1 month and counting

Chamberlain has officially been off diapers for almost a month.
We hope it lasts!
We really like NOT changing diapers.

8 apples on a table

These are a few other things that I enjoy about living here. Football games and Fall leaves.














I just love this picture of Chamberlain. He has a new love for apples, no joke! Sometimes I wonder where this kid comes from because he loves I mean LOVES apples and fruit of all kinds. Which I love, I mean LOVE candy of all kinds! Especially when I was little. These apples are just some of the many apples (aren't they beautiful and they were delicious dipped in homemade caramel drizzled with a bit of chocolate), that we pick fresh off the trees, here, in valley. That, is also another thing that I just love about living here, the bounty of fruit trees, and gardens. Well when it wasn't soo cold!

HaLloWeEn

Lets see, Halloween went by too fast for Chamberlain. He is still wondering why it's over, I guess it doesn't help that some houses on our walk still have Halloween decorations up, people its the middle of NOVEMBER. Or maybe that its because I still let him dress up in his costume. I love what Chamberlain wanted to be this year. We still don't have TV or Internet (cross my fingers we get it for the new year) so he doesn't really know of transformers, spider man, batman, etc. . . so his decision was of his own volition, which again I just love! He was so adamant about it. He wouldn't even flinch with his decision on the BLUE pumpkin bucket to put his candy in. I have his crazy dragon costume from last year, but it was a consistent no, every time I brought it up and out of the closet. Although he did wear it once in late September on one of our many walks. He got to dress up several times and each time the costume had to be identical. Then finally on Halloween he was like, "hey! mom and dad you need to wear a costume" so one hour before we went out trick or treating and to ride the haunted train I caved and threw together a costume for myself. If you cant tell, which I totally understand if you cant (I also had a friend comment "cute outfit" which its a COSTUME), I'm a Gypsy. And for the record I was the ONLY adult in our party for the night to dress up. So I felt a little silly to say the least as we went out with 5 other adults and 3 kids and I am the only one in costume but then again maybe people just thought it was a "cute outfit!"
P.S. Yes I had to draw a swirly mustache on Chamberlain's face each time and if it wasn't correct I had to do it over again!
P.P.S I would rotate those pictures but I cant figure out how to do that on a mac lets just say Im a PC

A few of my favorite things...

Would be the nice weed/vine I have growing right through the wall next to my nightstand. Did I mention that all our walls are straight cinder block. And the many creatures that we find through out the house. We used to have an infestation of earwigs but we have had the house sprayed several times which has kept them at bay. As for this big crawly, Josh doesn't have the heart to kill little things so he gently picked him up and took him far far away from the house.

pUt Me iN tHE ZoO

Whitney is going to hate that I am dishing out this great little secret but here it is... the BEST time to go to the Zoo, here in Utah, is . . . right now!!! The weather is nice and cool, there is like half the people than in the summer. And the biggest plus, I mean THE biggest plus, is the animals are super, super active. They are actually roaming about in their habitats instead of sleeping!!! We had a ball. Chamberlain and I went with Tim, Shelbie, Hudson, and Kelly, Whitney, and Gunnar. I love living back in "Happy Valley." I forgot how many friends we have up here as well as how many places to go. Its great. So since living here we have been trying to hang out with our cousins at least once a week. Which I love. I especially love when my girl cousins get together. Like at the zoo, several ladies came up to me and just asked, you guys must be sisters. Again, I love it. I think that my grandma (who has gone the way of the world) would be happy to see that all her granddaughters are so close and actually enjoy spending time with each other, kids and all. Anyway, back to the zoo. It was awesome, the monkeys were singing so loud you could here them all through out the park. We saw the baby elephant and Giraffe. And we were also lucky to hear the papa Tiger growling or roaring at his cubs because he wants to kill them. It was great. However, after seeing all the animals Chamberlains favorite was the Rattle Snake. I was beside myself, thinking there are all these cool animals and this is what you like. I was in shock. I HATE snakes! Chamberlain also told me that when he sees snakes he is just going to pick them up!

its official

my son is another year older. Chamberlain wanted a horse for his birthday. One that he could feed and ride in our backyard. Since getting a real horse is totally out of the question we went down south where horses are abundant! We left the valley late in the evening arriving in K-town around 11:30 pm to our surprise Grandma and Grandpa weren't home. Chamberlain was determined to see his Grandma before he went to bed! He ended up waiting for them until 2:30 in the morning and we could not get him to sleep no matter how hard we tried. Needless to say this boy LOVES his grandma, and she loves him right back because she arranged a horse ride for him with our old friend lindsay, and not only that, Grandma outfitted him with some real cowboy boots and official cowboy garb! He was in heaven. We spent most of the afternoon "riding the range". To end the day we headed over to the cotters house for the unfortunate (that we got slaughtered) cougar game, on their fancy TV. While over there some of our other cool cousins came to visit and the kids had a ball. Especially when they got to hold the turtles. Goodness time fly's! We love our little guy, and couldn't imagine life without him!

is summer really over?

Lots of things have been happening here at Burgess Junction. Our garden is growing and ready to harvest, Uncle Tanner came home from serving a 2 year mission in Sao Paulo Brasil, we moved, Josh starting school and much much more, I just haven't had the time to update. So here are a few pictures to remind me of what we have been up too!