Fall Festival.......

Since Halloween was on a Saturday this year Amy and Christa decided we should have a Fall Festival/Halloween party at my house. As usual I made costumes for all the kids. All of us adults also decided that we need to dress up. We had a lots of fun. After the party we walked down the street trick or treating with the kids. Enjoy all the pictures.

 Eli as a carrot. Eli got two costumes this year. One for school and one for trick or treating

                                                             Josie as a unicorn

                                                                Eli as a robot

                                                         Oliver as a robot

                                                          Liam as a stick man

                                Rick being a Ninja and Christa as a kitty of course

                                    They thought they were soooo funny

         Kitty Christa helping Amy become Princess Leia from Star Wars

 Jese was a lego man, we all thought he looked a little creepy!

                         Grandpa Rick helping Eli with his pumpkin

                                                         More pumpkin carving

                              Oliver and Eli decorating some Halloween cookies 

                                            Playing the pumpkin ring toss

                                    Eli and Oliver playing with the bugs

                                      Roasting some hot dogs for supper

                                                                   Rick and I

                                     The Robots Oliver and Eli

                                                                 Oliver

                                     Jese, Christa and Amy

                                                     The kids trick or treating

                                                           Josie and me

                                                                          Liam

 Amy was suppose to be Princess Leia but we decided she looked more like she belonged in a church so she posed with Mary

                                                          Rick being a ninja

It was a fun Halloween! Hope you all got to enjoy it too.

Sharon

Wiley Coyote.......

 On Monday evening Rick went deer hunting. While up in the stand this coyote came walking across the field and just decided to curl up and take a nap about 50 yards from Rick. So Rick took out his rattle bag and rattled it. The coyote jumped right up and started looking around. So Rick rattled it again. The coyote came running right for Rick. Rick pulled back and took the shoot as it was running and boom, one coyote down!!!

 He was pretty excited. Coyote's are not easy to get. They are smart animals. He is going to have the hide tanned so he can hang it on the wall in his archery shop.

It was his first kill with his OK Archery bow He was shooting a OK Smoke and Absolute 19 arrows. He has been really happy with his OK bows!

Now it is time for him to get a deer!

Sharon

Happy 80th Birthday to my Dad.....

 Yesterday we celebrated my Dad's 80th birthday! Christa and Dad share a birthday so he always says Christa is his favorite granddaughter :)

                               Beth and Sarah also have birthdays within a week of Dads

                                                         The whole family together

                                          One more of Christa and her grandpa!

I was not real happy with my pictures. I don't know if we had the camera on the wrong setting or what but they all turned out kind of fuzzy. Oh well everyone looks nice in them anyhow.

It was great seeing and visiting with everyone yesterday. Next time we all get together will probably be Christmas.

Happy Sunday everyone
Sharon 

Coming Soon......

My daughter Cassie and her husband Nick are expecting their first baby in November. We are all very excited and can't wait to meet Baby J. And we are even more excited that it is a girl.

Cassie and Nick had some maternity pictures taken and these are a couple of my favorites. the photographer did a wonderful job. Check her out here Krista Reynolds Photography I can''t wait to see the photos she is taking after Baby J is born.


Sharon

Pomegranate Crazy.....

 So on our last Bountiful Basket order they had 16 pound of pomegranates for $15.00 . I got super excited because I love pomegranates! Then I thought 16 pounds is a lot. So I looked it up  and found out I could freeze them. So I thought to myself that $15.00 for 16 pounds is a really good price you can't pass it up. It is not going to be that bad cleaning them......

Well when they came on Saturday they came in a 28 pound box!!! That was 42 pomegranates. I little more then I bargained for.

 So on Tuesday I stated cleaning. If you have never cleaned a pomegranate let me tell you it is a tedious job. You have to cut the bottom and top off then quarter it. Then you start picking the seeds out. You do this in a bowl of water so the seeds fall to the bottom and all the waste floats up. Once I had the seeds out I rinsed them off and then put them on cookie sheets  to freeze.  Once they were frozen I put them into bags. I did if for about 4 hours on Tuesday and then started again on Wednesday afternoon for another 4 hours. My fingers looked like prunes when I was done. And they were stained! I had to scrub and scrub to get it all off.

But in the end it was all worth it. I got 11 quart bags full to freeze. And I have 3 that I cleaned and put in the fridge to eat right away.

I think it is going to be awhile before I decide I need to clean 28 pounds of pomegranates :)

Sharon