Fall caught me off guard this year with how beautiful it was. The colors changing were gorgeous and there were many warm fall days where I just sat taking it all in with my babies.
We did have a freak storm that came the second week of October before most of the leaves had fallen off. The snow piled so high on the branches causing many of them to break. It caused a ton of damage again, just like the wind storm last year. The whole neighborhood and city of Logan looked like a tornado had gone through with all the damaged trees. We were all awoken at 5 am with the electricity going off and the sound of a tree snapping right out the window. It was a pretty intense morning as we all went outside to try and shake the snow from the branches as best we could. It was eerie because you could hear massive trees breaking all over the neighborhood. You could also see electrical boxes blowing up that would light up the sky in this strange pinkish color for about 5 seconds. It's was wild. We came in after about 30 minutes. Right as we came in we were sitting on the couch in the dark and we hear this giant BOOM that sounded like something had shaken the whole house. Boone looks out the window and it looks like the Hansen's house across the street is up in flames. I call 911 and we go running out but stop at the bridge bc the branches were falling like crazy and I couldn't tell if there were wires down or not. Suddenly the blaze goes out just as fast as it started. I yell to ask if they are okay and text Stephanie. She responds that, yes, they are okay and sends me the picture of the tree that was laying on their wires causing the fire. It went out as soon as the fire burned through the tree that was laying on the wires. About that time the fire department showed up and made sure everything was okay just as another transformer blew up in the distance. The fireman said, "Well, I guess I'll go check on that one." The kids and I went inside and snuggled on the bed under lots of blankets being the electricity was still out. The girls and I fell asleep and the boys went and played. School was delayed two hours. What a morning!! I'm tired of losing so many trees each year!!!!
Here's another story: We went to the Heritage Center one night to go through the corn maze. As we were getting ready to enter Marae and Wyatt went in the entrance a little bit before the rest of us did. They both came back out complaining that something had spilled on them. It was totally dark so we couldn't see what it was. Marae kept saying it got into her mouth and tasted so disgusting. She was freaking out and had to drink some hot chocolate to get the taste out of her mouth. I assumed it was coffee or something that someone had spilled on her. We all entered the corn maze and began walking through. A little while in Wyatt says, "Ewwww... what is this disgusting stuff? He was wiping his hands in whatever had been spilled on him and tasting it." I turn on my phone light and shine it on him to see that he is covered in barf. Yup. Someone threw up on Marae and Wyatt getting some in her mouth and then Wyatt putting in his mouth later. I grab him, rip his coat off and try and wipe the vomit off on the corn husks. It smelled awful. Marae began freaking out once she realized what it was. Mason started dry heaving. It was disgusting and insane and then hilarious because once you reach a level of madness like that, all you can do it laugh. So gross... and I want to know who vomited on my children without saying anything to us about it! I have a feeling this will be brought up every single time we enter a corn maze from here on out. Gross!!
I finally ran into my dad by chance. He's been waiting for that day to happen since they moved here. It was at Walmart. He cried bc he was so happy to be living in the same town as me to be able to have the chance to just 'bump into each other'.
It finally happened... My dad has been waiting for the moment, since he moved up here, when we would randomly run into each other in public. I spotted him at Walmart one morning. I took a picture of him from behind and then we had a good laugh about. He actually cried bc he was so happy that he lives in a city where he can randomly run into his daughter.
