snowman

Well as you all know, in the last week we have had some snow. Well, tonight when I got home from work, Karsten was out in the front yard with his friend making a snowman. I stayed out there and started making a snowman. I had a pretty big ball of snow, I had to get it to a different part of the yard. On the way over to the other part of the yard, 20 feet away, my snow ball broke into pieces. I did the best I could to salvage my snowman. I had nicole stand by it to show how big the snowman ended up being.

Thanksgiving

Today is Thanksgiving. We went up to Elwood for lunch. Uncle Harold was in charge, and we all had a great time. We finally started eating at around 1:30 pm. The food was great,and the company was great. Mom and Dad looked good. She still uses her walker as needed. even though she gets around pretty good without it. Dad still is using his cane, and getting around pretty good with it.
We are doing well. The kids are enjoying a few days out of school over Thanksgiving break, and I am enjoying not having to go to work for a few days (till Monday). We are all looking forward to Christmas break, to be able to go to Grandpa and Grandma Phillips place. We wanted to wish everyone out there a Happy Thanksgiving.

pumpkin drop

Hee Haw farms had their 2nd annual pumpkin drop. I work with a crane company called, G&S Crane. The owner, Steve, was invited to do the pumpkin drop last year, which I volunteered to help him last year. It went so well that they invited him back this year, and of course, I told him that if he needed help, let me know and I will help him. Well, yup, you guessed it. I helped him again this year. It was awesome. There was a man basket attached to the crane, and they attached a contraption on the bottom of the man basket which held the pumpkin. They had a Pontiac 6000 car, and dropped an 1169 lb pumpkin (State record) on the cab of the car. It was totally awesome when the pumpkin landed on the top of the car. Following is a link to the Salt Lake Tribune paper, which has a video of the drop.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/blogs/vulture/50536424-56/pumpkin-kjolseth-pontiac-really.html.csp.
This is a photo of the aftermath of the pumpkin meeting the Pontiac, I think that the pumpkin won.

peach jam

Our neighbors, the Bishops, brought us some peaches. So Jenny and I made some peach jam. That was alot of fun (NOT!!). No, it was alot of work, but the rewards are great, with the great tasting jam.

flash flood

About a week and a half ago I was working down south of Moab, Utah. While I was down there working we had a few rain storms go through and dump quite a bit of rain. Well on my way home, I was in Green River, Utah, and off to the west I could see a storm that was just dumping the rain. When I had been on highway 6 for about 5 miles, all of a sudden the semi that was in front of me a ways, came to a screeching halt. And in front of him on the highway was lots and lots of water, with lots of debris all over the road. We finally went through the water, and it was really deep, If I went over 5 mph, the water was splashing over the hood on my service truck. It was a sight to see. I had never seen anything like it before, it was really interesting.

Foriegn exchange student

This was drawn by our foriegn exchange student, on the driveway in front of our house. I think that she did an awesome job. This is the first time she has drawn the madhatter. She is a selftaught artist. She came to our house all the way from France. Our kids are having a great time with her here. She leaves to go back home on the 29th of July.

5K walk

Jenny and Michelle did the 5k run/walk last saturday the 26th of June. They did the walk just short of 1 hour. They did real good. Gotta go for now will get more in on another day.

water park

We had the oppurtunity to go to Cowabunga bay water park that is in Draper about 1 week ago. They have a lazy river and a kiddy pool next to the lazy river. They have about 10 slides there. They have 2 big water buckets that dump lots of water out of them. It was lots of fun.

Name Hill

I had the opportunity yesterday to go to Marbleton, Wyoming for work. And on the way home I stopped at a point of interest in Wyoming, called name hill. Jim Bridger's name is engraved in the hill. I really enjoyed stopping and seeing that, so I had to share with everyone.

Headstone

When we went up to Elwood for Amy's mission farewell, Russell and Sharon told us about Jami's headstone and that wee needed to go and see it. It is beautiful, so I had to share a couple of photos of it with everyone.

birthday

Well we are getting closer to two birthdays in our family. Jordan and Nicole. Jordans is the 29th and Nicoles is the 31st. We are having parties this weekend and then next week Jordan will be going on his first week long camp with the Boy Scouts (exciting). He will be getting home on friday night and then on saturday June 5th, Jordan will be getting ordained a Deacon and Karsten will be getting baptized. What a busy day. Also Jenny's parents will be getting into town on June 4th for the activities on the 5th.

Over this last rain/snow storm. We didn't only get the moisture on the outside of the house, we also had it on the inside as well. Apparently we have a bad spot on the roof, which is allowing the rain to go through the roof and come through the ceiling into the kitchen area. Yea, I got alot of work ahead of me. (what fun)

new toilet

Well we put a toilet in our laundry room. And today I hooked up the water. Wow, that was enjoyable. I had to run it behind the water heater and the furnace. That was fun. I hope that the photos give it justice, on how fun it was to put the water line in.

Old bridge and new bridge

For all of you who remember the tracks out in front of the house, here is a photo of the railroad ties that was left in place at the drive approach of the old bridge. I just remember stories about the railroad tracks, not the rails. I don't even remember the rails there, but they have become exposed and so I had to share the photo. I hope that all those that do remember, has good memories of them.


Here are a few photos of the new bridge as of Friday May 7th. I was in Brigham City working and so I took a little trip up to the hospital and Mom was just released. Dad and Mom was in the car just getting ready to leave to go home. So I went home and waited for them to get home. Carl was out at the corn pit loading feed for the cows, so I visited with him for awhile. When Dad and Mom got home, we visited for awhile, and then I helped Dad cut some wood. Yes, it is cold enough that they are still having a fire in the stove. It's the first part of May, and still cold enough for a fire, that is sad. Anyway, I also took some photos of how the bridge is coming along.













