Interesting News

I just wanted to let you all know that my cousin McKay Coppins is now writing a weekly column for the Deseret News' Mormon Times website. Technically, they call him a "blogger."

The name of the column is "Single, Mormon Twentysomething." The premise is that McKay write from the perspective of a single, Mormon twentysomething. His first column (published last week) discusses sweeping generalizations of this generation of young, single Mormons (they love Facebook, Coldplay and blogging about their insecurities). This week he wrote about his basement-dwelling roommate who has graduated from college but can't seem to move on with his life. The articles are intended to be sometimes insightful, often funny and always brilliant. At least that is his goal.

I am including a link to his most recent article and he will be published every Friday on MormonTimes.com.

http://www.mormontimes.com/mormon_voices/mckay_coppins/?id=4753

I am very excited for McKay and hope that his column is very successful. Please take a minute to check out his column.

Happy Birthday Noah Day 2

Noah Christopher Farman was born on October 12, 2005. Since that time he has brought so much love, laughs and life into our home. He is three years old and already has a mind of his own. He is determined to rid the world of the bad guys and still has time to have fun with his big brother and the rest of his family and friends.Sunday we had a small celebration at our house with just us and Grandma McCombs and Uncle Ryan.

I think Noah finally got the whole idea around birthdays!

He got this football piggy bank from Grandma McCombs which he thought was pretty cool!

Then he opened his presents from me and Chris. He loves these toy knights that we had started collecting so he got a few more of those.

Which he take everywhere he goes. In the car, to all his meals and of course to bed.

And what fun is it to have knights without a castle to protect.

Hyrum and Noah were so excited about the new castle. They haven't stopped playing with their knights and castle since Sunday. Happy Birthday my Noah Son!

Happy Birthday Noah Day 1

On Saturday we took Noah over to my sister Holly's house so we could take the boys out on our four-wheelers. Of course Hyrum and Noah were so excited about hanging out with their cousins they weren't as interested in riding on the four-wheelers. Although Porter and Garrett had a great time. Hyrum, Noah and Mason all got one turn and then they decided they had enough and wanted to play.

They decided to gather up some wood and try to build a house. Let's just say after they realized how hard it was to dig the hole they gave up a little.

Aunt Holly baked a cake for Noah and we had a little birthday celebration there. It was very nice. They boys loved the cake.

Porter didn't want to take the helmet off. He had the most rides on the four-wheelers.

Noah wasn't too sure about all the attention he was getting. I think he had a good time though!

Green Bluff

Friday we went to Green Bluff with my sister Holly, her boys, our friend Michelle and our mom. We had a great time. Here is Porter, Garrett and Hyrum in the pumpkin patch.

Here is Noah, Mason, Garrett and Hyrum hanging out in the cart.

Porter wasn't too sure about joining the other boys in the cart.

After picking out our pumpkins and getting some yummy apples we all went on a train ride. Here's Noah can you see the snot running down his face?

Hyrum, Garrett and Porter waiting for the train ride to start.

Noah and Mason had a great time. Mason kept pointing out all the interesting things that we saw. Although I wasn't really sure what he was saying.

After the train ride we took the kids through the corn maze. This is me with my sister Holly.

Here is Holly and Michelle. It was Michelle's birthday that day and she spent the day with all our crazy boys. Happy Birthday Michelle!

After running around the corn maze for awhile not figuring out how in the world to get out of there we found a short cut to the boat and decided to take it. The boys had fun on the boys. Here's Garrett coming down the slide.

Mason really did have a good time. He just couldn't figure out how to get back down. Poor guy.

Good thing mom was there to rescue him.

Other than it being really cold and windy. We had a great time. The boys had tons of fun and we can't wait to carve our pumpkins.

Field Trip to Carver Farms

Yesterday Hyrum's class went to Carver Farms for a field trip. It was a beautiful day to be outside and the kids had a great time.

First the kids got to go over to the corn fields where there was a maze for them to go through. Hyrum so excited about going through the maze.

Most the time we had to walk single file. It was so much fun watching how excited the kids got just going through the maze.

After going through the maze each kid got to pick two ears of corn all by themselves to take home with them. Noah got to join in the fun as well. He was so excited to get to be part of the fun.

There were so many parents who came to help out so our group just had Hyrum, Rodney and of course Noah.

After the corn maze and the picking of the corn the kids got to take a hay ride over to the pumpkin patch.

Hyrum and Noah were having a great time on the hay ride. It was their favorite part.

After picking out their own pumpkins and gourds we take another hay ride back over to the picnic tables for a snake.

Everyone got their own bag of popcorn.

Then of course we had to get a class picture before we left. The kids were having way too much fun to focus on smiling for the cameras. After several tries we all decided we were not going to get anything better. I think it still turned out fun. You can tell the kids were loving every minute of it.

New Toys

Chris has been asking me if he could get a four wheeler for several months now. He found a great deal on Craig's List for two Polaris four wheelers at a really great price so we decided he could get them. He picked them up last week on Thursday night and has been having so much fun with them. The boys of course love them and Chris has played with them everyday since we got them. I'm just glad he has something to play with after all the hard work and many hours he has been putting in for the business. Plus I like to play a little too! :-)