my heart is so full of gratitude for so many blessings

introducing: our latest blessing....

Hogan

born Mon Nov 8, 2010

weighing in at 7lbs 0 oz

18 inches long

lots of dark hair

and cute cute cute

see pics attached

Proud grandparents Bryan and Lynda

Proud parents

bryan Scott Call, and Brianne Call

brother and sister Mayley and Hunter

mom and baby doing great--it all went smoothly with no complications and all are doing well tonight--I'm tellin' ya this boy is handsom (grandmother speaking) but truly he is and now I say this is one of the many blessings that I am thankful for in the wonderful month of giving thanks

I have been wearying the Lord with my petitions that all would go well and I am so thankful that it did and that he has come from Heaven so recently and reminds us of all that we cherish.-

Fri we had some time to go through American Fork canyon and planned to go all the way to the Alpine scenic route and over to Cascade springs, and enjoy this beautiful late fall. Our plans were shifted as the gate over part of the route was closed--but we still ate lunch in the mountains and it was beautiful.. and it was a beautiful drive up as far as Timpanogus cave.
we are enjoying the great outdoors this fall. We also enjoyed just being out side cleaning up the yard for winter. Dad trimmed back the lilock bushes, and tilled the garden and mowed and such

we had a great fall so far...

this scone dough rising, we made about four larges batches of dough then dad rolled it out and had it all ready and pre-cut in scones and on cookie sheets and in the fridge. he cooked them and I passed them out and helped with the cinnamon sugar --we lost count but estimated that we served between 150 and 175 scones--even on that cold, rainy night

Halloween night was a great way to end October-the scones were a big success and went smoothly and we had many positive comments for serving hot scones on a cold night. It seems it will be a tradition of ours for years to come, as it has become a tradition of the neighbors to enjoy them. so time will tell, but for now dad and I worked like a team and pulled it off again and had a ball doing it. dad dressed up in his drivers license jacket and border patrol hat, I wore overalls and lots of makeup and ratted up my hair...

learning new things...improving on the old things

a fun part of life to me is learning new things, I also like to learn from all you in my family and neighborhood too. this past week yoko k. taught me in her home one afternoon to chop and cook some Japanese rice and food, then we shared time eating it together, it was fun. She made the comment, that food always taste better together shared--I have to agree. I wasn't sure if the pics does it justice--but just so you get a feel -I enclosed a couple of pics. it was delicious--I would pass along her teachings to anyone who wants to learn--Bryan likes Japanese food so that was my motivation for learning to do it. I have tried for 31 years to do it and each time I get a little better. Now with Yoko's help --I feel excited to cook it.

Happy Halloween --boys and Ghouls....

pics from last Halloween---

friends and family "ghouls and boys"-Come over for Scones Sat

Just for fun--...

a fun tradition we started a few years back was to cook scones, so just inviting you to join in if you are out and about Sat night--we'll do our level best to make the best scones ever!

Happy Halloween!!!!!!!! BE SAFE

grandkid-fall fest-Call style

It turned out that some of the grandkids were going to be here yesterday Sat. So we got thinking we should have a grandkid "fall fest' in the front room--so
*we dressed up in costumes, rang the doorbell and had grandpa pass out baggies of goodies that Hayley had prepared into baggies,.
*at the door the girls also gave grandpa Halloween cards that they had signed...
*we played a musical 'card' game --like musical chairs only we sat on some Halloween pictures on cards
*we played a game when you roll a big dice labeled the sides of the dice labeled as follows
Pit crew man (hunter) , Jack o' Lantern(anna), , witch(abbie) , Princess (mayley, Cow(kaci), Cat(megan)-then when they rolled they picked little prizes out of a sack- later we chuckled because megan told nancy--I chose a little dog and its not real and "so you'll let me keep this dog"--
*We also had a chance to make "witches brew" they added the ice cream, sherbert, raspberries and strawberries and honey--which in the end turns into a delicious smoothie.
*we had 'ghost popcicles' = white cloth with faces over the popcylce
* we had a big refrigerator box--to crawl through to let them call it their 'spook alley' but it promptly got dubbed by hunter as the 'garage' for cars and instead all the kids took small cars in it--later that night--some of the kids drew pics on the walls of the box and decorated it up cute
* lastly we finished off a batch of scones (Halloween scones aka. navajo tacos) a trial run on the scones that we will serve up to the neighborhood kids--next sat.
* then their parents came back from girl's day out, and from looking at vans and it was fun.

well Dad is an incredible gardner

I also baked cinnamon rolls and 'swiss bread' go with the yummy corn

I was a little scepticle last July 24th when dad planted corn just for fun. In honor of the pioneers planting corn that late in the season in 1847--well--they had corn that year and so did we!! woo
we ate it for dinner last night and it was delicious and though we may not do that next year it was a fun experience/experiment to try to see what we could do--just for fun.
We had originally planted squash in the spot where the corn was and it didn't make it--so that was part of the reason for the late planting too--so now we know -- corn can make it (if you have a beautiful fall like we've had, and if you don't care if you have to wait all that time for all that yummy home grown corn goodness).