Halloween Week 5 T's Style

Our weekend started with Davin's baptism, and lots of friends came to visit. That same night was the trunk or treat at the church.
We got into the spirit of the night and had alot of fun with our soups and stews and our trick or treating!
The girls and some friends
The cousins that came to have fun with us.
On October 28 we headed out to Glamis for what would be an awesome weekend of family fun! Tad can plan a great trip, and does every time!
Tad gave Torie a lesson on going up and down Oldsmobile Hill, what would end up being her favorite thin to do for the next 4 days.
Tracy (left) Torie (center) Tad (right) heading up Olds as a family
Tanner had his turn riding his quad, he is getting so big
The family on top of the Hill
Camp fire fun every night, of course marshmallows were a must
Thumbs up to you to Big Daddy
Tara and I on top of the Hill watching Torie
She went up and down for a straight hour
Nate (left) Carter then Charlie and Torie (right) lined up like the dads getting ready to race the hill. Funny how they did this on their own.
Tanner did you have a great trip? He said on the way home... This was fun dad when can we go again, Thanksgiving Big Daddy only a few weeks away.

Good Fun

Every year we try to better our gardening skills. This year we have had great success with the tomato crop. I love having the kids take ownership of their garden.
In preparation for canning day Tanner and I went out and picked only the red ones, that took a little explaining. last weekend I canned the veggies, while the girls and Tanner had a Nascar date with dad. Spaghetti sauce, salsa and applesauce were completed by the time they got home.
The girls were excited to do jam. We decided on peach and pear, and away we went.
Everyone had a job to do and they could see that we had an order to this chaos, each job had to be done before we went on to the next.

I took care of the water bath duties, the girls did pretty much everything else. They were fascinated with pectin.

They did a great job of stirring constantly! They are so much fun to cook with.
Torie tried to get creative and she kept thinking of what we could add to "spice it up" She was reminded how important following the recipe was.
All that was left from here was pop pop pop!

A little hard work and alot of love turns the fruit into jam, quote from Tara!

In all we did 12 peach and 12 pear, and then we all had toast!

Opening Day

Opening day for the soccer season. The girls were ready and looked great.
GO TORIE!!!!!!!
Trying to control the ball.
She had a shot on goal, so close.
Keep that foot down, good job!
And then Tara hit the field a little defense and then.....
Get her girl, good job.
It was time for Goalie, she is so good here!

A long shot from a distance and the Bear caught it, the end result was a loss though, better luck next time.

Labor Day Weekend

The girls had a blast tubing.....

A swim in the rain
What a group
Torie did awesome on the wakeboard
And then she was done.......
My tribe
Tracy and Sam trying doubles
I had to switch to the wakeboard the speeds didn't work for the ski
It was so much fun, Loren and I went too
Thanks to Sam the evening swim was equipped with light sticks
The gang's all here

Tad just as smooth as 13 years ago
Right back at cha Big Daddy
Tad was the private wakeboard instructor he got into the water with Adam,
Sarah
and Liz
And everyone had fun learning
Go Grandma Marshall

By the afternoon Tanner passed out
When we returned to Sarah's one by one everyone went to bed, it was just Tanner and I left and it got quiet, I went looking for him...... 20 minutes later I was about to wake Tad up to tell him I had lost the little guy, and to my surprise I found him on my way to Tad's ear....Look in between the couches
He found the basket of blankets and put himself to bed.

"All the nieces and nephews that attended the boating weekend"