Life...One Day @ a Time...

I am so far behind, I'm not even gonna try to catch up on our summer! Did we even HAVE summer??? Me thinks the years are flying by too fast! We had a relaxing Sunday afternoon today, Norvs mom and dad came up for lunch and Jay and April and the girls. . . Its been almost six weeks since hip surgery for my MIL, she's about ready to get rid of her walker! That'll be a wonderful sight to see her walk without it. Its been getting colder every night and raining for the past few days, knocking all those beautiful yellow leaves of of my maples in the front yard!  We've started raking them into huge piles. But its wasted effort till they are all off. The snow is covering the mountain tops now so one of these days its gonna get us! :) We celebrated our 18 th anniversary the 8th of October! Norv had to fly to Seattle that weekend and Julianna had her 8th birthday, so we are gonna do a gateway later. This time of the year is always a little hard to get nice wea...

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These bull whips were a hit! I even managed to crack one (when no one was looking!) It was a fun filled week that ended not so good with flu bugs flying around , but we had a good time honoring Norv's folks  for their 50 years of marriage! The weather didn't always cooperate and it wasn't the warmest either but we had a nice big pavilion and a nice big fire roaring, lots of coffee, lots of food and  lots of gabbing and catching up with family we don't see very often! The whole reason for the Skrivseth Reunion/ 50th Wedding Anniversary  celebration Elv , Arla and the kids at home yet, from Wisconsin Ivan , Dena and Family from SC Evie came from Ohio Dayton, Judy,Alex, Gilbert, Benjamin,Rebecca and Jonathan Eric and Jared  Our family Bruce, Shilah and kids Matt , Amy and boys Jay ,April , Olivia and Jemima One afternoon we all toured the houses and lands of us kids that live here, here we are at Shilah's ...

My birthday breakfast -in -bed...thanks to my girls!   It's been a long time comin'...but its here! Today was such a beautiful day but windy and a little cool. We had a picnic planned down at the Twin Rivers ,but since it would be rather chilly down there, we went to Phil and Jenn's house instead to help do some planning for girls camp.    This summer is starting to fill up and look really busy, and it's barely here! From around the middle of July to the middle of August, life in Idaho is too hectic! Our church is involved in men's retreat, boy's camp and girl's camp, and to top it off, a wedding all squeezed in those for short weeks. And those are the best months to go camping or driving in the mountains. We have been working outside as much as we can,we've had a lot of rain which makes for nice green lawns to mow. Cody keeps busy with our lawn at home and mowing at the store. He's been helping me rescue some flowering crab trees that a nurse...

Our school has a "Family Fun Night " put on by the teachers and students every spring. The theme this year was the progression  of the USA starting from the Pilgrims coming to the new colony to our modern era that we live in! We ended with McDonalds type food which was a lot of work, but it turned out good! We had grilled hamburgers, and chicken and good old fries and chicken  nuggets and ended with homemade  ice cream topped with yummy hot fudge! drool... The brains that go into a project like this always amazes me! The General Store Samantha and Kendra cooking over the "fire" in the mining town Rebecca "plowing " her field The "Mayflower", guided by Captain Dominic A miniature "Mayflower", the captains had a lot of fun guiding this ship! It even had a lower level ! The indians in first grade, pioneer girls in the background... The pilgrim and the indian at the "First Thanksgiving" The ...