Fall Zoo and Eye Visit!

  Brodyn had his yearly eye checkup down at Primary Children's Hospital which turned out to be a great exam, just a slight Rx change for his lenses but that was it.  We decided to make a trip out of the visit so we stopped at the zoo and visited with Matt, Camille and Lincoln.  Reed, Joli and Hazel came along as well!  I love Hogle Zoo.  It is small and can be done in three hours, and is such a fun little zoo.  The new safari area and polar bear area is all finished we loved them both!  All of my three kids loved the visit!!  We were there towards closing time it was perfect very few people, awesome weather and most of the animals were out and about!  I think our favorite animals were the seals for sure!! 

Fall Time

We love fall when it comes, the cool weather and the fun activities that go along with the season!  Brodyn enjoyed being on his competitive soccer team.  They practiced once a week and then had a game each Saturday!  I really think his skills have improved and he just loves being apart of a team!  He is very athletic and he does have a passion for sports!  We took a short trip to Old Ephraim's grave, it is a longer drive than I remembered, or maybe that's because I was quite pregnant and the bumps on the mountain trail were not comfortable.  It was cold and there was only one jacket for the kids, poor Emmy had a little skinny tank top on, while Sophie got the coat!  Dan was able to score a few free tickets to a couple of Aggie Football games.  Brodyn and Emmy each got a chance to go and be with dad.

Competitive Soccer!

We usually do rec soccer, but being a little frustrated with the lack of skill being taught, we decided to try competitive soccer.  One of Brodyn's friends dad decided to start up a new competitive team, they sent out flyers around at school, and Brody was so excited to go try-out for the team!  He made the team and they practiced all summer.  Now that it is fall the season is in full swing.  They have learned so much.  It's been a fun new thing to try! 

Bees!

Here is Brody goofing around after dad was out tending to the bees!  One of our hives out back got a little big, so they swarmed to the nearest tree!  Dan was able to gather them all back up and start up another hive, which is great!  We got 15 gallons of honey this year, yum yum!  We harvested this year in our garage.  It was hard keeping the bees out long enough to extract all the honey from their honey comb racks.  We had to plug the holes around the garage door with towels to keep them from coming in.  Dan was swatting and vacuuming them with the shop-vac.  Emmy was so distraught and upset they were killing the bees.  Dan has taught her that bee's aren't scary but nice and helpful.  She just loves the bees and she came running in with big tears in her eyes and told me they were killing and vacuuming them up.  She said..."All they want is their honey and they've worked so hard to make it, and daddy's just killing them!"  It was too cute!  Later that evening when the bees had returned to their hives, she ran out to the garage and opened the shop-vac to release all the bees so they could fly home!