My trip to Utah

This past weekend I went to Utah to take pictures for my friends daughter's wedding at the Jordon River temple it was great. I was able to see Page, Emily and Lauren, James Carlson (a missionary that served here for over a year), Brother and Sister Powell (also missionaries that served here), Sister Raughs daughter Ashley and Marlisse and 3 of her girls. Even on the flight home I saw Brother Hardester (whom I havent seen for over 14 years). It was like a huge reunion for me. I visited my favorite store Cabela's. And even though I had my camera I neglected to take any pictures except for the wedding and reception pictures what a dope. Oh well.

Knee Surgery

Well after a fall from my horse two weeks after getting her. Saddle difficulties, a tip always buy a new saddle. Anyways, after 3 months of rehab to build up the muscles again I finally had knee surgery to replace my ACL (one of the four ligaments in a knee). He did some clean up on my cartilage on the knee cap and some other minor thing than went for the gusto and took out my old ACL and replaced it with a cadavar Achilles tendon and a bone piece from the heel. I know it sound weired but using my own patella tendon was not an option for me wayyyy to much recovery time for that. The Dr said 2 week off the leg with only partial weight bearing with a brace and crutches. Well needless to say I could handle only 3 days of the brace and only about a week of the crutches. So today I went to Scotts Valley and only used the crutches a bit and even drove. I get to see the Dr on tuesday so I will see how things are going.

Kelty's 2nd Birthday

The Big Birthday girl and her Dad

It just amazes me that it took 6 kids to get one with Kirk's eyes

She sure is her Daddy's little girl

Kelty's yummy cake!

Kelty love her cake so much, she had a little trouble blowing out the candles but she got plenty of help from her sisters and brother.

Kelty got new shoes for her presents. Even though we have plenty of shoes from her sisters I could not resist these pretty ones to play in ( psst Gail guess where they are made)



Here are her new church shoes. Kelty liked both of her new pairs and wanted to were them all the time.

Snow at the Summit

Last night was cold, really cold and where was lightning and thunder as well. Kirk called at 10:00 in the morning today to tell us there was snow at the summit. Sooo... we got dressed in our snow clothes and drove up there. It was really suprising to see it starting to be on the ground just a mile up Hwy 9. As we got closer and closer to the summit the snow was thicker. About a mile from the summit the snow was falling as well. We stopped at a clear area and had fun building a snow man, making snow angels and had snow ball fight. Teagan loved to eat the snow. Mikensie loved to to make the snow angels and Kelty had fun taking the head off of the snow man. She thought that it was so funny.

Lukes Party

Our neighbor had a little party for the kids that was really fun. We had such a great time playing and decorating pumpkins, and cupcakes. The mom is from Sweden and it was fun to hear that over in Sweden they do not celebate Halloween. But on Easter they have the kids dress up and the girls dress like witches and the boys like wizards and they give out candy to people they also have a big bon fire and fireworks. Kinda like Halloween, and the forth of July for us.

She said that the teenagers are trying to do Halloween over in Sweden but it doesn't translate very well cuz they egg houses that don't give them money. Gives a whole new meaning to Trick or Treat. (give me money or I will thrash your house)

Halloween ward party

We had our Halloween party this weekend at our ward and it was sooo fun the youth made a great hunted house and there were fun game to play for the little kids. Page came up with her boyfriend Taylor and the Lynchs came up with there kids. We had chili to eat that was so yummy. My leg was still not feeling that great so I was glad Page was there to help out with the little girls.




Page and Taylor Kelty , Lizy and Teagan

Page and Ash Lee spooky stuff

Are new additions to the family

Here are the pictures of our new family members Anya is the chestnut and Cocoa is the bay on the right with the star. We got them from the Stanford Polo Club and they are just great. We have had two little incedents with them though. In the first week Ash feel when her sturup broke and than last week I feel when my saddle girth broke. I'm still trying to recover. Anyways they are great horses and the kids just love to ride them and pet them.

Poison Oak!

Kirk went up to the Branson Ranch and limbed some redwood trees for them. That was on monday. Tuesday he went to work and by 12:00 was feeling it come out. By wednesday he was looking like a pug puppy. Poor guy.

P.S. on Sunday Ash Lee and I had delivered our new members of our family at the Branson Ranch ( hint there names are CoCoa and Anya and they have to be at the Bransons)

Pictures to follow shortly

Our new driveway

Kirk has been wanting to replace the driveway that was damaged when we took down an Oak tree anyways here are some pictures of him taking up the concrete and doing some escavating work.

Bonfonte Gardens

We had a great time at the Bonfonte Gardens on Monday. It was a very nice warm day and we had such a good time enjoying the rides and the gardens