Lemon Bars

We had the missionaries over for dinner back in September and Mackenzie wanted to know if I was making a dessert. I was running short on time and really didn't want to make something. She was very persistent about making something so I gave in and told her to go ahead. She picked lemon bars which she has made before. They were cooking while we at dinner and they were pretty warm when they came out. When she brought them to the table they looked different to say the least. But we figured they couldn't be too bad. Well they didn't taste bad but I could tell something was missing. I asked Mackenzie if she remembered to add the eggs her response was, "Eggs! What eggs? The recipe didn't call for eggs!" She got the recipe book out and started laughing when she found the recipe that called for eggs! We all had a good laugh and still ate our runny lemon bars.

Golf, A Gentlemens game....

We gave a presentation at the Bellingham County Club about our farm this fall and in return they gave a 2 passes to play golf. Craig of coarse was more excited then I was but it would be fun to see if I could even still play. I played a few practice rounds on the WII and figured I could easily get at least a 72. It ended up being a bit windy that day but it really only added to the challenge. In the end I found out why they call it a gentlemen's game.

1st picture is Craig finding my ball.
2nd picture is Craig pulling my cart.
3rd picture is the water hazard the Craig hit the ball over for me after the first one went into the water.
4th picture is the first hole that I hit the ball into the water/ditch.

I love my husband...it was a fun day!

Photo shoot

Somethings in life are just not meant to be captured in a photo...I think pigs are included especially our large black boar. Our pigs are very friendly to say the least and if they see Craig it means FOOD! We needed to have our picture taken for a group that we will be working with in Whatcom County and they wanted it to be of us and some of our animals. How do you get 5 pigs and at least of few of your sheep to hold still for pictures? Our sheep really don't even like people except for one of them so they wouldn't come close and the pigs like us too much. Mackenzie was the photographer and out of all our kids she dislikes the pigs the most unless they are less the 5 days old.

Hopefully we won't have to do this again anytime too soon!

Candy Apples.....Yummy

The tradition continues at the Mayberry's house of making caramel and chocolate apples. We do marshmallows too! Sometimes I wonder how we don't get sick eating the candy in between covering the apples.

Leavenworth

We headed over to Leavenworth for Labor Day week-end. The summer had been very nice up until this week-end. Usually east of the mountains it's in the 90's but this week-end it was only 55 to 60 and rained like crazy. I had really hoped that we would go swimming in Lake Wenatchee but it was way too cold. It was still a fun week-end eating good food, fudge, playing games, seeing the shops in town and making new friends with the dog that was at the house that we stayed at.


This is only kind of horses or cows we would ever have!

Fair week-Pigs

Both Jensen and Kaden were able to raise a pig this year. We felt very lucky because a number of kids in our 4-H group had weigh problems with their pigs and were not able to sell them at the auction. Kaden did a little better then Jensen with the pigs and was in the final group of pigs.

Fair week-sheep

This was Jensen's first year working with our new sheep. They area breed that is not easy to tame. They are Navajo Churro. He was able to show them in a couple different classes and did well in all of them. Although I think he will be using a different breed next year.


Jensen had to get some help from some of the other kids in our 4-H group because it's very hard to show a flock of 5 sheep by himself.

Hug Point

We went over to Hillsboro which is where we lived before WA to visit friend and had a lot of fun. I watched the weather and we had a change for a fairly nice day so I called by sister and we took a chance on going to the beach. It was one of the things the kids really wanted to do. So my sister skipped worked and we headed out. Lucky for us the rain stopped about the time we got to Hug Point and we had about 4 hours of nice weather. Just about when we were ready to go it started to rain. It poured that night and all of the way home but we had a great time.

Hug Point

Hanging around Aunt Melanie's

New way to paint toenails...with glitter!

Mackenzie thinking that Dora likes to be held like a baby.

My brother-in-law Jack and "D"

Trip to Portland

It's a heart!




We had planned to go the the beach but like WA weather it can change day to day and since the forecast was rain we headed up the gorge to Multnomah Falls instead. What a hike! We didn't make it too the top, I think the mile marker was wrong and how do you tell a 6 year old just a little farther when you don't even know what a little farther means....think about how the pioneers felt when they just kept seeing another hill or mountain!

Girls Camp

This was my favorite thing about girls camp this year. Every year they float down the river and the first year that I went down the river about half way through I wanted out of the water, it was way toooo cold and I said I'd never do that again. Well this year they came up with a much better option to the river and way more fun!