Giving Thanks

Got Grandpa in the car and over to Craig's for Thanksgiving. He seemed to do okay, it was good for mom get out of the house for a few hours.

Happy Thanksgiving
The family all got together at Craig and Pam's for Thanksgiving.

The Women cooked up a storm and there was tons of everything you'd expect.

Look at all the pies.
Kirk's family was all there except for Melanie & Jake. Becky brought around 6 pies. Erin also made apple and a banana, pineapple, macadamia nut pie Yum! Kevin is counting down his days before he heads up to BYU Idaho in January. He is used to the cold since his mission in Canada. Melanie and Jake are heading to Fort Worth this summer for an internship with Lockheed Martin. Should be a good summer job. Kerry and Brian are walking together in a couple of weeks Graduating from Weber State ! Pretty cool for them to be finished.

Alison and J.J. with Colin and Reese Colin is in preschool and getting tall. Reese is 17 months old.

Dan and Erin. What a cute couple!

Brenda spends lots of time in the kitchen. Making her turkey soup and trying to cook healthy.

Our faithful dog Savannah. Has been spoiled with some turkey skin and treats today. She looks good since having a bath at the pet spas last week.

November News

Welcome to November. It has been the most beautiful month. The leaves are falling. Today we walked to church at 8:30 a.m. without a jacket. It has been a beautiful week. Hope it stays that way for Perry's birthday this week. The colors here have been very vibrant this year. Brenda took leaves to all her kids in school this month. We pressed them and talked about fall. Now they are all bringing leaves to her each day saying, " Mrs. Madson these leaves are for you, I know you will like them." Children seem to enjoy the simplicity of everything.



Savannah seems to love the fall also. She loves to lie in the sun and chew on all the bark in the flower beds.

Here is Perry's new birthday present. He is very spoiled. Once mentioning a new car he was on the lookout. We were so fortunate to sell our Honda Passport in a week. ( or can we say a weekend). KSL cars really works. We had lots of calls and could have sold it several times.
Perry is a proud owner of a 2008 Honda Ridgeline. It was very well taken care of for a truck.
Hope we can keep it looking this good. The requirement was it fit into the garage. The owner turns a care in every 2 years. Of course a BYU hitch is important, thanks to Megan and Josh.

Wishing you all a great Thanksgiving Season. We all have so much to be grateful for. Start keeping a list and you will see. Brenda and Perry

October visit

Bryce and Jamie came for a visit on Conference weekend. The kids wanted to see Grandpa and Gra.ndma So we went over to see him. He wanted to know why everyone wanted his picture. We said," Because they hadn't seen you since May." He looked quite good that day. He has his ups and downs.

Here we are Bryce, Jamie ,Mom , Grandpa , Grandma and Erin.

Had Sunday dinner together. It was nice to have most everyone home.

Bryce is still working hard at homework. Jamie took some notes at Conference.

Dan and Erin keep track of all their projects, work school, and computers.

Fall in Utah ( Cabin visit )

With two days off from school we just had to get away. We headed off to the cabin. It was dinner time and we decided to stop in Park City. It was snowing and a bit chilly but always fun to stop and see Main Street in Park City.

There were three or four inched of snow on the ground and on the roof and it comes sliding off the roof on to the stairs. I got to use the snow shovel and broom to clear the deck and stairs.

That chokecherry bush is still too close to the deck. The snow has it leaning in very close.

One deer came very close to the cabin. I think she wanted to get underneath the deck where deer like to lay on the soft dirt.

Fall in Utah means snow and cold followed by sun and warm. It's crazy.

That's It, We're Done.

That's it. It's time for school to start, so we need to put the remodeling on hold. Brenda wanted to paint the laundry room before the new appliances arrived. They look great, don't they.

I also wanted to add some pictures of the guest room that we finished this summer. It's not Jamie's room any more. This bedroom set came from the ranch and Brenda painted and refinished them. Hopefully some one will sleep in this room someday!

We went to th Oquirrah Mountain Temple dedication today. Church was canceled in Utah today. It was a great experience to see a dedication again Tomorrow school starts.

