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October Family Updates Part I
No family updates for the month of October since we were having 31 Days of Kitchen Inspiration. Since this blog is also a record of our family happenings, I’m going to give you all the updates for October in one post – maybe make that 2 or 3 posts. Towards the end of September, Zachary found himself a ‘new to him’ car to replace the truck he had been driving. The truck had come to a not very good end. I wrote about Zach’s accident here. The Garden – We picked almost all the basil and then made 3 1/2 pints of Pesto Sauce for the freezer. Seth arrived home from his summer…
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A Life Spared
We never know what the next moment holds but we are so grateful that we serve a Living God who’s a very present help in time of trouble. Russell and I and Zachary were in Flagstaff for a wedding yesterday. Zachary had went up on Friday, driving Seth’s truck, since he was going to be playing his cello for the wedding. So, Saturday night, around 7:15 – 7:20 p.m. we were driving along back home. We were ahead of Zachary with 2 vehicles separating us. Russell is always watchful of anyone that is following us, so he was looking in his rear view mirror to see where Zachary was, when…
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Justus’s Phonics Trip to Lake Powell
The last few days has been spent trying to get Treasuring the Moments back up and running. But it’s up and no lost posts! Yea!! A few days after Zachary’s graduation, our family went on a get-away to Lake Powell. Lake Powell is an absolutely gorgeous lake with 1,900 miles of shoreline and is the 2nd largest man-made lake in the U.S. Here’s the reason we went… This little guy. Justus is 8 years old and has finished his phonics course which takes about 2 years to complete. When our kids finish their phonics we let them pick somewhere in Arizona to visit as a reward. Of course, the kids all love Lake…
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Another Son has Graduated High School! – An Evening Celebration
Well the big event is over. What a special evening we had celebrating Zachary’s high school graduation! We had about 145-150 people and plenty of food for all. With all the activity of family being around for Zachary’s graduation, I got too busy to be posting and then after the graduation dinner, we took off on a little get-away. More on our get-away in another post. The weather was beautiful, the night of the dinner with no wind or rain and the temperature about 70°. Of course there was lots of preplanning. Tables and chairs had to be brought up from the garage to the lawn, table coverings put on and chairs wiped down. You can see…
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I Survived
I made it through, survived and thoroughly enjoyed catering my first wedding reception! You can read about how I was asked to do this and some of the preparations that were made here. Twenty-four gallons of sauce! Although there were 265 RSVP’s, there were probably only 170 at the wedding so there was a lot of extra food. We sent home lasagna’s with many people who helped and some who were hosting guests. We had a luncheon here at the house on Sunday after the wedding and you probably know what we fed them. Lasagna! Saturday was the wedding, so we headed to Flagstaff on Friday. I was hoping to get there…
