My First Pie--EVER!

So, Wednesday night I made a pie for Thanksgiving--from SCRATCH. My mother assigned me a cherry pie and I didn't want to just buy one. I found a great recipe online and, after several attempts to find the cherries, finally made my pie. It turned out beautiful and tasted even better! I must thank the lady who put her recipe online.

Thanks, Mari Anne Warren Milton from Wisconsin! It was delicious!!

Big Night for Scouts

Wahoo!! Tonight both Baxter and Zander received major scouting awards. Baxter earned his Outdoorsman, which was the final step to earning his Webelos badge--so he received that too! Zander earned his Wolf badge and 3 arrowpoints--1 gold, 2 silver! What a big night for them both. I'm so proud of my two scouts. They worked so hard to get here. Good job boys!

Let's Give Thanks

This past week has been quite overwhelming with news of both extremes. It's definitely led me to contemplate both our mortal and our eternal existence. I hope this coming holiday we all remember to give thanks to our Heavenly Father for his amazing gift of life.





Temporality

It's difficult and troubling
And wonderful and rich.
It's heartbreaking and uplifting
This grand and worldly gift.

Through laughter and through sorrow,
'Midst realms of this abyss,
Indeed we must remember
How beautiful life is.

I wrote this poem today for my sister. I love you, Noel!

Halloween: Here and Gone

What a fun Halloween we had this year! So many things happened I decided to post a slideshow for your viewing pleasure. Parties, Witches' night out, Trunk-or-Treat. It's all here!

How is it almost October?

Okay, so I slacked off in the blog department for the past, oh, 4 months! Quick recap--summer happened, now it's fall.

We celebrated a few birthdays, including Syler's 1st!!!











We squeezed in one great vacation in August. Disneyland, plus the beach, plus Palm Springs equals good times.







Syler had surgery on his neck as soon as we got back from vacation. The surgery went extremely well. Sy is doing great, but developed a strong aversion to doctors. We hope he'll grow out of that quickly. ;)

Finally, the kids made it back to school and we marked the occasion with family photos.




And that ends our exciting summer recap.

Stay tuned for (what I hope to be more frequent) updates coming soon...