Great Grandpa's Birthday

My Grandpa Daniel Theodore Noffsinger, 

my mom's dad had his 87th Birthday. 

 We spent the evening with family, 

Cousins, Aunts and Uncles for 

dinner at his place in West Valley.

My husband is always good to support me and my 

family.  I know some of my other family members

have trouble with husbands not putting their spouse's

family at a level of importance and My sweet Brandon

has always been so good at always wanted to go

with me when my family gets together. 

Temple Dedication

I don't know how many more Temple

dedications will be close by us so we can

go and so I was pretty happy when 

Brandon and I could take Riley to

the Brigham City Temple Dedication.

She was so excited to go.  Paige was

a little sad she could not.  So hopefully

Paige will be 8 before they rededicate

the Ogden.  It was nice to share something

like that with Riley.  Brandon and I 

have a strong testimony of temples

so to see our kids get as excited as

us about temple dedications makes

us happy! 

10 Years of Bliss

Brandon and I had our 10 year Wedding

Anniversary this year on 

September 5th.

That day/night was not what I would have 

expected for a 10 year celebration.  

The girls had tumbling that night so we could

not go out on a date anyway.  And so I

decided to go to the relief society activity 

and after I got home Brandon went out with his 

friends for dinner.  So I sat at the Relief Society activity 

wishing I was at some nice restaurant with my husband

and hoping he felt the same way when he went out

with his friends.  

So to make up for our pathetic night my mom came

down from Idaho a couple of weeks later to watch the

 kids while Brandon and I had a couple of nights away. 

We started our get away out with a couples

massage.  We've had one before but afterwards

realized it was not as good as we remembered. 

We then took off to park city which is what we did for

our 6 year anniversary and loved it! 

The hotel was nice and we loved having all day

to spend together.  We shopped, did some early morning 

and late night swimming in a beautiful adult only pool,

 ate good food and loved just being together. 

On the way home we stopped at the Salt

Lake Temple.  It was nice to end our get

away by going to the same temple

where we started our marriage in. 

I love you, Brandon!

More than anything!

I'm so happy we've had 10 

wonderful years together and I 

can't wait to see what 10 more will

bring! 

New Soccer team

Paige started her 3rd year of Soccer

and is so excited!  She gets to play 

on the bigger field and her friends 

are on the same team, along with the same 

coach as last year!  For really not much 

practice time Paige does pretty good. 

  This is the year Riley decided soccer

was not something she wanted to 

pursue.  Will see how Paige likes it.

Her team  name this year is the

Blue Whales

Grandma & Grandpa's House

After our Yellowstone trip we spent another day

with my mom in Idaho at her place.  The kids never

get enough of her house.  

The kids wanted to see Grandpa's cows

so we headed out to his pasture.  The dogs came

with.  And Owen thought they were fun to play 

with.

I thought this picture illustrated Sierra's personality. 

After seeing the cows Grandma took Riley, Paige

and Owen back on the four wheeler and Grandpa,

Brandon, me and Sierra walked back to the house

through the field.  Sierra took her sweet time picking

dandelions and being in her own world. That is how

she almost always is.  In her own world taking

her sweet time doing it! 

Riley loves driving the four wheelers.  

 Owen wanted to help Grandma take in the harvest

from their garden.  After church and Lunch we headed 

home.  And the kids always wish they could stay longer. 

Yellow Stone

Brandon and I wanted to take the family to 

Yellow Stone.  I had never been so it was

nice to have my mom and her husband John

who has been more times then he can count

with us.  It is not too far from their home.

We actually wanted to visit my mom in Idaho

but ended up making a trip to Yellow Stone

together.  On the way there we stopped

at a beautiful place I'm not sure the name

of.  Brandon had been there before when he

was a scout and John has been there many times.

The kids fed the huge fish in the river and

Grandpa, Paige and Sierra looked for fish and

cool rocks.  The drive was not very long to 

Yellow Stone but my kids get sick easy driving

so this stop was very nice and refreshing. 

Yellow Stone is such a beautiful place.  Yes you can

do a lot of driving but John knew where everything

was so we made lots of stops.  The first was at 

Norris Geyser Basin.  It was pretty incredible.

The kids had an animal check list and were getting

discouraged not seeing any wild life other then

birds.  But finally we got to see a Buffalo.

And very close to our car.  After seeing that

buffalo that is all we saw.  There was a lot of them.

 Our next stop was Mammoth Hot Springs.  The

girls loved it because it looks like snow but

it is rock that is very hot. 

The Lower and Upper Falls was a bit of a hike.

But it was nice to stretch our legs.  The kids

liked watching the cute squirrels. 

It is so pretty and amazing there not to mention

extremely high.  I don't do well with heights 

and kids.  I was slightly paranoid! 

 This is on the other side of the falls looking

at it from the other direction.  

That night after much walking and driving we

were tired and it was late.  However the kids

could not pass up swimming in the Hotel pool. 

The next day out we made a few stops at the hot pots

 and paint pots and walked the board walks. 

We stopped to snap a picture by the Yellow Stone 

sign but all the kids accept Sierra were worn

out sleeping in the car. 

Grandpa and Grandma took us out

for dinner on the way home for good

food and fun entertainment. 

The kids thought it was pretty fun getting tin

plates and a ton of food and standing in line

to be served kind of like school lunch. 

Owen got bored pretty quick but he did not go far

because of the big bear statue.  He stayed close to me

even when the girls wanted there picture by it. 

End of Summer Fun

Over Labor Day week end of course we

spent the time up in Bear Lake. 

On Sunday we went to church

and then headed to the park to play.

Owen got a kick out of tether ball with Grandma!

And the swings were also a hit with Owen!

On Monday no one wanted to go to the beach so 

we hung out and lounged for a bit until Brandon

got a little fidgety from sitting around and said

we should go swimming at sweet water. 

We just went with our family and it was so much

fun!  Riley finally dared to jump off into the deep

end with out her life jacket.  I'm glad she is making

progress. Riley does things on her own time and you 

can't push her unless she is ready. 

Brandon had to give Owen a little push at the bottom

of the slide because owen slowed to a stop. 

There are two pools at sweet water

and we went to both.  Owen was so fearless

jumping off the edge of the pool and going down

the water slide and then ending with the diving 

board at the 2nd pool. 

Paige had never jumped off a diving board

with out her life jacket and went for it all

with a cannon ball.  

Sierra just wanted to sit on the lounge chairs

and snack on food. 

The next day we headed home and made

a stop to go to the Brigham City Temple

open house.   I love living in Utah and

having the opportunity so many times to

take my kids to the temple open houses.

The Brigham temple is not that big but so

 beautiful in side.