Bread making with Mom

My mom and I, spent the perfect fall day, baking bread.

My mom is an expert bread maker and it was so fun having her teach me. 

As my mom puts it, there is nothing better than a

 fresh piece of bread from the oven with homemade jam.

Sabra & Tegan

Sabra and Tegan went and visited Sabra's mission and had a few more days off of work, so they came and spent the weekend with us. We did baptisms at the Provo City Center temple, had lunch with Trayco at work, went to a BYU volleyball game to watch Lacey and Lyndie play, and went to sqaw peak. We loved having them come and visit! 

Alleman Family Dinner 2017

The annual family dinner was held in American Fork at Boyd and Susan's. They picked the perfect fall day (which felt more like summer.) We had soup, played corn hole, and painted pumpkins. 

Trayco's favorite part was riding Susan's scooter around town. 

He said he needed a picture with his "biker babe" behind him :) 

Trayco needed a power nap to get through the rest of the day. 

Camping & General Conference 2017

This General Conference was definitely memorable! 

We went camping in Spanish Fork and watched General Conference on the Ipad. Mom and Dad came up on Friday night and slept over and we had a great time sitting around the fire. 

Trayco and I, stayed for the rest of the weekend and had a grand ole time, except for our flat air mattress and cleaning up camp in the rain. The trees were starting to change and everything was beautiful. 

Springville Sunset

Our condo is surrounded by corn fields and it 

makes the prettiest backdrop for the sunset each night. 

TEXAS

Trayco had the opportunity to go to Texas with EDGE to help with the hurricane clean-up. All of the managers loaded up into two RV's and drove the long drive to Texas. They spent 3 days gutting people's houses. He said it was extremely humbling to be there after the "spotlight" of the news and media had passed. Everything that is still standing is full of mold and rats, so they had to gut houses back to the frame.  The lady that EDGE coordinated with said they would only be able to do 2 houses per day but they were able to do 4-8 a day and help many families. We are grateful to be apart of a company the lifts and blesses the lives of others.

Edge Banquet 2017

Every year Edge holds a black tie event for all of the salesmen and their wives. This year was especially fun because Trayco was honored on stage 4 different times! He finished number 4 in the company for accounts sold, managed the top office, had the top two rookies in his office, and won the trip to Disneyland for the Amazing Race Incentive. 

I'm so proud of Trayco and his accomplishments this summer. 

We are very blessed to be apart of Edge and are grateful to work with such great people. 

The top office is awarded "The Cup" and all of their names are engraved on it. 

It is a pretty big deal and the guys had fun posing for their photo shoot. 

Tylen, The Black Mamba 

Tucker, AKA Tuckle Berry Finn

King James 

Dan the Man

Lauren and Weston 

If you ever wanted to know what Trayco would look like as a cartoon, here you go...

BYU Football & Szabo Day

Edge sponsors BYU and they gave Trayco

 the season tickets for the Wisconsin game. 

The game was awful and BYU didn't stand

 a chance but the seats and food were good! 

We left at half time for the 

second annual Szabo Day. 

We had a picnic up Spanish Fork canyon, 

then played volleyball and made s'mores. 

What a summer!

This summer has been so good to us! Trayco did an amazing job managing his office. So much so that they are the top office in the company! The summer is so difficult but so rewarding. We always come out on top even though there are so many hard days. I was dubbed as the office mom with the nickname of Mother Molly. We have LOVED living in Colorado Springs! 

^Our 5th place living together since we've been married. 

^Every year I make an incentive poster for Trayco. He put a circle up for every sale that he got and earned incentives along the way including, a sound bar, dinner at Ruth's Chris, sunglasses, cuff links, and a whole bunch of other things that he wanted! 

Highlights of the summer: 

-Being the first ones to arrive means that we get to help everyone else on the team move in. We helped over ten people move in!

-switching our couch and mattress out of people's apartments before they got here

-Pueblo Viejo, our favorite Mexican Restaurant 

-having Drew out here with us this summer

-Saturday night date nights

-Dinner goals

-Sunday Drives to Elizabeth

-Learning to live without a washer and dryer in our apartment 

-lots of late nights for Trayco

-Weekly planning meetings with Tylen and Jensen

-Becoming the top office in the company with a team full of rookies

-Our nightly episode of Seinfield

-Sabra getting home

-Mom and Jamie coming to visit

-Austin and Jamie coming to visit

-Our primary class

-Many many trips to the airport 

-Doing Fitness Blender workouts everyday

The best calling.

