She Was So Surprised!

Mariah came home from school on Friday and said in such a surprised tone, "Mom, Kaylee says that her mom cooks them a hot breakfast every day before school."

It was like that was completely a foreign thought that Mariah had never deemed possible. So, I asked her what she told Kaylee. She said, "I told her that we just have cereal, unless my dad cooks us a breakfast."

Oh, I am failing miserably as a "breakfast cooking mom!"

P.S. Guilt did inspire me to buy some french toast bread that night. It is in the bread drawer and I do have good intentions!

Bo's Concert

Ah...A PIcture!

Dani sent me the greatest picture today. This is Dayton eating lunch...TODAY! How cool is that!

Her dad works in Texas building churches and he has known that he was close to Dayton's territory many times. However they have never met up. Well today was the exception. When her dad went to the church, he saw that the mission was having a Zone Conference so he went in and yelled out, "Elder Law!" Of course Dayton raised his hand, and Dani's dad went over to him, pulled out his cell phone and said, "Smile, your mom is going to see this today!"

Apple Cider Saturdays

A Little Sod In Between APPLES

We had a great surprise on Thursday when we found out that sod was coming Friday morning at 8 a.m. We encouraged some "parent supervised sluffing" and took Bo and Cado to the apartments at 8 a.m. They were ready to work and were certain this project was going to take all day and then some. Well, thanks to Dave's buddies, who saw us out working and to the Wallace's, that sod got completely laid by 11:30. Bo and Cado even got back to school. Thanks everyone!

Applesauce Nights

Four hours later we had 100 quarts of applesauce done. Amazing. That took care of about 10 bushels!




The Woolstenhulmes even brought pizza. We were able to maintain our energy with that.
Everyone was more than happy to work. It makes it so much better with buddies.
Well if you bring home 20 bushels of apples, you have to figure out something to do with them. So this year, we invited the Woolstenhulme's over and we had an applesauce night!

Apple Days

The kids and I decided to head up to Logan late Friday night while Dave was in Sacramento at a Conference. We got there at about 10 p.m. and immediately went to Texas Roadhouse Grill! Mmmm, we each got our own order of beef kabobs and were in heaven. We had plenty to take home for the next day of apple pickin!

Grandma and Grandpa Call were there and so were Brian and Dani and the family. Everyone got busy picking apples, because Grandpa is bound and determined to take home a full truckload each time he comes down. That equates to about 200 bushels. Good thing that wind blew down so many of these apples.

It was a little funny to watch the weather on Sunday. The plan was to pick apples and listen to conference at the same time. I don't think that that was the best plan. What we soon discovered was that it began raining at 10 a.m. and then stopped at 12 p.m. Hum, was that a sign from above? Everyone stayed in and "listened" to conference! We are believers! :)


The very best part of any day of apple picking is making caramel apples. Mmmm, well worth the work.