Jeremy and Sarah's Wedding Day

Here is the beautiful wedding day outside of the Oakland Temple. It had rained the day before and rained the day after but on that day it was clear.


Dad practiced his picture taking skills and he is improving. Here are two of the dozen or so that he took.

Here is the view of San Francisco from the temple grounds.

Here are Jeremy and Sarah coming out of the temple.

Sarah made her lovely dress.

Hey, Hannah....Gotcha

In position for the large group shot.

Note to Robin and Charlie: We rode around in David and Sarah's Honda Odyssey...very nice.

Hannah, Brigham and Soren's arm!

The reception was held at Willow Heights. This is where we had the dinner.

Jeremy, Grandpa, Allen and Micah in deep discussion.

Cutting the cake: Here is the nice picture. It became a bit messier after this.

Here they are cleaning up a bit!

Fiesta Games

The Limbo was the first event of the evening, after the food! The kids loved it but they had the height advantage.


Jeremy showed us how it should be done.

Aunt Sarah was successful as well. The Bride, Sarah, also did a great Limbo with Jeremy but my camera was too slow to catch it.

The children had fun breaking the Wedding Bell Pinata.

Fiesta Food

On Friday, Nov 20 we went to CA to attend Jeremy and Sarah's wedding. There was a Fiesta for the family that evening at KayeLynn's parents home. It had been raining all day and was a bit chilly that evening. The Loy's closed off the patio the best they could and heated it with space heaters. Here are a few pictures of the food. It was wonderful Mexican dinner with more choices that one could eat!

Courting Quilt

When William and I were dating we would use a green quilt to curl up with when we were watching TV that Grandma Jolley had made. A few years after we were married Grandma gave us the "Courting Quilt" as a Christmas gift. Over the years the flannel became worn and frayed. I decided to pick it apart and put on a new back. I needed to tie in the same places because some of the old tie holes were very prominent. The ties were closer together than I would have done them. I can usually tie a quilt in 1/2 a day but this one took me 24 hours (including eating, sleeping and walking, but that was it!) Here it is as I am taking it off the frames.

Snow Day!

This is what greeted us Friday morning. I like it when the snow falls on the lawn but not on the streets and sidewalks! It is mostly gone now but the mountain tops are white.

Happy Birthday, William

Here are the Empty Nester's having dinner to celebrate William's birthday. Dinner was lasagna, garlic bread, green salad and grape juice from Righteous Vineyards (Robert and Cheryl's grapes). William prefers pies so we had banana cream, apple and cherry. Happy 52nd Birthday!

Give Thanks - I'm Done

Here is the end product. I am finished!

Applesauce

Friday and Saturday were applesauce days! We thought we had about 10 bushels of apples but after putting up the applesauce I think we had more than that. I started Friday morning, William joined me after work and Heather and Ryan arrived Friday night. We did 31 quarts that day. I was awake when William went to work Saturday morning so I just got up and started cutting apples at 5:00 am on Saturday. Ryan started cutting apples with me after he and Heather woke up. Heather made our breakfast, set up the movie for us, and did anything we asked her to do while we cut and cut and cut the apples. After the apples were quartered we steamed them. Then the softened apples were put into the saucer and sauced.


Heather added the sugar and cinnamon then the applesauce was put into the bottles, sealed and processed.


Towards the end of the cutting, my hands were hurting. My left hand was especially sore. As we were cleaning up I noticed a blister in the middle of my hand where the paring knife had been rubbing. I have never gotten a blister before while canning. But then I have never cut so many apples in such a short time in my life!! You can see how red my hands are. And they also have the canning look where the juices get into every crack and crevice in your hand and turn brown.



Here is the final product minus the 20 quarts that Heather and Ryan took home. I used a few pint jars to give to Kristine and Grandpa.

Apple Press

We were invited to press some of our apples to juice them this year. We haven't done the applesauce yet so we took one box of apples to press. David and Cathy had a lot of apples so while everything was set up we stayed and helped them.


David and I loaded apples into the chopper side where they dropped into the special press bucket. Thankfully it was a motorized chopper. Dad would then turn the press and the juice would come out, slide down the chute and into the bucket. I would empty the juice bucket into the larger buckets on the table and let the juice (it is really more like cider) settle a bit. Cathy would scoop out the juice and funnel it into the bottles.

This is a picture of the pressed apples that end up in the compost pile. They really feel dry to the touch. Oops- I should of turned this picture.

Walking with Grandma

I took Eliza with me on my walk one morning. There is a great park right by their apartment. Eliza is looking longingly at some kids on the swings.


Here we are at the swings.

#1 BYU Fan

Kristine sent Eliza a BYU Football shirt to wear during BYU games. Eliza needs to learn how to show off the shirt better.

Ford's Theatre

We went to Ford's Theatre. It had a wonderful museum where I learned some very interesting things about the conspiracy and assassination.



The theatre box where Abraham Lincoln was sitting is right behind Eliza.



We were able to stand in the doorway where John Wilkes Booth stood.



Charlie met up with us after work and we rode home on the Metro together.

Smithsonian

Robin, Eliza and I went into D.C. one day. I wanted to go to the American History Museum. I was able to see Dorothy's Ruby Slippers, Kermit the Frog, and many other things. The original flag that inspired Francis Scott Key's writing of "The Star Spangled Banner" was on display. As Robin was trying to keep Eliza moving faster than Grandma, Robin found a children's hands on center. Eliza had a great time playing with all the introduction to science things.



Of course, everything ended up in Eliza's mouth. We did wipe down all the toys before and after giving them to Eliza.

Eliza in the Morning

Eliza liked to get up early on a couple of mornings. Here she is entertaining Grandma.

She liked Grandma's camera case. Especially after she "heard" the Velcro sound she would open and close the flap.

Eliza was helping with breakfast by carrying around the whipped cream. The top popped off and and she turned it upside down and pressed it on her stomach. Of course, the whipped cream came out. The expression on her face was very cute when it first happened...she wasn't as happy when I got the camera ready.

Fall Leaves

Here are some "Fall Foliage" pictures for those of you that might of missed it or don't have it!!

This is Dad's favorite. Too bad there is a telephone pole!