A little bit of everything...

It's a been a while and a lot of things that I'm going to post is a little bit old, but oh well, this is a good little short journal for me to document the things that we have been doing in our lives. I'm in Tennessee again for Thanksgiving visiting my family. It's so nice to come home and just relax and have mom do everything for me again. I love it!

Anyways, Last week we had to go feed the ward pig. The ward is going to feed this pig at our Christmas party. Personally, I don't like to see the thing moving. I like to go to the grocery store and buy the pork product. But, it was fun for Emi to see the pig.

Emi and Blaine with the little, I guess Big piggie.

I'm such a city person, so I have never actually fed a farm animal or watched it eat. We fed the pig a pumpkin that we forgot to carve for Halloween and it chomped through it so fast. I think the pig is a little Asian because it loved the shoyu chicken and other asian food that we had leftover from our meals. We got some soy sauce on the snout, so sorry to the next person that had to feed the pig.

Then two weeks ago we were able to go to Schnepf Farms on the weekend. I've always wanted to go ever since we came to Arizona, but haven't had the opportunity to do so. Since Blaine had a little break from school, we decided to make a trip to the farm.

Emi more interested at the birds than the pumpkins.

They have tons of carnival rides at Schnepf and we thought that Emi was too little, but she loved the rides and was making a scene each time we had to get off a ride. It's a pretty good deal because all the rides are with the admission of your ticket, so you don't have to pay extra to go on the rides.

Then we saw Shawna and her kids there and she took this picture of us as we were both going on this little dune buggy bike ride. As you can see from this picture, you can tell where my priorities lie. I'm grabbing on to my purse (the money) instead of my daughter. It was a pretty scary ride because I think Blaine and I were a little too heavy and Shawna and her kids were flying by. But overall it was a fun day and if you ever get the chance to go to Schnepf Farms, do it!

Happy Birthday Blainers

Today is Blaine's birthday and it was nice because we got to start it off with Stake Conference. Emi was actually good in church, so it was nice to be able to listen to the general authorities and the messages that they presented. Then we had Blaine's favorite for dinner, which was steak, and then afterwards, Cheesecake! mmmm... My stomach hurts from eating too much all day and weekend, especially, since Halloween was a couple of days ago. We are all now going to go on a little fast. Emi and I got Blaine a game of Sequence and a crossword puzzle for his birthday. Then we all played a game of Sequence, which I lost two times. I let him win. :)

Happy Birthday Blaine! Just wanted to wish you a very happy birthday and even though we celebrated small, we just wanted to show you how special you are to us. Thanks for all your hard work and your constant patience with us girls. We love you!

And of course, Emi wanted to copy her Dad and blow out her own candles too.