Miss you, Daddy

It is strange that it has been a whole year since my dad passed away. We remember him each day, of course, but today it is on our minds a bit more.

This is a picture of him at last year's county fair parade taken two weeks before he died. It is the last picture I took of him and I still keep it on my camera. ((He is the one walking beside the wagon).

This is a picture of our friend, Lee's wagon with a sign that says, "The Pageant Lives on. Thank you, Montell." The Castle Valley Pageant was not put on this year by a decision by the Church to only hold it every other year so it was nice that they put this sign on the wagon. It touched me that they would think to do that.

Miss you, daddy.

Hot Deals

The Albertsons ad for Utah this week has some screamin' deals in it.
If you are from Utah click here
Some examples of stuff I'm getting:

General Mills Promo buy $30 worth of products and get $15 on your NEXT shopping trip. (Prices are AFTER you factor in the $15 on your next shopping trip).

Betty Crocker Fruit Snacks 1.00. Use coupon .50 off of 2 found at this link.
Final price .75

Chex Mix Bars 1.25. Use coupon .60 off 1 at same link as above.
Final price .65

These are only 2 examples of some great deals! Happy Shopping!


If you aren't from Utah, you can still check your state's deals here. Just find your state and click on it and click on the store where you want to shop.

Thanks Pinching Your Pennies!

Crazy Summer

Here's a little update on our summer. I made a wedding cake last Saturday. When I asked the bride what her colors were she said, "purple and orange, not light purple and light orange, but obnoxious purple and obnoxious orange." So, there you have it!

This was on a little Family Home Evening outing to our farm. Claire loves dandelion puffs. The girls call them "wishberries."

We also got to visit with our friends, the Phillips this month! Here are Claire and Miles enjoying some popcicles.

I'm pretty sure the girls liked their chocolate chip pancakes shaped like caterpillars!

We spent the 4th of July with Megan and Errol and Errol's family. They are always so nice and let us crash their family parties! The parade was fun and Jannika is a BIG fan of Megan and Errol's swimming pool!

We have also been to Cherry Hill this last week for our "Stay-cation" with Judd and Keiauni and Jeff and Jacqueline. We swam ALL day and had a great time. Then the next day did arcade games, mini golfing, and batting cages. No pics, though, because we didn't have our cameras with us. It was a fun trip, though!

So, This is New

I discovered that I have tigerlillies and peonies growing in my yard. Love the peonies, they are so big and beautiful!

We went on a trip to Huntington Lake with our friends from Price (Chris and Carlie and their kids) and with Kyle's sister, Megan, and her kids, Kaylee and Ashlyn. We picked possibly the worst day to go to the lake, it was so windy and cold but the kids had fun anyway!
Claire has started to give kisses, and lots of them! When you pick her up she gives you a tight hug around your neck and then puckers up her lips, says "mmmm" and gives you a good smacker! Then she says "di du" (thank you) and gives you some more kisses! It makes us feel so loved!

We took a fun trip yesterday to Joe's Valley and went fishing in Grassy Lake and Pete's Hole. Jannika caught 4 fish and one of them she caught all by herself (cast the line and reeled it in).

Scrapbook Pages

I've been doing some scrapbook pages lately and just wanted to share some of them. This was the photo shoot I talked about in one of my last posts. She was so happy that day!

Goodbye diapers

Goodbye Diapers (at least for Kirsten!) She is potty trained and just wears pull ups at night but usually keeps them dry! Goodbye house in Price. We finally closed on our house and it was the best day ever! I know that some people have a good experience selling their house but we, unfortunately, did not. Suffice it to say that we have been trying to close for months and things kept coming up. The people who bought it were kind of babies but we won't get into that!

Goodbye 5! Jannika had her 6th birthday on the 3rd. She wanted to have a princess dress-up party so we had two cousins (Kaylee and Ashlyn) and two of her friends come over. They dressed up, did a purse shaped pinata and had a purse shaped birthday cake. It was a fun party and I can't believe my little girl is 6!