Megan & Josh's visit.

Megan and Josh came to visit us from Florida.


We were able to take them to the cabin for the day.
It was a short trip, but we were able to ride the
ATV and see the mountains.

Megan and Josh saw a Moose.



We stopped at Taggart's Grill for dinner on the way home.
Taggart's Grill is almost the only thing in Taggart (near Morgan).


We then met Melanie and Kirk's family at Grandma and Grandpa Hanni's.

Doesn't Megan and Josh look good on an ATV?

Here we go again!!!!!!

Brenda has a story to tell. But let me just say we
are texturing and painting the laundry room.
The red laundry room will be changing colors.














Out with the old and in with the new.
Perry decided we should get rid of the red. I am going to keep one wall red though. I want to get this project finished before school starts next week. Then we will be done for the summer.

A few months ago we were wandering thorough R.C. Willey and went to Electronics Dept.
They were having a sale on LG washers and dryers, and a contest to win them. Of course we signed up. Well Brenda came in 2nd. They say I won a $500.00 gift certifcate to R.C. Willey.
Through signing my life away I finally got the gift card from R.C. Willey. We picked out a washer and dryer at an amazing sale.
I can't put them in with old paint so I wanted to
have great paint behind a new washer and dryer.
After we purchased the set and used the gift card
it came up as $.00 dollars.
We were so disappointed and wondered what had
happened. The problem was solved today after
talking with the corporate office.
We decided to go to the big people and got things
straightened out. So Tues. our pair of pearl gray
washer and dryer are coming home to new paint.
We will save the old ones for some of the kids that
need them.

Perry is excited since he does a lot of laundry.

Colorado Vaca.

Our latest adventure took us to Colorado. Jamie and Bryce are living there this summer while Bryce does an internship with Lockheed/Martin.

First stop on Friday was "Garden of the Gods" it is spectacular. We love the beautiful red rocks.

Bryce and Jamie are great tour guides. They've seen just about everything in Colorado Springs.

Brenda did some walking with all our sight seeing.

Manitou Springs was very close after seeing "Garden of the Gods". It is the home of several springs that pop up all over town.

On Saturday we headed north for Denver, but stopped in Castle Rock to visit the outlet stores. We found lots of great deals and spent some $$$$$. Then it was on to Coors Field for a Rockies game. It is a beautiful stadium and a lot of fun. The Rockies aren't the Dodgers but I love a baseball game.

After church on Sunday we took a driving tour of the Air Force Academy. The Visitors Center was closed, but we drove through campus and were very impressed.

The football stadium is located far away from the athletic area where it can be seen from all over. It looks like a great place to see a football game.

On Monday Bryce left for a retreat with the other interns in Virginia and Jamie continued our tour. This is the old El Paso County court house. It has a museum now, which is closed on Mondays.

Next we went to the Olympic training center. We had a great tour led by a member of the modern petahalon team. They compete in five events including fencing,
shooting,running, swimming, and horsemanship.

Tueday we took the train to Pike's Peak. What a fun way to go to the top of Colorado.


Fourteen thousand feet where we could see forever.

Cabin Fever

Perry finally got his four-wheeler. I made him buy a helmet so we could be safe. He took me for a ride. It was so fun to have a ride around the area of Timberlakes.

Because of all the rain this summer the lakes are really full. There is a lot of standing water and many more ponds this year. It was so green. Summer is just barely coming this year.

The wild flowers are just starting to bloom. In a few weeks they will be blooming!

We took Erin and Dan up with us. Also Wayne and his amazing dog Jack came up. It was nice to have Wayne's Rhino which is so much fun. Jack would run right along with us. He never seemed to get tired. Wherever we went he went running. He sure is Wayne's partner. We watched a few movies, did some cleaning, and had some dutch oven food of course. It was nice for Erin and Dan to get away. We took a nice ride up by Daniel's where Erin and Dan are going to walk on a pioneer trek in a few weeks.

We like to keep moving in the summer. Maybe it's Cabin Fever. We saw fireworks with Erin and Dan. It was a nice weekend.