Harvest Time

Our peach tree is so overloaded it looks like its wilted. What a great time of year.
We are in the middle of the harvest.......Peaches, Pears & Grapes!!!!
We are grateful for the harvest but what a pain in the neck!!! But....there is nothing better then homegrown produce!!!! Yoweee! So Yummy!!!

Mercantile is Finished

The last few weeks I put the sign up and built the side door. It's finally done. I think it turned out great!

Another Year Older....

Hard to believe.

Wall Street Curcus!

I know this is a family blog..... but as the blogger, I reserve the right to post about current events..... So.....

The New York Times has a nice interactive chart that shows the losses of the market over the last 12 months.....
Basically it shows $4 trillion drop of the total market cap of the U.S. stock market since last October. $1 trillion is from the decline in the financial sector alone.
Each box in the graphic is proportional to the size of the market capitalization of the biggest financial firms then and now. As you mouse over the squares, you can see how much each value each company lost between October 9, 2007 and September 12, 2008. Here are some of the individual losses by market cap:

Citigroup: $236.7 billion to $97.8 billion.
Bank of America: $236.5 billion to $150.2 billion.
AIG: $179.8 billion to $32.3 billion
Goldman Sachs: $97.7 billion to $61.3 billion
American Express: $74.8 billion to $45 billion.
Morgan Stanley: $73.1 billion to $41.1 billion.
Fannie Mae: $64.8 billion to $700 million.
Merrill Lynch: $63.9 billion to $24.2 billion
Freddie Mac: $41.5 billion to $300 million.
Lehman Brothers: $34.4 billion to $2.5 billion.
Washington Mutual: $31.1 billion to $2.9 billion

Kinda crazy when you look at it all together..... of course I have my thought about the whole market and if I could quote "Its always the "unseen" forces that shape future events and then many stories are planted to hide truth...."

Just my opinion but we will see the DOW below 9000 before this is over. And when you figure in the weak(and getting weaker) dollar...... this won't be fun.

Eat Up!!

Dinner tonight was...... of course from our Favorite Food Cookbook.....

BBQ Pulled Pork, Carolina Cole Slaw, Homemade buns...... Zucchini and Tomatoes from the garden. And if you have never tried a BBQ pulled pork sandwich with the coleslaw on the sandwich.... your missing out brother!!!

It was so good!

Of course we say that about everything in our cookbook. It was so good that the kids ate their plates clean.

Our Cookbook

It's finished! The 2009 Edition of our Family Favorites Cookbook is done! All 243 pages of it. Some of our favorite recipes that are included are.....

Scott's Pizza Dough
Whole Wheat Bread
Homemade Hamburger Buns
Ultimate Rolls
Whole Wheat Muffins
Popeye Pancakes
Chicken Scaloppini
Scott's Favorite Beef Enchiladas
Cafe Rio Chicken Salad
Spudnuts

Well, now that were all hungry...... what's for lunch????

LAST SWIM

It has been such a fun year swimming at Grandpas!!! We can't believe it's time to close it up for the winter. We went for one more last swim. It's so nice... clean, clear water with no crowds to deal with. Miles and Lilly are really great swimmers now. Miles was showing off his "backstroke" to us tonight.

So if you look close you can see a callus on my second toe. I can only imagine it's from running. Well as we were all looking at it.... Briggs decided he wanted to look at his too...

What a cute kid.

Thanks Grandpa!!!! We can't wait for JUNE!!!!

School Lunch

A few weeks ago I (Scott) went to the kids school and had lunch with them. We had a ball! The food was below average but what do you expect from school lunch. After lunch we had ............ Lunch Recess. Miles wanted to play Sharks and Minnows. It's basically tag but as you tag the Minnows they become Sharks and so on..... We started with 4 of us and after 10 minutes we had 50 kids playing this. What a riot! So anyway.....

I went again today but this time I took pictures to share the fun!

Yummy Yogurt!

Briggs really enjoyed his yogurt yesterday!!

Pizza Party!!

After Stake Conference on Sunday we invited Grandma & Grandpa & Brian & Lisa over for Pizza! I do believe it was our best effort yet. All the pizza turned out perfect. It must have been good because there wasn't a slice left over.

The girls played in the playhouse and put makeup on. Ohh how pretty!

Then they played dress up.

It was a great weekend of Football(BYU shutout UCLA), and Family and Pizza!!!

Magic Blanket Challenge

So Jane's friend from college had a blog challenge. She asked the world to submit before/after photos of you/something you did. The winner gets a Prada bag. Well you can check them all out but what we submitted are sweet!!!

So I'm asking for your vote......

Scott's transformation

Kid's Playhouse

Labor Daze

Photos from Labor Day weekend. Crazy kids.

Savannah's 1st Day

Savannah started pre-school this week! She is so excited to learn from Mrs. Becky!
Remind me to iron her shirt next time we take a 1st day of school photo!!! LOL

Harmon's Bakery

YUM! YUM! YUM!
Homemade Wheat Bread and our totally killer rolls with Blackberry jam! You should really upgrade to the new Google Smellerbrowser because these smell almost as good as they taste!

Mowing...

Labor Day weekend was spent at Grandma & Grandpa's Home in Idaho. The kids helped Grandpa mow the yard. After we got home Monday night. Scott mowed ours. You can see the kids were all wanting to help. If you look at the third photo you can see Miles has taken over the driving.