This weekend we built our "pioneer purgela" in my parents back yard. Its more like a cedar wood pavillian. Abby had fun climbing in the post holes. Paul and my dad finished it in one day. It looks awesome!

Witchey-poo

we had a super fun weekend. My mom took us to Witch-a-palooza at Gardener Village on friday. I love gardener village anyway but this was extra fun because they were having their halloween celebration. There was a scavenger hunt to find these awesome witches (that was Abby's favorite part). There was dancing and little booths with activites for small children which was perfect for us, with face painting, Hair painting, Beaded pins, coloring pages, fingernail painting and each booth was only 1$. We had a blast. We also went on a hay ride up to an old witches house. It wasnt scary, this was for small children so the witches were silly and fun. Maybe its because I love Halloween but this was my favorite mini trip this year!

Photo Album

Here are a few of my favorite pictures from this past year!

Its been a whole year??!!!

I cant believe it really has been a whole year since I bloged! Well a LOT has hapened in a year so I will just update you on the major points. We have been back in price for almost 2 years now. Paul is enjoying his job and staying extremely busy at Sorenson Communications (they translate phone calls for the deaf and hard of hearing.) He has recently been promoted from the head of operations to Manager of the center. He has a lot of responsibilities but has made some good friends and learned a lot.
Abby will turn 3 in january! She is the sweetest, prettiest little girl I have ever known! When she was born we thought she would be a quiet little personality- boy were we wrong. Man can she talk! She will talk to anyone or anything. She frequently has conversations with our feet, her dinner and of corse, grandma suzzy's dog pixy! She is also the very best sister there ever was which leads me to another major event!
We have had another baby girl named Aspen Penelope Brown! Oh she is so pretty! She was born March 15th 2009. Its amazing how different your kids can be from eachother. Unlike Abby, Aspen is very quiet. She hardly makes a peep except for when she is laughing at big sis.
I have been so busy with kids and 100 other projects. I am selling avon (I never knew women would spend so much money on makeup!) I am also a substitute at the castle valley center in the lunch room! I know you're wondering if Ive suddenly turned 80 years old and grown a mole on my chin (The tipical lunch lady sterio type) but it is actually really fun and the kids are so cute! One boy asks for "a crabby patty please" every day.
We have also been busy selling honey. If you read my last post (a year ago) you will know that Paul is a hoby bee keeper. We went from six hives last year to 16 this past summer. We got about 25 gallons of honey this year which isnt nearly enough to keep up with the demands of people wanting local honey but enough to keep us extracting honey every weekend for 3 weeks! If you are wanting local honey you will just have to wait until next year because we are all out!
Well that says it in a nut shell. I promise i will update at least once a week this time around. Here are some pictures to catch you up on the latest hapenins.

When Paul was in grade school he did a "Grate Brain" report on bees. Ever since, he has had a fascination with them and this past summer he decited that he wanted to become a bee keeper and have a hive of his own to take care of. He hived his frst set of bees at my parents house in late spring which was an adventure! (he ordered them off the internet!) I sat in the car while he dumped over 10,000 bees into the hive. He was fearless and it was like he had done it a thousand times before. Needless to say he loves taking care of the bees and studying all about them. Next to abby being born I think his proudest moment was when a frame of new baby bees started hatching in his hive. Now at the end of the season he has 5 hives and my dad has 1.

Here are some pictures of Paul building his own hives and of "the girls".

Its been a while. For those of you who thought I was just getting fatter, I have a good excuse, Im 4 months pregnant! I've been pretty sick, hence the abandoned blog, but Im feeling much better now and hopefully I can keep up.

Last week Paul had work conventions in Salt Lake. We got to stay at the Little America Hotel. It was amazing! (thats where pauls meetings were). While we were there we went to the zoo with Pauls sister Helene and her kids, we did lots of shoping and went to the "Body Worlds" art exzibit for pauls birthday. It was a very fun week!