MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Our Tree!

Some of my favorite Ornaments. Mixing the old with the new!

Abby Playing with her new toys. The Fisher's gave her the Pony and she loves it. She puts the shoes on and off. Apparently it okay for ponies to be on the counter!

I took a few minutes to put together the Gingerbread House our secret Santa brought us. Quite literally it was only a few minutes. I HAD A CAKE TO MAKE!! It pretty much fell apart right afterwards. I have a hilarious video of Abby's reaction to the collapse. I just can't figure out how to upload it.

I found Abby feeding her puppy with her new dishes. :) Cute!

Yet another great use for the collapsible hamper. There are sooo many! Sleeping Bag anyone? It won't keep you warm, but you'll have one.

The first and the last wedding cake I will EVER do!
Do you like the kissing fish?

Halloween

Halloween FUN!

We had a fun Halloween this year! We had lot's of fun with friends and family. I love how the pictures upload in the wrong order and I just don't care to fix it!

Making cookies at Aunt Debbie's and Uncle Brad's

Abby Making sure the Count is ready to go! ;)

Delicious pumpkin stew for Halloween Dinner! It was fabulous! Way to go Heather!

Thursday night we had another pumpkin dinner with Cherri Kodi Charlotte Nato and Abbers and I. Also very delicious!

We dressed up for Halloween on Friday. Aren't we a great looking crew!

My little Pumpkin is GROWING!

Here she is last year in the pumpkin basket.

This is the pumpkin now.
Can't fit in is so well anymore. She had it on her head before I went to go get the camera.

BEAR LAKE

So I finally made it up to Bear Lake this year...just in time for it to snow! Abby and I went up on General Conference weekend to spend time with cousins. My sister in law Heather has family that owns several cabins up there. We had wonderful accommodations! Heat, running water, tv and kitchens! How can you beat that!

I'm so glad there are more cousins up north for Abby to hang out with!


The waiting Rock!


The kids waiting to take a turn riding on the 4 wheeler!



Weeeeeeee!!!!


First time on a motorcycle....last time on a motorcycle!



Matching Jammies! Do you love the hat! Abby does! If we ever put it on it's a struggle to get it off!


Sunday morning! Isn't it glorious!

P.S. Sorry I uploaded the pictures "small" thinking they would download faster and I could just blow them up. Uh....apparently not. Oops!

FUNNY ABBY MOMENT

Most mornings I'm half way ready for work by the time Abby lumbers out of bed. She isn't a morning person and is a bit of a bear. :) Well she's been noticing my bra's lately and she's been calling them my swimsuit. "Mom you putting on your swimsuit !?" No Abby it's a bra.

Side not: I hate clothes so I don't get fully dressed until I absolutely have to. TMI I know, but you need to know this or what she says next won't make sense.

So this morning in particular she woke up beastly as usual and she starts yelling..."that's mine"! I'm looking around for something that she can't get to...I find nothing. "THAT'S MINE!" I mean she is really upset like a teenager finding out her sister has on her favorite pair of pants. I finally look at her and to what she's pointing at and she is pointing to my "swimsuit"/bra.
OH...!
I told her that it wasn't hers and that it was mine. Obviously she was not awake enough for THAT to make sense. Well if in her head it belonged to her I simply asked if I could borrow it.

She said, "No"!

So I went to my drawer and found her this one. She seemed to be okay with that! :)

Seriously looking at that picture I don't even think she is awake! She must have been sleep walking!

NEW POST....It's about time!

Well the last we saw of the garden we were still trying to just get it cleaned up.
Since then we have planted ourVeggies...some of which survived the extremely wet spring.
Now it is harvest season and we are enjoying Apricots, Tomatoes, Tomatoes, Tomatoes, Corn, Zucchini, Zucchini, Zucchini.....sometimes we over plant certain crops! oops!


The GARDEN!

I know...thanks for the close-up right!? We successfully got, I think, 6 rows of corn going this year. Next year we can fill half of the pool and still have room for the rest of the garden. As you can almost see there is still plenty of room in the front.

I was trying to cut down all the dead branches while we had the tall ladder in the yard. Notice that you can see the yard!

Harvest! Yummy...I love having fresh veggies! The little red things in front of the basket are cherry peppers. Apparently they taste like a bell pepper, but have a mild heat to them like a mild jalapeno. They are quite tasty.
I thought they were just a jalapeno type pepper and plucked off a bunch of them when they were green thinking I don't want the pepper to be supper Hot (RED)! Then I looked at the tag that comes with the plant when you buy them and sure enough there's the picture of cherry red peppers! Duh!

We went to Rexburg last weekend. Erin was down from Washington to take pictures of Baby Kayla. She of course is always willing to do family pictures! Yeah for having a great photographer in the family!


THANKS ERIN!

I Finally Got my curtains made. Can you believe it!? I bought fabric and hated it. Luckily I had bought this at the same time and I've just not know what to do...finally I said just put something up! So I did!

Next I need to get the stinkin' electrician over to tell me what I can do to get ride that hideous light that doesn't work. I can get ride of it...I just want to know if I can put something in that WILL work.

Bits of Randomness
I haven't been on in a while so I thought I'd just throw a few things that we've been doing out there.

