Date Night

For Date Night Jon and I went to see Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. I'm proud to say that I didn't get that scared. Autumn did. She kept kicking my tummy when there were loud noises. After a while she was fine. When she's born she'll be a movie buff.

Fun with Autumn

Being the concerned parent that I am, I thought I'd see if I could come up with ways to tease Autumn about her name before anyone else could.
Here goes...

The reason that we bought a new car was an Autumn motive.

The car is in fact an Autumn addict, and not just because it loves babies.

The Autumn Empire at one time spanned three continents and lasted for over six hundred years. Then they stopped calling it (her) the Autumn Empire and started calling it (her) Turkey.

The Autumn-ic bomb is a weapon. We'll leave it at that.

If I'm an Autumn maker, can I get a bailout?

Jon's Birthday Week Festivities

Jon and I went to Idaho Falls for the July 4th weekend. We had a party for him there.

This is Jon after returning from being kidnapped for a hot dog roast on his birthday. He's about to eat some banana cake (his birthday cake of choice.)

On Saturday, Jon, Amy, Brian and Carol had a cookout up Logan Canyon and drove to the Bear Lake overlook.

Aspic anyone?

Last night I made stir-fry using a store-bought sweet and sour sauce mix. I followed the recipe exactly and got what tasted just like Grandma Downey's tomato aspic. I thought you might like a recipe for this interesting childhood memory. Lemon jello seems to be the base ingredient in all the versions that I looked at. Enjoy!

WE'RE PUSHING TOMATO ASPIC
3 med. carrots, shredded 3 med. celery stalks, shredded 1 tbsp. white onion, shredded 1 tbsp. sugar 1 tbsp. horseradish 1/4 tsp. salt Freshly ground black pepper 3 c. tomato juice 1 (6 oz.) pkg. Jello, lemon flavored

Logan mudside close to my old house

The house I lived in before moving to our current one was right above a canal on 400 North. There are trails from my house down the hill to the canal and you can run along it for about a mile before you get to First Dam. It is also a wildlife corador with lots of vegitation. Three or four years ago there was a mudside above the canal and down into some houses because the university was accidentally leaking thousands of gallons of water from pipes near the hillside. To fix it, they lined the whole hillside with bricks in the slide area.

Yesterday the actual canal burst and three people are still missing from the mudeslide. There are lots of people cleaning up the mess this afternoon. I wonder if they got out of church?

Here is a link to some of the latest news. http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=7136581

My Creative Mom

My mom is working on a project for all her grand kids and grand kids-to-be. She is the most creative person that I know!

Backyard Visitor

This evening I watched Jonathan remove a tree from the backyard with a pick ax. I tried to be helpful and remove a weed near all the tree action, but I found a visitor sleeping under it. The visitor preferred that I leave the weed where it was.