Last Weekend

 

 

 

Mandy at the High Meadow Ranch

 

 

 

 

 

We had a busy weekend.  On Friday, Glenn and Nathan went to baseball practice and Mandy and I went to hear the Super Singers.  Sammi and Jessi are part of the Super Singers and the night was fun.  The girls did a good job of singing and following the director's lead.  Afterwards, we went and had ice cream at the old TCBY place on Grant and Jones.

Jessi, Sammi, Elizabeth and Mandy enjoy cookies after the performance.

 

 

 

 

 

On Saturday, we went to Nathan's baseball game - we won although this is the YMCA and you don't really keep score.  The kids are beginning to actually make plays.  A batter hits, the ball is found if not caught and thrown to a bass for an out.  It makes for a little more exciting game.  Nathan is in the process of changing from being a right handed thrower to a lefty and while it is taking a little adjusting it will be good in the end.  He does take his baseball seriously.

 

He is a White Sox this year.

 

 

 

 

 

While playing Nathan was playing baseball, Mandy decided to try on some accessories.  What is a baseball game without matching accessories?

 

 

 

   She is growing so big!

After the game we went to a big open house (kind of) for a new section of High Meadow Ranch. They did a western theme and pulled out all of the stops.  They had a mule drawn carriage, rope tricks, free food, a pretend gunfight, we mined for gold, and Glenn won a free round of golf for getting the most in-one-putts (or something).  Oh, they also had a great petting zoo and everyone really enjoyed it.  Shelly came over and joined us.  Oh, they also had musicians and the kids got up and danced a jig.

 

 

 

Yeah! Jason fixed it.

I don't know what he did but I can blog from my computer.  Wonderful!  We have had several interesting weeks since I have blogged.  A deer hit my car, Spot brought home a deer leg and then came home covered in blood and proceeded to spray blood every where.  Ugh! Blood is sticky.

We have fallen in love with our three little kittens!  We have named them Emma (white one), Sarah (dark fluffy one) and Cali (orange coloring tabby).  They are so much fun to play with and watch.

 

 

I did it!  Isn't everyone proud of me?  Actually Jason made it very easy!

 

 

 

 

Emma is my favorite. She is very calm while her siblings are more into everything.  By the way, a funny story.  We kidnapped the three from their Mother, Kimball because she is wild and the kittens were becoming wild also.  Kimball's sister, Benson (alright we thought they were boys) had 4 kittens about 4 weeks after Kimball had hers.  Since we kidnapped Kimball's kittens, I guess Kimball decided if we could so could she.  She now has taken 2 of Bensons kittens and are raising them.  I have never heard anything like that before. Since I had to catch up I think I will do it in two postings.   Take care.

Bagged my first one

Well, hello - yesterday was a strange day. 1st off Pepa calls and tells me Grannie is in the hospital but gives me no details and said he would call me back when they find out what is going on. The kids and I went to pick up Asia and Aurora who are visiting with us for a week. We talked and visited with Shelly and girls a while and Nathan really hurt his back by falling off the scooter and failing onto the handles. It's going to be a bad bruise.

We ran over to Sam's and picked up the meat for the picnic on Saturday and headed home. Nathan and Asia with Aurora in tow went to collect eggs and rushed back to tell me that a snake was eating the eggs in the chicken coop. I went to the workshop and retrieved a shovel and a hoe and went armed to battle. I walked in and yes, indeed there was a snake in one of the nesting boxes with an egg in his mouth. It is true what they say that they swallow them whole and it does look kind of strange. Anyway, I went to battle with this rather big snake and I won! He is now a very dead snake. It felt very primitive to be whacking a snake with a shovel.
Living in the country what can I say?

 

A very dead snake!

 

 

 

 

More about Grannie when we find something out. Right now she is stable but I am afraid they are going to come back with a diagnosis of liver cancer.

Last weekend

was, of course General conference and everyone has written something about it. I am looking forward to reading each talk as even though I listen closely, I can't remember half of what was said. I am very impressed with the new Apostle, Elder Christofferson. I listened to him talk and the Spirit was very strong and I enjoyed his talk about his wife's conversion and also his sister-in law's. I was very glad to see President Monson smile on Sunday. He had seemed so very solemn.

This weekend was very busy for us and so I taped the Saturday session and watched the morning session while Glenn and Nathan were at Priesthood. The Solemn Assembly was interesting - I don't remember doing it that way before but I am sure it is my memory and not something new.

We also had another adventuresome animal day. We have one male Mandarin duck and Glenn thought it would be nice to get him company and so around 6 weeks ago we bought three little balls of yellow fluff and brought them home. Boy, ducks are incredibly dirty animals and I will be glad to take them to the pond. We tried on Saturday morning and it was almost a final act on the part of the ducks. We took them down to the pond and watched them get in the water and take that first swim and then off they went into the middle of the pond. They looked like they were having a great time and then Ducky Wucky decided to join them. He swam up to them and we thought "awww" he is making friends. Not true, he tried to kill them! He grabbed one on the back of the neck and started holding his head under water. Glenn threw sticks and rocks and finally we all pulled the boat into the water and Glenn rowed vigorously to where they were. He slapped the paddle down into the water and Ducky finally let go. The baby duck did survive but then we didn't know what to do. By the way, there were ants in the boat and Glenn was standing up in the boat and trying to get rid of the ants and not fall in. Sorry, I didn't have my camera. We talked to Shelly and she looked up ducks and etc. and then we called the Feed store and were told that he was trying to show who was boss and we need to wait several more weeks to make sure the ducks can survive. Funny, we had put the dogs in the garage thinking they would be a problem but no it was the other duck! So, we were in a quandary trying to figure out how to get the ducks back in the kennel and take them back to the workshop. We have two fishing nets and Glenn went on one side and I went on the other and actually caught all three ducks in the two nets at once. I guess practice with the chickens have helped anyway they are back in the workshop and will be there for several more weeks.

Oh, we finally have found the three kittens that Kimball had several weeks ago. They are very cute - one is white with light grey and one is a grey tabby and the other is dark.. They all three have long hair like their mother and the little white one (it is adorable) was only born with one eye. I don't know what that will mean to the kitten. He/she won't be a hunter as he won't be able to see on that side.

We are looking forward to this week - Asia and Aurora are coming to stay for a week starting tomorrow and Kathie will be here on Friday. The big event is Victoria's blessing and we are going to have a picnic at Meyer's Park on Saturday and then travel to Donna's Ward for the blessing on Sunday. I can't believe how blessed we are to have so many wonderful children and grandchildren!