It was a Frightful night...

Oh the creatures that roamed the streets and invaded Kyle and Kim's home Octobler 31st!

There was a scary witch
And a beautiful witch with a bag of jelly beans that turned alot of heads.
I over-heard someone say "If I throw darts at him will I win a prize?"
There was the cutest a little bear
And a dinosaur with a quacky doctor.
Even the Flintstones showed up for the fun
along with Nana & Poppa too. (Kimberly's Parents)
And of course, it didn't take long for our little monsters to catch on to what to do.
Hope you all had a Happy and Haunted Halloween too.

Happy Birthday Clark

Where's Waldo...I mean Clark. He's usually never hard to spot.

He usually stands out in a crowd.He's a man of many talents...
He's always been musical


Use to carrying a heavy load
His art is well recognized

He's a very up front sort of guy.

He usually doesn't miss a thing.

He's always willing to take a hit for the team
And not unacquainted with suffering and pain.

Happy Birthday Clark
Hope your having another really great day!

More fall fun in Dupont

Wednesday Chad, Janet and Violet arrived.
Getting aquainted with with Uncle Chad


A cute little bear and lion out for a stroll

A beautiful fall hike.
Guess who?

It's Violet!

Charlie and Violet decided it was time for Greta to get up from a nap.

Rub-a-dub-dub three cousins in the tub.

Playing with some mighty cute grandkids

I'm in Dupont, WA right now doing the Gramma thing with a couple of the cutest grandkids ever.

And we've been doing some fun stuff. Baking Halloween cookies

Making pumpkins, ghosts, owls and bats out of cheese and ham for lunch.

Going on long walks, playing I spy ghosts and jack-0-lanterns, skeletons and spiders... while the parents literally ran away.
Swinging reaaallly high! And maybe not so high.

Watching movie trailers...

because Kyle doesn't have time for the whole movie.

Playing with trains, tractors and dinosaurs

And patiently shopping. Okay maybe not so patiently shopping...but this gramma has her survival tactics. Is bribery a bad thing?

Our Octobler 7th - 11th

We had a nice visit with Gramma and Richard which included lots of music... ... a temple Session, the Logandale Bluegrass festival, Lorin, Nancy and Lars coming for dinner, Dollar store and D.I. shopping. We finished our busy weekend together attending church in Lorin's Boulder City Ward and dinner at their house.

This might be Gramma & Richard's last long road trip to visit the relatives down through Utah, Las Vegas and Arizona. Considering their age...theyr'e 80 and 86, that is totally understandable. But I keep reminding gramma...she can always fly.

(I took more pictures but I can't seem to locate them...hope they didn't get deleted.)

Our weekend project.

We have had a bit of a pigeon problem.

Up til now Karl has taken care of the problem by screaming, throwing rocks and generally acting like a lunatic. I think the pigeons have been entertained and just kept coming back to see the show.

So this weekend he decided to try a different strategy.

After hosing off.... approximately 16 gallons of pigeon poop,

and painting the eves while he was up on the roof anyway,

He put chicken wire under the eves.


I will miss my little lunatic...but I won't miss the pigeons.

Another wonderful General Conference

I love General Conference!
Every conference the addresses just seem to get better & better.

But I admit...that second session, after a nice big lunch, cozily snuggled in around the TV can get tough. Thank goodness they are in the Ensign and accessible on LDS.org.
Happy conference reviewing and studying for the next six months!

Love, Mom Tobler

Kimberly's on the run again

Six years ago Kimberly was visiting us here in Las Vegas and we'd gone up to St. George to watch Paul, Karl's brother and Stephanie Swanberg run in the St. George Marathon. It was the first time either us had watched a marathon . It was so exciting, you could feel the excitment in the air. And Kimberly said...we've got to run a marathon...AND SHE DID!

