Halloween!

If you know me at all you know I love to decorate. Let alone decorate for Halloween. This what I have come up with so far.

Gravel!

I finally got gravel in these two places. I wish I would have taken a before picture, so you can understand just how excited I am. We layed the turf barrier but wasn't able to do any thing further till this week. the wind would blow, and pick the barrier up and whip it around till it ripped some of it completely off. I replace the ripped part and then layed all the gravel I was doing it in the evening, and by the time I was done I had very little light left. I didn't get a good look at it till the next morning. i cant believe the difference it makes. It make it look so much more manicured.

My dresser

I have been looking for a dresser just like this one for 8 months at yard sales, and my trusty, reliable, Deseret Industries. That is where I found it. Good old DI. I had found one just a few days before this one, and I had been looking so long, I just about bought it. The thing that stoped me was, I thought it was to long. I am so glade I waited. This one was in better condition. All I had to do was reattach some of the drawer tracks, paint it, and add new hardware.  I put all my table linens in it, because just to the right is my table.

Yum!

I had to post this one, because Randan is very proud of this batch of cinnamon rolls (he said it was his best yet). He came home one night, and wanted to make some cinnamon rolls, and who am I to stop him. I have to agree they were awesome. I made the frosting. That was the deal. He did the rolls, and I would make the frosting. I didn't put any frosting on this roll I wanted you to see the roll not a blob of frosting.

Canning!

This is what I have been doing most of September. It all started with frozen raspberry, and strawberry jam. (Which like a idiot, I forgot to put them in my picture) then apricot juice, tomato's, apple pie filling, apples, peaches and finally pears. It was allot of work, but oh so worth it. The bottom picture is of Tucker when he got the strainer stuck on his head. I laughed and laughed. It was my first year of REALLY canning I have done a batch of jam here and there, but never at this level. It was totally fun,but I am all canned out. For this season at least.
P.S. I also did some peach jam which I also forgot to take a picture of.

Fishing and Camping!

There is good, and horrible news this go around. The good news is that we went camping, and fishing this last week end. We hooked up my Mother, and Father-in-laws camper, and went up the hill for two night's. On Saturday we went fishing at Oak's park. There is a spill way there, that if running right, you just toss your line out, and you catch a fish. None of this waiting around business. This was Tucker's first time fishing, and he loved it. He caught 7 fish (with a little help of course). The picture just above is his face as we rilled in the second fish. I would hold Tucker, as Randan would toss out the line, snag a fish, and then let Tucker real it in. It is a jagged steep hill.  I hung on to Tucker as tight as I could so he wouldn't fall in and get caught in the current. Here is the horrible news.  Just after I took the bottom picture, I handed the camera to Randan to take a picture of Tuckers face, and my 6 month old camera fell in the water. Yes you guessed it. It is ruined. It wont close the lens or even turn on for that matter. I wanted to cry.   It is a lot of work to go camping, but always worth it.

Dinoasurs!

This is Tucker's new thing. He loves Dinosaurs! The other day I was doing something that I thought was "Very important,"  and Tucker came up to me saying, "Mom come follow me, my Dinosaur is a sleep" It took him a few time's of saying this for me to wake up and listen to him. I followed him into his room,  he crawled up into his bed, and laid by his "Sleeping Dino." When times like this happen I have to remember to listen to him the first time. He needs to know I care about the things he finds fun, and interesting.