Great neighbors

Well a couple of weeks ago I had a neighbor asked if her family could come over that Monday and help us weed our yard. I told her she didn't have too, but if they wanted they could.(there would be no complaints from me) Its a lot of work. So that Monday came around and they didn't come. So I thought she was just being nice. Well tonight I sent Randy out to pick a couple of things up for dinner and he came in saying we had people weeding. He thought we should go out and help. So I got up off my lazy bum and went out to see who it was, (because we have had a couple of different neighbors ask if they could help). Well it was Jon and Kim Mott and 2 of their daughters and their other daughter had to work so they ask a couple of the youth from the ward. By the time we saw them they had almost all of the flower bed weeded. So we helped finish. I can't believe that they would actually came and weed it for us. It has been such an overwhelming project that I was just easier to leave it. So now the biggest flower bed is weeded and now we just have the little ones left. I think the worst thing about having your own house is the yard work. It always seams so overwhelming. So thank Mott's for the great kindness and hard work you have given to us. We well always be so very thankful. I did take pics and will add them as so as the cord I order comes in the mail.

What a week

So this week has been pretty crazy. Clay and Tyler had their last week of soccer, they both had a great season, and were one of the best players on both of their teams.



The school they had the book fair and SEPS and they are both doing very well in there classes. Tyler's teacher just loves him to death and is glad that he know how to read already. Clays teacher says he is doing well but sometimes has a hard time staying on task and walking around and bothering others, he says he needs to do less of that. I hope he can do better.

On Thursday night I have choir practice, with the women's choir her in town, it has been so much fun meeting new people and working on the Christmas music for the Christmas concert.

Now Clay starts flag football. So he had his first practice and starts playing in October.

Saturday I went to Women's Conference with my mom and sister Amanda, to her stakes dinner. It was strange to be in the same chapel that I went to primary in. We saw alot of old ward members there, and it was nice to catch up with them. We also ran into Connie Busath who has moved into that stake, she was in the ward were we lived by K-mart. She sat with us and it was nice to have a chance to visit with her since it had been awhile since we last time we saw her. Women's Conference was good I think. I had a migraine and had a hard time paying attention to what was being said. I will look forward to read the in the ensign and remember.



Today was our primary program and it went well. I teach the sunbeams. They had all the primary kids sit on the stand the whole meeting, and had the sunbeam teachers sit on the sunbeam chairs. Sitting their for an hour just killed me. My sciatic never was flaring up, don't think I well ever do that again.

After we had dinner I was watching a movie and the boys were out side playing and they came running in saying there was fire down the street, so I run out the door to see what was on fire, hopin it wasn't a neighbors house. Luckily it was just one of their cars. So we watched from a distant until the fire department came and put it out then went down. Found out that know one had been driving it, since after church. We she had come home some else's car was in there driveway and so she parked it in the street farthest away from her house and the neighbors. I think if she would of parked in the driveway her house would have caught on fire. I'm glad that they weren't hurt. I can't believe all the fire that we have seen this summer. Two car fire's and one forest fire, how crazy it has been. My neighbor took pics, so as soon as she e-mails them I will post. So much for having a quite and relaxing Sunday.

Cell phones and Work

Today is one of those days when you hate both, because it is totally frustrating.

Today is the day I can get a new cell phone and I have been looking, did some research on line then went to the store. The day we went to the store I was rushed for time so by the time they got to me I had two minutes to ask my question, but when we left the store I felt I had more than were answered. So I have be doing more research and today went on line looked at them all again, called the company and the gentlemen was know help at all, he said he couldn't be biased. So while I was on-line a window popped up to talk to someone live. so I talked to her she wasn't much help. So I thought I would try the store again, but the store here in town is little and the guys there weren't much help either. So I don't know what Im' going to do.

