Scouts Life Flight Tour

Jake and Will's scout troops took a field trip for one of their pack meetings to see LIFE FLIGHT. It was pretty cool to get close to an actual helicopter and get to talk to some pilots that work for Life Flight. When Will was 18 months he had a febrile seizure and was flown to Primary Childrens on Life flight. It was neat for us to see where they put patients when they fly in the helicopter. Thanks Ric Bruce for organizing such a great Pack Meeting. Our family really LOVED it!Some of the scouts in our ward.
Tanner, Jake, Logan, Austin, Will, AidanRachel pretending to be a pilot.

Inside the helicopter.

HALLOWEEN - 2009

The kids had a great time carving pumpkins. I of course seemed to be the designated scoop the crap out of the middle person...(which I don't particularly like). All the pumpkins turned out pretty good if I do say so myself.

All lit up and ready to go HALLOWEEN night.
(Will's, Mike's, Rachel's, Jake's, Sadie's)All dressed up and ready for the HALLOWEEN party at Grandma Ruthie's and Grandpa Robert's.RACHEL was a...
FOOTBALL PLAYERJAKE was...
MISS AMERICAWILL was a...
CLOWNSADIE was a...
UTAH CHEERLEADERMY PARENTS
They are really good sports to dress up every year and put on a fun party. We ate Lasagna with rubber gloves, played a HALLOWEEN matching game and walked through Grandpa's cornmaze.
My Brother BRETT and his Kids.
LINDSEY, ALEX, SAGEMy brother JED and MANDY and their kids.
JAXON, ELLSIE, JOSHTHE WHOLE GROUP
(minus Steve, Amy, Morgan, Annie, Adam, James, Brad, Mel, Chloe, Troy and Cylia) All the Grandkids that were there.
The kids have a great time walking through Grandpa's cornmaze.My sister AMY and STEVE and their kids.
MORGAN, JAMES, ADAM, ANNIE
(They came late so they missed out on the group picture)
Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for the fun PARTY.
WE LOVE YOU!!!

You say it's "YOUR" birthday...

Happy Birthday MICHAEL RYAN DEAN
"38" sure looks good on you!

Thanks for being the best Husband/Dad EVER.
WE LOVE YOU!!!
Emily, Rachel, Jake, Will, Sadie and Diesel :)

FALL is in the air...and I LOVE it !

Fall is by far my FAVORITE season during the year. Watching the leaves change and fall is so amazing to me. I could just sit outside for hours and watch the gorgeous mountainside. The other night I was at Jake's football scrimmage at Cottonwood Highschool and sitting there with the mountain view was absolutely breath taking. I am so grateful we live in a place that has 4 seasons. We are lucky to get to experience weather changes all year long. I just wish FALL would last a little longer. My favorite thing to do on Sundays is to go on drives and hikes especially when you get to see the awesome leaves changing colors. One Sunday (10/11/09) I said lets get in the car and go see the fall leaves up Guardsman Pass. Well when we got to the top the leaves weren't pretty like I thought and we were greeted with snow. It was quite disappointing that we had missed the leaves and they had already fallen.

The next Sunday (10/18/09) I said lets try Millcreek Canyon maybe Guardsman was too high and we will have better luck up Millcreek. We hit the leaves at a perfect time up Millcreek. The drive was absolutely gorgeous.When we got to the top of the canyon we decided to go and take a little hike and try to get some pictures with the leaves.

The further we walked...the prettier the leaves got.

The path was lined with leaves that had fallen on the ground.

The camera doesn't quite do the leaves justice...they were absolutely FABULOUS :)

So PRETTY!!!

Heading back down.On our drive back down the canyon we found a great spot for some pictures.

Our apricot tree has just started to change colors in our backyard. It usually changes late in the season so seeing it start to change colors makes me realize the leaves will all be gone before we know it....but for now we are enjoying them. HAPPY FALL!!!

Black Widow = CREEPY

Look who found a home in OUR computer. Yep my friends, that is a BLACK WIDOW. You can imagine how Mike must have felt when he opened it up to work on the computer that wasn't functioning very well. It is crazy how much it looked like a plastic spider. It makes me sick to think that there may be others in our house. CREEPY :(
Videos of the Black Widow & Catching the CREEPY thing!!!

ST. George MARATHON 2009

Of course I have to blog about Mike's AWESOME job on the St. George marathon. It is very inspirational watching people finish a marathon. What a great accomplishment...26.2 miles of running. It is crazy to me how many people run in the St. George marathon. Over 6,000+ people register for the race and they actually have to turn people away. I have run 1 marathon and probably won't again...I have to admit I enjoy my 4/5 mile workouts. This is Mike's 3rd year running. He ran it with his brother John. They had a great time running 6 of the miles together during the race. I was so proud of Mike that he beat his personal best time by 2 minutes. WAY TO GO BABE!!!

They left the hotel at 4:00 am to go and sit at the start in freezing weather for 2+ hours. I took pictures off the computer so I would have some for my blog. I love that they all say proof...only means PROOF that he ran the marathon. Don't you worry we bought some to have for our wall so it is OK that I borrowed them for my blog.

Along the course.
The Dean BrosI think this picture says it all. Just glad to be done.

Mike finished in 3:28:19 and John finished in 3:18:39
John beat his personal record by 20 minutes...pretty amazing.
At the finish.

Tonya and I decided to leave the kids at the hotel so we could go and watch and not have to listen to them say they were bored and when would we be done and could leave. Watching Mike finish the race made me wish the kids were there to see him finish. Next year we will definately bring them.Hot tubbing at the hotel. A must for those tight muscles.We explored a little while we were in St. George. We went to the crack in the rock.
Rachel helping Sadie.

Tight squeeze.
Will and Rachel

Iactually went through it. What a tight squeeze. I had to see if I could fit...and I barely did.

Peeking out.Training starts in April for next year...who knows maybe I will surprise Mike and train with him...probably not :)