Happenings at the Rockin 'E' Ranch

My awesome Sanpete Valley.........

First of all~ can I just say that we had the BEST EVER Halloween! Who else is crazy enough to travel 400 miles just to go trick-of-treating!? Well, of course, US! We took off on Thursday, made the long drive to Ephraim to see all of our friends.......

(This is Maranda after she RAN down the street to see her Sami.. who was TOTALLY caught of guard! Way awesome to see that surprise!)

.....and participate in the Ephraim Elementary Costume Parade.

Halloween fun continued as we went to the 5th Ward's Trunk-r-Treat Friday night. We tossed kids aside at the Hermansen's, (thanks Becki & Todd for shackin' us up!)

(hangin out, so much fun! Stock and Tyra really are the same age. We just grow 'em short)

and Bryan and I went to a much needed trip to the Manti Temple. What a relief and blessing that was. With our closest temple being in Billings Montana, we haven't been able to go since we moved. I can't tell you how wonderful it was to be sitting in our favorite temple again. Ahh the peace.(taken with my sweet little cell phone, gotta love technology, right?)

Bryan was able to head up north and pick up his girls to visit and stay at his mom's house in West Point. Maranda, Taylor and I stayed in Ephraim and hung out some more. We saw friends, and I got to go to the temple one more time. We were able to hit church and see a few more people there as well. BIG thank you to Wayne and Ardith for letting stay Saturday night. (and for sending us home with TWO loaves of the BEST homemade bread ever!)

(take note... rare photo with ME in it, and I actually posted it!)

Sunday afternoon, we all met up together at Cassandra's, (Bryan's oldest daughter) so that we could take the opportunity to compare all of our belly's!

Cassandra is due to have her first
baby, our FIRST
GRANDSON!!! in just
a few short weeks.
So, we wanted to wish her
well, before life totally
changes for her.
Crazy, huh? Bryan is going to be a Grandpa? Ew?! He's actually very
excited and looking forward to little "Porter". (We'll post as soon as he comes!)

We finished up our weekend trip in Logan. By the time we got to Grandma's and Grandpa's, we were SO tired. But do you think that we went to bed early? Of course not. Taylor and Stockton had Uncle Brig and the big screen downstairs, and Randa followed Aunt Millie everywhere. Brin and her cousin Ally had a blast. Two peas in a pod. Both darling, both look so sweet and innocent.... both get dangerous when quiet.

(Brin & Ally, you should see that girl shake her "thing"! And Millie and Grandpa playing games on Millie's cell phone)

Somehow through the whole trip, my kids kept getting a hold of my camera! Dang kids! But I guess it proves that I was actually there.

Overall, it was a great trip. Very much needed. Such a good break, and so much fun to see people we love. Even the road trip wasn't too bad - oh, except the part where Bryan didn't watch the map and we ended up in La Barge instead of Thermopolis coming home. (oh the agony of living in the middle of nowhere!) All said and done, it was GREAT!