Finally!

Someone knows where I'm coming from.

Kaden has the job of unloading the dishwasher every morning. He strongly dislikes this job but has come to the reality for the most part that it has to be done and he's the man. Step back to this summer, I was tired of the kids using 3 and 4 cups or glasses a day to get a drink of water. So I went and bought a water jug to keep full and wrote names on some cups we got from 4-H. It didn't work and I kinda gave up. Fast forward to about 2 weeks ago and Kaden unloading the dish washer one morning he says to me: "That's it! I've had it with every one using all of these glasses and I have to unload them. I'm tired of this." I wanted to give the child a extra hug since someone finally understands just one of my frustrations. We made of this sign that morning and posted it on the cupboard, it has made quite a difference.

Where in the Olympics is JR Celsk?

The girls searched all day...no luck.

Vancouver Day Trip

Since we couldn't afford or get tickets to any of the Olympic events we decided we could at least make a trip into Vancouver to see the sight and try and go to the free stuff. The sights were great despite the rain but the free stuff took way too long to stand in line for. Over all it was a fun day.

Sorry

Blogger was misbehaving and posted my pictures 3 times... not sure how to fix it.

Olympic Torch

We found out that the Olympic Torch was going to come pretty close to our house and just across the boarder. Not really knowing what to expect since it said it was at a park and it had been raining a good part of the day, we gathered blankets, umbrellas and our chairs and headed up to Abbotsford Canada.

When we got to the park it turn out to be a small stadium, no chairs needed. Thankfully we brought our blankets because the seats were wet. The 3 older kids and I went down on the field to see what was going on. We found that we could stand right by the track and wait for the runner to go right by us. I got Craig and Kaden and we went back to our spot. We ended up with a pretty good view. The kids were able to get their picture taken with a former Canadian Hockey player that carried that torch at some point. We have no idea what his name his but I'm sure all the little 8 to 12 year old Canadian boys that wouldn't move so others could take a picture did know his name.

Over all it was a fun experience and we were glad that we went! Too bad we can't afford tickets to go to the events....I guess we'll have to be happy with some free stuff and maybe we'll go the the Para-Olympics instead.

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!