time flies

It has been a long time since I wrote. I can't believe how fast this month is going by. I am having a hard time getting things ready for Christmas I think it is because I have to get things bought in time to get them mailed to my kids this year. I haven't really known what to get them so it has been interesting. I am going to go to town tomorrow to see if I can finish up the things I need to get to be mailed. I hope next year will be easier after I get to know my new daughters better.
I have been to Provo twice shopping, I have been taking care of Karter, doing humanitarian quilts and getting ready for two birthdays. Yesterday I took a quilt I finished to the Relief Society Presidents house and she wasn't home but her husband was and I made a comment on the ping pong table they have in their covered patio area and I ended up playing ping pong with her husband it was kind of fun, It has been a while since I played it. Well that is all for now I am going to go and catch up on everyones blog now.

Moose

Ihope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving. We had a nice day. We started by waking up to snow. I have never been to Fish Lake when there was snow and it was beautiful to see. The good thing is that it was just a small amount so all you were traveling got there safely. It was interesting having three families all trying to cook for the dinner in the same small kitchen but somehow it worked and dinner turned out great. While cooking dinner a lady came to the cabin the Kenneth knew he had told her about Pamela taking photography in college so she wanted to pay Pamela to come and take their pictures. As you can see she raises puppies to sell this little puppy is selling for 400 dollars and Pam wanted the puppy instead of money so they gave him to her for payment. He is a maltese and Shitzu mix (however you spell them) and will only get to weight 5 pounds. The people who had him were staying at the moose hollow cabin so Pam named him Moose. I have him right now while she gets approval to keep him in her apartment, but I am getting attached so she may have trouble taking him there. Thats all we need another pet around but he is too cute to resist.

Happy Thanksgiving

Coy and I will be heading up to Fish Lake to spend Thanksgiving with Kenneth and Ashly and so I won't have time to write til after Thanksgiving is over and I just want to tell everyone Happy Thanksgiving. We are going to have all our family there and some of Ashly's so we should have a pretty big one. I am cooking a turkey for the dinner so we are headed up there early so I can do that. I am hoping the weather will not interfere too bad, I know it is supposed to be stormy but I am hoping for rain only. Have a good Thanksgiving and be safe.

Pies

Today I decided to make my pies for Thanksgiving. Kenneth was happy about it because he had the day off and was here so he got to have pie dough scraps plus a piece of pumkin pie. I started my pie making at 9:00 this morning and finished at 2:00 this afternoon. I ended up making 11 pies.
Tomorrow we are going to go and work on Val's bathroom again, I hope we get this project done soon.
I had a suprise on Monday Mindy came to visit. She said she missed us and needed some hugs. She stayed until this morning, it was fun to see her for a couple of days.
I hope everyone else had a good day.

Remodeling

Alright I will write another note. I am not very good at doing this blog thing. We have been busy this past week trying to get Val's house back in good shape since her basement got flooded by irrigation water on Oct 13th. We have pulled out the old wet carpet and the wet sheetrock and have put up new sheetrock this week. We have also been remodeling their bathroom so they could have a bathtub. The old shower was built out of some kind of iron or tin that was very heavy and put in very well with a cement floor and iron drain. We have pulled out the old shower, and cupboards that were there and Terry has been over for the last 2 days rebuilding the drain and putting in copper pipes along with a subfloor to put the new tub in. The length of the bathroom is 59 and3/4 long and the tub is 60 so it took a lot to get the tub in the room and after removing the old plaster on the walls it gave us barely enough room. Terry and I worked with lifting and inching and a bit of time and patience on Terry's part with having me as a helper we finally got it in. We still need to put the surround wall up but that is waiting until another day because we were wore out. I have been happy that Terry is able to help us non plumbers out.
I am glad Gary is home and hope things go well for him.
My heart also goes out to Rochelle and her family as they go through the rough time making their new baby well through all the surgeries she has to undergo.
We love you all

Today I had a humanitarian quilt day. I went to the church at 9:00 this morning and with the help of a few relief society sisters we got two quilts done.
Tonite is bowling league night so that is what I am doing later.