New Dining Room Table

I'm so excited! I got my new dining room table and chairs today! I've been waiting for it for a week. I ordered it last Wednesday. We had been looking at dining sets for a while and I finally found one that I fell in love with.

So, here it is.

Here's a close up of the detail.

And of one of the chairs.

We also bought this mirror to put over our wood burning stove last Wednesday.

So, that's all the excitement for this week, until Saturday anyway. We're going to a double wedding and that will be fun. This will be the second double wedding I've been to. We're leaving tomorrow to go to my husband's parent's house. The wedding is in Marysville which is about an hour from their house. The girls getting married are my husband's cousins and the guys go to meeting here in Walla Walla. They're brothers marrying sisters! So, I'm looking forward to that. Next post will hopefully have some pictures of the wedding.

Pears

Well, I got my pears canned today. Here's a picture of them.

Mmmm, cinnamon pears. I love them, but they sure were a lot of work. It took longer than the peaches.

Here's a picture of Mischievo in his new truck that he got for his birthday, with Little Miss Priss in the back.

And here he is with his best friend, Alison.

They have so much fun together. They're like two peas in a pod. She's 6 weeks younger than him but almost a head taller!

Look What I Did Today!

21 jars of peaches and 7 more in the canner! I'm so glad to be done!

I've been working on these peaches all day. I went and picked them up from a local farm at about 10:00 and got started at 10:30. Now it's 4:30 and everything is cleaned up that I can clean up right now and the last batch is in the canner. It feels so good to be done! It was a perfect day for canning. It never got over 70 degrees and was cloudy most of the day. I have two boxes of pears I need to can, also, but they're not ripe enough yet.

Here's a sweet picture of Mischievo giving Little Miss Priss a hug this morning.

Mischievo's 3!

My little boy is three years old! He turned three on September 7. I can't believe how fast time has gone by since he was born. He is so much fun right now. He's starting to talk so much clearer. He loves to play with his little sister. He likes to say how big he is, especially compared to his little sister.

For his birthday I made him a Thomas the Tank Engine cake. He really likes "choo choos". It took me all afternoon. By the time I was done I was wondering why in the world I think I have to do these cakes for my kids! Especially since my husband thinks I'm wasting my time, too. I didn't finish this cake untill 7:30 in the evening! I was so glad I had supper in the crockpot so it didn't take long to get supper on. Then, my husband's parents got here and we ate the cake. So, it probably was about an hour after I finished it. So, anyway, here it is.



Here's Mischievo blowing out the candle on his cake

And here he is opening one of his presents.

I think he got way too spoiled! He got a garbage truck that actually lifts the garbage can up and dumps it like a real one and makes a bunch of different noises. He got a big huge Tonka dump truck. He got a remote control Cadillac Escalade. And, to top it all off he got a battery operated Ford F-150 pickup! I wish we had taken more pictures. We just aren't very good at taking pictures. I'll have to take some pictures of his other presents later. Little Miss Priss loves to ride in the Tonka dump truck. It's so cute. I think we took more videos on the video camera than on the digital camera. It's hard to know which one to use sometimes.

So, anyway, that was Mischievo's birthday. Now I'm pretty much up to date, I think! We had our Sunday School Picnic on Saturday, but I was a dummy and didn't take our camera. Mischievo had a lot of fun, though.

Surprise Visit Day 6 and 7

Alright, let's finish up this visit.

On Saturday, Day 6 we were so tired from the beach, a late night and sick kids waking up in the night that we did not feel like doing much. The kids were still sick so we really couldn't go anywhere anyway. So, I just worked on Little Miss Priss's cake so it would be all ready for her birthday the next day.

The next day was All Day Meeting in Hemet, so that was nice. My mom took both kids home for a nap after lunch, so we got to enjoy the meeting without any distractions from our kids.

After Gospel meeting we had Little Miss Priss's birthday party and it was a lot of fun. She really enjoyed her cake as you can see in this video.

She was probably more interested in the ribbons on her presents than opening them. She really loved the stuffed Tigger my mom gave her. You can see her loving on it in this video.

Monday morning we packed up and headed back home. It was a pretty uneventful trip and the kids did better than expected. I had always dreaded having to drive all the way down to my parents house with my kids but it was so much better than I expected. Lots of snacks and treats sure helped! We didn't drive it all in one day. We stopped in Winnemucca, Nevada for the night and headed out early Tuesday morning, about 6:30. We got home just in time for the kids to take their afternoon nap at 2:00. All in all, it was a good trip. We had a lot of fun and I won't be afraid of driving down there again.

Surprise Visit Day 4 and 5

Okay, I've got to get this visit wrapped up. This is starting to drag on and on as I get more and more behind!

So, day 4 was August 9, my birthday! I'm 29 years old but I don't feel like it. That sounds so old. I keep thinking I'm still in my early 20's!

So for my birthday my dear husband took me out to all you can eat sushi and it was so good! He was so sweet to do that. He doesn't like sushi so he had Arby's first!

That was about it for my birthday. It was a nice day. I was so glad I was in Hemet. That's what I really wanted to do for my birthday.

The next day was Friday and we went to the beach. It was a lot of fun and a lot of work. The water was so warm! I couldn't believe it. It's usually pretty cold. It felt so good to swim around in the waves and catch a few waves on the boogie board. I wore myself out, though, trying to get out to the big waves. I didn't get to go into the water until after lunch and Little Miss Priss finally went to sleep. So, I really didn't get to be in the water for long but it was worth it.

Here's Little Miss Priss enjoying the shade. We got both of them these cute little chairs with their own umbrella at Wal-Mart on clearance for $5.


Mischievo had so much fun in the sand and water.

Here's Mischeivo and Big Brother buried in the sand.

A goofy picture of Little Miss Priss. This picture is actually a good picture of what she's really like. She's the biggest ham you ever saw. She's always making the goofiest faces.


It was so much work packing everything back up and getting it into the cars. Then we we got back to my parents house we had to clean everyone up and you know how hard it is to get all the sand off! Also, by the time we left the beach Little Miss Priss had a fever. We were supposed to be at Bill and Becky B's by 7:00 and we didn't leave the beach until 4:30 and it takes over an hour to get to my parents house from there. So, we didn't have a whole lot of time to clean up, eat supper and get over to the B's house. Since Little Miss Priss had a fever we left her with my mom and while we were gone she threw up. We didn't get home from the B's until 11:00, which is very late for us. Then on top of everything Mischievo came down with the fever, too, in the night. So, we had two fussy kids to deal with during the night. What a way to end a busy day! We were so tired on Saturday.

Surprise Visit Day 2 and 3

I guess I had better finish up about our surprise visit! I'm not doing very good about posting. I've been working on a cross stitching project, so that has been taking up my spare time. I have to work on it when ever I have the urge or it will never get done. Cross stitching isn't something I like to do for very long and I will go months or years without feeling like doing it. I got motivated to get this project done because I want to be able to hang it up in our addition.

We didn't do much on Tuesday at my parents house. Just relaxed and enjoyed the beautiful weather.

Little Miss Priss loved playing in this little red car. She would sit in there and make motor sounds and open and close the door. It was so cute.



She also had a lot of fun climbing on and off of these little chairs. She's really starting to be a climber.


Here's a picture of Mischievo, Little Miss Priss and Big Brother. They all had fun playing together.


So, I guess there isn't anything more to write about that was very interesting. It was just a relaxing day and we were still trying to catch up on our sleep after driving all night.