Catching up!

I have a lot of catching up to do! We have all been so busy with the end of summer and school starting. First of all while working on the house and before school started I was able to get some of my bottling done which resulted in a wonderful harvest this year.

I was able to Harvest, cherries, salsa, carrots, corn, onions, apricot jam, apricot pinapple jam, plum jam, raspberry jam, strawberry jam, strawberry peach jam. And a lot of red potatoes in cold storage. Yummy!! Then we had a wonderful reunion on the Big Hornes just a few weeks before shool started. I love this reunion. It is definatly a highlight of my year especially when we get to make the 14 hour drive to wyoming. Well maybe not the drive but it is all worth it to be with the family. We had such a great time. I love my family! Well, then we came home and we started School. Casia is in 2nd grade and Carter started preschool this year. Oh, my big kids! Then their is the little one who is almost 1 1/2. She is so sweet and has fallin in love with shoes! And has found out that when she makes the biggest messes she doesn't get in trouble. Mom just runs for the camera. What?!?! And now onto the bigger project the HOUSE! I am almost to the point of saying the dreaded house just because it seems like it is taking forever. However we have made a lot of progress since the last update of the house. Lets see... the roof, framing, plumbing, electrical, HVAC, septic system, power lines, water is all connected and finished. We still have the windows and doors, stucco, walls, paint, and the flooring and all of the wonderful finish work. But I keep a smile on my face and keep reminding myself how worth it, it will be. One of my favorite things about this house is that through the Front window(you can't really see what I am talking about because of the angle I took the picture) we get to look at this... Seriously so blessed to look out of the window at this. The Escalante Mountain. Beautiful! You'll notice in the picture of the house it is shaded, because we live up against the mountain across from this high rise which is still catching the rays. It glows! The pictures were taken with in a minute from eachother. And one last thought, Cavry doing what she does best- dressing up! (Cavry has Carters shoes on and his backpack and she is reading a book) Who says the kids can't possibly have fun out their while we work, along with the building of the house comes the building of a teter-toter. They love it!