Weston

Weston Likes to Push His High Chair around. He rather push it
then sit in it.

Home Building 101 -- Part 1 :)

1. Mark out the hole on the lot and dig the hole.












2. Pour the foundation.













3. Frame in the basement bearing walls













4. Roll the Floor Joists and sheet.













5. Start a fire to stay warm at 10 below 0













6. Frame the Exterior walls.













Catch the next post to learn how to finish framing the rest of the house

The big town of Huntington

Well since its been a while since the last time I wrote on this blog I thought I would take a moment and let everyone know what we have been up to.
We'll start with the youngest of the bunch tanner. He is now about 6'2". Just kidding; however he has learned to ride his bike (with out training wheels bye the way). Who knew that all we had to do was pour 44 yards of concrete to get him to ride without his training wheels. Sorry that last part slipped out, we haven't got to what the parents are doing yet. So anyway Tanner thinks his bike is his own personal motorcycle and that he can go for a spin whenever someone is not looking. I think that will soon end when one of his tires somehow comes up flat (sneeky, sneeky).
and that Brings us to the lovely Lisa. It's amazing but some how Lisa has managed to make it to the ripe old age of eight. That's saying a lot if you've seen her lately. If all girls are as hysterical as her I'm sure glad I don't have three or four of them. Heaven forbid the girl wake up in the morning and ask her mom to help her with her hair only to scream and ball for an hour while mom does her hair. And after all that is done she seems to be back to normal, happy as a lark and ready to torment here brothers. I think the later is her favorite pass time. However; a real contender for her favorite pass time would have to be watching her nieces, or nephews, Easton Sloan, Charity Hunsaker, Brodie Danberg. She really love babies.
OK on to the big guys now. Lance is reading up a storm. He has now finish his second book of the three he has to read in order for him to get his new motor bike. He seems to be pretty excited about getting his bike. Lance has also been training for the major leagues as he has now signed up for baseball this season. He would like to be the pitcher, but will have to wait and see, although I think he's going to have to practice a little more on pitching. I think he would like to set a few records though such as most home runs scored by any walking human being. or he might settle for striking out every person he pitches for. Who knows we'll have to wait and see. Bye the way we invite all who care to come and watch the games, they are free however if you want popcorn it'll be $5.00 per microwave bag of popcorn, come hungry. J/K :)
OK now on to the serious stuff. Clora and I have been in serious remodeling of our home. Since we just could not seem to get the colors on the front to match we took a match to the house and will now be moving to Vernal, Ut. (Uh, bye the way that's just a joke, although we are remodeling for real and we will be moving to Vernal, Ut.) The house is starting to look quite different now that there is no siding and there are garage doors, cement and even a new roof. The siding was started to day and bye the end of the week we should have stucco on the front. I will be doing the stone, so we can expect that to take a little longer :) (hopfully not another 6-7 years though). We are giving away Kino to anyone who will take him, and if I had my way we would give Ginger away too but Clora's bonking me on the head and says NO. Any how we are having a blast here in Huntington, Ut. Clora and I are coming down on Thur since our 11 yr anniversary is on the 22 of March. So maybe will see some of you folks around.

Love
Brien, Clora, Lance, Lisa, and Tanner

Thanksgiving Time!!

 Well thanks giving went awesome.  We had quite a good crowd with plenty of food, fun, and games.  This year we had the festive feast at our house.  Clora's parents, her brother and wife, her brother's wifes' two brothers and mother were there as well as my parents, brothers, sisters.  It was quite the party with everyone at the house.  We had two turkeys, one was cooked in a rotisserie, and the other was cooked in a deep fryer.  They were both fantastic.  We also had a honey baked ham as well as yams, mashed tators and gravy, homemade stuffing, lots of wonderful salads, and plenty of wonderful homemade pies that we're still eating.  Over all I think Thanksgiving was a great hit.  I'd also like to thank all those who came to the party and for all the great food that was brought.

Love ya all,
Brien, Clora, Lance, Lisa and Tanner

Going To The Temple

Brien and Clora, thats me. We wook up Saturday Morning to go to the Temple with Brien and
some of His Family.. Clora got up first she was up at 5:00AM. Then Brien got up at 5:45AM
and got ready so we could go to the Temple. Then Barbra Murry came over so she could
watch the Kids for us so we could go Then Briens Brother Larry and His Wife came over so
we could leave to pick up the rest of the gang. So we drove to Manti becouse thats where the
Temple is. We got there and Brien and I went and got some Temple clothes that we needed
so then we all got ready and then we whent throught the sashion it was good. After it was
over We meet up with every one and so we left the Temple and went out to eat every one
was starving.. It was a good lunch. Then after that was over we all went home Little Larry
was so nice to drive us home.. After Clora and Brien got home I Clora went to pick up the kidsfrom Barbra's house after I got the kids we came home and then Brien asked me if I would take Lisa to the doctors becouse he thought that Lisa are doughter had strup throut so
I did and we went and seen the doc and he said that Lisa had it so the nurce gave Lisa a shot so she could get better and after that was over. I went over to get Lisa a ice cream and she like it. Then we got home and went to bed. The End....

Mudd Boggin' is cool

Talk about some serious mud boggin' today. I went with my brother and my brother-in-law and his family and we went on a trail called "Rock Canyon". Rock Canyon is between Castle Dale and Ferron. It was a very muddy trail. We have been having some severe weather around here; like rain and I mean a lot of rain. About 3" in only48 hrs. With that kind of rain what can you expect on an atv trail. The amount of rain we had made the lower part of the trail extremely muddy. At times Paul and I had rooster tails about 30' to 40' in the air. At times we even used our lockers just to get out of the mud. In fact Paul actually had to winch me out of a tough spot so I could get my 4 wheel drive working again. Shelly and Corey had a great ride. They were throughing some sweet roosters as well. They had no problems with there bikes and the ride went well. Paul had some difficulties with his bike because the radiator had gotten mud in it and it kept over heating. We had to keep stopping just to let his bike cool down. Once we cleaned his radiator though the problem went away and it was fun as always. Well I'll be sure to write on my next awsome ride.
Later,
Brien
Those who went on the ride:
Brien, Lance, Tanner, Paul, Corey, Shelly, Mykayla, Tristen