Still a canning, Garden, & Games, November 2015

Happy One Year Anniversary to Daniel and Ellen

Time has sure gone by fast. It seems forever ago that we were on our mission.

We truly do have so much to be thankful for.
I'm glad we have a family that keeps us very busy.

1. Canning pumpkin - it sure tastes better than store bought

2. Pumpkin seeds using the Joy School recipe - I had to google Worcestershire

sauce before I found one that was like the ones at Joy School

3. We have dried tons of apples. They are our favorite dried food.

On Halloween we cut up 18 pints of chicken and watched ET.
We had already seen Arsnic and Old Lace.

4. Sunday Tammy and the girls were here. We had such a good time.

Noelle and Katrina were singing up a storm - so fun to hear them.

5.I should have written down what Olivia said about the picture of her dad.

It was so funny, but I forgot. Something about he has hair and is young.

Tammy, can you remember?

6. And, of course, skits. One of the best we have had. Mallory,
Bekah, and Olivia reproduced a very funny Studio C - they sang so good.

We all laughed and enjoyed it.

7. Grandpa and Mia connecting together. She likes Grandpa.

8. No pictures during the week, I forget. But Saturday was a good work day.

Caleb is my faithful "Clean the chicken coop" man.

We have actually gotten a couple more eggs since putting in nice fresh straw.

Thanks for your help, Caleb.

9. Ned Silvester came by with with three dump trucks full of a mixture

of sandy soil and manure and put it on the garden.

I'm sure it will make such a difference. We do still need to spread it around.

Guess who did the dumping?

10. Caleb had a ball pushing the button that controlled the dumpster. 

11. Then Mike and Emily came and we did a fast 14 quarts of apple pie filling

and made Lasagna and apple crisp before heading out to the temple.

12. We are just outside the basement entrance to the Brigham City temple.

Dad, Josh, Mike, Emily, and me.

13. After dinner we had the more of Chris's family over for games.

It was another big, full day with lots of variety.

We have enjoyed a week with attending the temple. 

It's troubling times and so important to stay close to the spirit

and find that peace deep inside. 

I love you all very much.