguised person next to him is Chloe

who wore several jackets.

This is the area that the kids would wait for their turn to climb. It took

forever for the sun to finally hit this spot for warmth.

Clayton does a lead climb to get the rope in place.

All set.

Liam's up first and checks out the scene.

A view from the top

Chloe gives it a shot

Liam and Eli make it to the summit.

The rock was very cold on the fingers but the kids did awesome.

It was a little warmer than "ice fishing" but I think between everyone who fished, only 1 fish was caught.

Cold or not, the girls were busy making their yarn hair bows.

I recently bought a new camera since Kate broke our other one. The new camera is

very cool and takes great close up shots.

The last day we were there Josh took us to a place where the kids could catch small fish

with a net-they had a blast doing this.

Got one

The grand prize of "net" fishing

We had so much fun together for the few days we spent at the Cheney's cabin. I almost forgot to

mention that we almost lost Harley in the Uintahs when we went climbing and fishing. I forgot to throw the leash in the car when we left for the day so luckily the kids had some yarn from the

bows they were making. We rigged up a "leash" for him and headed to our destination. It wasn't until we went from climbing to the lake for fishing that he was missing. After about 30 minutes at the lake I realized he was gone. Josh took off back to the climbing rock (about a 10 minute hike) and there Harley was, shivering next to a big rock. Sorry Harley, you probably wish you belonged to a more responsible pet owner.