I'm Thankful for . . .

these noodleheads. I love them so very much!

Feelin' Domestic

Mmm, canned apple pie filling for my food storage pantry. I would've never thought to can apple pie filling except for: #1 at RS enrichment they had a class about food storage and the table decoration was jars of apple pie filling - and it looked soo good. #2 My MIL cleaned out her shed and gave me all her old jars. #3 Justin declared his love for apple pie. #4 Apples were on sale for $1 per pound. So with those four things combined, how could I not make can apple pie filling? It was my first attempt at canning and I'm soo thankfull all the jars sealed ok. It was a fun Sunday afternoon project and Macey loved "helping" peel the apples.

Failed Attempt

At doing our own Christmas pictures.

More Pictures

Macey with a mouthful of smarties.

Trunk-or-treat.

This is for Grammy since she doesn't get to see Macey all dressed up cute for church.

I knew she was in the laundry room but I didn't know she could get herself into the washer. It was quiet and then I hear "Mom!, Mom!" she's never really got herself into a space she couldn't get herself out of so it was kinda' funny.

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween everyone! A lot has been going on lately and I have failed to blog all about it. We're having baby next March and we are soo excited about it. I think I'm past the worst of the morning sickness and I'm finally feeling like a human again. I can't seem to get blogger to re-arrange my pictures so here they are out of order. Hopefully I'll get some cuter ones at the trunk or treat tonight. The first picture of us singing "Happy You" to the "punkey" before we blow the candle out. Somehow Macey associates blowing out candles with singing the Happy Birthday song. I guess that would make sense since most of the candle blowing out happens at a birthday party.



This picture I had to put in because it shows just how stinkin' stubborn she is lately. I don't have hardly any good pictures of her the last three months because she puts her hands on her face and runs away. I thought if I sat with her she would have anywhere to go to, but she fought it.
Her witch costume really is super cute. However, she won't keep her hat or her orange tulle skirt on. At least she keeps her "spidey" cape on.
Carving "punkeys" at Grammys house for FHE. Justin did all the carving because Macey and I don't like to get our hands gooey. We just supervised.
Just us witches. Don't mind my crazy eyes. I have a hard time not blinking when the flash goes off so I try to hold them as open as I can.

Popcorn Popping

I seem to have lost the camera cord to the camera that has lots of pictures from our trip last weekend. So until I find it all you get is pictures of Macey singing "Popcorn Popping." It's the only way I can get her to hold still for two seconds!

(Notice the blankey behind her, she folded that over the bench all by herself, I guess it needed some cushioning)

"It wasn't really soo . . . ."

What's Going On

After I finished the Old Red Barn quilt I realized I had enough scraps left over to make a baby quilt. (I have no idea why blogger is underlining everything). At about the same time I got a bench to go in the entryway. So I made a coin quilt to go on the bench. I need more decorating ideas for it though. Like maybe a mirror above it or some kind of vinyl sign. Decorating is not my forte. I still haven't decided what kind of curtains I like, therefore we have no curtains and we've lived here for years. So I'm happy my new quilts take the blahness out of the room and give it a little color.
Here it is full size. After getting everything quilted together I realized all I had left was one 2.5 inch strip. I was cutting it close! The backside is selveges of the other quilt. Good thing it's all polka dot so it's not super obvious that it's actually 16 pieces of fabric sewn together. Usually a backing is has 1 seam down the back and that's it. But who cares? It's expensive fabric and I wasn't going to let it sit in my material box. I quilted it myself with my mom's sewing machine. It has a handy dandy walking foot attachment (she acutally bought the attachment for me so I could quilt with it, she's soo nice :-). But the thing that made it quilt so nice was the fabric adhesive I sprayed inbetween the layers. Macey wanted to "help" me of course and got covered in a mist of the adhesive and then played with the scraps of batting. I wish I would've got a picture of her, it was soo dang funny. She looked like a little dog with fur.

For Pioneer Day my parents invited us to go 4-wheeling with them up Beaver mountain. The weather was soo nice and once we got up really high it even got a little chilly. Macey loved riding the 4-wheelers.

So much so that she fell asleep! Good thing Grandma was there to hold her head.

Here's Kirby and Josh at the top of one of the trails. I just realized I don't have a picture of Dad and Taylor on the other 4-wheeler. Whups!

Here's Justin on his motorcycle.

These mountain biking pictures are from June when Justin went biking at the Grand Canyon with a group of his friends.

And here's a picture of the group that he went with.

And this is from the fourth of July. We hiked up Angels Landing in the morning. We always stop at Scout Outlook. I don't dare go any farther than that or my knees starting shaking and I get really nauseaus. One day I'll conquer my fear of heights. But not today. After that we hiked down to the trooper and had lunch, went home, took a nap and then went swimming and watched fireworks. I'd say it was one of our best fourth of July's yet.