Kanab, April 2011

MaryAnn and Bryant had to take the bees to California for the Almond orchards.  And I got to go play with the kids for almost a week.  They are great kids and I loved every minute of it!  Everyday, Jake would go out to the property with me to feed and water the dogs and gather eggs from the chickens.  Only it was not fun to get the chickens back in, when they got out.  That was pretty funny when you think about it.  There Jake & I are running around trying to get chickens back in the coup.  We get a few in, and few different ones come out.  LOL

All the kids playing in the back yard.  Playing house.  It amazes me what they think up to play and how they figure out stuff to put it together.  Addie, Cora & Clay

More playing...  Jake & Cora

They have some wild turkeys that live in the area.  They were just across the street.  Could not resist just a couple pictures of them, struting their stuff.  MaryAnn says that sometimes they will be on your car.  Pretty friendly.

Pretty weird to take pictures of 2 bowls of candy???  Well, there is a story behind them.  It was conference weekend, and I really wanted to watch conference.  The kids had brought home some ideas from church to help little ones to watch conference better.  One of them was to give a treat when they heard a certain word.  So, we tried it.  It was amazing!  We picked Jesus Christ, Prophet & Holy Ghost for our words to listen to.  And they didn't miss a word.  I loved watching conference with the kids.  They were so good.  And when they heard one of the words, they very quitely repeated the word and got a piece of candy.  On Sunday for the afternoon session, the kids where playing in the front room and Cora accidently dumped the candy over.  We had to throw it out.  She felt so bad.  But, we all told her, we have had enough candy, it is ok.

We also made Spudnuts during the 1st session of conference.  Everyone helped, the boys where able to put the donuts in the hot oil to cook them, and everyone took turns dunking them in the glaze to frost them.  And even though they didn't think they would like them, cuz they had potatoes in them.  Everyone liked them. 
More memories....Had lots of fun with the kids.  Can't wait for next year to do it again!  Love you guys!!