November 15, 2006

• We’ll start this one off with a picture of how some of us look in the morning. 

  Sorry for the long absence.  I have been so busy my head is spinning.  We had three dinner parties at our house last week.  My R.S. president also started feeling guilty that we as a presidency weren’t assigned to visit teach even though we visit sisters every week.  She felt like we were missing out on those relationships.  SOOOO…I now have a vt route with a partner and 3 sisters to visit every month.  I don’t think it will be too hard.  We have a day set aside at the beginning of every month that we will try to get it done so the month doesn’t get away from us. 

  Halloween was a lot of fun.  The girls wore their costumes all day long and at one point Serra took hers off and said, “It feels so good to me me again!”  We took the girls trick or treating around our block.  That was enough for us.  Then we visited Grandma Anderson at work and then Grandpa and Adriane.  Serra spent her time there handing our candy to other kids.  She thought that was just as fun as running from door to door.  It was a fun night.

  We also had a fun evening at the world championship bull riding competition.  That was really fun.  Serra kept rooting for the bulls to stomp on the cowboys.  I think she noticed the excitement when that happened and decided that was what it was all about. 

  Back to the dinner parties.  My friend from California youth days, Heather Hadlock, got married last week in Vernal.  I was planning on attending but after talking to her and finding they were honeymooning in Vegas, we decided to meet here for dinner.  So she and her husband came for dinner.  Lasagna was on the menu and it was tasty of course.  They seem very happy and I hope they will treat each other well and have a wonderful life together.  She is now Heather Wright.

  The second dinner party was a dinner group that we do in our ward.  Anyone who wants to signs up and then someone assigns people to homes so you end up having dinner with people you wouldn’t normally get together with.  It’s a good way to get to know people in the ward better.  I hosted and had two couples with their 5 kids combined.  We had taco soup which Brian thought was a strange choice on my part until he tasted it and saw the way it got slurped up in a hurry.  It was fun except for our sink innards exploding during the event.  How handy that one of the men there was quite handy with plumbing.  He and Brian ran over to Home Depot and came back and fixed the sink in 5 minutes.  Brian is capable but it takes him longer because he doesn’t fit under the sink very well and hasn’t fixed very many sinks.  So we were glad we hosted.  I also made a dessert that was really good that we also finished off for the third dinner party.  Pumpkin pie cake.  Delish. 

  Saturday Maren came over and helped me put the third dinner party together.  Sophia’s 1st Birthday Bash!  That’s right! She turns one on Wednesday but we celebrated Sunday so the masses could come.  This time creamy mushroom chicken, a new recipe worth keeping.  It was really good and and easy crockpot dinner.  Maren helped me with the cake and the decorations.  We got everything done so Sunday we could just eat and enjoy.  After we finished we started Wives and Daughters.  Jeff got off work and wanted to take Maren out for some food poisoning (I’ll let them tell you about that one) so we only got through the first episode.  We plan on getting together on Saturdays until we finish it. 

  Sunday, after church Jeff and Maren and the Anderson contingency came to help celebrate.   Good food and company and a cute birthday girl made for a fun evening.  The boys got in a little football, of course, but they paused the game to participate in the birthday fun. 

   

  Food Folks Fun.  What it’s all about.

  

  

  

  Last week in between dinner parties I got in a day of canning.  I thought I was being all slick by using a really good apple pie filling recipe to use as the syrup for the apples.  Unfortunately, I found out after I was done, from Mom that sour cream should not be used in canning.  My bad.  I had to buy freezer containers and dump all my hard work into freezer containers.  At least it wasn’t wasted.  Yesterday and today I canned the second box of apples and used a nondairy syrup recipe.  It is amazing how long that whole process takes.  I have no idea how Mom did it so much for all those years.  Craziness.   

  

  Serra continues in her preschool and really is doing well.  She has a “special” friend.  She doesn’t like us to call him her boyfriend ( I have trained her well.)  She told me, ” Sometimes we see each other across the table and then we smile.”

  Sophia has mastered the down part of the stairs and can also open doors.  Keeping the lids down on the toilets is no longer a hinderance.  And, keeping her from climbing is a constant battle.  All the little chairs are kept up on the tables for the time being.  I watched her climb on the little chair to the little table and then into her own high chair with no hesitation or nervousness.  This critter is so unlike her sister.  She doesn’t walk much anymore.  Running is more like it.  She is a happy delightful child who we can not believe is turning one. 

  

  The video is about 5 minutes long so only start it if your in it for the long haul.  It is snippets of Rosie’s birthday fun. 

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