We are blessed with company more often than we deserve around here! It's wonderful! Here are a few visitors we had the pleasure to host during October. Great Grandma, Great Grandpa and Aunt Jana! Great Grandma let the kids each choose from a bag full of beautiful hats she made.  They took us to dinner at Union Grill. Grandma and I stayed inside to wait for our table (I'd had foot surgery the day before) while everyone else headed out to see the cool trains. Dinner was great. I love being around all these guys. Great Grandma and Grandpa consistently make you feel like you are the best, most wonderful, smartest, kindest person in the world. And all the kids latched onto Aunt Jana within about 30 seconds of her arrival. She's so fun and energetic! Grandpa! We had a great time seeing Nate's Dad for a few days while he was up in our neck of the woods for some work training. He packs a lot of fun and spoiling into a little time, I ...

Michelle and I have had a trip to Moab on our to-do list for years, and last week I up and decided it was time to cross it off. I took a page out of the kids' playbook and whined and cried until Michelle gave in. Just kidding - they never whine or cry, and Michelle never gives in when they do. But as ever, she was game to go along with my ideas. The family picked me up at work about 3:45. I may have underestimated the length of the trip, but by the time Michelle figured that out, it was too late to turn around.  Wind turbines at the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon We stopped in Price and ate at the world's ghettoest Arby's. The paint was coming off the walls, the trash can holders were broken, and there were boxes everywhere. The staff was pleasantly inept, and the container that should have held the ketchup had a homemade sign that read "Arby's Sause." We thought this was the worst restaurant we would eat at during the trip. We were wrong. We pul...