Addie was partying hard.

Dawson thinks he is pretty tricky, after all he is one now.

The Stove is Here !!!!

Well the new stove is in and hooked up and functioning wonderful!!!! I broke it in first by canning... 9 qts of stewed tomatoes ( just what was picked from our little garden this week ) and 38 pints of chicken tenders. A friend at work got the chicken for me. It comes in bulk for a cheap price so you have to do something with it...so someone else from work said she bottles it, so we thought we would give it a try. I will let you know how it taste, but I am thinking for chicken salads for enchiladas etc it will be so easy just open a bottle and there you go!!

Is it sad that you can be so excited about a new stove????

Is it a sign that you are getting old when the highlight of your week is that your husband bought you a new stove. To say the least our old stove has been a trial for quite awhile. Since not long after we bought it none of the ignitors on the stove top would light on their own. We have had to use a lighter to start them, a bit of a hassle to say the least and the oven took at least half an hour to preheat. I could be wrong but I think that is a bit long. It had also started lately to blowing the oven door open when you would start to preheat the oven....scary huh???? So any way we went looking for a new stove last Saturday. Part of the fun was convincing Mark that it would be nice to have more than just the basic model and that a double oven would be so much nicer for family dinners and just using the small one for little things for just him and I would also be much more efficient. I tend to be the one that likes a little nicer things while Mark can just as easily function with the basics. (Can you say opposites attract.) Well as you can guess Mark gave in and bought his sweetie the stove that she wanted!!! What a sweetheart huh?!?!?!?! We haven't actually got it in the house yet...we have to go back up sometime this week and pick it up, they had to get one in from RC Willey's warehouse in Salt Lake, but here is a picture that I found on the internet. Pretty huh???!!!!

Oops Grandpa is 85

I got an email from my Kirma stating that I miss calculated Dad's birthday and that he is 85. I was just guestimating from when I could remember celebrating his 80th but I must have lost a year. Kirma said that Dad was 21 when she was born so.....you do the math about how old that makes her...hehehe :)

Grandpa's Birthday Party

Alice planned a birthday party for Dad this past Sunday, his birthday is the 2nd of Sept. Her two daughters and husbands were there as well as Rod, Bobbi, Fred, Kathy, Mark and myself. The food was delicious and the company even better. It was fun to get together and visit and enjoy each others company. Fred took a picture of the whole crew but I don't have a copy of it. I will try and get it and post it if possible.