MISCELLANEOUS CUTIES

Katie with Emily's sunglasses.

Katie wearing her daddy's church shoes.

Katie playing dress up and shopping blowing kisses "bye-bye".

Emily giving her daddy a Sunday afternoon kiss.

QUICK TRIP TO SUN VALLEY

Jeff was working in Sun Valley for the week. He ended up having his very own room at the Sun Valley Lodge. So, I took advantage. I packed up the kids and went to Sun Valley for a night. We had a fun time getting away. We got there in time for dinner and to hang out with dad that evening. Then, left the next afternoon back to Twin Falls.

Emily and Jared loved watching the ice skaters on the ice rink behind the lodge.

Katie doddled (sp?) behind us as we came back from dinner. She was enjoying a piece of chocolate and strolling along the path watching the swans and the ducks in the pond on front of the lodge.

She is loving the chocolate. They come to your room every night for a "turn down service" where they prepare your bed for you and leave you chocolate!

Emily made her own bed on the suitcase rack.

Emily and Jared wake up watching PBS the next morning.

FALL AFTER WINTER?

I love fall. Emily and Katie and I visited the pumpkin patch with Emily's class. Here are some pictures...

Emily and Katie in our front yard trying to take a picture, but mommy put them looking right into the sun.

At the pumpkin patch posing for another photo..."C'mon mom! Let's just go in!"

Wagon ride.

"I don't want to take another picture! I'm not even going to look!"

Emily wanted to pull the wagon.

Katie likes the ride.

Emily decides she wants to ride. Or was it, Katie decided she wanted to pull?

SNOW IN OCTOBER?

We had a cold snap in mid October. The kids loved it. We got all excited for winter. They went outside to play in the fresh snow that only lasted the weekend. Then, back in the 70's. That's Idaho for ya! Here's some cute pics of them in the snow.

EMILY TURNS 3

Emily turned 3 years old and chose to have a "Princess Party". Below are pictures (in reverse chronological order) of her special day...

Emily got a play kitchen from mom and dad. She and Katie (and even Jared) play with it and love it.

Emily taking a moment to pose for a picture while eating her birthday cake.

Emily blowing out the candles on her princess birthday cake.

Morgan (cousin), Emily, Madison (cousin), Kayla (friend) sporting their tiarras and princess wands.

Emily posing before her guests arrive.

Mom curled her hair for her party.

Pretty Birthday Princess, Emily Grace.

The spread (food).

The decorations.

Another view of the spread and decorations.

The princess table.

The princess cake.

Aunt Amy bought Emily some pink cowboy boots. She wore them for about 2 weeks straight and is still wearing them. YEEEEHAAAAWWW!

Pink boots.

JAM

We have ONE apricot tree in our yard. Unlike last year when we let them all go to waste, this year we picked them and picked them and are still picking them! The branches were so heavy with fruit, they layed on the ground. We gave so much away and ended up keeping a whole bunch!

We picked, washed, pitted, blended and froze them until I was ready to make jam. We ended up keeping over 150 cups of blended fruit! That was just a small portion of what we gave away.

So, the past several days, I entered the jam making world and I love it! I now have jams up to my eyeballs, but what a fun thing to do. I look forward to giving it as Christmas gifts. Here's the statistics:

2 1/2 days
125 lbs of sugar
1 1/2 cases of pectin
2 1/2 cubes of butter
3 bottles of lemon juice
17 cases of jam jars
150 + cups of fruit
1 burned oven mitt
1 good time

Emily even helped and I look forward to the day when my girls and I spend time making jam together! I will post pictures later.

SUMMER 2008

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL

Emily's first day of "school". She goes to the Toddler Lab 2 days each week for 1 1/2 hours each time. At first she was a bit shy, but warmed up right after snack time. She loves it!

FAIR
Grandma Sue and Papa took the children to the Twin Falls County Fair. Their cousins Tristan, Ethan and Maddison also joined them. They all had such a great time riding rides and eating all the junk food they wanted! Even Katie got to enjoy some rides.

HAWAII
We went to a Hawaiin themed birthday party for a friend of ours. We got all dressed up and had a fun time at the party.

Me and my belly at 7 1/2 months pregnant with #4!

YOGURT PAINTING
Emily and Jared were painting one afternoon. So, I put Katie in her highchair and let her "paint' with yogurt. She loved it, but definetly made a mess!

MISCELLANEOUS

Here are some miscellaneous pictures of the children just hanging out this summer.

We have ONE apricot tree in our yard. This year, we decided to do something with them. So, we have been very busy this summer picking apricots and throwing the bad ones over the fence for the horses next door. We spend many hours picking, pitting, blending and freezing. I recently made some jam and syrup. Eight dozen jars and still plenty of apricots left. Keep posted in your mailbox for a treat! (Really, send me your address and I will mail you some jam!)

Here is Jared working hard (heeheehee) at picking apricots...

4TH OF JULY
For 4th of July, we went to Murphy's Hot Springs to the cabin. Emily loved fishing and Jared even went floating down the river with his dad.