Autumn, my favorite season

The leaves haven't fallen off the trees yet! It still looks like summer and feels like fall. It has been a georgeous fall. I worked outside all day Saturday and loved it. The temperature is just right.

We found a little surprise. Four fat little kitties appeared on our patio, this week. Three yellow and a gray/black. They are terrified of us, of course. We will never be able to hold them or catch them. So I put straw around the bottom of the trailer and made a little home for the kitties for winter. Right now they think the wash house is their home. (Do I have news for them).

I got my utility room painted yellow. You can't tell from the picture, but I like it and it gave me a chance to change things around and clean.

Little Maddie is one year old. She scoots all over and no need to walk. She is a little doll. A cute little personality.
She didn't know what to think when she got her own cake to eat.

We are looking forward to Halloween and fun times. First we have to get the World Series over, the Rays and the Phillies. We have been watching a lot of baseball lately. Good times.

Some more.....

We got another picture to share-looked who else dropped in and one cute little witch. Can you find the withch?

Do you like my nails? Don't look at the old hands just the pretty nails. Erica did my nails Saturday. I was her first model and she was very professional and really did a great job. I think she is a natural.

We love baseball this time of year. You get to see some good games and they bring out the best players for the playoffs. We don't care so much who wins but we like a good game of baseball.

Dalton has been a little obsessed about football and we have been recording the NFL games so he can watch them. His favorite teams are the Steelers and the Patriots. He has a cool football mural on his wall. We will have to take a picture and show it off. Jerry and Kim did some remodeling and finished some rooms in their basement. They turned out really nice.

We had a stake youth activity and this turned out fun. We had a sock hop-at a farmer's huge shop that lives in our stake. We had donuts and homemade root beer. The kids have alot of fun. This has been a long tradition with our youth.

We have the best family-love you all.

We get a day off!!!!!

Thank you Columbus for discovering America. I love a day off. I have great plans:

paint the utility room
paint the kitchen
install a door on the upstairs
shingle the wash house
wrap up the hoses for winter
such a fun day.

Do you recognize these little characters, they just dropped in to visit. One of them is havin a big birthday this week.

Yes we are ready for Halloween.

Yes we did have snow and it is sticking.......
When it gets this time of year I love to make carmeled apples.

Marci has a good recipe that they love:

2 c half n half cream

2 c sugar

1 c light karo

1/2 c butter

1/2 tsp. salt

1 T vanilla

heat cream to lukewarm, pour off 1 c and set aside.

Add Karo and sugar to pan, bring to a boil, add other cream and boil 5 min, add butter and salt. Boil to softball stage (when you take a tsp of carmel and put in a cup of cold water and it forms a softball), then add vanilla.

I like to cut up the apples and dip in the carmel or cut up the apples in small chunks and pour the carmel over them and eat with a fork or do the traditional carmel apples.

I am going to hurry and post this one cause I have typed it three times now as you can see! I am still learning and need to be humbled.

Learn Something New Everyday

I finally got our family picture hung up and I didn't even drop a break the frame this time. I love it. Doesn't it look great? Check out the pumpkins just in time for fall.

We had a great weekend, the weather was cool and blustery so I wasn't even tempted to go outside and work, I just hunkered down and set up a project table and made a list of things I could do while I watched conference. I loved it. I kept my little notebook by my side and took notes and thoroughly enjoyed the weekend and the wonderful messages from our leaders. The messages brought comfort and peace to my soul and I found many things that answered questions and concerns I had. I loved the humor of the blind date and the calm peace and witness that came from seeing a living prophet. I found that I need to fill our days with things that matter the most, when we are united we can accomplish anything with the Lord. We must speak well of others and don't judge wrongfully. Hope from Elder Uchtdorf promised that it would bring peace and rejoicing and our love of God will pierce all darkness and there are angels among us. So much more. I loved it. How come I am so blessed?

We had the local fam come over for ham dinner and we watched the last session together (even Papa, watched most of all the sessions!)

One other thing I loved was Sister Dalton's motto as she first served the the General Young Women's. "I Can Do Hard Things". We accepted that as our motto for our Stake Young Women's Presidency. Now Sister Dalton has added "In the Strength of the Lord, I can do hard things." We are all asked to do hard things and we know where our strength can come.

Well I have learned a lot today, how to add a post and adding a picture. That's really amazing for me. I have lots more to share, but my sleepy time is here.

New Blogger on the Block

Wow Rach I did it! I'm a Blogger. Rach and Holly and Angie and Barb, you are my hero's, I want to Blog just like you. Who said you can't teach an old dog new tricks. My life is relatively boring but what a great way to stay in touch. I think this will be fun.