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Oh lovely Halloween. Last Friday the kids dressed up for halloween at school. Luckily Dakota had a late start day so while I laid in bed she got the two kids all dressed up and ready for Halloween.
 
Baylee decided to be a 50's waitress.
 
And Barret decided to be the Joker from Batman.

Hike Timp via Timpanuke

The Beginning!!!!
Normally, we would conquer this hike late July or August-- Possibly September. But October? What were we thinking? The week before it snowed in SLC. Those of you who know me... once I have a plan it is really hard to stop me. My plan was to take Dakota up and hike the back side of Timpanogos. So here we are. 
 (Please note, early this week, I watched fox news- the weather report was 80 degrees and clear skies) We saw the blue sky for about 3 minutes sporadically during our five hour trip. Note to self- Don't watch fox news weather, stay up til 10.
 

hiking.... 
 
Here we are, feeling good, we have shed some layers. It is amazing how warm you get when you are hiking up and up and up. I think we stopped to shed layers 3 times in our first hour.

 

 

 

 

Snowball Fight!
 
 
 

hiking... 
 
 and still hiking

still hiking 
 
 hiking....one step in front of the other...

 
Checking out the sky--They look blue but definitely not 80. Sunny? um for about 3 minutes before the next gust of wind comes by and brings the gray clouds 
 

taking a break.

Football!!!

 
 
 
 
It is so fun watching Barret play football!

Moss Ledge's Hike

Rick has wanted to go on this hike for a while. He and the kids headed up this morning. They forgot the camera, so they used his phone to take all of these pictures. Pretty fun little family hike.



Baylee is almost 11 yrs
Yikes!!!


Barret is carrying his hiking stick from his scout camp. What a cute little bunch!!!





DOES ANYONE REMEMBER RICK'S "LOVE" FOR SNAKES?

Remember the day Barret decided to sleep with his pet snake? The next morning he awoke and the snake was not cuddled up with him anymore. Rick quickly left work to come home and look for the lost pet. He made it very clear he was not sleeping in the house with a lost snake.
So here he is climbing on rocks. He set his hand on the rock and turned to watch kids to make sure they were okay. He felt something crawl across his hand....



I am sad to say, I missed it! Rick screaming like a girl! Almost jumping off the rock ledge into the water! Dakota just laughed and laughed! (after she let out a little yelp herself)

Up on top!!

Hey everyone this is Dakota
my mom is slacking so i thought i would post one my self. last week was my birthday and with it came a camera so i am going to share the some of the pictures i took.



these are my two cousins that we got to go to moab with. Gabi and Isobel


my dirt-biking dad


Me, my Mom, and Baylee in front of Delicate Arch






These are some of Barret playing football



These are some of baylee playing softball





These are some of the pictures i took from my backyard.