Thanksgiving

We're having a fun thanksgiving down here in "Brrr" cold St. George, its only about 23 degrees today. We're sharing a condo with Rena and Ben's families, so at the crack of dawn your could hear the little ones stirring, then screaming and running around. I was hoping that the walls were thick enough between us and the other unit. Then the lines to the bathroom began with 13 people to use one bathroom - its a rush to flush. Luckily Rena's family is using the other master bathroom. Its a lot funner here than being in a motel. Its fun to see all the cousins sleeping on the floor together. We're about to stuff ourselves at our Thanksgiving feast - Mom was able to get the church - so we can relax and move around a little bit, cuz mom's house is so tiny.

Cowgirl Sheriff and Cookies

Better be careful, Sheriff Kylie is on duty! She turned out to be the cutest Sheriff ever. She even has on her cute pink Ariat Boots. I think I'll be saving this outfit for the grandkids.

 Kylie and I made these yummies cookies, they were so soft...I'll post the recipe on my other blog.

 Kylie and I love to bake together. I think she's going to be a great mother someday.

 Halloween parade @ school.

After the Halloween parade, the first grade put on an adorable program with tons of songs and poems. They'd been practicing since school started, so it was very good.

October

October this year...

1) The men are hunting
                       2)I have to teach a mini-class at homemaking night on cooking on a budget, my track record on this isn't good.  Why? Well paybacks for one (I rarely, if ever go to this) so when I have to teach anything in Relief Society (yes, I still call it that, ok) the turn-out is horrible, hence the "paybacks"  and I usually spend a ton of time preparing for 0-5 people to show up.

3) October is a time to hang-out with my sisters. Fun-times
             4) Boo-hoo, Jordyn has to have surgery.  I'm so nervous about this. I've never had any of my kids "go under the knife", except for their wisdom teeth.  I hope I'm just worrying for nothing...I do a lot of that.
5)It would be nice if the rest of the month, is just baking and playing and enjoying family.  I love OCTOBER...it's my favorite month.

I love cookies

My friend Monica is a great cook and gave me this recipe, which by-the-way is the best Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookie Recipe that I've ever used.  Go to my other blog http://www.themcentirewilsonfamilyrecipes.blogspot.com/ to get the recipe. YUMMMY

SALSA

I love canning (when it turns out). I've had plenty of things not turn out just right.  But, we found a great salsa recipe, that has lots of garlic and cilantro in it. This is about 10 batches of salsa (88 jars, some quarts, mostly pints).  Hopefully, this will last us until next summer. If you want this delicious recipe...you can go to my other blog http://www.themcentirewilsonfamilyrecipes.blogspot.com/

Lagoon

We bought season tickets to Lagoon this summer for our kids as a way to kind of make up for the cruddy summer we had last year. 

Kylie hasn't been since she was three, but she has a great memory and she remembers it well.

 I loved watching her ride on all of the kiddie rides, while Mike and the big girls went on all of the big rides. Then the kiddie rides weren't enough for this dare devil girl and she wanted to try the big rides.  So Mike took her on WICKED (even I wouldn't go on that one) She came off of it with a big smile on her face.  Then we (me included) went on the spider. Halfway through the ride, I was wondering what I was doing on it, but Miss Kylie kept on saying "this is cool." I don't know that I'm going to get her back to kiddie land. I hope so, I don't want my smallest one growing up too fast.

Tyler and Paige

Paige's Corsage

Aren't they a cute couple??  They're BFF's, they always hang out together.

I love High School Dance's.  Tyler has been lucky enough to go to every one of them, since he turned 16.  I think he's been with a different girl everytime.

Ahhh, so cute!!!

Big Berries

Check out these strawberries that we got at Costco the other day...

They're E-N-O-R-M-O-U-S. They were as big as the apples we had.