After cleaning the church, Chris took the kids to the tractor pull. The kids called it “The Farmer Show” which is another good name for it I think! Elora thought it was really neat to watch all the tractors. Here is...
Archive - August 2011
Our church building gets cleaned by volunteers, so this month we went to help out on the big cleaning day. The kids were SUPER excited to help clean their classrooms in the church. If only they were this excited to clean their...
This is a work in progress. Elora’s room is mostly done now, but these are some pictures of when I was painting it. She wanted a blue room with clouds, so I asked my very talented friend Monica to tell me how she had...
Chris has been working on his Dutch oven “Cowboy Kebab” so that he could enter the dutch oven cook-off at the Kane County Fair this year. We invited over a friend of ours who has been helping chop our wood (thanks...
One of mine and Chris’ favorite places at BYU when we were in school was the Bean Museum. My art class used to come here to draw the animals, and Chris and I came here various times with friends or our nieces Amy and...
Our good friend Jessica that we met in Vienna met us in Provo a few weeks ago and we went hiking to Bridal Veil Falls. It was soooooo great to see her. She lives in Lebanon now and we don’t get much chance to visit her...
A few weeks ago we headed up north and stayed with Chris’ Aunt Sharon and her husband Bob. They had planned all sorts of fun activities for the kids and we had a really great time! There is a fun place near their house...
Our grass was dying since we never water it, so I called up my friend Kendalee and asked if I could borrow a sprinkler to try and save the lawn. Elora and Oliver were intrigued by the spraying water and asked if they could get on...
Chris asked me out a date a few weeks ago to see Harry Potter. For some reason this is the only movie series that ever gets us to leave our kids so we can go to a movie! So we brought in the babysitters, prepped them for the fact...
We were lucky a few weeks ago to have our friends Krista and Jason come visit us from Austria! Okay, so they are in Utah for a few weeks, and asked if they could stop over at our place. It was so great to have them come even for...