Turkey Bowl

Brad came with me to watch, hoping that he could play too. Since we didn't have very many people Brad was able to play. It was me, Brad, the two tall guys next to me and the two guys to the far right. Brad scored 2 touchdowns and he will proudly tell everyone that he scored 2 more than his dad. Scoring the 2 touchdowns helped his confidence and he is always wanting to throw the football around now. This was the best Turkey bowl I have ever been a part of. Not only was the weather perfect, but it was also a friendly game and it was fun that Brad was a part of it.

Beat the Experts

I thought the winning check would be bigger in size

I have been playing "Beat the Experts" or formerly known as "Pigskin Picks" in our home town paper with my family for close to 20 years now. It only took 20 years, but I finally won. $50 is nice even if the check was not bigger in size or with a newspaper representative or model.

Our Favorite 10 Year Old

It is hard to believe that Brad was born 10 years ago. He is such a great big brother who brings lots of happiness and joy to our family. For Brad's birthday party with friends we went to Mahoney State Park and played in their huge activity center. It is like McDonald's indoor play area, but tons bigger.

Brad's Favorites:
Toys - Legos
Holiday - Christmas
School Subject - Science
T.V. Show - Phineas & Pherb
Movie - Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix
Favorite Team - Pittsburgh Steelers

Gingerbread Display

Every year, Winter Quarter Visitor Center has a Gingerbread Exhibit. This year our boys decided that they would do a Candy Land Board. they had a lot of fun and did a great job getting putting it together.

Joe's New Toy

Our '92 Toyota Tercel was driven into the ground...literately. As Joe was driving to the dentist he heard a loud metallic pop up by the front right wheel. The car wanted to go right so Joe had to crank the wheel left to keep it going straight. Luckily he was almost to the dentist. He left it at the dentist office overnight, because he didn't want to risk driving it any further. The next day we took it to a mechanic half a mile away. The mechanic said the tire rods rusted through and that is would be $1000 to fix, which was way more than the car was worth. As the mechanic backed it out of the garage the tire rods completely broke through. The front axle laid on the ground and the wheel was sticking way out. Since we couldn't drive it "U-Pull It" came and picked it up and paid us a little money for it. We have always wanted a truck, so we ended up getting a '06 Dodge Ram 4x4, which the boys call our "Monster Truck".

Stickers

Matt loves to play with stickers at church and one thing he likes to do with them is put them over his mouth. Last night Matt was upstairs getting ready for bed and this is how he came down after finding one BIG sticker.

Halloween

Kyle (Harry Potter), Brad (Darth Vader), William (Spiderman), & Matt (Buzz Lightyear)

Showing off their haul

Brad guarding the booty

I love the face

It was another successful Halloween. Joe took the boys around the neighborhood while Janette handed out candy. Once Matt filled up his bucket he was done. They then came home emptied their buckets and then Joe took Brad & Kyle out for a little bit more. Each boy filled up a big bowl and are excited, because they think it will last until next Halloween.

Apple Orchard

We went to Arbor Day Tree Farm again this year, with Grandpa and Grandma Fredericks, on Labor Day. 3 Years in a row makes a tradition right? We had fun as usual. We played most of the day and picked apples at the end.

William Goes to School

William is going to preschool again this year. He loves school. I was told I was allowed to take exactly one picture. God thing it turned out.

William's Birthday

William had his 5th Birthday in August. He was able to have to cakes. First we had fun with some cousins who were in town from West Virginia. We then had a friends birthday party and William had fun with his friends in the back yard. They had fun swimming, jumping on the trampoline, and playing on the slip and slide. We are so glad to have William's giggly happy face in our family. He is full of energy and is always looking for his next adeventure! William learned to ride his bake this summer and was the easiest and youngest of our boys when it came to teaching him to go to two wheels.

