Happy Birthday Opa!!

Dear Opa,

We hope you have a wonderful birthday!!
We miss you!

Love,

Lindsey, Manuel, Gabe, Paisley and Cambrey

Labor Day Week

This week was a lot of fun. We spent Labor Day with the family. A pic-nic at a park in Alpine with Grandma and a BBQ with Grandpa. He made homemade rootbeer, ribs, corn on the cob, dutch oven sour dough bread, pickled onions, dutch oven beans, and we had salad and my homemade cherry bars. It was yummy. Crista surprised us all with a slide show of grandpa's mission pictures. It was fun!

Paisley started clogging this week. She loves it! On Saturday we took the kids to temple square for the first time. We also ate at the Garden for the first time - on top of the Joseph Smith Memorial building. The kids were so happy and so good. They loved the temple and have been talking about it ever since.

September

To pass time while we wait to sell our house, we have been canning and cooking. I think we have enough food storage now to feed our family for 6 months (well...we are getting there). If an earthquake or world crisis occurs and you don't hear from us, at least you'll know we're not starving. Our garden has produced so much this year and we are making all kinds of yummy treats. Visit my food blog to see what we have been making http://cookwithlindsey.blogspot.com/

Projects

For the new house I decided to decorate with refurbished items from the D.I. I want things that are unique and I don't want to spend a lot of money. As you can see these random, unattractive items are going to transform over the next few months and I cant wait to show you the "vision". Most of the items are either for the girls' rooms or the kitchen. Stay tuned...