Halloween Preview

Halle and Brynlee at their class party. Freaky cheerleader.
Halle -Luke - Micaela all in a row.

Super Hero's

Hunter- Samantha -Mckynlie

Cute girls and punk rockers!

Stay away from boys like that! JK

Fall Break

We didn't want to go to St. George or Disney Land this year for Fall Break. We wanted to hang out and bond with nature.
So, let the bonding and being one with nature begin with a hike up the canyon. After inviting ourselves to go on a picnic with the neighbors we hiked around and posed for pictures.

This is our "white trash" picnic basket, also known at our house as luggage. We don't have luggage or suitcases, we have laundry baskets. It's so awesome going into hotels with laundry baskets and coolers full of food.

I think the kids were fishing with a BB-gun. Please don't report us.

The kids being one with nature.

So Proud!

We have been hearing geese every morning the past week. Jason has been checking them out at night when he gets home from work.

Halle decided that she would like to check the geese out too. Jason was so proud of her. I think he almost wept.

What I've been doing.

This is one of my latest projects, the table. I can't get my computer to load any more pictures on this post. (So annoying) I can't show you how ugly the table was before but believe me it wasn't pretty. I have 4 chairs that need to be done. I will show you the color in my next post.

I am an amiture when it comes to refinishing furniture. I sanded this baby down for hours and hours until my neighbor (Encyclopedia Brown) told me to go buy some stripping stuff and it would take the paint off in minutes. REALLY! Why didn't she tell me that last week. AARRRH!

TA Dah!
I kind of love it!

It only took me 10 hours or more.

This is a little lap quilt that I made with my sister. I picked out the material and then she did the hard stuff. I handed her the squared in order so she could sew them. I did sew the green binding by hand along the edges. I don't want to learn to much at one time, I like to pace myself.

Isn't it cute! I love the colors. Kelli did the flowering stippling (the white thread stuff that hold the quilt together).

I want to paint my house in these colors. I don't think Jason will go for that.

Another brilliant project, (not).

We went to Grandma Char's for Conference last Sunday. She had dried fruit set out to snack on. My girls loved it, especially Hunter, she is the one that wont eat anything besides hot dogs. So I thought it would be a great snack to have lying around the house. Do you know how long it takes to dry 5 apples? Eight hours. This is 5 small apples. We could eat this much in minutes.

I told my mom how much the girls loved the dried fruit, and to be on the lookout for pears. She found some and showed up yesterday with this box of pears. This was before I had done the 5 small apples. Do you know how long it is going to take me to dry this entire box of pears. Do you know that it will all fit in one ziplock baggie.

Help Me!

I am done being domestic for the year!