Girl's Day Out

We love to have "girl's days out". I decided it was time to start having them with the grand-daughters. I thought their birthday would be a good time. April, Millie, and I took Noni to Wingers for her first official girl's day out lunch (Dave took Caleb to Chuck-a-Rama . . . Caleb heaven). I told her she had to use her best manners and explained some of them. She did so good. She sat and colored her coloring menu, ate nicely, did not climb under the table (except once to get her earring), and didn't whine at all! The best part was when the waitress brought her a free kid's root beer float for being the birthday girl and shy little Noni looked up at the waitress and said "thank you". You must understand that Noni doesn't talk to anyone she doesn't have too. Besides being a good experience for Noni, we all had a great meal, Wingers is my favorite!

For kids the popcorn is the best part of Wingers!Noni is an excellent colorer

Fettucini Alfredo, Noni's favorite

MMMMM, sticky fingers and some chipolte chicken wrap

Boys will be Boys

I have been trying to find jobs Caleb can do for pay. Dave and I would like to help him learn the principles of hard work, saving money, and paying tithing. We had a bunch of bad apples that had fallen off the tree and needed to be picked up. I guess I didn't realize how many there were when I offered him a penny an apple or a dollar a bag (thinking there would be about 100 apples per bag). Well he conned Millie into helping him and they came up with 6 full bags of apples. I paid him his $6 and he put his tithing in an envelope for the Bishop. He was sure proud of himself as he handed the tithing to Bishop Smith and told him how he earned it. (He absolutely loves Bishop Smith and loves to take our tithing up to him on Sundays).

Millie kicked the apples to make them in piles so they were easier to pick up

Caleb showing how strong he was to gather all those apples

What boy can spend over an hour picking up apples and not climb the tree?

Thus, Boys will be Boys!

Leanora is 5

I am finally trying to catch up my blogging. It has been very busy and everything seemed to happen at once. On Friday, November 21 Leanora turned 5. One of her wishes was for Ellie to come to her party. We had it worked out until the Carlson's had a family emergency and she couldn't make it. But we had a fun evening anyway and she got to play with Ellie the next Monday.

Caleb's favorite part of any birthday "heavy, heavy, hangover"

Noni and her Cinderella Polly Pockets

Any girl's dream, Cinderella dress-ups

She got to pick her own cake, is that fair?

Blowing out the candles!

I cant seem to get the words right under pictures, anybody want to help me out?

Fall in Idaho

Sometimes I wonder why I live in this state of Idaho. It gets very cold in the winter and it can be very windy any time of year. In fact it can get cold any month of the year. The weather is not my idea of an Eden. But all it takes is a look out my back window and I remember how gorgeous it is. Here are examples of a Fall evening and sunset. See why I love it here?

Logan the Elf

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