Cars and Trucks

A lifelong dream came to pass last weekend for Cameron (and Chris). It was PINEWOOD DERBY time! Because of our move last year, Cameron missed what would have been his first cub scout pinewood derby. This year his mom has some influence in primary and made sure he wouldn't miss another year.....

This is the competition-

Cameron's car is the yellow one, made to look like "Bumble bee" from the movie "Transformers."

That's all paint, no decals on this cool car!

All of the scouts received a trophy and although "Bumble bee" didn't pull off a first place win, we had a great time and think Cameron's car looked awesome.

Cameron and his dad had fun making the car and are already talking about next year's race.

Here are some pictures of another project that is finally complete after about 2 years...

Chris worked really hard and put a new engine (400 big block) into the truck that used to belong to his Grandpa Jack.

It is fast and LOUD and road worthy.

It even got a new exhaust system-

And I'm no expert, but I think that old truck has turned out pretty cool!

Country Bumpkins

Recently we went to Kaitlyn's Evening of Excellence for Young Women.
The theme was "Country Fair" so we all dressed up in our best country attire...



Kaitlyn's 10 hour Faith project was a book of stories, poems, and drawings that reflect her strong faith and testimony. It was on display at the "fair."


Jack fed the rooster...



and acted like a goof-ball.

Cameron was ready to catch a greased pig.

And I decided that overalls feel great after eating a big old slice of pumpkin pie!

Wish y'all could have been there!

Giving thanks...

Jack kicked off the week with a Thanksgiving feast at school with a bunch of indian friends.



Then we spent the holiday with the Findlay clan at grandma and grandpa's house.

The kids table....

On Saturday, all of the girls got dressed up for the Nutcracker Ballet. It was a great girls day out. The boys went looking at big boy toys-the kind that cost way too much money!

We're so thankful for all of our blessings.

What a wonderful life!

(Our back porch view)

We are thankful for YOU!!

Halloween Haunts....

Yoda, Road Kill (that's a license plate frame on her neck) and the 33 year old red wig rides again as Rodeo Clown....

Jack in Grandma Susan's cute hat...

Our porch on Halloween night...

A couple of parades-

This one is Jack as Anikin at our ward party...

And Cameron's class was running at his school parade (I was lucky to get this picture!)

A few weeks ago we went to "Thriller" at the Eccles Theater in Logan and met some new friends.

Here is Jenna (Melissa's cousin) with a freaky ghoul before the show.

Now that Halloween is over, a couple of radio stations in Utah are playing Christmas music 24 hours a day. Guess we've officially begun the holiday season.

SEASON"S GREETINGS!!!

Fall at Bear Lake

Here are a couple of pretty pictures of the Bear Lake lot in the fall. Thats the trailer, all ready for winter...





Can't wait until spring!!!

Ahh...Autumn!

We grew a couple of really big and bright orange pumpkins in our garden this year.


We wanted more, so we took a hayride with cousins out to another BIGGER pumpkin patch.



Success!!



Jack is a corny kid....

And the only one who would ride the cow/pig train.

Sadly, fall is slip-sliding away too fast! Tomorrow's forecast-SNOW!

Career choices?

Jack started preschool after Labor Day....

He is having a great time learning about different jobs in the community. He's been trying a few of them out too. I'm hoping he'll become a chef, for obvious reasons.



OR... He might decide to follow in his daddy's footsteps and check groceries while he's still in school (working on becoming a chef).



Oh, funny story.... When Jack said his prayers the other day, he asked to "please bless the firemen, policemen and CHEFS to be safe."

Cute.

Perfectly Peachy

We love peaches. Can't seem to get enough of them. As a family we have consumed several large boxes of them during the last month and a half. We canned some, froze some, ate pies made out of them, and served them for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Even I will admit we're pretty lucky to live so close to lots of sweet, juicy Utah peaches.




In celebration of the fruit, we went to a peach parade...
with large crowds of peach fans like us!


We ate our last peaches of the season yesterday. Crazy, but we're already looking forward to next year's peach crop.

Living the good life at Tapps...

We love to visit Grandma and Grandpa every August. This is their beautiful home on the island.

This is the view from the backyard...

This is Cameron taking a practice swing on his first Tapps Island golf game.

These next two pictures are "like father, like son..."

The kids had fun tubing behind the wave runner.

Jack just wanted to go "FASTER!"

Everybody likes swimming in a pool that is 90 degrees (no kidding!)

It's fun to visit Grandma and Grandpa in such a beautiful place.

THANK YOU!!!!!

What a great Family!

It was great to be together at the McKinney Family Reunion. Here are some family pics..



Chris with cuddly Jacob...


Grandpa, Jack and Lydia...

The two youngest cousins, Quinn and Jacob hangin out...



Cousins at Seaside....

Cousins on a bike ride to Fort Stevens

Some cute pictures of my parents....

all of the cousins-minus Jacob

Sisters!

Mom and Dad

Josh and Melisa

Josh and Amelia

Matt, Jama and Quinn

Stephanie, Zeke, Landon, Mason, Lydia and Jacob...

Thanks for the fun memories everyone!