Brown Family

We are enjoying this holiday season. We cut a Christmas tree in the Wildcat pasture on the ranch. Morgan was the driver. Doug and Rachel were the look-out crew from the back of the truck. We found a beautiful tree. It is only about 6 feet tall, but is perfectly shaped and has a powerful smell! Next, we put up some Christmas lights. We are trying to function without Taylor this year! We went to the electric light parade. We made a gingerbread house to top off the wonderful day!

Taylor was able to go to the Mt. Timpanogos temple on Friday after Thanksgiving. It was a wonderful experience.

Ok, this is quite a goofy combination. (I got the word "Goofy" from the Mtn commentator on Saturday's BYU/Wyoming football game. Did you notice how many times he said "goofy.") Anyway Saturday as I was doing the dishes, I noticed a roadrunner outside walking across our basketball court. At first I thought it was Morgan because he is so fast on the BB court..... Funny. Seriously, we all looked and sure enough it was a roadrunner. We have never seen one in our yard before. As for the Christmas Tree. Saturday afternoon we attended a "Capitol Christmas Tree Celebration." Arizona has the honor of providing the 2009 Capitol Christmas Tree for the US Capitol. The tree is an 85' blue spruce harvested from the Apache Sitgreaves Forest south of Eagar. This is the first time a tree has been selected from an Arizona forest. Rachel's school choir sang in the program. The tree is packaged up and goes on tour across the US until it arrives in DC Nov...

We had a "frightful" Halloween weekend. Rachel had a party for her friends where she planned 3 crafts, 14 games and for dinner-- mummy pizza, witches brew, and booger sticks. We had a ward trunk-or-treat party on Saturday.

This afternoon we went on a Sunday drive to the mountains. The aspen trees are vibrant, colorful and breathtaking at times.

Morgan has had a fun soccer season. They have 3 more weeks of games. Here are some pictures of his game against Snowflake. RV won 3-1.

Rachel finished her soccer season today. She scored a goal today to top off her season. It was a fun season, especially the two games her dad coached. (The only 2 games they won.) He is quite proud of his record! Doug is a really good soccer coach and had the kids playing positions so well.