Holy Crafting, Batman

Let's go Crap together (Blazer love to craft but mispronounces the word and it comes out Crap,  So this is what i hear a good majority of the day,  "Mom will you crap with me", or ""Mom, What can we crap today" or " Mom I want to do a big crap today".  And how does that strike a person with the maturity level of a 8 year old????  That's right i try to talk more and more about Crafting with him just to get a chuckle when the other comes out.)

Anyway that has nothing to do with this post besides it's about Crafting.

So it was our First Annual Craft night last night.  We did The Candy Countdown Block's and the Candy Corn.   We started at 7 and the last ones finished up about 10 and we were cleaned up and home by 10:30.  There were People from Lot's of wards and some out of towners.  It was fun to have a girls night out!  We had 17 ladies come, which was a perfect amount for the house we were using. 

Next month we got a frame and jewelry going on.  Should be a great time!

Big Daddy Turns 31

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Today Brad turned a big 31.  Yep that's right he survived his first 31 years of life.  I've got to admit i wish i could have done more for him today cause it ended up not so good for him.  He started off the day OK but by 11 he found out that the Lethbridge police had sent him a birthday surprise in the mail for $110 Well he pays them that money.  Yikes that's the second ticket in about a month or maybe 2.  Then he had a Uncomfortable appt with the urologist,  Really what is comfortable with a Urologist, (which he forgot about so he had to zip over there extra fast).  And then had to sit and hold my hand while the Dentist fixed my teeth.  He ended the day with a bowl of  Taco Soup and a Cake Made by Mom.  That i must say was his highlight I'm sure. 

Top 20 things I've learned about Brad as he goes so old.

1.I get to call him Big Daddy and there is no reaction to it,  He accepts that i call him that and moves on.

2. He always always Say's what, if i stare at him

3. He always Say's that he loves me even when I'm a pain in the butt

4. He acknowledges when he's in a rut and trys to change it.

5. He changes the oil in the car's

6. He likes to Play Wii with the kids (but prefers to play alone)

7. He pretty much let's the kid's run him

8.  He cleans like no other. 

9. He helps the kids clean there room (which actually they watch him clean it)

10. He makes dinner (usually better then me)

11. He's a kick butt Primary Chorister

12. He loves to golf

13. He loves to talk about golf

14. He won't go golfing with out his Dad

15. His idea of a good time is staying at home and watching a movie with me

16, His idea of a good time out on the town is a double feature movie with me

17. He orders the same thing at restaurant's,  He says he's going to try something different then he always panics at the the last minute and goes back to his regular

18. He rubs my hair and back Pretty much anytime i whine about anything. 

19. He's a excellent Kisser

20. He's very uncomfortable with PDA but he will still indulge if i throw myself at him.

So to sum up He's the best 31year old ever!  He's such a good husband, father, and the world's best Hygienist.

I love him so much!! And I'm glad he's My BIG DADDY.

Carmen

I thought I would put a few up so you can see how they look. 

Thanks again for working for Brad on Friday,  He owe's you BIG TIME!!

And one last one......

What the.... What.

How does this kids come up with these things?  I swear Blaze thinks every waking hour, about the things he can get into.  He's been pretty quite lately and we thought that he had kinda got over his curious way.  But alas he pulls this one on us tonight..................

Yep only 3 short week's ago i bought Brody this spiking wax for his hair,  I gave him a lesson on using very little and how to use it.  So hardly any was gone, until tonight!

Now it's all gone.

Hockey Smocky

B and I had the chance to go to the one of the Calgary pre-season games on Saturday.  We won the tickets at a auctions and it happened to fall on the day of Brad's golf Tournament.  So i was lucky enough to get to take B to the game. 

Ok i don't know if it was luck or not.  We got to Calgary and took the train down to the game.  That was a experience for Brody that he does not want to repeat.  There was a Stamp's Game and a flames game so the train  so so packed full we were so squished and we were standing the whole way and to  top it off the lady next to us on the train fainted!  Yikkes B was not enjoying it at all.  So we got to the game and i told him if we left a bit early from the game we would not be crowded on the train but it was up to him.  He eagerly agreed and closely watched the time and let me know when we needed to leave.  (he really hated the crowds.

After this trip I've decided I'm a small town girl and that's ok.  I had a gut ache the entire time just from the crowds.  yikkes.  I'll leave the next game up to Brad.

B had a tonne of fun and it was exciting to be there If the Oilers would have been playing it would have been so much more exciting.  I felt guilty cheering for the flames,  Cause we just really don't like them but they were a step up from Tampa Bay i guess.

Be was in charge of the camera so sufficient to say,  Most pictures were of the goalies.

Today was a nice day out.  The first of the summer/fall season i think.  So we decided not to waste it and went for a drive out to St. Mary's Reservoir.  The kid's played at the park and we walked around then headed to Cardston and went to the temple and then off to see Grandma and Grandpa Hough.  We played Mormon Trivia for treats on the way.  It was a nice afternoon to get out and enjoy all the changing colors of fall.

Look close and blaze and brad are connected by snot!  hehe

Some of the leaves were so yellow and pretty i could not resist trying to take the kid's pictures but of course nobody co operates and well this is what we got!......

Check out the six pack

Life is Peachy

Yes that title is a play on words,  Yes not the most cleaver but it will suffice.  So this past week i went and picked up my 40 pounds of Peaches and 54 pounds of pears.  I decided this year with the help of Falene, to bottle Peaches and Pears.  I've bottled Cherries before, but this was my first big bottling (which really was not that much compared to what some people do).

So What i learned is
1. When the peaches are ready you do them!  No matter what.
2. When the pear's are ready you do them! No matter what
3. Falene is a Slave Driver,  Ok not really but holy Moly when she gets going on something you can't make her stop.  I've said before these hands(meaning my own) were not meant  for very much manual labor.  And Falene came home after work put on her Canning clothes and she was ready to Bottle till, i swear, the wee hours of the morning!!!  Boy did i breath a sigh of relief when she decided we better wait till the next day to do the pears!  She's a machine!

This was Blazes job to peel and pit the peaches.  He really did help tonnes untill the big kid's got home and he became distracted

Long story short, I'm so glad Falene taught me how to bottle!   I felt pretty bad for her, having to talk over yelling kid's, step over every toy and book bag imaginable.  It was a good time but next year I'm kinda hoping the peaches and pears are ripe a week apart and that fall's on weekends when The Dad of the screaming kid's is around to take them!

Anyway I'm so glad to have all those bottles on the shelves!  Falene said it's an exciting site,  And i agree it really is the best feeling.  Know I'm looking around trying to figure our what else i can bottle!

Corn Anyone?

This year our Garden was prosperous! We got corn, Peas, Carrots, Some Potato's, Pepper's, and Tomato's.

The kid's were thrilled with the outcome and pretty much ate it all right out of the garden. The final harvest has been the last couple day's. It's the corn. We found we have a few corn lover's , Well Paris and Brody are average corn lover's, Blaze is a "sauce"lover, (he licks off the butter and salt and leaves the corn) but One is by far the biggest corn lover.

This is what he did while he waited for his second piece of corn.

I bet i can guess what his diapers are going to look like tommorow.