So I thought I would go to work. I Love my job. I started to open the totes and theres all these Halloween books. So I open this box thinking that the books go on the display I have to put together. I looked at it and remember it was one I had trouble putting together a couple of months ago and Has to have Randy came and help me put it together. So I thought I can do this. Well I started putting it together and couldn't remember how it went. Randy wasn't around this time to help. So I called my boss and she was in Roosevelt and couldn't help me today. She said if I couldn't do it she would come and put it together tomorrow, but i didn't want her to have to do my work. So I was asking everyone at the store if the new how to put these together, know one knew, but they would try and help me. So three of us worked together and finally figured it out. Did you know that they have engineering grads. design them. That's why it takes three regular minds to but it together. It has been such a frustrating day. But I'm glad at least one thing was solved. Hopfully the rest of the day and week are smooth.

Love this time of year!

I Love this time of year!!

I Love the temperature change.

I Love the leaves change colors and how the mountain looks on fire.

I Love all the fruit and vegetables coming on.

I Love the football games (BYU) mostly.

I Love the kids are in school.

I Love how it means that there are three great holidays.

I Love everything about this time of year.

Today I spent most of the day making Raspberry Peach Jam. You should see you pretty they look I can't wait to taste them and see how the turned out. If my cord to my camera wasn't lost I would add a pic, maybe later. I'm Thankful for the fruit that my grandpa gives me, if it wasn't for him I wouldn't have much of a food storage. So thanks gramps for all the hard work you put into your garden and then sharing and giving me the hard work of putting the to use. Its nice to go to the cold storage and get want we need without going to the grocery store. I love you.

A little getaway

So Sunday night Randy and I went out to wendover for the night to celebrate our 10Th wedding anniversary. I know its a few weeks early, but it is the only weekend we could get away.
Randy is going hunting with his uncles and my dad durning the week of our anniversary and the only two weekends he had off were this weekend and the weekend of the 28Th. But that day is the day our primary is having the program and since I'm the sunbeam teacher I thought I shouldn't miss it.
So we celebrated it almost a moth early. So we dropped the boys off at grandpa and grandma Peterson's until aunt Brenna could get off of work to watch them over night, and then we were off. We try not to go out on Sunday's but sometimes you can't help it.
So we started our day off with eating lunch at citrus grill in draper. The food was great. Then we hit the road. We had a free coupon for the hotel and so we used it and checked in. They put us on the sixth floor. We went to to the room to drop off the bags and look around. We turned the t.v. on and the remote wasn't working so I called the front desk, they said they would send maintenance. We waited around for 30 mins and know one showed so we called back and told them we weren't waiting any longer and they could come in and fix it. So when we came back it still wasn't working so we called again they said they would send someone and told told him we weren't going to await. So we left and got dinner. When we came back for the third time it still wasn't working, so I called again and told them it was the third time we called, they said again they would send someone. Less than five minutes some knocked on the door. They finally fixed it. But Some time in all that waiting I was looking out the window and told Randy that I thought we had a great view. He came over and looked at with me and agreed. he said how from here you could see how the earth is round and how you can't see it anywhere else close around.. It was really wonderful to see something that you don't get to see or ever think about very often.I think the the Utah salt flats are beautiful. How the white salt looks so clean and pure. I just felt at that moment that Heavenly father would make something so spectacular. And I'm' glad I could see something so amazing. To see a pic click on the link to the side and see just how beautiful it is. It was nice to have time with out the boys, even though we love them so very much, but sometimes you want time alone, especially when your boys are at the age when they think mom and dad kissing is gross.

Cooking

So I don't mind cooking. But I really hate when there are complainers and most of all I hate cleaning up the mess. But once in a while I find something that I really enjoy and don't mind cleaning up. It is out of the 2008 Pillsbury Bake-off cook book.
Malinda and I tryed it when she was out here and stayed the week with me, we both thought it was the best breakfast we had in a long time.So I thought I would share it with everyone. It says it takes 40 minutes for start to finish, but it really doesn't take that long.

