I fell in LOVE with Wheat!

I hope I am not alone in this...but the we are told to put wheat in our food storage...I have hesistated for one simple reason (and one complicated one...no space and moving all the time) I had NO idea what to do with it! Now Manda she is an amazing person...she found this lady that teaches classes on wheat, powdered milk and oats...so, we signed up! We went to the Wheat class and the milk class. I am so excited about wheat and powdered milk now!!! I know, it sounds so silly but I love them. I can now make rolls that rise and taste good even when made from wheat! I know how to soak it, grind it or sprout it into grass! It all sounds so simple yet it is not if you don't know how! :o) I also learned how to make yougert out of powdered milk! It is amazing! i am so HAPPY!! Thank you Lorainne and Thank you Manda for finding her! I now can follow the counsil of the all the prophets and store my wheat with cnfidence that I won't starve anyway...even with the wheat! YEAH for wheat!
(and powdered milk....I just have not used it yet...)

but here is my first attempt at wheat rolls!

PD turned 3 Months!

Time flies when your having fun!
and we are definitely having fun! She is smiling and Giggling now and she LOVES to talk!!! She can roll from her tummy to her back, but not the other way (which is normal, she hasn't figured out that the tummy is a good way to travel...time will take care of that!!)
She is happy on her schedule and so am I! She is sleeping through the night. Which makes everyone happy! :o) all in all, life is good for a 3 month old! :o)

Marathon Drive to Oregon and Back!

The other day we drove to the Ore-Ida Border for a funeral. Dave, Eric and KJ didn't want to take Friday off work, and none of us had $ for a hotel so...we left at 2:30 am on Thursday morning. We drove all night so we could be there by 9am.
This was our gas stop just before Boise, PG was happy to get out of his seat and "drive".

Have you eaten your baby today? PD was eating hers!
(PS, thanks to MAZ for this baby - she absolutely LOVES her,
she doesn't like to sleep without her)
After the funeral was over we had lunch. We got to spend time being with family. It was nice.
Here is Grandpa with PD and Logan, his 2 newest grand babies!
Here is Dave and his family...I think it came out pretty good!
Can't forget the pics with Grandma Pabst. PG just wanted to get down and play, but we were able to get one decent picture.
Uncle Nathan and PD! I think this picture turned out really cute!
While putting the chairs away PG was having fun getting rides from Uncle Eric.
Derek had his turn and so did Grandma! :o) She is tons of fun!!! :o)
PG was sad when the "truck" was put away, so he tried to get it out himself...all he got was shut in the closet! :o)
Great Grandma Pabst, meet PD! *Pwuh*
Dress shoes can be such a pain! (Literally!!)
Nathan left for work before we got around to taking this picture...but here are the siblings that were there. (Jon, Eric, Dave, Chante', Crystal, Terianna)
Leaving the church KJ stopped to play in the leaves with the kids.

Back at Daddy's we hung out and let the kids run for a bit before the 6 hour drive back home.
PG wanted to help G-Grandma with here sewing...it's all about the pins!

The kids went out to play on the playground...and Grandpa had a tractor...can you guess where PG stood around?

So Grandpa got out the truck and was going to take them for a ride....

PG didn't really care for the height or the noise so he wanted out!
Then we packed up and headed back home....we were back and in bed by midnight...it was a marathon of a day but we did it safely! Poor KJ he did all the driving and NO sleeping - so he ended up not going to work and sleeping in til noon! :o)

Ducks and snow///

PG back in the Ducks again...he has to do what everyone else is doing...or maybe just was PD gets to do! Hopefully he will have more sense as he gets bigger!
Grandma put PD in the rocking ducks...
It was really cute. Hard to get a really good pic because of the lighting and fending off PG!

Yep we got snow again....fun, fun, fun!!! ($%@^*^$*^$*$ - is really what I think!)BUt PG LOVES to eat the "SEW"

Halloween

KJ's work had a little trick-or-treating thing at for the kids. So we dressed up and went. Here is our dressed up family: Link, Princess Toadstool, Ladybug and a monkey! It is always fun to dress up and get free candy. That night I took PG around the neighborhood for trick-or-treating...it just isn't what it used to be. I remember going out and every house would have it's light on so you could knock...and there were hundreds of kids that would run from house to house...maybe I live in the wrong neighborhood but we did not get 1 trick-or-treator at our house and of the 2 blocks that we walked around I think we went to like 10 houses and we only saw 2 other groups of people. Not that we needed more candy, but it was sad that such a fun tradition is slowly fading away, I am guessing because of fear. (and not ghoulish kind either!)
Anyway....