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Luke and Paul playing at Aspen Grove. Thanks Syd.

NSCA-CPT

I just wanted to inform the fam that yesterday I received a certificate as a certified personal trainer!! I was sure i had failed since I never heard back until now, but alas... God spared some love for me and I managed to pass!! I'm particularly relieved that this all wasn't a big waste of money!! So if you hear of any awesome positions for CPT's or you want a personal training program let me know. I'm sort of looking for a job now. Thank you all for supporting me and giving me encouragement. It really helps. The process is not over but I feel cooler now and more qualified.

Love,
Sydney Carter NSCA-CPT

ha ha i officially have a title... so i wanted to use it!

I should add that it was about 95 degrees here for Halloween, and even after dark I was sweating while handing out melting candy at the ward "Trunk or Treat!"

Yuma Halloween

For Halloween Zach was an "Insane Asylum Escapee"

Happy Halloween 2008

It must Be October

We went to the South Ridge Farms Pumpkin Patch and picked out a few pumpkins. The weather was beautiful and the colors were great! Here are a few of the pictures we took there!

Harvest

One fifth of this years apple crop.
Portrait of the grape vines, and there is a shot of the arbor below.
John's and my birthday.
Just some updates for October. Love to everyone, mom

Ｂecky's Maddness

So the Girls went to Logan over the weekend and supported Becky in her madness of doing marathons. She did really well by not vomiting or passing out after, and she finished in about 41/2 hours!! She seemed still happy when we saw her at mile 24ish and she looked great after the finish line. Hopefully she was able to walk on sun and mon. We had a great time and stayed over at Marla's place. That was really nice of her. So congratulate Becky for accoplishing now 8 marathons by 2008. We al wish we were as amazind as her, although seeing all the runners i can definitely assume that i would have been dead way up at mile 1. Love to all!

Love Syd

This is for Hannah!! And for everyone else to see Sydney lately i guess.. I love you all!! And i absolutely cant wait till the holidays when we can all be together. Pretty much i have no life and died my hair and cut ugly bangs.. and in my spare time i maliciously kill slugs on the sidewalk. I also enjoyed straightening Noah's hair.. and just playing with the cutie! I went to a wedding that Jen did all the flowers for which was amazing and I've bonded with Tava!

Early September

This is a chance to catch up on events of the past week or so. First, meet Ellie, who joined Ned and Nicole's family to keep Buffy company. They moved into a new home this week.
Dad met his mission president, President Terry for a reunion with many fellow missionaries for an evening of catching up.
Tonight, we celebrated Belle's and Sarah's September birthdays.

Anniversary news

Hey all! We just wanted to drop a line and let everyone know that we have now been happily married for two years! Can you believe it! Time flies when your having fun, right? Actually for me it feels like we've been married about ten years (is that a good or bad sign?) We are still unhappily infertile, so all you people with kids give them lots of love from us. I am tired of Rochester all ready, but Brad still loves it here. We have three more years to go! We love company so please come if you want to see a bit of NY. We don't have lots of room though, so be friendly. One day we will get a bigger apartment and then it will be really fun to have people come stay.
Just fyi, Brad is loving Neurology and now wants to be a Neurologist (but don't get in line just yet I feel a change in the wind). Jo-Ann's it treating me fairly well; I spend all my extra money there so I guess I still support it. I want a new winter job though, one where I don't have to drive, at all. Any ideas?
We miss everybody. Good luck with the horse and trailer trouble N&N, and have fun in the new house! We hope Millie is at least starting to look pregnant.

Here's us in our lovely place, on our special day. Lots of love to you guys!

Brad and Hannah Hyatt

Harpers in Nauvoo

We learned that there are 5 things a cow must be in order to be considered an ox

1. Male
2. Have horns (so the the yoke won't fall off)
3. Be between 4 and 10 years old
4. Be teamed with another ox
5. and Follow verbal commands

Other than that, an ox just just a regular old cow!

For all those who are nostalgic about Sydney IA, here are a few pics from our short stay there.

Here is the entire Harper Gang in front of one of the homes we stayed it, the homes we quite nice and very spacious.

In front of the Nauvoo Temple on a clear blue day. All the adults were able to do an endowment session one day.

Noah in the traditional little boy Nauvoo costume. He only wore the hat for about 10 seconds.

On the Banks of the Missouri River at the end of Parley's street

This is a very small pick of the thousands if pictures that were taken in Nauvoo. All in all we had a great time seeing this historic city, we recommend it to anyone who is interested in going.