Kimberly ran her first marathon in June this year. Then she ran a sprint triathlon the next month. This weekend she ran her 2nd marathon in Portland. Her next big run is the Las Vegas Marathon on December 6th. But who knows...she may sneak one in before then.

She might be a little bit crazy...but we still love her.

Here's her run details:

Runner Details	Race Results
Bib: 3900 Name: KIMBERLY TOBLER Gender: F Age: 32 Hometown: DUPONT, WA	Overall: 2219 out of 8091 Women: 644 out of 4266 F 30-34: 121 out of 709 Age/Grade: 57.04% Place: 2204 Finish: 3:58:17 Pace: 9:06 Tag Time: 3:58:17 Gun Time: 4:00:01
Split Times
10 Km: 50:50 Pace: 8:11 8.9 Mi: 1:13:10 Pace: 8:14 Half: 1:49:50 Pace: 8:23 17.5 Mi: 2:30:26 Pace: 8:36 20 Mi: 2:54:30 Pace: 8:44 21.1 Mi: 3:05:41 Pace: 8:48

Kudos Pam!

This article is about Jordon Honey but it is really a tribute to his mother, Pam.

Pam Honey is my niece, Karl's brother's daughter. She's an amazing person with boundless energy, enthusiasm and tenacity...especially when it comes to her boys. She was blessed with a special challenge...Jordon, he's autistic. But she met that challenge with her trademark never quit attitude. She just didn't accept what the doctors said about Jordon's fate. She did alot of research and met with alot of obstacles but kept him in public school, making sure he got the assistance that he needed and even keeping him on a special diet.

May she get many more "pay days" like this one.

Pam (left) with Christy and Jordon at the Bryce canyon family reunion this summer.

More here.

Welcome Octobler !st !!!

We welcomed Octobler here in Vegas with a freezing 54° !!!
So this morning instead of opening the patio doors I pulled the quilt up.

Oh yes, and Karl covered his night stand glass of water with a tupperware lid :)

Poor Dad Tobler, Poor Mr. Cricket

This morning started out just as predictable as usual. 4: 50 am... I get up and open the bedroom doors to the patio. 4;51 Karl gets up, wanders to the bathroom, wanders back and takes a big chug of water from his glass on the nightstand. Suddenly there is a burst of thrashing and stomping and the light goes on, followed by more stomping.



This poor guy was just taking an innocent swim in Karl's glass of water. Luckily Karl caught a glimpse of him (very close up) just before ingesting him and flipped him on the floor instead.

Poor Karl...he is in fear if dying from cricket germs.
Poor cricket...he got smashed on a sock.
Poor me... no more sleep for either of us.

But we did make it to the gym 25 minutes earlier than usual :)

Have a good day.
Love, Mom Tobler

Mom Tobler on the Cheap

My fall wreath is finally hanging on our door. It was really fun to make and even more fun trying to figure out how I was actually going to do do it.Being mom Tobler I didn't want to just go buy a wreath. I didn't even want to go to Michael's and buy a bunch of supplies to create it. So I had to ponder this a bit.

The base needed to be made out of something natural and twiggy, since the foliage was going to be a bit sparse. I was missing the grapevines of Pasco about now, so I had to make do. Our yard provided some nice long sucker shoots off a stump, a rose bush and the dollar tree.

After a 24 hr. soak circled inside the bottom of a garbage can, these branches twisted nicely around each other to create the wreath base. To further help these twisted twigs retain their wreath shape while they dried I wound Jasmine vines ( leaves and all) around the wreath. The Jasmine vines will also dry into nice woody twigs.
The leave will eventually dry and fall off but until then they add to the silk fall leaves. Of course the silk leaves were collected from garage sales of years past so I count those as basically free.
It is still a work in progress as I might add a few touches to it... if I find some nice nut or berry laden twigs on our next hike to see the fall leaves up on Mt. Chareston.

I like my wreath and I especially like the price. Free + alittle creativity.

Oh yes, my wreath hanger...is a bent wire hanger :)