Jumble is in these two photos. Can you find her?
Color guard is very bright this year!
Presenting the awards to the band. American Fork took 1st in their division and 1st overall. Their stiffest competition didn't attend this event so it will be interesting to see how the next few events turn out. Jumble and some of her friends decided to ask some boys out to the Preference Dance, which is in November and is a formal dance. She asked a boy in our ward by covering his entire driveway with chalk pictures and words. He answered with a block of ice:
Melting the ice.
Inside the ice was a small yellow plastic egg, which was also filled with ice. And inside that ice was a small rock with the answer:
So last week Jumble and I went out looking at prom dresses and found the perfect one for her. We started looking early in case we needed to sew one. But we found one she loved at a good price so we took the easy way out. We'll post photos of her in it later. I am not a shopper, but I did actually enjoy going with Jumble to try on lots of gorgeous dresses.
As you can see, Jumble is starting to feel better again, but is very far behind in school now. We are working on getting her into a program to help her. If her doctor would only fill out the form he has had for over TWO WEEKS!!! I'm getting tired of calling them every day... and I'm looking for a new doctor for her.
Conference weekend was great, as always! Courtney's parents have a peach tree and gave us a lot of free peaches so while we listened to conference on Saturday, Niles, Minnie, and I canned peaches and made peach jam.
Minnie is a great helper!
Skinned peaches--yum!
Niles is awesome! I couldn't have handled this project without him.
And here's the results:
The jam miraculously set, even after we had some technical difficulties!
On Monday morning I canned the bowl full of some of the last tomatoes from the garden. It was enough for one lone quart. Unfortunately, Harley needed something just as I dumped the tomatoes into the boiling water to blanch, so by the time I got back, the tomatoes were mush so I couldn't remove the seeds. Oh well.
I also took our first pumpkin from the garden and baked it and made it into pumpkin puree which is going to become a pumpkin pie soon. On Sunday between conference sessions I got out our wheat grinder (which has been in it's box longer than Atom has been alive, I'm afraid!) and ground some wheat and then figured out how to adapt a whole wheat bread recipe I have to make just a single loaf in my bread maker. It actually turned out O.K.
Jet has been playing flag football the last few weeks. I have forgotten to take a camera the times I have been able to go. Last week their team easily won both their games. The first game Jet caught a pass and ran it in for a touchdown. The second game he played quarterback one drive and made a successful pass to his receiver who ran it in for a touchdown, and he also caught an extra point pass in the end zone. So he has been having a lot of fun and doing a great job.
Unfortunately, this week he missed the first game on Tuesday because he had the stomach flu (along with Minnie and Atom.) The second game this week was last night and he was fine all day, went to school, so I sent him to the game. Then he came home and threw up again! He was fine after that--I think it was just too much too soon--plus he ate a bigger dinner than he should have before running around on the football field. He is fine again today. But Harley isn't. My poor daycare baby caught the bug and was sick all night last night so he isn't here today. Hopefully Courtney escapes getting it. I warned her mom but she thought she would be fine and not catch it. She's the one who can go everywhere and touches everything and puts everything in her mouth so I'm not so optimistic, even though I've done my best to clean and disinfect everything. Niles and I have felt a little under the weather, too, but more just headaches and body aches and slightly troubled tummies but nothing like the kids got. We are grateful for that.
Yesterday I also took all the kids except Jumble to the dentist for our 6 month check-ups and we all came out with no cavities. Yeah! That is something else to be grateful for. Hopefully Niles and Jumble will fare as well.
