October

We had a fun chance to go on a tour of Range Creek with Jared's parents. It's a canyon not too far from where Jared grew up that was owned privately for quite some time so most people didn't really explore the area.



There are a lot of Freemont artifacts and sites there so now private tours are scheduled and that's what we went on.
The road is a bit of a rough drive and not accessible the whole year.  We think it was perfect timing to go at the beginning of October when the temps were mild. This is called Locomotive Rock.  Mostly we saw petroglyphs and pictographs and some granaries. We also saw an area of former pit houses. It was a really interesting experience to have a close up, more in depth look at what some experts believe their lives were like.

We were fortunate to have a day or two to go help stain and varnish the cabinets Clyde made for our new home. The staining went well but we were definitely novices at applying the polyurethane. But we managed to learn how to use it more sparingly. Due to Clyde's expert wood working skills, the cabinets are by far the most beautiful part of the new house.

On one trip to the ole hometown we got to spend time with extended family. Grandma put together a combined party for these two and it was really cute to have them and their siblings all together. I love the idea of cousin birthday parties because I had them so often growing up.

We took the kids to the indoor wave pool, which seems like fun, right? Well the bubble enclosing the pool seems to lack adequate ventilation so within a few minutes our eyes were watering and some of our lungs burning due to the chlorine mist hanging in the air! So we need to go back next year in the summer because the waves were really impressive.

Paxton said he wanted to be John Wayne for Halloween this year - usually people guessed he was a bandit - too much black I think. And Bennett was sure he wanted to be a vampire so there he is looking pretty scary for a 6 year old.