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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Awesome Blog that I found by chance

This lady is amazing! She has some really cool, fun craft ideas. I am now a follower :)
Check out her blog here: http://www.projectnaptime.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

School is back in session, the days are getting shorter, the weather is getting cooler, the trees are starting to change colors. Deer season opens tomorrow. We are getting to may favorite time of the year. As I look back over the last few months I am reminded just how blessed I really am. I have an amazing family. I was able to take the whole summer off and enjoyed every minute of it. I learned a lot about gardening and canning. I have enough jam, spaghetti sauce, peppers and zucchini to last me until next gardening season and I am so very proud of that! I am looking forward to adding more variety to my garden next year, and hopefully my blueberries will take off.

Some of the fun things we were able to do included going to the zoo and we got to go in to pet the stingrays. We also had a chance to get away for a weekend at Sam A Baker State Park and spent a day at Elephant Rocks. We were hoping to get more chances to do some camping but maybe we'll have better luck next year.

I had the opportunity to be a camp advisor for our Young Womens group this year and it was an experience I will never forget. The girls are such an inspiration to me. I also got to coach the girls volleyball team this year and just this past weekend we had our tournament. We had enough girls to make 2 teams so we split up...and took 1st and 2nd place! They were awesome!

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Tomato heaven...

So my tomatoes are growing great this year, though it is kinda hard to tell just how good from this picture. Lemme explain. This is a picture of just 3 of the plants, which were each planted with a minimum of 3 ft between them. They are now chest high on me and full of tomatoes. I only have 8 plants in the garden right now but I have more seeds started to extend my growing season. I am hoping to be able to can a lot of sauce this year. Speaking of canning, I finally learned how to do it...and I have been canning green beans and jams for the last 2 days! I am so glad I know how to do this now. I just have to go buy my own pressure canner now. I am borrowing one from a friend and am VERY grateful for it. :) I am also grateful for the girls of the gardening club that helped to make this all possible!

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Iron Rod Experience

What a great idea! The Young Women leaders planned a really cool Iron Rod activity for the girls. We camped out Friday night and they had a hike set up for the girls. The ward pitched in and loaned 950 ft of rope to construct the "Iron Rod" It led through a nicely cut trail past the Great and spacious building, then got into some rougher terrain (fallen trees and rocks, sticks etc) The girls were blindfolded through "the mist of darkness" and were being tempted/encouraged by some adult volunteers, to let go of the rod to make the hike easier. I am happy to say all of the girls held tight and made it through to the Tree of Life safely. We had a lot of fun and we are really excited about girl's camp now.

We didn't go completely without incident though. We found out that Tarzan (or girl's mimicking him) are NOT invincible LOL

Sunday, June 6, 2010

ScoutQuest 100

Scoutquest was a BLAST!!! We had so much fun! There were more than 20,000 scout and leaders there, not including the parents that just randomly showed up (like me) There were so many things to see and do. Here are just a few of the pictures I took while we were there.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

FCCLA Officer installation

Sierra was elected as an Officer for her FCCLA chapter for the 2010-2011 school year. This is her 2nd year as an officer. I am so proud of her. She has already decided on her first major project for the year.