Fall break with the Cheneys

Another year for Fall Break at school and we're off...off to the Cheney's cabin in Hanna.  Where's Hanna?  It's somewhere past Kamas, Oakley, some other weird town in the Uintah mountains somewhere.  Wherever it is, it's a fun place to be.  The weather was pretty decent-as you can see from the pic above, it was sweatshirt weather but sunny.  Clayton joined us too so that was fun.  This pic was when we decided to go fishing one day-it was a little windy but still fun.  We basically watched Emma catch a fish, we all ate lunch and took off. 

Eli, Casey and good ol' Harley

Chloe and Emma

Liam and Sam

Eli's usually a happy guy-Kate just wanted to force him to be happy at this moment.

Kate and Harley

Ok, Harley had quite the experience at the cabin. He was upstairs and whining to come down. Understand that these stairs are very steep and there is no railing to hang on to. Liam went up to get him and slipped coming down, Harley leaped out of his arms and took a tumble down the stairs and hit the wall at the bottom. He yelped and yelped for what seemed like forever as we were trying to calm him down. He couldn't even walk and he tensed up everywhere you touched him. We were scared and Liam and Eli were very emotional. We called a vet in the nearest big city and they said they could see him. Miraculous as it sounds, Harley started acting so much better, so much in fact that we decided not to take him in. We could tell though when we got home that he wasn't doing very good. We took him in to the vet and we were told that his back was tweaked pretty good and he had inflamation of the bowels (he had stopped eating all together). Doc gave us the right medicine for him (2 different pills and a special dog food) and within a day, Harley was acting great and has been good ever since. We keep praying for that little guy-he is almost 10 years old you know.

Clayt brought up his uke and I brought the guitar-we had a fun little jam session

The craft project for the trip was making t shirt with freezer paper, paint and irons. Here's Kate and Heather working on her ladybug shirt.

 

Clayton and Eli designing their shirts

 

Here's Chloe's finished product-cool huh?

Halloween...aka the greatest holiday

My favorite time of year has come and gone...way too fast in my opinion.  We were the first house in our neighborhood that had, at least, the outside of our house decorated for Halloween.  I couldn't help it with my new gravestones that I made in the summer and I tweaked our front room ghost that you see above, it was a fun Halloween season.  

I was pretty proud of this witch that we made this year.  We found this mask at Halloween City and then everything else just fell into place for her.  So many people thought that someone was really sitting there.

Look at that crazy bunch!

Brenda gave us a bubble fogger this year and it seriously was the biggest hit on Halloween night.  Kids were quite scared to come up to the house but the bubble fogger lured them in so we could scare them.