Family Time

Good times! So we have decided to do better about family time and individual time with the kids. We went over to the kids' elementary school and just had a good time playing and swinging. Good family fun. We came up with a Family Home Evening for every week for the whole year...We have them on pieces of paper and the majority of them are a free activity. We pick them out of a jar for the month so we know exactly what we are doing. It is nice to be able to know exactly what we are doing. Look at us being rock stars!

Botanical Gardens

So this was a very fun day :) There happened to be a free day at the botanical gardens...and it was a bonsai and Koi fish exhibit. So I packed the girls up, headed to Boise, and just hoped that someone would like to have a fun day with us. It was our lucky day because Grandma, Steph, and Cameron and Dillon were able to come with us and it turned into a great day of fun. Sometimes it is nice to do something fun...and luck would have it that day that it was free!! Win, win! We all enjoyed looking at the fish, and the plants.

Elly is 8 months old!!

 Miss Elizabeth is 8 months! This month she is crawling!! WAHOO!! She has learned lots of cute things that makes us smile everyday. Her personality comes out every day and as she gets older she has shown a huge love for her daddy. She loves when he comes home...she wants him and prefers him when he's home.

She has also graduated to the big girl tub. Yay for Elly!! We sure love her and all of her funny little things she does.

Gardening

So I've been working hard on our garden this year. We've had a million zucchini's...exaggeration of course, but not too far off. Our freezer is full of shredded and chopped zucchini. We are all excited about the amount of pumpkins this year too...at least 37 pumpkins. SO exciting. We were able to enjoy some watermelon, cherry tomatoes, and green peppers. We are still waiting for our sunflowers to make it. It was fun watching the sunflowers grow to see how tall they were going to get. I think we had one that reached an estimate of 10 feet. So tall! So I've been doing lots of canning this year. My total number of jars canned this year so far is over 100. Yay for preserved food! I went over to Iris and Bill's house and got produce weekly to can...LOTS of tomatoes and cucumbers. We are very thankful for their generosity. Grandma Flores and Grandma Olsen has helped quite a bit this time of year with the canning also. I love all my moms :) They all take really good care of me and my family.  We are so blessed! We've been paying tithing, being frugal, and praying hard for finances to work out. We are trying to have faith that those prayers will be answered soon!

Balloon Festival

Fun family activity...go see the hot air balloons lit up at night. It was a good labor day weekend activity. We went with Ame and her kids, had a picnic dinner and watched them get all lit up. So fun!