Tropical Sunshine Flat cakes with Orange Cream

Ingredents:

Flat cakes

1 tablespoon Crisco pure vegetable oil

1/2 cup fishers chef naturals pecans

1 can Pillsbury's refrigerated orange flavor sweet rolls with icing (8 rolls)


Topping

2 tablespoon land o lakes butter

2 firm rip bananas sliced

2 tablespoon lime juice

1 cup fresh or canned pineapple tidbits drained

1 jar (12oz) smuckers pineapple ice cream topping

1 can (15oz) mandarin orange segments in light syrup drained


Orange Cream

1 1/4 cups whipping cream
icing from can of sweet rolls

1. Heat oven to 400f. Generously brush 1 tablespoon oil on large cookie sheet

2. Cut waxed paper sprinkle 1 1/2 teaspoons nuts on sheet. Place orange roll on pecans sprinkle 1 1/2 teaspoons nuts on top of orange roll. using rolling pin roll evenly until orange roll is 4 1/4 inches in diameter. remove waxed paper. place rolls on cookie sheet. repeat with reaming rolls.

3. bake for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown.

4. meanwhile, in 10-inch skillet, melt butter over medium high heat. Add bananas, lime juice and pineapple; cook 1 minute, stirring frequently. reduce heat to medium -low. gently stir in pineapple topping; cook 3-4 minutes, stirring occasionally, until warmed. gently stir mandarin oranges.

5. In medium bowl beat whipping cream and icing with electric mixer on high until soft peaks form.

6. to serve, top flat cakes with warm pineapple topping and orange cream.

Hints- when we first made this I didn't have the ice cream topping or the lime juice instead we used crushed pineapple instead of tidbits.

So give this a try and let me know what you think.

Musuem Trip

This year instead of going somewhere fun out of state for are family vacation we stayed here. We took one day before school started and choose some museum's around Salt lake to visit. We started at the Living Planet Aquarium The Coolest things there were the octopus, they had three types of jelly fish one kind changed colors. The Sting rays you could feel, they were rubbery and slimy. It was something to visit once and then never go back again. It is very small and for the price they charge it doesn't seam worth it.

Then it was lunch time, so we thought the boys might like the Mayan Restaurant. they liked the cliff divers, although we didn't much like the food.

Randy's friend had told him about this store called the NPX. He told him it was off of 215 and California Ave. We couldn't find it, so we pulled into a gas station and looked it up in the phone book and found three listings we choose the closes to where we were. It is off of Redwood rd. and a block south of California and a block west of redwood rd, so much for it being right off of 215 and California.
Its kind of a warehouse store, its worth going to if you're in the area but not worth just going to.

Then we headed to the Discovery Museum at the Gateway mall. Buy the time we got there we only had an 1 1/2 to go through it. The coolest part I thought was the ball area. the Tyler like the news station area, he is very into watching the news lately , so I think he like the idea of sitting behind the news desk. Clays favorite was the climbing wall. It wasn't as fun as we thought it would be. So since we were at the gateway and Randy had never been to the Clark Planetarium we visited it. My favorite thing there is watch the pendulum,and how the earth is moving making it move. I think Randy's favorite was the moon rocks and the meteorites and the boys like the 2news weather board.

All in all we had a great time, but we were all a little disappointed in the museum's. We probably well never go back to any of them again. But it was fun spending time together as a family. next year we will have to do something fun and exciting.

Clays 9th Birthday

For Clays birthday this year he wanted to play Flag Football with his friends so for his present we bought him the kit so they could play

Clay

Garret and Brody Esplin and Clay

Jared Gaskill and Clay

Brock Allen and Clay

Brady Barker and Clay

Caleb Wilkins and Clay

Travis Christensen and Clay

Cody and Clay

Norman Dinkins and Clay

Andrew Palmer and Clay

Riley Andersen and Clay

Utah County Fair

A day at the County Fair. It was so fun to go to the fair withe family. My favorite part was the horse roping. Clay and Tyler the the carnival rides. Clay rode his very first adult carnival ride. I hope we do it again next year.