Carrie Would Blog This...

Carrie has been very curious about this post. Well here it is. My food storage room. I figured if Carrie could block cleaning her desk and her pajama drawers, I should blog this. This is miraculous to say the least. This room has been a hazard for many years. Now it is nice and organized. These pictures will be especially helpful for the Whitings. Now Lezlee can look on this post, see what I have in stock and then call to borrow it. I found that I have stocked up on some of the essential supplies that she often needs such as Rice Crispies! I also found that I buy a lot of pumpkin, but obviously we don't eat it. We have got to make some pies or something because Thanksgiving is coming up and I'm sure I will be buying some more! I also found that I need to find a family who likes Spaghettios. We used to be one of those families, but I guess we aren't anymore and they are piling up. My kids ate so many they are sick of them. Finally, you will be able to see that I found another great deal on cereal. Yep, we are stocked with over 60 boxes! That will last approximately 10 weeks...longer, if I quite buying that expensive MILK to go with it!

Can Reading Too Many Scriptures Be Bad For You?

I'm starting to wonder if I'm reading too many scriptures right now and I'm wondering if it's good for me! Right now we are trying to get the Book of Mormon read AGAIN, before Dayton leaves on his mission. That means we are reading quite a bit every day. Yesterday we had to do double duty because Dayton and Bo were out too late Saturday night. Maybe that's what did it. At least that's what I'm wondering.


Last night I woke up from a terrible dream and I was just shaking. That's when I realized that all this scripture reading was getting to me. In my dream, my "elder" sister and her band of followers wanted to kill me and my family. Dave and I knew they were coming after us, but we had to go to town to pick up our kids from something. As Dave and I were driving away from our house, we saw them and we realized that we had forgotten to lock the door! I knew they were going to go in and destroy our house and wait for us to come home. I was especially worried because I had also left my purse and my camera right in harms way! Dave and I realized that we could not go home any more and our only option was to go into the wilderness! THAT'S WHEN I WOKE UP!

Joyriding!

By Carrie: Oh man, this morning was so exciting. Shirlene and I were walking on the golf course when we saw Bo with the gator. Shirlene asked if we could get in it and I asked if we could take it for a drive like I have always wanted to do. Bo said, "yes" and we drove it down the hill and back up. Shirlene was impressed at my driving skills. When we got to the top of the hill, we saw Bo's boss beside him. Oh no! Their backs were turned away so we quickly "ditched" the gator and ran back down the hill hoping that Bo would not get fired!

Roo and Cado

We've about given up on successful school pictures and so today, Roo and Cado and I decided that we would just take some of our own and then make them big so that we can finally send the Grandparents an updated picture! We are really bad at that. Well if we never get them sent, the Grandparents can at least see them here!

Girl's Weekend...with a Twist!

Well it was girl's weekend last week, but it had an added twist: Soren, Anson, Hannah and Gage! Oh well, we at least got to have one meal out. Needless to say, it was in a downpour of rain. Hannah even cooked us breakfast one morning. Thanks Hannah, we just might invite you back!

Three More Miracles!

  We feel blessed. It was a miracle when we found the cheese grater, but we have been blessed this week with 3 MORE MIRACLES! Can you believe that? Our first miracle is this pig. It was born in February (when we were gone to Mexico) and it has always been the complete runt. It has had such a hard life and not been able to walk. Most pig farmers would not have stood for that. Not us. It always just seemed content to drag itself around the farm.
  Well, this week it started walking! It is even running! We seriously can't believe that.
  Our second miracle happened when I was watering my Mother's Day tree that we planted 6 years ago. We bought it for color. We wanted a red leaf tree. It was supposed to be a flowering crab apple. We basically forget about it on a yearly basis. However, I just happened to glance and notice that it had something growing on it. They were cherries and really good ones to boot. I'll be taking better care of that tree now!
 
Our third miracle is our ice maker. It has worked 3 times in the 7 years that we have lived in Roosevelt. Fortunately for us it just magically began working again this week. I went to get some food out of the container the ice falls into (because it was a useful place to store food) and I was shocked to see ice all over the freezer. We never know how long this will last, but we enjoy it while it's here!

The New Way to Transport Sheep

 

Everyone has been coming over to shear their sheep for the stock show. This is a bigger job that it may sound like. The first obstacle of the day is to try to get the sheep from the barn to the backyard. They just don't like to come. Up until this year, we have simply pulled and pulled and yanked and tugged to get them to come. Dave came up with a new plan that is working much better. We actually thing those sheep like it. Jazzy and her dad thought this method was great.