This season we have been blessed to have eaten many lovely fruits and vegetables.  Also we have been able to freeze, dry and bottle some food for the winter.  These preservings include: Apricots, apples, grape juice, pears, plums, tomatoes, raspberries, chard,  corn, squash, and dried basil.

Dinner with Hunters and McHenrys

We got together with the Hunters and McHenrys and had a dinner at our home.  We had a fun time visiting and catching up on what has been going on since Bryan, Stephen and Joel were released from the Murray Parkway Stake Presidency a few months back.  It was good to be together.  Bryan and I presented them with a blog book of pictures and captions recapping the last nine years of Stake Presidency events.  They all seemed to appreciate the book.  Pres Hunter looked carefully at each page.  We also made a copy for ourselves and enjoy reflecting on the many shared experiences. We were very impacted by the experiences of sharing time with many people over the last nine years.

Walking

We had kept our goal to walk together for quite a while now   since we got back from Alaska last year (2013)  it is fun to talk and walk and sometimes we don't talk we just walk (in the early hours)
On week days we generally start a little before six and end at six thirty, and get in about 1.88 mile  On weekends we some times walk on the parkway for an hour plus and get in anywhere from 4-6 mi.
  in addition dad has been biking up to 11 miles at a wack and I have been doing exercise routines on dvd's.  I listening to the Book of Mormon recordings while I exercise.  quite a combination, but it works. (;   we both are in good health at the present time and hope to continue in this for a very long time.  Our eating has been better too.  Bryan has lost a lot and  I have lost a little too.  We are very blessed.  The warm weather has made it fun to be outside.  we have also done some hikes.  Life is good

Red Butt gardens

Family Home evening Ensign Peak

For Family Home evening this week (Mon Oct 20) we bought some sub sandwiches and hiked up Ensign Peak.  It was a beautiful night  we read the plaques telling the story of Brigham Young and other early Saints hiking this peak and pondering on how to organize this valley.  They stayed there on the peak pondering and praying.  We like wise  stayed there and pondered and enjoyed the sunset and prayed in our hearts for all our family and gave thanks to our father in Heaven.  We witnessed a beautiful sunset and then stayed till the city lights came on.  We met a couple from Argentina.

Secret Lake Fall 2014

It was a relaxing and fun afternoon at the Lake

Loving fall

Loving fall weather and fall outings

Had such a great 56 birthday

So fun to celebrate birthday with Bryan and our family and food around us and love notes and phone calls 

End of a great year

I come to the end of a great year  I had so much fun in my 55th year  can't wait to see what I get to journal and do in my 56th year.  I have a great appreciation for a mother and father (Ray and Maeda) who had the faith to have a 7th baby  and I love my siblings for helping to raise me.
    I love Bryan who has made my life so happy for so many years  I always say that was the best descision I ever made in mortality was marrying him.  I am thankful for my Hayley, Brad, Bryan and Nancy who have long made my life so wonderful.  Thankful for Joe, Kerri, Brianne, and Stephen who make our family complete.  Thankful for Abbie, Adrianna, Megan, Kyle, Mayley, Hogan, Hunter, Kaci, Forrest, Radley, and Lucy  who are like dessert to me at the end of a good meal.  They are the sweetest kids in the world
I AM THE MOST BLESSED WOMEN IN THIS WORLD. --

and I don't care who knows it(:

Happy birthday Abbie

Happy 12th birthday Abbie 

You are such great part of our family

You make our lives Happy