Trip to Arizona

We headed South with Grandma Dallas over Fall Break to Arizona to spend some time with Steve & Leeann's family (Jared's brother's family).  We had an amazing time and loved the beautiful hikes, an awesome natural history museum, the warm weather, and most of all time with family. Jared and Steve both served missions to South Korea and so the brothers put together a delicious Korean meal one night.  We also were able to go to Ben's band concert which was a lot of fun (he is so very talented), and celebrated Emily's birthday.

 The twins favorite part of the trip were the dancing cats at the restaurant Organ Pizza.  If you want a good show this is the place to go.  This man puts on a spectacular organ performance, to understand it you just have to go, very unexpected.

The pictures below are from the Arizona Museum of Natural History.  It was a super fun, interactive museum.

 We took home a nice sized bag of gold after panning for gold at this museum.

We had such a wonderful time with Grandma, we were so glad that she came with us!  It was especially great to have Grandma entertain the kids the entire 9+ hour drive.  Here Amelia is helping Grandma sew. One more highlight for the kids is that we got a car 2-screen DVD player for the drive, that was a lot of fun.  

 

Canning, Freezing, Drying, and more Canning

The end of summer had been so busy, in a good way.  We'd been blessed with so many fruit and veggies! They have been so delicious. I've spent a lot of time picking, cleaning, prepping, canning (or drying or freezing), cleaning again and voila, look at my shelves.  It's funny how productive I feel when I have so many jars to display. Now that fall is coming the produce is slowing down, now I finally have time for other things.