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It's time for the Major League Soccer Playoffs and RSL (Real Salt Lake) made it in for the first time ever. GO RSL! They needed a win or a tie in the last game to make the playoffs. They trailed for most of the game but managed to score a goal right at the end to tie it and advance to the playoffs. They will be playing against Chivas USA in Salt Lake on Saturday. Adam is taking Joe and John, and I will be going with Micah and David. We plan on yelling loud and hopefully cheering RSL to a win.

It's fall in Idaho, and that means NO SCHOOL! The kids were out of school from Sep 27th - Oct 13th for Harvest Break. Usually it is a huge hassle because it comes just when the kids are starting to get back into the habit of school. Then they get 2 weeks off which screws that up and you have to start over. This year it worked out really nice for a different reason. I had to go to Las Vegas for training Oct 7-10 so we begged people to watch our kids for a week and I took Toni with me (a big THANKS to Ben, Danielle, and Shelly).

We flew out of Salt Lake on the 6th. The first night we went to Marriage can be Murder. It is a dinner murder mystery thing. It was very entertaining, and the best part was that Toni won! She figured out who the killers were by the end of dinner. It turned out to be the couple that sat across the table from us (probably helped a little). The weirdest part (and one of the main reasons she suspected them) was how much they had in common with us. The guy had gone to BYU-I around the same time as us, had lived in the same appartment complex as me, and knew some people that I went to high school with. The girl was from Michigan and had graduated from Otsego high school the year after Toni's brother Mike. Anyway, for winning Toni got a plaque and 2 tickets for another show (Defending the Caveman).

The next couple nights we went to Carrot Top and the Tournament of Kings. I can't remember which was when. On Friday we went to Defending the Caveman which was VERY good. It was funny, but somewhat educational too. It is about some of the differences between men and women and how they could have been due to the lifestyle of the caveman. Or something like that anyway. We flew back to Salt Lake on the 12th picked up the kids and drove home.

And that brings us to last week. Toni spent most of the week trying to get everything ready for a wedding and reception she was doing. It was the first one she has done, and I think she was very stressed. She then spent all day Saturday decorating, setting up, rearranging, decorating again, cleaning up. She did a great job and got several compliments.

Wow, has it really been a whole month since I last posted? I appologize to all those people out there for whom reading my blog is their only source of entertainment. I know how hard it is for you to survive without knowing about all the exciting things happening at the Wood house. ;D

Ok, enough kidding around. I'll try to catch up in the next few days. Way back in September I took the kids up to Mesa Falls. Toni was doing work for a wedding so she didn't go. It was a very nice day and the fall colors were bright. We stopped at the lookouts for both of the falls and then hiked a little over a mile down to the top of the Lower Mesa Falls.

Here is the Upper Falls.


This is the river next to the trail between Upper and Lower Mesa Falls.


This is a little creek in Sawtelle Estates by Grandpa and Grandma's cabin.


And this is Walker stuffing 1/4 of a Double Big Jud (the only hamburger he will eat) in his mouth.