Happy Birthday Zoey!

For Zoey’s birthday weekend, we took a trip up to visit the family in Idaho. We made a stop at Smith and Edwards and Maddox on the way. Those rolls and raspberry butter are just magical.

German Pancakes for the birthday girl!

The stair picture!

So adorable.

Kathryn making an incredible My Little Pony cake for our little sweetie.

Incredible job babe.

Good job Eliza 🙂

Fishing for prizes from Grandpa Ray.

And of course, an incredible concert and dance party to round out the night.

What a great birthday weekend. We love you Zoey!

Happy Halloween! We were a Star Wars family this year.

• Zoey – Ewok
• Landon – Luke
• Eliza – Leia
• Ashley – Rey
• Kathryn – Padmé
• Larry – Mando
• Kacho – Chewbacca

Here was the Hawker gang all together.

Zoey was just the cutest little Ewok ever.

Witches brew Root Beer with Grandma Suzie.

Here is the Mandolorian helmet being printed.

And it done before we got it all cleaned up.

These were some SPOOKY carrots from our garden.

Here is the Queen Bee concert master of the TSO Halloween Concert.

Kids are invited to the Halloween concert, and they had a great time. Kathryn did terrfic.

Pumpkin carving!

Happy Halloween!!!

I remember going to the Kennecott Copper Mine with Aunt Cindy one time when I was a kid. The vast scale of the operation made an impression on me. I remember that we saw a blasting while we were there too. We had an open day here, so we so we decided to make a trip out to the mine and see it with our family. It was really interesting to learn more about the big slide from 2013.  And the vast size is just as impressive as an adult as when I was a kid.

We totally lucked out and were there for a blast. Very impressive to watch.

Everything is so large. It warps your sense of scale when you’re looking at the equipment moving in the distance.

I would definitely recommend checking it out. It was well worth the effort to see. If you want to learn more of the details and the rest of the mining process, they have a really great interactive tour you can see here: https://www.youvisit.com/tour/riotinto