Techno Queen (NOT!)

Although my kids all seem to have been born with a "technology gene", I apparently was not. I think they started giving those out in the 1970's...well past my advent into this world. So I always feel like I'm playing catch up.

Take blogging for example. Who'd have thought that I could actually learn how to do this (with wallpaper and accompanying photos to boot)? Not that I'm good at it yet, but at least I feel like I'm learning the game. It's sorta like the rest of you are playing in the world series and I'm playing ladies slow pitch! But hey--at least I'm playing--right?

So in that light, I want you to know that I have become proficient enough at making Power Point presentations every week for our Sunday School class that I can actually put one together all by myself complete with pieces of text flying in or spiraling down when I want them to! How's that for an accomplishment? I even text on occassion! Are you impressed? LOL

Move Over, Johnny Appleseed

This week Don worked hard on getting a winter garden prepared and planted. We hope to have potatoes (sweet and white), onions (green and red), broccoli, radishes, cilantro, lettuce, and carrots.

Don also finished planting fruit trees (1 orange, 1 grapefruit, 2 peaches, 2 apricots, and 2 walnuts). He also fenced off half of the front yard and seeded grass out there. The fence is there to keep the dogs off of the new grass until it gets established. It has just started coming up, and I can't wait to have a lawn! We hope to put a fire pit and more grass on the other half of the front yard in the new future.

The Two C's: Conference and Candy

This weekend we thoroughly enjoyed watching General Conference. How grateful I am for the Church in these latter-days and for my testimony of the restored gospel! What a spiritual feast!

We also had another kind of feast via Germany. Sarah and Nathan sent a variety of German candies to us...none of which I had ever heard of before. It was really fun to have a tasting party while we watched Conference! Makayle and Paige sent along pictures they had drawn...it made me cry! Even Carter "signed" the letter from all of them in green crayon scribbles. I miss those little ones! I'll put their drawings up next to the last one I have that Makayle drew (which is above my computer so that I can see it every day). Good night little ones--sleep tight! I LOVE YOU!

A Lot of Green

This week we saw a lot of green. No, not money--vegetation. Don seeded grass in half of the front yard (about a quarter of an acre) and fenced the dogs out so that it will have a chance to grow. He also brought in some good soil from the pond and spread it on part of the yard on the west side of the house so that we can plant a garden in the next week or so. We also bought a grapefruit tree and an orange tree to go with the two peach trees, two apricot trees, and two walnut trees. The only green I'm not looking forward to is the weeds that will probably come up in the garden. I'll try to get some pictures soon.