Picture Tag

Here is my picture tag from Rheanna, this is the first time I have done a tag but I am glad I went through all of my pictures and organized them last week. This is a picture of the boys a few months ago in our "homeless" state, we were staying at one of the cabins at Spencer's new job. we are grateful for the experience but we are so glad we have a place of our own now!! and I am glad that I was not in this picture.

The Pumpkin Patch!

Well the boys absolutely loved the pumpkin patch this year, we went all the way down to Santaquin to Stonyfield farms, it was beautiful, as always the donuts were wonderful and the cider was even better, we bought 4 gallons! you have to go on a 10 min or so hay ride to get to the patch one of the most crazy things happened as we stepped off into the patch, we ran into the wonderful family who watched Zack and Logan when I went to Whitney's wedding, all of them were ecstatic the kids were snapping picts with their phones it was a fun little reunion. anyways here are some super cute picts! you can click on them to make them larger. Logan is in the letterman's jacket

Trip down to the valley

civilization it actually quite far away from us, we have a store in town that opens at 7 and closes at 6, most of the things like raisins or candy are stale or dried out, much of the meat has the the red die almost gone so it looks bad and overall the prices are horrific, there is also a gas station in town, but the gas from it makes my check engine light go on.
the next closest place to buy anything is in Roosevelt 30 min away, they dont have much, pretty much 1 grocery store and a "one stop shop without walls" which is a grocery store an ace hardware and a radio shack, the selection is pretty poor and there is nowhere to buy toys which is probably good.

we decided to take a trip down to the Utah valley which is a 2 1/2 hour drive, but we had a wonderful time down there, Spencer has been so busy with this job that he works nearly every day of the week even his days off, so getting out of town where no one could call him in was very nice. We were able to stay with my grandma which was really fun for the kids because they hadn't seen her since we moved. we also were able to visit with Spenser's brothers families who live down in the valley, we had such a wonderful time seeing them and are amazed at how big all of the kids are getting, we had supper over at Eric and Mandy's beautiful new home, it was absolutely delicious! the best chili I have ever had!

We also were able to get some wood for Spencer to make a few side tables to hopefully sell.

last of all but not least we went to the Pumpkin patch of which I will blog about as soon as my pictures finally upload (there are 350 since I have not had a computer to dump them onto until now.)

My new best friend!!

I just I have to blog about this because it is AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING! It is called Shop'nCook Menu, there is also one called Shop'nCook Home that doesn't allow you to menu plan but I prefer the Menu one. you can go to this site and download a free trial period of 45 days! anyways now I will get to why it is my new best friend.

You can type your recipes into the program or copy and paste a recipe from the net, you click ok and it sorts everything out into a form where you can either see the recipe (which you can attach a picture to) or you can view the ingredients, if you type in how many servings it makes it will add up all of the nutrition facts. all of these recipes are stored for use or reference at any time.

Menu!
you can plan your menu for every day of the month, or year if you want, then you can save your monthly menus to refer to in the menu library.

Did some one say grocery list??
when you add something to your menu it adds all of the ingredients to your shopping list and tells you exactly how much of each item you need for your combined recipes as well as what recipes the item is used for, it is all divided into different sections in the grocery store. You can go through and uncheck items you already have and it makes them light Grey instead of black. you can also add dishes to your shopping list without putting it into the menu.

Printable menu!
on top of everything you can select print the menu for the week/month and a menu will be printed for you to place on your fridge!

There is a lot of other features to this but I just thought I would share my excitement!! go check it out and let me know how you like it!!

Calling Armenia for 3 cents a minute

Spencer and I woke is parents at 5am this morning, I tried to tell him it was a little too early and we should wait till after Bones (the one show I get to watch without interruption) but he was quite excited to talk to his mummy and daddy. his parents are serving a mission in Armenia, I call Mum quite often and enjoy hearing of their coming and goings, blogs are wonderful and e-mail is great but it can never replace a good talk. They seem so happy in doing the Lords work. We are so happy for them and so very grateful and proud of their service.
Mum thought it would be a good idea for me to send her the info, so I told her I would jut blog it. at nobelcom.com
http://www.nobelcom.com/nobelcom/jsp/productselection/productselection.jsp?from_country=1&to_country=14&x=44&y=17

is where I get my phone cards for Armenia, for $20 I get a card with about 8 1/2 hours of talk time yes 8 1/2 hours, I have used it several times and have recharged it once, it is a great steal,

Thought I would share :)