These Days are the Best

Made a snowman

Had a snowball fight

Made snow angels

Did cartwheels and somersaults in the snow

Had hot chocolate

London's Blessing Day

We blessed London on Sunday.  She ended up wearing the dress I was blessing in and she looked like such a little doll!  Afterwords, we had luch up the canyon at a little place we rented.  We have the best family ever, they helped us so much (especially my Mom)!  It was such a great day and so fun to be able to celebrate little Lunnie.  She is such a blessing in our lives, I can't believe we were ever a family without her.  We love you  little Lunnie and are so glad you were born.

A princess, two cowboys and one mad hotdog

Brinley was a princess for Halloween (what 4 year old girl wasn't?) and we put this hotdog costume on Lunnie for a bit.  It seems like costumes are hard with newborns because you have to take it off every time you put them in the carseat so she didn't wear it for too long.  Kaden and Karson came trick-or-treating with us because our little neighborhood is just about the 'last of the trick-or-treaters'.  It seems like everyone else does the trunk or treat, but we'll stick to the traditional old fashioned Halloween thank you.  The kids had fun.  Afterwords our little family went to Steve and Jill's to have dinner, it's tradition and so yummy as always.  We made a couple of stops to see Grandmas then headed home with more candy than we should have.

Watch out... I could honestly get addicted to these

The Pumpkin Walk

We took our girls to the Pumpkin Walk.  Brinley had fun and London is just so content.  If she has been fed, she is happy.

A Visit From Roy

Troy and Sabra came "home" a few weeks ago to finish moving all of their stuff.  It was so fun to have them back for a while.  Troy's the life of the party.  We all went to Cafe Sabor for dinner and it was pretty much chaos!  We had family pictures taken and it was sort of chaotic.  And just before they left we had lunch up the canyon and it was surprisingly not chaotic at all.  Come back soon, we miss you!

Pictures of our girls

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Family Pictures

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So What if Summer is over

Our trailer isn't quite done, but given that we did not camp once this summer we decided to go anyway.  It was so much fun!  We just love being in the mountains!

 And we had so much fun that we went again the next weekend and invited the Shockeys.  We took the kids to Old Ephraim's Grave. 

And on the way back we got stuck behind about a million sheep.  Never seen so many sheep in my life.  Can't wait to go camping again!

Enjoying the fruits of our labor (and my Dad's)

In past years learning to can pretty much consisted of my Mom doing it for me.  I know, I'm the worst daughter ever!  This year I've canned beans, salsa and jam and frozen corn and whole tomatoes.  I'm so proud of myself.  I did have some, ok a lot of help from my Dad.  He has the most amazing garden and he shared lots of it with me and he spent all day, I mean ALL DAY doing salsa with me.  I don't really like jam and it was all I could do to not eat the entire bowl of raspberries.  You see, I have this weird addiction to produce - particularly fruit, and raspberries are among my favorites.  When I say addicted to fruit I am not kidding, all summer long I ate an entire watermelon every week.  One week I ate an entire watermelon and 6 pounds of cherries plus several other fruits. People ask me all the time if I get sick from eating so much fruit and the answer is no.  My body is used to it. I'm trying to eat less fruit now because I'm sure my blood sugar was through the roof.  I'm so fascinated by the human body and can I just say, I love food!  I want to eat more like my ancestors ate.  Not even my ancestors, just my parents and grandparents (with less lard).  My Grandpa was a wheat farmer and my Dad has always had a huge garden, raised cows and sometimes chickens and that's what we ate all year.  My Mom makes everything from scratch and we sat down as a family to a home cooked meal every night.  (Sigh), I dream of raising my family this way.  I dream of a bigger garden and feeding my family food that is actually food.  As a child watching the butcher shoot our cow and soon after seeing it on the dinner table freaked me out a little, but I have since learned a thing or two about food and I actually really love this way of life.  Now I mentioned that I don't really like jam, but my family does.  Dustin eats raspberry jam on mashed potatoes (so weird) so, I resisted the raspberries and turned them into this freezer jam.  Isn't it cute?  So proud of myself!