Happy Halloween!!!

The cowarldy lion
Dorothy and Toto (our neighbors dog)

We all dressed up like characters from The Wizard of Oz

Our friends Hannah, the bee, and Bridger, the dirtbike rider

Sawyer and Daddy

We won the group costume contest at our ward party!

Scott and his hillbilly friend Steve.

Emery and Elly

Tinman

Mylee at her school costume parade.

Best friends

Barn Building!

Rachel and Mylee are ready for some barn building!

The kids think that the new barn roof makes a great playhouse.

When it is finished there will be a feed and tack room, a chicken coop, and shelter for our goats and lambs.

Our friends the Poll's have been helping us build the barn.

It's lookin' good guys.

Happy Birthday Elly!!!

For Elly's first birthday we invited some of the neighborhood pooches over for a party. Here is Sawyer taking Sadie for a walk.
The Poll girls came with Winston and Sophie.

Here is Hannah getting ready to give some birthday cake to Winston.

Elly is getting ready to blow out her candle.

Elly loves her dog food cake!

And BABY makes 7!!!!

Yep, you guessed it, we are having a baby! We really thought that we were done with having children the old-fashioned way and figured that anyone one else who wanted to join our family would be through adoption, and we were PERFECTLY happy with that, so we have spent this week pinching ourselves wondering if this is for real. SURPRISE!!! It's for real and we are excited. It just goes to show that there is someone else in charge of our lives, so no sense wasting our time with what we think is best! Now that the idea is settling in I can't believe that we will have a tiny, sweet baby joining our family again. We are truly blessed! When I was a kid my dad announced one of my siblings during our family prayer. I had told Scott the story and the other night at dinner he was offering the blessing and he said, "we are thankful for the new baby that will be coming to our family" after that all semblance of reverence was gone! The kids opened there eyes and wanted to know what Scott was talking about. It was so funny! They are all excited. It is fun having bigger kids who actually understand what is going on to be excited. The one thing that keeps going through my head is 5 is a lot of kids! Oh well, the more the merrier! Our plan was to adopt again either from Guatemala or maybe a Hispanic baby domestically. Everyone keeps asking if we will still do that, and our answer is, we are gonna take it one kid at a time. I'm sure if there is someone else who is supposed to be part of our family Heavenly Father will let us know! Adoption was such a great experience for our family that we would be thrilled if that was part of our future. Time will tell! For now we will be having a baby in June. We are praying that this pregnancy is a little easier than the previous ones have been. We shall see. I am scurrying around trying to get life in order just in case though!

SKSK Rockin' RV Roadtrip!!!

Here we are ready for take -off!
That's more like it! We are ready for a good time!

Day 1 - Goblin Valley

We are off, and Elly is loving the view from the front dash!
Molly is leading us all in a little singing time.
Grayson and Mufasa
Mylee is such a poser, she is always wanting us to take her picture.
Cousins
Ride 'em cowboy!

Sawyer, the rock thrower.
Emery riding the turtle.
Cute boys!
Our family tower.


Grayson taking aim for his dive.

Maybe he'll jump instead.
Great Jump!
Dallen and Sawyer
Emery hiding out.

I hope that rock doesn't fall!

Goblin Valley
Off to find a geo-cache
The Skaggs family
Peek a boo, Emery
Emery, Elly, Scott, Grayson, Shaylee, and Dallen

Little Wild Horse Canyon

Playing on the rock walls.
The slot canyon is only about two feet wide in some places and about 100 feet tall. It is kind of freaky sometimes, but so cool. Grayson doesn't like them at all. He says he doesn't like small spaces:)
Here are the happy hikers!
Going through the slot canyon.
Scott is trying to clear the trail, he's almost got it!

Day 2 - Arches National Park

"Good morning, let's get this show on the road"
Welcome to Arches National Park
Balancing Rock
Cache, Sawyer, and Mylee having some lunch
"I need a rest"
"We love the motorhome"

Grayson balancing the rock
There are lots of things being balanced around here
Arches
Emery is so strong!
Uh Oh, a little too much jumping for Sawyer. He jumped right into a rock head first!

Poor baby, what a goose egg!
Double Arch
All better!

"Look at me now!"
Delicate Arch
We made it to the top so we can sit and look at the Delicate Arch.
This is the arch on Utah's license plates.

"Nothing slows me down"

Cute cousins!
Grayson is on top of the world.
So is Mylee.
Sawyer playing with aunt Molly.
I think we wore them out, even Elly!