Family Activities
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"Gingerbread" Nativities
Tonight we decided to make gingerbread houses for Family Home Evening. We invited the Perkins to our home and join us. We had a lot of fun. We decided to make our gingerbread houses around a Christmas theme, so we both ended up doing a nativity scene. It was a ...
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Putting up Christmas
Jeffrey and Cambree have had so much fun adding Christmas decorations to our home. The Christmas lights and their own nativity are their favorites and of course, they found stale candy canes from last year - it didn't seem to phase them one bit. We are excited to start December ...
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Thanksgiving Delight
Another delightful Thanksgiving within our own home and family. The turkey was a success - I let it soak in brine all night. Tender, tasty, and delicious - even still with leftovers. Cambree hasn't eaten meat so well.
My stuffing reminded me of President Uchtdorf's Knusperchen in toasting my bread ...
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Cambree's Birthday
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Cambree turned TWO on Halloween! What a wonderful day we had. In the morning, I asked Cambree how old she was. She answered with enthusiasm, "ONE!" and held up one finger. We then corrected her -- that she's now two years old and should hold up two fingers. Throughout the ... -
Food Storage Adventure
Last Saturday, we canned the food we bought while we were in Salt Lake City. We canned 645 pounds of food, which came to 152 #10 cans of food. We canned wheat, oats, 6-grain cereal, flour, white rice, brown rice, and sugar.
While canning, one of the cans got really ...
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"Whatever She Wants"
So while Daniel took Jeffrey to Wall-e, I had some Mommy-Cambree time. Of course right after we finished dinner she said, "naps" which interpreted means "I'm ready to go to bed." I had been looking forward to some one-on-one Cambree time all day. An evening when she can stay ...
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The Potato Farm
So, we live in Idaho. What a great opportunity to visit a potato farm. So we did, and . . .
We had such a great time. Did you know, that in order to harvest potatoes you depend a lot on the weather? If it's too wet, then the trucks get stuck ...
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Where is Horseshoe Lake Anyway?
So we wanted to go camping. We were going to go with the Perkins family, who camps a lot more than we do. They told us of a great place to go, out of the way, to enjoy a bit more primitive camping. We decided to go to Horseshoe Lake ...
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Apricots or Swings?
Sister Phillips in our ward invited anyone who was interested in apricots to "help yourself." Her tree was about to break with all the apricots on them. So last night we took our boxes and ladder and picked apricots. Jeffrey and Cambree had a wonderful time picking apricots off the ...
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