Primary Program & Yarn Blanket

This weekend we ended up having Scott's parents and Grani,  my parents, and Jamie's family come to our house.   Rachel got to sing a solo today at church.  She sang the song "When I Am Baptized" or as she calls it "The Rainbow song".  The weekend was spent with everyone going their own way because there was lots of shopping to be done.  We ended up eating at Fuddruckers so Scott's mom could have a good burger.  It actually ended up being really good.  Saturday Night Jamie, Hallee, Rachel and I went to the church to practice her song.  There was a reception going on in the gym so we had her sing into the mic that wasn't hooked up.  We ended up putting her up on some song books so that she could see over the podium.  The next day ended up being disastrous for her singing her song.  She got so upset that she couldn't see over the podium that she ended  up not paying attention to the song that she was singing by herself.  I was bummed because I know she knows the song and she just didn't do it.  After church Scott's family left.  I had to stay and teach my lesson so mom stayed with me.  My lesson went well.  Grandma Tracy had brought Rachel her crochet blanket that she made for her.  I had mentioned to her that Rachel didn't get one for her blessing day.  Scott's mom hadn't even thought about it and so she made one for Rachel.  This is Rachel's "Yarn Blanket".  Isn't it so cute.

Rachel loves it so much and sleeps with it every night.

Weekend in Montpelier

Jamie and I decided to do a Halloween Party for the family this year.  We decided it would be best to have it at Jamie's house.  So we headed to Montpelier for the weekend.  Scott took his gun so that he could go hunting over the weekend.  We left Friday when Scott got off work.  We of course stopped in Poky to eat with my parents.  After that we headed to Montpelier.  Saturday morning the boys got up to head out duck hunting.  Rachel and I slept in until about 8:00.  The guys got back around 10:30.  They actually ended up getting two ducks and Tyson got a Coyote. 

  Rachel wanted to see the ducks so she went out with Scott to see them.

Yep actually petting the ducks.  She is a silly girl.

 

Cleaning out the meat.  I left when they started this part.  This was the most I could handle.  Rachel of course stayed out here and watched the whole thing.

 

 After lunch we ended up having a birthday party for Kylee.  

 

Around 4:30 we all headed over to Jamie's house and ended up having out Halloween Party.  I made the root beer and I wasn't really impressed with it.  I was bummed out.

 These pictures are of the food we made.  Everyone had to make something fun for the party.  We had sloppy Joes and muddy buddies.

 

 We had "Green Snot Salad"(macaroni salad), spider eggs, and witches hat.

 

 Ear Wax Appetizers(marshmellows & peanut butter), Used band-aids

 Jell-O brain and monster donuts.  I made both of these but as you can see they didn't turn out very well either.  I was bummed.  It was a fun day and we had a great weekend spending time with everyone.

Linder Farms Preschool Field Trip

This month Rachel's preschool field trip was to Linder Farms.  It was a pretty nice day but the wind blowing was bitter cold if you didn't keep moving.  It was the only time we went there this year.  It was a lot cheaper to go with the school then on our own.

 Rachel and her friend Mandy.

 

 The new slide this year.  The kids were all so short the parents had to help them get up to the top.  I wasn't sure if Rachel was going to go but she ended up coming down just fine.

 

 Waiting in line.  She actually would crowd in front of all the kids standing up there in line when she got back up to the top.  I tried to keep her from doing this but when I'm on the ground and she is way up there I had no success.

 

She actually came down so fast but she didn't cry when she ended up on her hands.  She actually laughed.

 

 We jumped on the tractor to headed out to the pumpkin patch.  Rachel wasn't happy with me taking pictures today.  She didn't want to smile for the pictures.

 

 The pumpkin she picked.  Yes this is the 1st one she saw and the 1st one she picked up.

 

 This is why she picked the 1st pumpkin she saw.  She wanted to go over and pet all the animals at the petting zoo.

 

 More animals.

 

 The kids then went over to the corn box and had a hay day in there.  Here is Rachel attempting her corn angel.

 Even on our field trip we got snacks.  Rachel got popcorn and a Capri Sun. 

Everyone was finished but Rachel didn't want to go yet.  She wanted to do the maze.

 So we headed to the straw maze and she ran through it.  She actually was able to find her way out with me only helping her once.  After that we headed to Garbonzo's for lunch.  We saw our friends the Rex's there.  Beka and Rachel bought themselves gum balls.  This is what Rachel looked like trying to eat a blue one.

I thought she was going to throw up because it was so big in her mouth.



Bugs Again

Rachel was so excited to find this leaf bug.  She was playing with it and then came in and said, "Mom I accidentally took his leg off."  She felt so bad about it.

So I helped it stand back up and then we decided it would be safer to put it in a tree.  So we stuck it on our tree.  I hope he survived.