The Pumpkin Patch

My children took their children to the Pumpkin patch for Halloween -
And these were the pictures they sent me.
I'm busting with joy...

Love My Job

Just one of our typical days on our lunch hour...

Another Sunday Night Means More Pictures

My kids make fun of me because of how many pictures I always seem to be taking of every move my grandchildren make.  I want to document everything so I have something to look back on and remember what happened.
Okay..Yes..I do get carried away sometimes - to the point that Jordan asked me last Sunday, 'How many different times can you take pictures of dad and Preston making smoothies and milkshakes?'
Well, I guess the answer is...every time they make them, I will be taking a picture of it.  Preston will always remember that he and Papa made milkshakes together and that when Preston came out to Papa's farm, he always got to play outside, make a fire, play in the dirt and make milkshakes.
And then there's Madi.
Yes...that picture of her is her climbing up the ladder in the chicken coop.  We were all doing other things and not watching her and the next thing I knew, there she was...trying to join the chickens in their laying area...Mike about lost his marbles, he was so grossed out.  I found the whole thing funny enough that instead of running to get her out, I ran over with the camera to document the humor of it.  Mike was NOT amused.  But I have the picture to bring me many years of smiles and fond memories.

It's Not Professional, But It's Us

Before Kathryn left on Sunday to drive back to Utah, I decided to have Cam take a few family pictures of us...nothing special - no notice to anyone - but just us on a Sunday night.
Not too bad, huh!!??

Thought I Would Keep it Real

The Young Women Presidency was in charge of the Ward Fall Activity this year and asked each auxiliary to be in charge of two carnival games each for the kids and adults to play.  My idea for a kissing booth got nixed by the Bishop, so we decided to do a 'cup cake walk' and 'bobbing for apples'.  I decided to dress in character and be a witch.  Needless to say, it went over well with the sarcastic and smart mouthed men in the ward and even better with the Primary kids.  Emerson dressed as my little flying monkey.  A hugely successful evening -
I will be the same witch for my work Halloween Carnival next Monday night -
It's who I am....

Techno Retard

This is what it takes to watch tv at our house.
I can't do it.
Just show me the football button and I'm good to go.

Now We're Getting Serious!!

Look what arrived while we were in Utah.
Del had told me he had ordered some food storage - but dang...he didn't tell me how much!!
And while in Utah, we went in to the Emergency Essentials Store and had decided we wanted to get a few things - so we ordered them, and a few days after the cases of food arrived, we saw our new HUGE pressure canner, electric wheat grinder and hand wheat grinder arrive.  It's like Christmas around here.  We are so excited to see our shelves in our closets, under our beds and in our spare rooms full of cases of food - and now with the extra large canner, we are going to be able to double our work in a shorter amount of time.  And the wheat grinders???  I never thought the words would come out of my mouth, but I'm actually going to ask my mother how she used to make hot wheat cereal, and we're going to give it a try!!!  Yep, you read that right!!  I'm going to eat hot wheat cereal again.  But now that I'm an adult, I'm not going to put honey on it, I'm going to put sugar - and LOTS of it!!!
And homemade wheat bread will become a weekly staple at our house again...