Family Home Evening - Corn Maze

We wanted to take Rachel out to Linder Farms and see how she would do.  We got there and let her get in the corn box 1st thing.  Probably a bad decision since she wanted to just stay there.  Oh well we had to let her do something while we waited for the tractors to come around to take us to the pumpkin patches.

 Cheese!!!

 Walking in the corn box.

 Trying to get on the hay ride.

 Hanging out on the hay ride.  After the first stop she wanted to get off.  We had to wait till the fourth stop and she was about to come unglued because she wanted to be able to sit on the edge and we were trying to keep her up on the hay bales.

 Scott & Rachel

 See I am actually there.  I know I mostly take the pictures so I'm not in very many of them.

 An almost good family picture.

 I just love Scott's look on this one.  Not to enthused by my picture taking.

 You can see the joy in her face because we were actually moving by this point.

 Look at all these pumpkins.  Which one do I want?

 This looks like a good pumpkin.  Yeah she picked up a bunch of pumpkins but she didn't want any of them.  So we ended up not picking a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch.  Maybe next year.

One of the activities that was actually free at Linder's was a petting zoo.  We let Rachel go in to see the animals.  She was going from one to the other so fast.  I was shocked to see the baby animals that they had there.  They had the following babies there to pet: buffalo, sheep, donkey, zebra, kangaroo and goat.

 The buffalo

 The Kangaroo

She was so cute she would go up and be so excited about seeing them but she really didn't want to pet any of them.

 Standing at the tire playground.

 In this picture she is in the hay bale maze and not liking it at all.  She's trying to beg me to take her over the top of the hay bales.  Scott walked around and showed her how to get out and she was so happy.

 We ended up doing the field trip maze since she got so agitated in the hay bale maze.  She started out okay but by the first turn she was like okay let's go back.  We just kept talking to her and showing her which way to go.  She was crying off and on "I want out of the corn maze."  We made it out and she ran in front of us and we heard her say "Yeah we are out of the corn maze!"  Scott and I laughed so hard.  So of course back to the corn box is where we went.  We let her play there for about thirty more minutes. 

More playing in the corn box.

Just playing with the corn in my hands.

Army crawling like the other kids.  She was doing angels in the corn but every time I tried to take that she would roll over and not let me get that picture of her.

It was so cold out there tonight that finally around 7:30 I was like okay I can't handle it any longer.  My toes were frozen and the hot chocolate didn't help much.  So you know of course Rachel was mad when we took her out of the toy box but once we got in the car and got her warmed up she realized it was a good thing to be going home.  We got home and Scott took off Rachel's shoes and they were completely filled with corn and sunflower seeds from the corn box.  I wonder how often they refill the box if every kid who gets in there gets that much in their shoes.  All in all it was a fun night and we will try again next year with her. 

Go Food Convention

We had a friend show us this awesome food reserve company and so I decided I really wanted to go down and see what it was all about.  They had been talking about introducing new items so I wanted to be there to hear all the awesome announcements.  Scott thought that he should stay home with Rachel and do homework and so I went to Pocatello and spent the night with my parents on Thursday October 20th.  At 9:00 in the morning on Friday October 21st I headed out to McCammon to ride the bus down to SLC.  We went straight to our hotel when we got down to SLC.  We stayed in the Grand America hotel which is a 5 star hotel.  Yes the first time I've ever stayed at a 5 star hotel.  It was pretty nice. This is the picture of the room I had all to myself.

 The bedroom and living area.

 A desk

 The vanity outside of the bathroom area.

 The bathroom.  The tub was really nice.  I enjoyed relaxing in it.

Looking from the bathroom back into the vanity area.

After we checked in we hung out and was able to get on the bus to go look at the warehouse and distribution centers.  It was pretty awesome to see where all the food is made at.  The place is immaculate and they said they keep it that way all the time.  Makes me feel better knowing the food is made in a clean sterile environment.

 Pallets of ingredients ready to be mixed in the mixers.  Each box is an entree or soup with all the ingredients that will be going into that batch.

 Warehouse

 This is one of the mixers.  They mix 3,000 lbs of food at a time. Everything is precisely measured as it goes into the mixer.

 This is one of the machines that actually seals the product into the envelopes.

 Another view of the sealing machines.

 This is actually in the distribution center.  They have 6 million dollars worth of inventory that they are turning over every 4 to 6 weeks.  That means our food that's going into our pantries are really fresh and haven't been sitting on the shelf for months or even years.

 Another isle of the distribution center.

So Friday night was the first meeting where they told us they were going to be changing their brand from eFoods to Go Foods.  I totally love the new branding of the food.  They've made the packing awesome and added six new entrees and also a beverage line.

Picture of the convention and the new look of Go Foods. 

 This is the new logo.  It looks "Sexy" as they were saying all weekend.  Who would have thought food was "sexy."  We laughed each time they said it.  I think it looks pretty cool though and the new beverage line is awesome and I love some of the new entrees.  Anybody ready to try this let me know.

 Saturday night after all the training we got to rock out to a band.  If you can't tell that's Alex Boye.  Yes the guy from Jericho Road and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.  He was so much fun to watch.  He was high energy and was making us laugh by his antics. It was awesome to be so close to him.

Super Saturday Crafts

Since my ward and stake don't do Super Saturday's anymore, Kristi called and told me about her ward's super Saturday and so I decided I should make the trip to Idaho Falls and do crafts with her.  We had a great time.  We did two crafts there at the church and the third one we did at Kristi's house so that we could get to Kristi's house to put Rachel down for her nap.

 This is my first Halloween decoration.  Halloween hasn't ever been my favorite holiday so I've never accumulated any decorations.  I think it's pretty cool looking.

 Yes I did make this with some help from Kristi but a center piece for Christmas that's completely homemade.  Picture of the front.

 From the top

 This is the craft we took back to Kristi's house to do.  Rachel wouldn't take a picture with it on so that I could show everyone so I just laid it on the floor so that it could be seen.  It's really full and almost drowns Rachel.  :-)

We also ended up doing pumpkin rolls this weekend also.  We ended up making six pans of pumpkin logs and they are so yummy. I love having them in my fridge and freezer for the holidays. 

Socks on Hands

So now that it's getting colder we keep attempting to put socks on Rachel.  Every time I turn around though this is where her socks are ending up. 

As Rachel would say "Socks on Hands." :-)