It's Fall and our back Yard has wonderful views....

Snow on the Wellsville mountain.. alook in to the future.

It was 22 degrees this morning.

We have clean up all the leaves and the next day

the wind blew and we cleaned them up again but

not as much.

The "mountains" of dirt keep changing with each

passing day. We've got big rocks and top soil piles

now. Iit continues to be interesting.

The view from our family room is always changing....

Medical Follow up Plus....

This is after ther stitches were removed...
Steri tape applied. (Wednesday the 15th )




Looking better.....(Friday the 17th)




Stitches still in......



Almost back to Normal. . . .Going back to theTemple




This is Craig the great "Wasp Hunter". I missed putting this picture in the last update. He also put the Christmas Lights up and mowed all the lawns and found where the wasps were coming in and pluged it up so we have'nt had a wasp in our windows since...Debbi vacuumed
all the upstairs and the stairs and went shopping with mom and she
spent alot of time on the phone on our programable thermostat and
then programed it ..And she is copying a bunch of music records to CDs.


Many thanks to you two.....

The weather has been great . .We worked in the yard, cleaning flower beds, got the hoses
in, turned off the water ( it's been in the low 30's and high 20's this past week) Cut the grass short, will rototill the garden, cleaned up the frozen tomato plants. The Doctor told me to take it easy for a while after the surgery and gave me the ok this weekend. Rea has been out working while I've been told (Rea) to take it easy. . . Not fun !! We have been blessed and are still able to remain active... well I'll send this installment and hope it goes as I sent it.. Love Dad.

Update on events in our life....

Unfinished business . . .Here are the rest of the children .

When I was practicing getting pictures onto the blog, pictures of Bruce, Debbie and Chris just happened to be with in reach. Denise said that we had more children than three... so here are "the rest of the" Children...


Jeffrey Paul at 6 months.

Denise at 6 months.

Janelle at 1 year

Debbie and Craig came up to help us get ready for winter and did many things. One was to install a programable thermostat. Here Craig and I are trying to figure out the wiring numbering system.

Got it !!!!

As most of you know, I had a Basal cell Carcinoma (skin cancer) on my left temple. I had removed on Wednesday the 8th of October. The procedure was
what they call MOHS Micrographic Surgery. It involves taking out part of the growth, examine it, mapping it and taking more of the tissue if needed. I had to have a repeated procedure to get all the cancer roots out. The second procedure proved cancer free.

This is the before picture.











This after the second procedure. The ink lines
are for the skin flaps for plastic surgery to cover the wound. (I have now had a face lift..)













Right after I got home . . .

Two days after surgery. . .

Three days after surgery. . .with two black eyes and some brusing on my chin..

I can now smile, kind of. I'll be glad when the swelling goes down. I see the Doctor next Wednesday.. He is a member of the Dry Canyon Ward and lives close to us up here on the hill.









So that is all that is happened in our lives...

P.S. It Snowed this morning uuugh. Love Dad.

56th Wedding Anniversary

This is the famous LaBeau's Sweet Shop that has wonderful Fresh Raspberry shakes and hamburgers..


















Fall colors in Logan Canyon.





















Beautiful Clouds over the Mountains....








We celebrated our 56th wedding anniversary going out to Bear Lake and enjoying a Raspberry shake and hamburger. And enjoying the colorful mountains. We remembered back on October 2nd 1952 when we were sealed to each other with all our future children. We had to be at the temple at 7:00 am. That meant Rea's parents had to get up at 3:30 am to milk the cows. We remember bits and pieces of the temple endownment session.

We had our wedding luncheon at the Blue Bird restaurant because it was the only one in town..




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Doin' Stuff around the House and Yard...












Backyard with the dirt piles that will someday go.....




Rea getting the grass out of her bushes....













Rea getting at the flower beds....

















Cleaning rain gutters because it is going to rain on Conference Saturday...











I have a little wood project that I work on while Rea works on her flower bed project...











Rea's handy work ... flower beds and containers...




That's all for now folks!

Update on the Parental Units....

We have been busy cleaning up the yard for the up coming winter.... The fall colors are starting in the canyons and its getting rather cool in the mornings and it's not too far from the pictures below. ughhhhhh. We can still function with the yard work, shopping, cleaning the house and windows, reading, watching TV , checking our E-mail and of course taking naps.... Rea keeps busy with her Stake Relief Society. The Stake Primary President and Young Women's President, both from pur Ward were released in the last two weeks.. They were called the same time as Rea.. ?? We see if she gets a call from the Stake President to "come to my office."

Thanks Sarah for the help with our blog.. I can even get pictures in our updates....

Love, Dad

Check this out.....

How about this for a test.. Good looking kids don't you think??? And of course from them we have very good looking grand and great grand kids.
I finally figured out how to do pictures... so I hope we can share some of the things that's going on in our lives....
Love,

Dad.

I can't believe we're bloggers!

Dad has set up this blog (with Sarah's help) and now he wants ME to think of something interesting to say on it.

Here's the only interesting things that have happened to us in the last week.

1. A valve in the sprinkling system started leaking. Dad has had to dig out and bail out water from around this valve three times!

2. The valve is now repaired! Yipee skippy!

3. We went to Denise's for Maren's birthday Tues. and came back Thurs. While there I helped ??? (sewed!) three skirts for her girls to wear at Tucker's neices wedding reception. Dad had made a chest for Maren's birthday. Now he can start on another one.

4. I finally got my hair cut!

5. Dad's contribution to this list is that he took a shower today! (Don't interpret this as though it is something he seldom does, it's just that it adds to this weeks blog.

6. while I was at the hair salon I learned that there was a stabbing murder in Logan today as well as a bank robbery in our bank!

So much for our exciting life this week. Lovies to y'all! MUMZ