Matthews New Project

For those of us that use the game room and our friends and family who come and stay with us-you will all be happy to hear that there will soon be a bathroom in the game room! We have the apartment down below but it has been occupied for the past few years and so that moves the bathroom to the field or the house which can be a bit inconvenient if you were sleeping there at night. On the other side of the bathroom, in the TV area, there will be a small kitchen area. Mostly just a couple cabinets and some running water.

So yesterday, being the Saturday before Labor Day, we labored in the barn. Megan and I stained the new cabinets and Matthew and Jordan framed in the new bathroom. Pictures to come.

Lake Powell

Beautiful Lake Powell-Sun going down in our cove

Allison, Kaitlyn, & Savannah-who had the camera and took photos of themselves

The girl cousins jumping. Allison, Nikel, Megan, Savannah, & Brooke

Jordan Jumping

Jordans Quilt- and -Fishers of Lake Powell

Last summer I made my first quilt with Mom Peterson's help-for Megan. Then I made one for Allison. Jordans turn. He picked out the materials with me. Denim and flannels. I send them off and someone else with a machine quilts them up but I think it turned out pretty nice and he loves it.

I haven't even found the rest of the photos-someone downloaded them somewhere-my computer probably-which is being backed up -away from home this week. But here is a photo of Dallen, Brooke, and Wyatt, with Uncle Davids help, catching fish. This was a daily, evening occurance staying on the houseboat at Lake Powell. The kids, and the rest of us, had such a good time. More photos to come of cliff jumping and such, when located.

Kids off to School-Jordan making his own lunch

I am going to have to go backwards and get caught up-but to start with today-the kids are off to school. I made them sweedish pancakes-at their request and poor Jordan packed his own cold lunch, giving me the long talk about how his health would probably suffer from being so neglected from his mother who wasn't taking care of him. Then of all things we got to running late and Megan showed up and needed to throw her lunch together immediately-and I made her sandwich-while she grabbed the rest. You should have heard the comments from Jordan then....I may never live it down. I may yet be coerced into making lunches for my poor boy-believe me, he has the reasons behind his need. I told him I just wanted to make sure he didn't receive any dis-service from me, growing up and not able to make a sandwich and do his laundry and all. He assured me that just because he knows how to do something doesn't mean that he wants to do it. Matthew didn't help by telling him that his own mother took care of him and packed his lunches. Hey, my own wonderful mother made me pack my own lunches and I survived it just fine. If I pack their lunches it will be the night before like I did my own and encourage them to do. I told him I was more then happy to buy him a lunch ticket (another glare). Oh well, maybe they are right and my children need their mommy to do this other thing for them.

Summer Vacations

This summer has been crazy busy even now that I am not studying-although it is not too early to start learning world civilizations 1 and 2 for the CLEP tests that I will be taking sometime. In the meantime we went to Dworshak, Idaho for a boating vacation and they ended up "upgrading" us to Three Meadows campground which was wonderful. We had a huge lodge and 4 large cabins. The water was almost 80 degrees and the company was wonderful. Matthew's brothers family met us there, David and Tanja and family-although they had a nightmare of a drive to get there from Utah. We had a wonderful time. Allison had been staying with them and what peaceful weeks those were in our home, and we brought their daughter Savannah home with us. On Friday we are leaving for Utah and taking a trip to Lake Powell. Looking forward to that. although not the heat!

In the meantime, back at the ranch, the garden is blooming and raspberries are done for the year. We are having an unseasonably warm summer and enjoying the sunshine. The butcher is coming on Thursday to take the yearly offering of cows and start the transfer from the field to the freezer. I haven't made any soap lately but plan to again before too long.

I am trying to decide if I can handle taking statistics online and leaning toward that. I need to take statistics and cultural antrhopology and CLEP those history tests for my bachelor/masters program at WSU for nursing practitioner. I am planning to start their program in January. Besides throwing up a few photos here or there that is what is going on at our end of the woods.

I AM AN RN

I passed the NCLEX and I am finally an official RN now. I was a bit worried about the test after taking it, but it all worked out. YIPEE SKIPPY for me, and for all my other wonderful classmates who have passed and are passing the exam

Allisons Room

Allison's paint job is finally done. So here she is in the pink and the brown and the dots. I am going to put some pink and brown dots around her vanity too