Achievement day girls make scarecrows

The girls did a really good job making scarecrows

Loving fall 2014

Nice warm turkey soup 

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.