Cambry's Choir concert October 7, 2008

Here is the video of Cambry's portion of the fall vocal concert. She is on the top row, second from the left.

Beauty all around

Can you believe what stunning beauty surrounds us? October brought winter to the mountains around us... and today it looks like to us as well. But it is so pretty!

Hope in the future

Canning season is sooooo busy and exausting. But it is also so satisfying! When I look at my shelves filling up with beautiful produce, mostly from our own plot, I have such hope in the furture. It whispers peace like come what may, things will be well for us for another nine months.

Here are some quotes I heard from our prophets while I was canning our garden tomatoes:

"We encourage you to grow all the food that you feasibly can on your own property. Berry bushes, grapevines, fruit trees--plant them if your climate is right for their growth. Grow vegetables and eat them from your own yard." Spencer W. Kimball (1895-1985)

"The best place to have some food set aside is within our homes, together with a little money in savings. The best welfare program is our own welfare program." Gordon B. Hinckley (1919-2008)


Here we have tomatoes, some yellow, grape juice, and pear sauce.

DaVinci exhibit

We loved this exhibit! I marvel at all the genious in one mind. Can you read the quote? "Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge." This was significant because we had to leave Parker in someone else's care while we went to the exhibit for his severe fit that afternoon.

There was another quote that felt pertinent to the evening: "Every obstacle yields to stern resolve." This gave us hope!
This was a tool to be used in flight, an altimeter.
This was to measure wind speed. We were able to blow it up to the fourth notch.

"There shall be flight! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other."

One Aleah is cute, two adorable, but three -- irresistible.

On the way out to the car, the night had settled in and the stars were out. We told Aleah, "Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight. I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight" and told her to make a wish. She promptly blew a few quick breaths and said, "I can't blow it out (like the star was a birthday candle) it's too higher. Daddy, you do it?" What a delightful evening.