EXCUSE ME SUMMER I STILL HAVE THINGS TO DO......

WHERE IS SUMMER GOING? Our trees are turning colors already!!!!! NOOOOOOO!!!!! I say NOOOOO!!! Alright I'll stop now. I guess. We've had a really fun summer. We've squeezed in two camping trips, beautiful garden, fun birthdays and a visit from my dad. Not to mention all the fire pits and late nights spent enjoying our home and family. I love long summer nights! but alas it is winding down not all the way gone, but definitely winding down. School is back in session, it's chilly in the morning, and sweat shirts are a must now. I still have canning to do and freezing...lots of it really! I did a lot of canning this year with my friend Dawn. We canned pickles and tons and tons and tons of jam. all different kinds. We had plenty of adventures, such as a 3 mile hike with small children, all to get a bowl full of wild blackberries. But hey that makes memories. There are pictures of our labors down below.

The boys are in heaven with their Uncle Gus he is so special!

(can you believe this is my baby brother GUS! So glad we got to see him)

We got invited to the western Idaho fair by my neighbors mom that we lovingly and fittingly call Nana. she is so good to my kids. she gets me to go do things I normally wouldn't have done and am so glad I did once we're going. Here are pictures of all the kids having a blast. We stayed later than everyone and met up with Sara, Rob, Joe and Nicole. With a surprise run in of my little brother Gus. Boy that was probably the best part of the whole night. The boys were in heaven. So was I. They had a great dinosaur exhibit this year. The kids had so much fun going through there. Well Wesstin was scared and wouldn't look the whole time with the dinosaurs but once we hit the fossil dig he was all about it.

Sara and I having to much fun!

OHHH MY PICKLES!! I can't wait to eat them!! I can't find my jam pictures now. oh well. My friend Eloise and I are going to can apple sauce when she gets home from vacation. So excited. I love my little shed for cold storage now. I need to clean it out a bit better and make some more room. I canned peaches as well for the first time the other day. It turned out well. My mom has a peach tree at her house and we are going to freeze and can all of those this week sometime. Lots of tomatoes from my garden I've made a few batches of tomato sauce and pesto yummy yummy how I do love pesto!! My bell peppers are producing like crazy so I need to get them froze. How nice it will be to pull those out for fajitas this winter. I also have zucchini to chop and shred and freeze. I'm just loving all of this if you haven't noticed. Makes you feel like your doing what your supposed to be doing. It also gives you a confidence that you now know you can do it if you had too.

A picture I just had to add of sweet baby Kairi my best friend Falesha's little girl. She is so smart and funny and sweet I just love her!! They cam over for the boys birhtday.

John and Brendon

Uncle John and Uncle Robert have been able to stop by more often because their doing a job down here in Emmett. We have loved having dinner guests and visiting. Their very good uncles. the boys love them so much as you can see.

Uncle Robert and the boys

ONTO MY BIRTHDAY BOYS!! Here they are in the morning. Wesstin's b-day is the 19th and Hayden's is the 21st so we combined which their fine with. We had almost all their friends here and had a blast with water balloons, cake, slip and slides, and friendship.
Now I swear all of my friends are awesome cake makers so I got inspired this year and mad the boys a Motocross race track. I was pretty excited about it. Hayden helped design the course complete with whoops, big jumps, table tops and big corners. It was fun. The funniest part was that when I went to find motorcycles to put on the cake there was not one to be found in my whole house. GO FIGURE!!! They got some great gifts from everyone but more importantly great memories.
We had an exciting trip up to the Thomas cabin way way up above Riggins. Pete, Betty, Levi, Gavin, Pete's mom Roberta, and our family all spent a wonderfully relaxing weekend. It is an amazing cabin that Pete's parents built and I'm so thankful that we were able to see it and enjoy it with them. I love that whole family so much they are truly my other family. I just love them such good people. They make me strive for the best me I can be. The trip down was a bit more scary. We we're flying down above Riggins and thought we had a flat tire really all our lug nuts broke off and it is a true miracle we didn't' flip our car. We ended up breaking down right in a huge turn off which had a trail down to the beach of the river. The kids had so much. I called my mom and Joe and they in turn called my Uncle Dave to the rescue with his wrecker and trailer to pull us home Thank goodness. Thankful we have so many people who love us. We love them too.