Our last Sunday with our primary class. We asked them what they learned this summer and they all said, nothing.😂 Here's to hoping they will remember the paper airplane party and treats we had today!

Summer Flowers

I love when summer is winding down and sunflowers start popping up all over the place. They are everywhere in the Springs and it makes me so happy to see them everywhere I go. 

Sabra came down to spend a Sunday

 we us. We had a nice dinner 

and then went to Helen Hunt Falls!

Trayco's Uncle Quinn unexpectdenly passed way and we were able to fly back to Utah to attend his funeral. His funeral was beautiful and was an amazing reminder of the blessings that come from the temple. We love you Uncle Quinn! 

Obituary for Quinn Jay Haddock

Quinn Jay Haddock, son of Elaine Carlton Haddock and Ian Grove Haddock, born May 27, 1964 in Citrus Heights, California and died August 12, 2017 in Provo, Utah after a sudden illness. He lived a wonderful life of only 53 years and will be missed by his wife, Tandra Linelle Ross and his children, Jordan Kent Haddock, Steven Jay Haddock, Ryker Lee Haddock (Heather Ashton), Tambre Lyn Haddock (Bryce Nobles), Lacy Ann Haddock and Lyndie Kay Haddock as well as his grandson Logan Jay Haddock (Ryker/Heather).

Professionally, Quinn will be remembered for his career in the data storage industry as an industry-wide expert in tribology; the study of wear and friction surfaces. His designs enabled dozens of different disk drives providing employment for many thousands of people manufacturing these products around the world. Later in his career, Quinn became a systems/firmware engineer, enabling leading edge data storage products. Quinn received numerous awards and patents for his creative design work and was a mentor throughout his career, helping many younger engineers learn how to analyze and solve complex problems.

He attended elementary and junior high school in Citrus Heights, California, Dixon Junior High, Timpview High School, and Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah; graduating with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. Quinn served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to the Argentina Buenos Aires South Mission, September 1983-1985. Quinn had a strong testimony of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and served tirelessly in many capacities.

He loved his family and had a great interest in water sports, BYU volleyball, football, wrestling, and the outdoors.

Surviving him are his wife, children, and grandchild as well as his brothers, Rex Haddock (Carol), Reed Haddock (Sandra), Kevan Haddock (Lizbeth), Keith Haddock, and his mother, Elaine Carlton Haddock Rowley. He is preceded in death by his father, Ian Grove Haddock.

Funeral Services will be held Friday, August 18, 2017 at 12:00 Noon at the Edgemont 7th Ward, 555 East 3230 North, Provo, Utah, where a Viewing will be held prior from 10:00 to 11:30 am. Interment in East Lawn Memorial Hills, 4800 North 650 East, Provo, Utah. 

Palmer Lake

On one of my days off, I decided to go hiking 

and I picked a pretty good one if I can say so myself.

The Palmer Lake hike was really neat because you first hike to the lower reservoir and then to the upper reservoir. 

Making it to the lower reservoir was like getting a reward for making it half way.  

Dark clouds started heading my way as I got to the lower reservoir but I decided to risk it and kepe going (when will I learn.) Just as I made my way to the upper reservoir it started to drizzle so I turned back and BAM it down poured on me the entire way. It started letting up just as I was getting to my car. 

I must be cursed to hike in the rain!

Pikes Peak

Trayco's family was out of town visiting family so we decided to make the most out of our Sunday together. We drove up to Pikes Peak and it was such a treat. The drive was crazy steep. The views were amazing and we got so high that we were driving through clouds. When we got up above tree line we felt like we were in a different country. It was all rocky and foreign looking. 

When we got to the summit a snow storm was coming through so we snapped a picture and then checked out the gift shop until it cleared up. 

The view was amazing!

^There was a beautiful rainbow breaking through the clouds

There are all kinds of cool pull offs on the drive so we decided to stop 

at Crystal Reservoir which was stunning.  

^Trayco loves to learn! He always takes the time to read every sign. I usually hang out and have him fill me in on the fun facts.