Last garden up date 2013

A few weeks ago we pulled up our garden I should have taken a before picture but didn't think about it till we were almost done. We filled up 2 garbage cans to the top with tomato, bell pepper, cucumber corn and water Mellon plants.

This is our bell peppers we put them in the stroller so we could easily move them to the front they were quite heavy. I cut up and stored 10 baggies full of them and still had lots left  :-) We used some for a family dinner by grilling them on the grille gave some away and the rest went in the garbage.:-(

We had well over 100 carrots we have them in the fridge and have them with dinner quite often. We also ended up with 3 good water melons they were yummy! We also got quite a bit of fruit off of our trees this year and made 5 quarts of apple sauce, 4 quarts of apple pie filling and 5 quarts of pear slices. 

Annual halloween dinner.

Last sun (oct.27) we had our annual Halloween dinner I made these awesome rats for dessert.

Shaless brought these fun cookies.

Gran made this shepherds pie that was haunted by ghosts

And this chili with a pumpkin crust.

My mom made eye ball eggs and



warms in dirt ( hotdogs and beans.)

Grana lso made mac and cheese grilled cheese and tomato soup the sandwiches looked like bugs in side.

 We also had a butter beer (by shaless )and salad with blood sauce (raspberry vinaigrette from Kamrin)

Erilyn with her cousins getting ready to eat. It was all really yummy and Erilyn enjoyed playing with her cousins like usual.

Gardner village

One day in October Shaless and I decided to take the girls to the witch fest at
Gardner village. They weren't quite sure what to think of  the witches and were actually scared of them but I enjoyed the nice walk and looking at everything.

Utah state fair.

Travis mom really wanted to take Erilyn to the state fair to see the animals.(This was early in Sept.)

Checking out a goat.

They have this " little hands on the farm" thing that you can do. She thought she was pretty big.

They even had little tractors you could ride around she wasn't quite tall enough to peddle on her own.

Heading to return her goodies.

Checking out the butter sculpture.

She got the cereal on her tray from with the" money" she earned working on the farm. Over all it was a fun night she also got to go on the big yellow slide with me but we didn't get any pictures of it. 

Merry Christmas to me!

So the reason I haven't been blogging much lately and when I have been there haven't been pictures is because our computer was slowly crashing getting slower and slower and freezing in the middle of posts. This made it hard to download pictures and finish posts before the computer froze and it just made me really frustrated rather then being able to enjoy it. Well the other day as our home teachers were at the house on of them mentioned that they do I.T. work and offered to take a look at our computer. The computer wouldn't even boot up and all the tricks he knew to get it to weren't working, He very nicely said your screwed and offered to try to get the stuff of the hard drive for free witch honestly the only thing that was on there was some pictures that most of them are backed up somewhere else. We then started to discuss our options and decided that a lap top would be best for our needs we really only use it  for the Internet and most importantly blogging! We started to compare prices and even considered waiting till  black Friday to find a good deal but found one we both liked at best buy for only $360! Its a HP notebook and I'm loving Having a WORKING computer again!

What Erilyn has been up to lately.....

 



She REALLY wanted to paint one day so I put her in her high chair and let her go at it. This was the end result I should have taken a picture of her tray it was even more painted then her! And her paper.... well lets just say it ended up in the garbage it too saturated in paint and was sticking to the table when I tried to let it dry,

One day as I was putting laundry away Erilyn was playing on my bed and found my candy corns.....She was so proud of her self!! The good thing is she doesn't really like them. She did have fun making a mess though!

This picture pretty well explains its self. She has done this many more times since and has made quite a few pictures on our walls.

She went to her first Jazz game it was the jazz scrimmage and was FREE so we figured it would be a perfect game for her to go to. Her favorite part was getting to sit like a big girl on the train and the popcorn.

One day she was super tired but didn't want to lay in her bed so she made her a bed on me! As you can tell she was quite proud of her self and has done this many other times since.

She has found that we have cameras on our phones and that we can make them so that she can see her self. My phone is filled with pictures like these next few.

This one cracks me up she was making sure I was doing the face to!!

Hands Foot and mouth Disease.

Last sun (Sept 30) Erilyn woke up from her nap after church with a fever of 103.4. We quickly stripped her down to nothing gave her some tylenol and cool bath it came down to a more tolerable 99.0. We kept an eye on her temp the rest of the day she seemed kinda clingy but feeling better till bed time when she seemed to be stuffed up. We decided a humidifier would help but it made it worse because it kept making funny noises and scared her. In the morning she seemed to be feeling better so we decided to keep all of our plans for that day. Travis and i both had our 6 month dentist check ups so we took Erilyn to Ashleys so she wouldn't be bored in the dentist office. After the apts.we picked up lunch and headed to Ashleys to get Erilyn and eat Ashley commented on how Erilyn had felt kinda warm to her so we checked her temp when we got home and sure enough it was 101.0!  We gave her Tylenol again and she was fine the rest of the day. So we went along with all of plans for our Anniversary. When Travis mom brought her to us she pointed out that her glands under her neck were very swollen, along with her neck and face. She also mentioned that she wouldn't eat we knew then she had to be seen by this time it was to late to go to her doc and I'm not a huge fan of insta-care so we decided to call the doc in the morning and get her in asap. I had a check up that morning at 930 so we tried to get her apt as close to that as possible, but their first opening with our doc was at 130 so we hung out at grans for awhile between apts. The doc had a hard time finding anything wrong with her at first (except for her fever of 101.5). Then she felt her neck and took alook inside her mouth where she found the culprit. I had noticed the night before her gums were kinda swollen but didn't think much of it, she began to point out the she had lots of open soars in her mouth she said she had alksdjgkladhgkal. ( seriously that's what it sounded like haha) or better known as hands feet and mouth disease. I was confused because she wasn't showing signs of it on her hands or feet, she said that it often attacks all 3 parts or more of the body but she was only getting a reaction in her mouth. She said that the swollen glands were probably her body trying to fight the disease off and not to worry unless she started to say they hurt or she lost motion in her neck. As far as the sores.... since this usually occurs in older children they have a mouth wash type stuff that they gargle and spit but since she would have ended up swallowing it there was nothing we could do. She suggested that maybe some origel would help on the smaller stuff but that it would do no good other wise and to just keep giving her tylenol (to keep the pain to a minimum) and benadryl at night (to help her get much needed rest). She suggested easy to swallow foods with low or no salt and lots of what ever liquid she would drink  along with pediasure to keep her hydrated so she wouldn't require an iv. The doc also said to keep an eye on her fevers and if they didn't go away by Sat to take her to primary children's to be tested for a possible uti, lucky for her they were gone Sat morning. Its now wed and you cant even tell that she was sick last week. Might i just say that it sucks watching your baby be sick! Especially since there wasn't much we could do. All i wanted to do is take it away, but on the other had i would rather her be sick while shes Young  and can build her amune system so hopefully she wont be sick often when she is older and can remember how bad it sucks.