2017 Blue Jeans Week 47

Had a wonderful Thanksgiving week!  My sister and her family were here for the week which was awesome!  Hosted a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner for 25 and had gorgeous weather!  Enjoyed some hiking and biking on our days off and got the house decorated for Christmas.  A great week!  So very, very much to be thankful for!  Take a look. . .

My sister and her cute family drove from Utah to be with us for Thanksgiving week.  We went exploring on the trails and found a cool cave!

My sister, nephew, Mr J and Miss E work on Thanksgiving name card holders--they were felt turkeys and turned out so cute!

Dinner is served!  The kids table :)  The kids keep getting bigger and bigger each year!

The adult table!  So many awesome people to be thankful for!!  Sure missed Miss A this year!  Can't wait to see her at Christmas!!!

And the best part of Thanksgiving?  The Pie!!!!  Oh yeah!  yummy!

My mom and my sisters, just missing my brother and his cute family this year.  

Mr J, my nephew and my mom heading out one day for a bike ride.  Our weather has been perfect!  

So much to be thankful for!  Thanks for visiting!  Hope you had a great week!  

2017 Blue Jeans Week 46

A beautiful pre-Thanksgiving week.  So much to be thankful for!  I am thankful I got to be with friends this past week, work on some Christmas stuff, listen to my kids play the piano and perform in a recital and go shopping by myself to the city and enjoy a Chick-fil-A frosted lemonade--ah, life is good!  Take a look at our week. . .

Lunch with the girlfriends today--a beautiful day!  Sure do love these ladies!!!

We will be having a foreign exchange student staying with us for a few months starting early December, so she will be with us at Christmas, and she needs a stocking!  She is Buddhist, so this is the first time for her to ever experience a Christmas, so we are excited about having her!

Miss O working very hard on her recital piece for later this week.  Love hearing her play!

Got to the city today by myself to get some shopping done, and love going to Chick-fil-A for lunch and a frosted lemonade!  A perfect treat!

Piano recital this week--these two did two duets, and one was so fun, they changed seats while playing and clapped in unison.  Lots of fun!  They worked very hard on their pieces.  

Miss E playing her piece--Falling Leaves, so pretty!

Mr J playing his Clementi solo piece and did awesome.

Miss O played also, but my camera malfunctioned and I didn't get a picture of her!  Augh!  And it was her last recital too.  Man, but we did get a video so that is good.  Technology--it is great when it works!  Not so much when it doesn't!  :)

But despite that we have much to be grateful for!  Have a blessed Thanksgiving!!  Thanks for visiting!!

2017 Blue Jeans Week 45

This was a nice quieter week in between sports seasons--had our cross country end of season banquet, went to the symphony, enjoyed Veteran's day and life is good.  So grateful for the Veteran's who have served and sacrificed so much for our freedom.  So grateful to their families also for making that sacrifice.  Thank you!!!  Take a look at our week. . .

Went up to the city to enjoy a visiting Russian Symphony which was very good.

This is a picture of my nightstand and all the books I have waiting for me to read.  I need to read faster....so many good books, so little time...

Had a warmer day that I could get out in the yard and get some bulbs planted for spring next year.  I enjoy working in my yard.

Miss O's last marching band parade.  Ugh, another senior last moment.  Yes, I cried.  She has been involved with band since 6th grade.  It has been a big part of her life.

Miss O was a team captain this year in cross country.  Had their end of season banquet, and love their coach!

Miss E and Ben went up to the city with some other youth from our church to attend the temple.  Miss O and Mr J missed it because they were marching in the Veteran's parade.  I love to see the temple.

Thanks for visiting!  Hope you have a great week!

2017 Blue Jeans Week 44

Had a nice week.  It was so good to have everyone (except Miss A) home again.  It was pretty quiet last week with just 3 of us home.  Enjoyed Halloween.  Mr J decided he wasn't trick-or-treating this year which was kind of sad, so no costume pictures.  Mr J and Ben had a scouts' camp out this weekend, so we girls went to see a movie.  It was a good week.  Take a look. . .

Miss O and her amazing grandparents on Sunday before they took her and Ben to the airport to head home.  Sure am blessed by amazing in-laws!

Sunday afternoon we made our traditional pumpkin sugar cookies to share and eat :)  Wouldn't be Halloween without those at our house!

Yeah!  He is home, and we put him to work cleaning out pumpkins!  Lucky guy!!

And here are this year's creations done by Miss O(on left) and Miss E (center) and Mr J on right. 

One of my creations this week.  I made a double crust blue ribbon apple pie.  Wow!  It was an all day process, but it was sooooo good!  Mel at Mel's Kitchen Cafe has been hosting a pie making boot camp the last few weeks, and I felt inspired.  All recipes are from here

Friday night the boys had a scouting camp out, so the girls decided to go see the new Thor movie, and it did NOT disappoint!  We are huge Marvel fans, so we loved it.  What I did not expect was how funny it was!  We were laughing through the whole thing!  A great girls' night out!!

And the boys went camping.  Saturday morning they went fishing which is a new thing for Mr J.  He caught a fish!  Pretty awesome weekend for him too!

Thanks for coming!  Hope you have a great week!!!