Making my Heart Soar!

Tomorrow is our Primary Sacrament program & Emmalee & Ben have been practicing their parts.  Tonight when I was putting Ben to bed, I heard him whispering his part as he drifted off to sleep:  "I....know.......I am a.......child...of...........God."  (and then he was asleep)

And I didn't know if Ben knew most of the songs we have learned until I had the cd playing in the background & he started singing with all of the songs.  He definitely knows the songs!  What a cutie!

Fall Happiness

Fall weather makes me happy.  I love that the weather has turned cooler--although it did snow in the mountains the other morning.  

I love the cooler days (I just hope we don't get snow this early).  I would be so happy if we could have 4, or 6, or even 8 weeks of "Fall" weather:  cool nights (40's or 50's) & nice cool/comfortable days (60's or at the most, low 70's).  

 Seeing Ben be so cute makes me happy.  Ben wearing the basketball hoop toy--He said he could wear this for Halloween.

 When my kids get along & are being silly makes me happy.  Emmalee is a basketball hoop!

 This makes me EXTREMELY happy!!  A fixed washer!  I tested it out Friday night to make sure it works--and it does!

 Baking on a cool Autumn morning makes me happy.  I made chocolate chip muffins (Ben requested these) but I just used a "new" recipe & they were quite dry.  Next time I will add apple sauce to make them moist.  The other kind is a pear muffin.  I used my coconut sugar so I could eat them.  And I used twice the amount of pears that the recipe called for.  They were super delicious & moist!  

Rusty made 3 different kinds of jerky & they finished drying on Friday.  They were all yummy--I think the favorite was the hot & spice, then the onion mixture & then the teriyaki.  The teriyaki one just needed more flavoring, otherwise that would have been better.

Today I am going to go on a date with Rusty--which always includes shopping (not my favorite thing to do on a date, but what you have to do when you live an hour away from town).  But we are going to eat Chinese (another thing that makes me happy!)

Ethan also is on a date today.  He is officially in a "relationship" with a girl he met at BYU-I before his mission.  Her name is Tiffany & she if from Florida.  She was in his Family Home Evening group a couple of years ago. I have learned that she did write to him pretty consistently while he was on his mission.  And when he came back, they started talking to each other (mostly chatting on facebook) for hours, and hours, and hours ;)  

Ben listening the first time also makes me happy.

And this week, Ben went to school 1 day without me at all!!!  That really made me happy.

Ben & Emmalee misc.

Ben trying to scare me before pre-school

that's my handsome boy.  Ben is having difficulty staying at school without me there.  So I have been at pre-school for quite a few days.  I have tried a few different bribes to see if we can get him to stay without me there, but I haven't found that bribe that works yet.  He wants to come home, so I don't want to bring him home.  And he loves school & all the activities when he's there.  But we'll take one day at a time.

walking to school--I love that his backpack is almost as big as him.

Emmalee & Daddy relaxing in the hammock.  (Rusty sewed this hammock).

Emmalee playing dress-up.

what a silly little guy!

Ben & daddy in the hammock.

One of the "rules" for Ben is that if Mom has to go to school with him, then he doesn't get any TV or computer time that day.  So he pulled out a tote of puzzles & worked on puzzles all afternoon.  this is where I found him putting one of his puzzles together--on top of the table.

Holding our cat, Spike.

Zane's Football Game Sept. 13, 2013

Thursday was Pamela's birthday.  My mom, dad & sister Laurie all went to her house & I met them there Thursday afternoon.  We surprised Pamela when she came home from school.  Laurie made enchiladas & my mom made pumpkin pie for her.

Then on Friday, I drove Mom & Dad to Bancroft (N. Gem) to watch Zane's football game & Laurie waited w/Pamela until Pamela could leave school @2 to drive over to watch the game.

 Pledge of Allegiance 

Zane starts on both offense & defense. 

Taking a knee when Tresten Eddins was injured. 

Coach Farr (on the right) attending to Tresten 

Tresten's mom (Stephanie) went out to help.  (She is an EMT).  It was his knee & he couldn't put any weight on it.  They iced his knee during the game & then afterwards, drove him to Pocatello where a specialist met them to read the x-ray.  The good news is that is just a bad bruise--still painful, though. 

Love that #61! 

 The boys played hard!

 The guy in the funky pants is a news reporter from Channel 6.  We checked it out, but didn't see anything on the news last night.

 Zane catching the on-side kick--he ran it back 10-15 yards (I think--I'd have to look at the video again).

 

 We played hard but came up a bit short.  We are a young team.  We had 2 seniors, & 1 junior playing in this game vs. a team that has a varsity & jv team (lots of seniors & juniors).

 After the game.  Also--this was a hybrid game.  North Gem plays 8 man football so when they were on offense, we played an 8-man defense.  And when we were on offense, they played a 6-man defense.  So it was a bit interesting.

 6-man football is tons of fun, though!  Everyone is eligible to receive & it seems easier to play all of our boys.  (we have 15 playing).

Zane's Football Games--Aug. 29 & Sept. 6, 2013

 (Another blog post I thought I had posted)

This is a flashback picture from last season.  Zane looks sooo young!  We are missing our Tucker (we don't have any players his size on the team)

 Zane is still #61.  They are playing 6-man this year.  It looks like a fun game--lots of action for sure!

 Zane starts on both offense & defense.  We have 3 seniors playing, 1 junior, 2 freshman & 9--yes NINE sophomores playing.

 Zane is a sophomore--all of these boys in this picture are sophomores (except for Coach Farr)

 Love my #61!

 Taking a knee for an injured player.

Go Bobcats!

County Fair--Aug. 2013

(another post I found in my draft folder)

pigs getting loaded one last time.

washing the pigs & getting them ready for show.

Brienna washing her last 4-H pig.

Joni watching Brienna

Brienna's pig didn't make weight, but she was able to still show her pig.  That means we'll have a freezer full of bacon, ham & sausage!

Brienna & Zane--ready to show some pigs!

Everyone did a great job at fair this year.