Happy Pioneer Day everyone!  In case you don’t know what Pioneer Day is, it is a state holiday to celebrate the pioneers who made the trek to settle here in Utah.  It is also an excuse for us to have parades and set off fireworks. IMG_9683.JPG IMG_9694.JPG

We finally got the Dry pack canner. We signed up for it several months ago and our turn came and we took advantage of it. As you know from my previous post we had recently bought 500 lb. of wheat and some flour, sugar, and oats. It all needed to be put into cans for [...]

We just got back from a reunion in Colorado Springs. This was my first time visiting that city and we had a lot of fun. We had lots of activities planned and only 3 days to do them all. We arrived at the Cheyenne Mountain resort on Tuesday evening after driving all day. We were [...]

We just got back from our fathers and sons camp out. We only had to travel about 15 miles from our home to get to the campsite, it is up Spanish Fork canyon. The first thing we did was setup the tent. The ground was so hard I could not get the tent stakes in [...]

It was our anniversary on the 16th. Can you believe that we have been married 10 years? Sometimes I am amazed that Jennifer put up with me for that long. I probably would have given up on me a long time ago. I don’t have any pictures from our date, but on Saturday we had [...]

We had a fun fathers day, as I am sure most of you fathers did. The kids all gave me presents. Raelynn put together a scavenger map that I had to follow. At the end I had to search my room to find her gift. My first two guesses were not correct but, on the [...]

It was Jaren’s birthday on Thursday. Can you believe that he is 6 already? Time really does fly. On Tuesday Jennifer put on a little friends party

We because of our recent brush with a bandit we decided to take our kids to an open house our local jail was having. They had just finished a large expansion project and wanted to let the community come and see. We were hoping to show the kids how bad it was in Jail, but [...]

We were out side last night enjoying the evening when these small birds started swarming around our flowers. At least we thought they were birds. They were hovering around the flowers like humming birds, but they didn’t make any noise. So I decided to go get my camera and take come pictures. It was not [...]

We’ve been robbed. Well, not really, but we did have this really cute bandit come by our house.