- We took Gramma Judy to an apple/peach orchard where we picked delicious fruit to our hearts content. This inspired me to become quite domestic :) With the apples, we canned applesauce (inspired by Gramma Lynda) and with the peaches, peach pie FOR THE FIRST time ever. I only made a pie crust from scratch once before and it wasn't flaky so I never had the desire to try again. I knew I had to overcome my fears and get over it! It turned out perfect! (at least that's what the lucky taste-testers told me).
- Rick traveled to Alaska for his first conference! He spent a week there with several presentations in Anchorage and driving all over the state for different appointments. Of course, he loved it there! No sales tax!! Oh yeah, and he talked his co-worker into renting a small airplane to fly above the gorgeous glaciers and Denali/Mt. McKinley to get a better view :) Lucky guy. We did get to see video footage, though. Thanks hon :)
- Domestic-ness continues...We learned about Thanksgiving Point and their grape vines from our friend Rachel. Are we lucky to be friends with her or what? It turns out they grow tons of grapevines and come September/October, it's open to anyone who wants to pick them...for FREE! If no one picks them, they just let them fall off the vine! We made 2 separate trips with Desirae and kids so we could make us some yummy, homemade grape juice..and loads of it. Thanks to Rachel (again) we borrowed her Steam Juicer and went to town. In fact, that is an understatement. The pictures have NO representation of how much we actually made (nor the process it was) because I was so focused on my methods that I had no thought to taking pictures. Dang it! I'll tell you now, I spent 3 days making juice. My counter tops were literally covered with piles of green and purple grapes. I was SO done with looking or thinking about grapes after that. Of course, you can see a small amount of the fruits of our labor, but that is about 1/4 of the actual amount of juice we made between ours and our friend Desirae and family. It's awesome! We even made 3 different flavored juices. Yum!
- When Rick returned from his much envied trip, we made sure to attend our ward Fall Carnival. We thought the girls would be dressing as Coraline, but last minute had a wardrobe change, unbeknownst to me since I went early to set up a booth. Still, our dashing princesses were happy to be able to leave the house dressed in style.
Notice the sweet princess in purple (Lexi) who was mesmerized by the mummy. I was shocked that she wasn't scared by it!
Keira won cupcakes at the bake walk...and of course shared with her favorite people: us!
Halloween festivities continue...I'll be back.