I am pretty sure that they will be getting mud on the deck of the bridge this week. They are coming along really good on the bridge. As you can see, the water has been turned into the canal.






So if anyone wants to jump off the old bridge into the canal, this summer will most likely be the last time that you can do it.

Anniversary

Today was Mom and Dads 49th wedding anniversary. Just in case anyone forgot when their anniversary was. I did not realize that it has been that many years. I think that it is awesome.

mom's in hospital

I happened to be working in Pocatello, Idaho when Dad called me and told me about Mom. I was coming home today, because I was done with the job. So I stopped in and visited with them. Mom is looking good. She is tired and has difficulty breathing. But she is on the mend. They got to the hospital before it was real bad, so that will enable her to get better faster.

Dad is also feeling under the weather. He has that nasty cough that he gets at least once a year. Other than that he is doing pretty good. Still busy doing things around the farm and the house in Logan, and working in the temple.

As all of you know, the date on the bridge is 1970. That makes the bridge 40 yrs. old. It sure has held up well for having alot of farm equipment and milk trucks go over the top of it.



They have the H-Beams in place in preparation for the deck of the bridge to be put into place.








They have backfilled the walls and cleaned out the bottom of the canal, in preparation of the water being turned in for the summer.










Dad was out with me, and I got a photo of him standing by the new bridge.

soccer

Lehi city has set up teams for all the kids that want to play soccer. Karsten has alot of fun playing. His first practice was on friday, and the first game was on Saturday. They did OK, they did not win. But they had fun, that is the important thing. He played well, and hard. It was alot of fun watching him play.
Jordan is wanting to play football. We told him that he needs to get his grades up, or he cannot play. (We will see if he gets his grades up or not.) I hope that he can pull it off and get his grades up.

New bridge

As you can see, They have part of the new bridge in. At least the footings and the walls.




Here you can see that they had dams up to keep the water away from the footing when they was digging the holes for the foundation of the bridge.
















They are putting the bridge in just north of the old one. I think they are needing to take out a couple of trees also.





I had an accomplis in taking one photo. Trish was there and took it for me. It was cool to stand there and see how it looks from that perspective. As you can see, I am still learning how to use the blogging site, It is alot of fun doing it.

old bridge

As you can see, the footing on the bridge at the farm is loosing the rocks that was underneath it. The photo is the footing on the East side. It sure is looking bad.

General Conference photos

Well here are a few photos of conference time, before and after sunday morning session. The snow was on the ground before we went into the session, and then when we came out it was all gone.

General Conference

Well we have had a great past little while. We had the oppotunity to go to the Sunday morning session of General Conference. That was awesome. It was a great session of conference. Everyone but Nicole was able to go. The kids did really good sitting there for so long. We arrived there about 7:45 am. The kids really enjoyed the session of conference, being able to see the prophet, and to hear him speak. We saw Carl and Lorna there, and we went over and said hi to them and seen how they are doing. It was a good visit. We will try to get some photos on here a little later.

Neil had the fun of going to the dentist today. He had a molar tooth pulled out. His appointment was @ 3:15. He was a little late and they still worked on him. It took a while to get the tooth out, alot of prying and patience on both parties. The dentist did not want to break it and go fishing to get it out. His gum is still numb, 5 hrs after the dentist numbed it. I am sure that he is going to be sore later tonight and/or tommorrow.

Snow

No April fools, this is snow that stuck to my truck on the way to Price, Utah today. Spanish Fork canyon got alot of snow this morning, and was very slick. NOT FUN! But I survived the ride. We had just over an inch of snow at my house before I left at 6 am. When I got home at 10 pm, the snow was all gone.

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Karsten is in Cub Scouts

Karsten went to his first Cub Scout meeting today. Doesn't he look good in his uniform? He had a fun time. They started to make kites this week. His leader told him that today would not be a good day to fly the kite. It is really windy here today. I told Karsten that if he flew his kite today, that he would fly away with it.

Wow, I cannot believe how hard the wind is blowing today. There is quite alot of dust in the air. I am so glad that I don't have allergies.

Birthday Party

Karsten had a birthday on the 20th of march, turning 8 yrs old. We had a fun and exciting party for him. He had a few of his friends over and played some games, and had a pinata' to break that was full of candy.
He is excited to be baptized. He will be getting baptized in June, he is willing to wait till then to have Grandpa Barney and Grandma Phillips there.
In May, Jordan is turning 12, and will be ordained a Deacon. He will be ordained in June.

The girls are growing up

Nicole found a new way to get around the driveway, her big brothers scooter. She still uses her little tricycle even though she is close to outgrowing it, but she enjoys the scooter.

Michelle is getting really good at playing the piano, she even has a little "student"

Today was a really nice day outside, so we decided to have an outside meal. What is better than hotdogs roasted on an open fire? Man were they good. Everyone took their turn cooking their own hotdogs, except Nicole. We helped her cook hers.

Jenny then took Jordan to the Junior High for orientation. Scary, next year we will have a Junior in High School, and a 7th grader in Junior High. Wow, how time flies.

Wednesday night Michelle had a choir concert at the High School. It went really well. Dad was unable to attend, because he was out of town working. Everyone else except Jordan attended, he was feeling ill. So he stayed home.

Hello

Hello everyone. We have also enjoyed everyones blogs, so we decided to start as well. Our title is from nicoles nickname (peanut).
Karsten will be turning 8 in the middle of march, and Jordan turns 12 the end of May. Jordan will be ordained a Deacon, and Karsten will be Baptized on the first Saturday of June. We will post more info as it comes closer to that time.