THE YARD: it's huge...and it's taking for ever for us to clean up! It WILL be nice when we are done though! There's Cherri and Teddy...they're our new neighbors.

Our luxurious in-ground swimming pool! It's now the Garden...weed patch really...but soon it will be a garden.

Pretty Big isn't it. It makes me not want to even try fixing it up...Too much work. I'm pretty sure that makes me lazy.

Abby and Teddy sharing some ice cream. Yummy!

This is not Abby getting into bed. This is how I found her sleeping one day when I checked on her during nap time.

Pretty Pretty Easter Dress. So Cute!

Happy Easter!

I'm finally blogging again! It's been soooo long!
I'll post a few things here all at once. First will be Easter!

Abby with her loot!

The eggs were hid in the front yard this year. To keep kids from just peeling out the front door, and seeing all the eggs before they got down the hill, Natalie decided to blind fold them and congo line them out to the front door. :)

Wait for it!

Abby's first catch of the day.

On the prowl.

Egg hunting is serious business! This is how Abby sneaks up on 'em!

So proud!

Luke likes to get the "hard" eggs! Look at that climber! Thank mom for spotting him so he doesn't fall! :)


One egg rolls away and that becomes the "it" thing to do! Watch 'em roll away! Yipee!


Easter Egg Hunts...such a great spectator sport! Right Boys!


What a gyp! There is nothing in this basket!


The end of the Big Hunt!

That Reminds Me...

You know when you're doing something and a smell or thought triggers your memories. I love that. It's happens a lot lately.

I was turning on a DVD for Abby one day and lo and behold there was a preview for Blue's Clues. It had the "new" guy, I hate the "new" guy...THAT REMINDS ME...when the "old" guy, Steve, left blues clues.

We were all gathered for Debbie's wedding at a hotel in Bountiful, UT. Heather was VERY pregnant with, I think, Renae at the time. Blue's Clues came up while we were all hanging out in one of the rooms. Heather got all sorts of emotional, tears and all, over Steve's departure. It was hilarious! It was just pregnancy funny. Every time I see blue's clues I chuckle. :)

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Sometimes a recipe calls for buttermilk. I don't use it very often ,but every time I buy buttermilk...THAT REMINDS ME...of when we used to go to the farm in Phoenix.

Whenever we went to Grandma and Grandpa Cameron's she would have something baking. Once Grandma was making a cake and I was sitting up at that little short bar watching her. She was measuring buttermilk and I asked if I could have some. She thought I might not like it, but I insisted I would, as any young child does. She got me a glass and poured me some Buttermilk. I didn't like it!

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THAT REMINDS ME...of several things...I was in CAL Ranch up here in Logan. It's a farm implement store. Every time I smell that place it reminds me of the seed room just off the kitchen on the farm. The smell is very unique and is a mix of seed, feed, and oiled farm equipment. I LOVE IT!

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When I make a pitcher of Tropical Punch Cool Aid...THAT REMINDS ME...of eating diner around the table in Grandma's kitchen. She had those little Sesame Street Tumblers with the face of one of the characters on it (Burt, Earnie, Big Bird, Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch. We always had that flavor of Cool aid. (Isn't it funny what we remember as kids)

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And here is the kicker. HAM...the smell of baking ham, especially at Easter...THAT REMINDS ME...of Grandma and Grandpa Cameron's house the most. It is a very nostalgic smell that sends me right back to their house. I LOVE IT!
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Okay one more on visits to Grandma and Grandpa Cameron's. Jammie time. After Abby has taken a bath....THAT REMINDS ME...of bath time at the Farm. We would take our baths and then get our Jammies on. It reminds me of the days when we wore the ones with the top and bottoms that buttoned in the middle. So when I'm wrestling with Abby it reminds me of bath times at G&G house!


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This one is odd I know. Some times my nails actually grow. My pinky nail seems to grow the longest. When it grows really long and pretty...THAT REMINDS ME...of moms nails. When I was younger I was amazed that nails could grow that long and pretty. So every once and a while I get long pretty nails like mom. Saddly it's not that often. :(

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Staufers Chocolates...THAT REMINDS ME...of Easter when Grandma and Grandpa Crandall would come to visit from Kearny. One Easter they brought us each a sampler box of chocolates. She handed me mine and gave me a big "BUSTY" hug. Grandma was well endowed and she gave big bear hugs. So forever more little yellow boxes of chocolates remind me of BIG hugs from Grandma! :)

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Making the bed....THAT REMINDS ME...of when we G&G Crandall would come to town and spend the night. Grandpa would wake up in the morning and pay us a BUCK! if we would make his bed. You know it was more to give us a buck, than cause he was lazy! ;)


I could go on all day...THAT REMINDS ME...I should get back to work! ;)

IT's FINISHED!!!

I've been dragging this rocking horse around FOREVER! One of the runners was broken and I knew I could fix it....6 years later!

Abby didn't trust my skills at putting it back together so she did it herself. ;)

Yep...tighten all the screws!

Ready to ride!!!

Abby likes to climb into things. This is obviously tons of fun sitting in a hamper in the middle of the hall with a toy. Let me climb in with you!

Abby got a car city from Grandma for her Birthday! So much fun. She's not spoiled or anything!