Little Miss Wee One

When things get to be a little to quiet, you know you are in for Trouble.
Apperently she needed to be creative.

Summer Days at Papa Lance's

Papa asked the three Big boys to come help him do some heavy liftn' and eat some grub! So they did, and while they did the kids swam and swam and swam.
They had so much fun they didn't want to leave. Yeah what a brake through for my kids. So now, this weekend Speed Racer, Girly, (not Wee One-sad-) Peanut and J Bear are going to spend the night. Two nights in a row. We will go over Sunday and go to church with Papa since it is Father's Day.

Domestic Goddesses

Sister J and I have been trying our hands at canning food. Yeah! It all started with us being put in charge of food storage for our collective families. We found wiht the meals we wanted to have that we need to have chicken. If you havn't noticed canned chicken is not worth the cost for the little tiny cans when you are trying to feed 21 people. So, we bought chicken at Costco. (cheapest place to get it by the way) After trial and error and lots of help from Kathy McNeil (props to you) we canned our first 50lbs. It only took us ALL day. Well at least then we knew how to do it. Our next few batches have been much easier and MUCH faster. we are so good now we take turns doing batches by ourselves and get it done pretty quick, even with kids around. With chicken under our belts we have ventured on. I have done some pork, Sister J has done ground turkey, jellies and applesause. I went over a few days ago and she showed me how to make applesauce. It is so yummy and Speed ate almost a whole quart jar of the stuff by himself in one sitting. Yeah. I can't wait to do so much more. There are so many women in our ward who do great things. It's nice to start scratching the surface a little myself. Also a huge thanks to Kathy again for her help and use of pressure canner, and thanks to Becky B for the use of her canner also untill we were able to get our own.

Last Day of School! Yeah?

May 22, 2008





Today is the last day of school and at the awards ceremony at school, Speed Racer received a Citizenship award. Sorry the lighting was not the best.


Also, it was water day! Speed's class and others went to the park and had water games, pizza etc... and the sixth graders got to go to Sun Splash. (water park) After all it is the end of May in the desert - right.

This was the weather yestarday. HOT & SUNNY









Today it was, GREY! overcast and a bit rainy! Perfect day for water games? Oh, well. They had a great time anyway.

Mother's Day

May 11th 2008

Here is our lovely table. Grandma & Papa came over, also Grandma Litchfield, Uncle Matt & Aunt Jamie. (with kids) We had a yummy meal planned by the brothers and Girly decorated us a cake all by herself.















Here is the kids table. Which would you pick?

Father Son Campout

Friday and saturday May 2nd & 3rd

Ahh, hanging out at the campfire. Smoke, nature, dirt, what more could you ask for?
Here are a couple of things that were done while out and about.



They got to go to the fish hatchery.




Speed Racer is really taking to his new "Real" bow and arrow.

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