SNOW DAY

Catching snowflakes.

An icicle for tasting.

Snow mountain!

The Season Begins

These little cuties couldn't wait to put up our tree this year!

Thanksgiving 2016

We had a few crazy turkeys show up at our house for Thanksgiving this year.

Kids table.

There was plenty of food for all 14 of us. Steve soaked the turkey in an apple juice, salt, apple, orange, pepper brine for 20 hours before baking it and it was delicious.

After dinner campfire and mollows.

Someone loves her Daddy.

Turkey cupcakes provided by Aunt Shelly. These were a huge hit!

It is so hard to say "goodbye" to cousins after a few days of playing.

Thanks everyone for a great weekend!!

A little adventure

Craters of the Moon National Park.

Red Fish Lake

Halloween 2016

A visit from Grandma and Grandpa Pope

Snuggles in the cabin.

Searching for the perfect piece of wood for Grandpa to take home.

Found it!

Enjoying the beautiful fall day.

Helping Grandpa remove the bark from his wood.

Thanks for a great weekend Grandma and Grandpa! Come again soon!

Today's Harvest

When your garden sits on an old Idaho potato field, big things happen!

A little color.

The colors were out this weekend at the cabin. I can't get enough of this view from the deck.

A little light repair work. 

While exploring the woods Maddison came running up to me saying, "I found 2 baby porcupines...but I think they are stuck together by something yellow. Some string or something." Of course I had to see what she had found. Any guesses? The answer is at the end of this post. 

Jumping for JOY!

 And Maddie's baby porcupines were....a very fuzzy caterpillar.  Ha ha!

All grown up!

Maddie started her first day of pre-school today. It was certainly harder for me than for her. She was so excited and happily waved good by to me as I hid teary eyes behind sunglasses. 

Sage wanted to go too and was a little sad that she couldn't go with Maddie. But after some free popcorn at the Jiffy Lube, she seemed to forget all about it. 

Sep. 6, 2016

I've been waiting to pick my tomatoes until I was ready to do something with them. I had no idea how many I had until Maddie and I started the great tomato harvest. 

Maddison peeled every last tomato by herself and I think there were at least 60 of them!

We made 8 jars of salsa and bottled the rest of the tomatoes. 

And after picking, boiling, peeling, chopping, mixing, blending, simmering, pouring, and boiling again I haven't the heart to open the salsa to see how it tastes. All that work...I feel like it needs to stay bottled at least for a few days. Steve might have other ideas.