William Favorite things at 5
Food: Macaroni
Cartoon: Jake and the Neverland Pirates
Toy: All of Them
Color: Blue, green, and Red, and Brown, and white, and gray, orange, and black, and yellow, and all the boy colors.
Song: Spiderman Song ( I am not sure what this is)
Sport: Soccer
Best Friend: Nolan, Logan, and the other William
Favorite thing to do with brothers: Ride bikes

Soccer Season

William getting ready for a break away.

Kyle loves to pose! He did great in his game!


Brad is number 54, getting ready to make a great pass!

We have recently had a few problems with our camera, and are still working out the issues, so we have had a lack of pictures the past few months. We did however get things figured out long enough to get a few pictures of the boys playing soccer. Brad and William played for Gretna and Kyle played for the Omaha Football Club. They have each had very good seasons.

Brad's team has been very good for him. They are the under 12 team and they include 9, 10, and 11 year olds. Some of the kids on his time have obviously had or are starting to have their growth spurts. Brad is not in this category. It has been great for him to play with older players as it helps him increase his own skills. He learned a lot this year, and it was obvious that he was playing at a new level by the end of the season.

Kyle played OFC this season. He was originally signed up for Gretna as well, but they didn't have room on the team so we went to OFC for him. We were very happy with his coach and team. He learned a lot of skills and most importantly had fun.

William loves playing soccer and it has been really good for him in the past seasons and this season was no exception. It really helps him build his confidence, work together with others, and play fair. On one of his first games he asked, "If I score 10 goals can we go get an ice cream?" We thought there was no way this would happen and agreed. He scored 12 that game, and we got ice cream. Brad was helping the coach one day getting the balls that went out of bounds. When he ran past william he heard him saying, "Karate chop that ball." As he took the ball from the opposing team and took off down the field.

Matt was a trooper going to all the games. He is adimately requesting that HE gets to play soccer next time.

1st Day of School

Brad entering 4th Grade

Kyle entering 2nd Grade

Brad and his teacher Miss Gennarelli

Good-bye Kyle

Last Wednesday, Aug. 10th, Brad & Kyle went back to school. Brad is now in 4th grade and Kyle is in 2nd grade. Kyle has Brad's old teacher, Mrs. Miller. William will be starting preschool next month, which he is very excited about, because they have animals.

Quotable Quotes

William has said some pretty funny things lately. One of my favorites is a couple of weeks ago when my stomach was sick he said, "Mom, you must have eaten a bug." confusing the phrase CAUGHT A BUG.

Another common phrase he says lately is, "You just a bully, because you told me No! or because you won't let me stay up!" Yup, I guess we are bullies because we have rules.

"I really like Hokey Pokey's!" The sad thing is I new exactly what he was talking about, a rolly poly

Here's one from Matt. When he races he count "1,2, chicken" We are quite sure where the chicken part came in, but he does it every time.

Matt also recently started calling his Dad "Joe" "Joe dress my pants on" (in Matt language that means put my pants on.)


There are more but that is all the time I have for right now.

Part 5 - Heber, UT

Matthew

William

Joe, Kyle, William and Matt

Brad and his cousin Spencer, they paddled so fast the boat broke and they had to be towed back in.

Kyle

Campfire

Some of the kids ready for a hike

Helping Grandpa Fredericks with the fire

Inside one of the cabins

Captain Joe of the row boats.

Dancing at the Museum

Playing Chess

Playing at the Zermatt

Feeding the goats.

Visitor Center

We finished our trip by visiting Heber, UT. We stayed with Rob and Pam and enjoyed visiting with them. My sister Angie and her family and my parents stayed at the Zermatt Resort in Midway, UT. We spent a lot of time swimming their, as well as playing chess, feeding goats, as well as having most of our meals their. We went down to temple square one day and enjoyed the sights their with our kids.

Friday night we went to the Heber Valley Girls Camp and had a reunion with my Dad's family. We stayed the night in the cabins, went for hikes, went on the paddle boats, and visited with family. It was a lot of fun.