Fall Pictures

Today was a very beautiful fall day and I snapped some photo's of my kids. Here is just a taste of the 34 pictures I took the really good ones are on my photography blog

http://www.photographymystyle.blogspot.com/ if you want to check them out.

ENJOY!

One Word Tag!

I can only answer these 30 questions with one word!

Come on you should try it!

1. Where is your cell phone? gone

2. Where is your significant other? Virgina

3. Your hair color? brown

4. Your Mother? frustrating

5. Your Father? mystery

6. Favorite Thing? friends

7. Dream last night? dream?

8. Your dream/ goal?

9. Room your in? kitchen

10. Hobby? photography

11. Whats your fear? bugs

12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Texas

13. Where were you last night? nowhere

14. What your not? tall

15. One of your wish list items? camera

16. Where you grew up? Salem

17. Last thing you did? bathroom

18. What are you wearing? clothing

19. Your T.V? on

20. Your pet? piggies

21.Your computer? lame

22. Your mood? calm

23. Missing someone? Paul

24. Your car? dirty

25. Something your not wearing? makeup

26. favorite store? target

27. Your summer? short

28. Love someone? absolutely

29. Last time you laughed? today

30. Last time you cried? yesterday

I tag anyone who wants to do this

Chop Chop

So it has been 3 years with my long hair, don't get me wrong I loved my long hair but I thought since I've been working out and changing somethings in my life I could use a change with my hair style too, so over the weekend while in Salem we payed a visit to our good friend Jill M. and had her cut my hair (12 inches to be exact).

Paul also received a much needed haircut.

Thanks Jill for our awesome new haircuts!

Gotta love Youth Conference

So last weekend I had the opportunity to take some of our youth to Youth Conference in Bend with 3 other stakes. We had a mini EFY and our 5 girls that went (missing 1) had a blast! I had an awesome time and enjoyed getting to know my Young Women. Here is our ward-I know it's small but they are by far the best youth I have ever known!!!! TD2 rocks!!!!
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3rd world Noah

We took this picture over the summer of Noah playing with his soccer ball and he just HAD to wear his church shoes. It remind us of seeing African children playing soccer in the streets...he just about fits in :)

Pauls COOKING GIFT

Have you ever looked at a recipe and said, "I ain't cookin that, it looks way to hard?" Well Paul can say, "oh I want this for dinner" and whip it right up. He has a talent which I am so ever grateful for, especially when I do not want to make anything other then a bowl of cereal. He has the COOKING GIFT, lets not get confused with his ORIGAMI GIFT (that's a whole other story)Lets face it ladies my guy can cook and it is DANG good. He recently decided to just make some donuts to try out the recipe and see how it was. Well it turned out to be a big hit especially on my thighs which I won't totally gross you out with but here are the finished donuts not quite Dunkin Donuts YET but he's improving how he makes them each time!

Here are a few other favorites minus the beets who likes those...apparently they make great food storage and Paul likes them so....

-Paul's peach preserves

-canned peaches and pears

-dried various fruits

-pickled beets and peppers

-his super yummy calazones and pizza's

-his yummy fresh tomato sauces

-authentic tacos

-corn dogs and french fries

-hamburger buns

-fried chicken

-various rice dishes

-breads galore

-donuts

you name it he trys it, and it turns out perfect. What can I tell you he's got the COOKING GIFT!

Dufur's 55th Annual Homecoming Parade!

So here in Dufur during Homecoming the school puts on a parade. This was our 2nd time participating in the annual parade and it's always fun especially in our town of 726 people!

This year the theme was "Songs" Each class picked their own song and dressed up for it. Some of the classes have floats. On the highschool floats they show the princesses and princes of each class.
Pauls parents came out for the fiestivites. Here we are (minus me) waiting for the show to begin!


Here is the beginning of the parade. Some guy was in his wheelchair making a little show not sure who he is but I've seen him around town! It is after all a small town.








They even get folks from the town to ride their horses; lets face it folks it's official when you have horses in the parade!








Here is Madeline's Kindergarten class of 2021! Their song was Happy birthday and each kid wore a shirt that the teacher made for them...they get it on their birthday! We have Madeline here but she was moving so it's a bit blurry















Paige's 2nd grade class of 2019 chose the song "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"





















Here is Noah scrambling to pick up candy. We had people in cars tossing candy and almost every class tossed candy and Noah was the only kid in our area he recieved tons of candy. The picture you see is how much he made with the first few cars before the classes even started!









We had a class that was dressed as old people it was quite a hoot!
They were all singing "When I'm 64" I hope I don't look that OLD when I'm 64!


Here are just a few floats (didn't want to bore all of you with the whole lot of them) The one on the right is the jr. class with "Going Fishin in the Dark" and their prince and princess! The one on the left has something to do with Sesame Street...I didn't catch all of it











Smokey the Bear even made an apperance (we do have the Barlow Ranger Station in town) although I don't see how driving on the front of a truck can be safe! I guess it's okay since their are no fires!


Well the ambulance was the end of the parade...my guess was he was waiting for Smokey to fall and they would proceed with CPR!















I swear Madeline never stops moving I couldn't even get a decent picture of her while she was posing and this was take 2! At least Paige stood still! Way to go girlys!

After the parade we came home and just hung out.
Here is Grandpa with the soccer ball, and the other one is what I like to call "3 generations". Note Paul and his Dad are exactly alike and it seems Noah is just like them!!!