Category: Family

Continuing with our marathon of traveling all the time we headed out to Vegas last weekend to watch the NFR.  I drove down with Mylea a day early to the valley to work at a customer’s office and to surprise Mylea with a flight to Vegas.  Clancey drove up the next day and we had a blast!  I took my wife and mother to Phantom at the Venetian on Saturday.  We had fourth row seats, and it was an amazing performance!  Sunday was church and the rodeo that night.  The craziest part of the whole trip was driving back through the snow storm on I40 in between Kingman and Holbrook.  Flagstaff was getting hit hard for sure when we drove through.  We made it home, and are on a weekend break before we head down to the valley next weekend for Christmas lights and ASU Graduation.

I saw some really cute pictures of a baby in a pumpkin and I thought we could totally do that with Rustyn. Wes though I was going crazy and wasn’t to excited about the idea. When we went over to Dickie and Merr’s last night for dinner we decided to carve pumpkins after dinner. I got the pumpkin ready for Rustyn and Wes set it up to take pictures. We didn’t know how Rustyn was going to deal with the slimy insides of the pumpkin, but to our amazement he was totally fine with it. He was such a trooper to let us do this to him, and I have to say the pictures turned out pretty dang cute!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

This month has been a big one for Rustyn. He started eating real food and he is now rolling over. He is growing up so fast. I was going through all of the pictures that we have taken from when he was born and he has changed so much, he is getting so big.

We decided kind of a last minute thing last Sunday to go up and get family pictures cause the leaves on the trees were so pretty and we knew if we waited any longer all of the pretty fall colors would be gone. So after church we all headed up toward Big Lake and found a nice place to take family pictures. On the way up we saw several elk and Wes got a couple pictures of them. I think I should get the mom of the year award… So here we are probably 30 minutes from town and we are just hanging out in the middle of nowhere and Rustyn gets hungry… Which is expected right?! Well I go to fix his bottle and guess what… Yep I for got his bottle. I have the formula all measured out in zip lock baggies and everything… just no bottle to put it in. Well I couldn’t hold off any more, he needed to eat! So I just put some water in the zip lock baggie and bit a little hole in the end of it and hoped it would work… Thankfully he caught on and just sucked the corner of the baggie and at it all. Yikes!!! I can’t believe I forgot a bottle! It all turned out good though. I think we got some good pictures too. The sunset was amazing as well. As Wes posted just before this we got a flat tire on the way home… Thanks to Earl and Jennifer for helping us get it changed and get home.

Family Pics @ 409 Road <– Click here for pics because WordPress doesn’t like me uploading galleries over my BlackBerry.

On Sunday we decided to head up into the mountains before it gets too cold, and see the leaves change and take family pictures.  We had a hamburger/hotdog fry after we got done taking pictures and Mylea finished riding her horses.  On the way back we stopped to bugle the elk, and while pulling off the road I got a flat.  We got it fixed and an enjoyable Sabbath.

Look what Facebook has done to me, I haven’t touched our blog in a while.  We are in the middle of the semester of craziness (part 1 of 2), and Christmas never looked so good.  We are both running around like crazy people!!  Rustyn is beginning to learn how to do things and retain them.  He has had a lot of firsts this week.  He ate his first round of real food.  I believe so far he’s had peas, oatmeal, and bananas.  Bananas are his favorite for sure!  He also rolled over this week.  Amanda sent me this picture a while ago of him rolling around.  He’s hilarious because so much of his personality is in his eye brows.  He’s growing so fast, and we love him!

It looks like we will have one more rodeo before it gets too cold.  This Saturday we will have a Benefit Fund Day for the Rory Finch Family.  There will be a 4D Barrel Race, 4D Pole Bending, regular Gymkhana events, a Dummy Roping, and a Draw Pot Team Roping.  Please come by and support the event @ 2pm Saturday.