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On Saturday morning while I was in Boise I thought I would make little bags for my kids for quiet times at church or in other events (such as conference) where I need them busy staying quiet so I created these bags..yeah not much planning and pretty sloppy but they are for fun and they work. I took a zip lock baggie and sewed it to the fabric for a window and then filled it up with toys and misc. items from around the house and I have a list of what is in there and I say can you find all four candles or can you find the picture of Christ which are all inside mixed in with beans (you can use rice for better results) Anyway, it's fun and the kids liked them for at least 5 minutes ;)


At my moms we found out that Bridger could open the doors with the type of door handles they have....well he got into the pantry and into the flour bucket and got flour everywhere by throwing it. He thought he was so cool and felt very proud of himself. Silly boy!! So here is a picture of us getting him cleaned up in the kitchen sink.

We went to linder Farms in meridian and went through a section of the corn maze. The kids loved it. We got some wonderful coupons from Rebbecca (THANK YOU)and we went on hay rides around the farm and petted some baby animals in a little petting zoo they had too. It was a good time and it was nice to do something fun for the fall. I love fall time and I love going to places like this. I think they help you get into that harvest spirit.

There was my Brother Clint and my sister Rachel and her husband Matt and there 4 kids that were there with us. Mitchell, Abigail and Bethany are pictured.

On Thursday I went to Weiser and picked concord grapes with a couple of friends of mine. It was an amazing vineyard and very well kept. I got to go with out the boys too. They would of had fun there but I am kinda glad I was able to go and let them have a daddy day. We just kept picking until all of our boxes were full and then we split it 3 ways. I got 295 pounds of grapes times that by three and we picked around 900 lbs of grapes. better yet we stayed in the same two rows the whole time and only picked about 1/4 of that row and got that many grapes. It was an amazing experience and fun. My first time doing something like that. By the time I am finished today I should have 27 quarts of juice, 2 gallons of juice for the fridge and a big bowl of grapes to eat and 12 pint jars of jelly and I gave away the other 212 pounds of grapes that I had. So I got all of that with 83 pounds of grapes.

At the vineyard I ran down a couple of rows and running with the smell of concord grapes and a cool breeze was heavenly :)

Gideon and Bridger had fun helping us for a little bit. They helped crush up the grapes for cooking.


So this was from one box of grapes that filled the deep sink to the rim. 70lbs of grapes went into the sink. :)WOW!

When I got home the boys were so excited to try the grapes. Pretty SWEET!