Everyone is always saying that Savi and Sadie look exactly alike. We found some pictures tonight that show they are definitely sisters! By the end she was done sitting next to the computer screen, but we had to get one of them in the same onesie! :-)
Last Saturday Mike was gone to the cabin so the kids and I went to a free business thing in Riverton. Everything was free, even the food and bounce house so we had a blast! The best deal was getting free coupons to in and out. :-) The kids did great and got a ton of free things! Sadie slept most of the time in the carrier, and when I put her on the grass she enjoyed it. It was a fun day!
Sadie had blessed our lives for 3 months. She still seems so tiny, but I feel like she's so much bigger than when she was born...make sense? Anyway, she is such a smiley talkative baby that it just melts my heart. We brought out the baby toys and put her in the jumper, and you can see she had mixed reactions but she stayed in it longer than I thought she would.
Mike has the Samsung Galaxy S3 phone and his pictures have always turned out better than my Evo's. He can get great detail. Here are some of his latest...a few of them are from the cabin like the giant white mushroom and purple moss.
Mike and the kids check the garden basically everyday so I'm not sure how they missed this zucchini, but this was the largest one we've ever grown! I was determined not to let it go to waste, and the best use for a big zucchini is baking it. SoFriday afternoon I started shedding it by hand, but then I need a few ingredients at the store so by the time I started baking it was around 830. It made about 13 cups of shredded zucchini! So I used my convection oven and baked 3 large loaves and 4 small loaves of zucchini bread, 76 double chocolate zucchini muffins, and 130 dark chocolate zucchini cookies. I didn't finish til around 1230, and my kitchen was an udder disaster when Jana got home. She couldn't stop laughing. Needless to say our freezer is stocked with visiting and home teaching treats for the next few months. :-)
My parents have talked about going on a senior couples mission as long as I can remember. Then with the passing of my Mom's mom last year, they started to do the work and make the doctors appointments. Then they both had major surgeries at the end of last year and the beginning of this year. Us kids thought they'd give their bodies a little more time to heal, but that was just wishful thinking. ;-) Their papers were only in a few short weeks before they were called to the Tallahassee Florida mission at the beginning of August, and reported to the MTC for a week of training at the beginning of September, and they have been serving for a little over a week now! The mission life is similar to their old life because they don't stop moving, but it's different because they do all the moving together! They are meant to serve the wonderful people of Florida, and I'm just grateful that senior couples have more flexibility so we can still have calls and Skype because we need them too! :-)
A couple of weeks ago Mike had an overnight Scout camp with the 11 year olds. Carter has gone before so he was excited to go again. They had a great time at beautiful Tiblefork reservoir, until Saturday morning when Carter was picking and throwing rocks from the steam and his middle finger picked up an old rusty fish hook! :-( It was really stuck so Mike drove him down to a clinic in Alpine while Carter freaked out the whole way down. I met them there, but of course not before I got pulled over for speeding. It was my first time not having my license and getting a nice cop. He assured me that my son was fine because his dad was there, and then he told me to drive slower. No ticket! A miracle! When I finally got there they gave him some topical numbing so he was doing better. The worse part of the whole thing though was getting the numbing shot. Carter screamed bloody murder and I fought to hold back tears. Carter and I didn't really watch the doctor pulling and pushing his little finger to get the hook out. The picture is of the leftover part they pushed through his finger after they cut off what they could. They gave him a stuffed bear that he named blue berry bear. He was fine the rest of the day and didn't have any lasting pain. That was our first visit like this and I'm sure it won't be our last. :-)
