Pie failure

I'm a pumpkin pie failure. The day before Thanksgiving Rich and I needed to make some pies. I told Lorie we would take 4 pies to her house and we always cook a few for here because we make our own turkey the day after Thanksgiving.

     Rich works hard to make the crusts. The first 2 pumpkin pies I forgot to add the eggs. maybe this wouldn't have been such a big deal but I also ruined pies last year and Rich specifically told me to make sure I added everything. We had to throw them away. We had the next set of pies in and oh my heck i didn't add the sugar. Talk about a ticked off husband. I felt stupid. So we ended up throwing four pumpkin pies away. The apple turned out good. We made two other pumpkin that turned out fine. Thursday morning we decided to make 3 more pies because of Hopes love for pumpkin pie and i wanted to leave 2 here. We made 2 pumpkin and one cherry. I left the pumpkin on the table to cool put the dogs in the kennel and left the house.

Neiko can get out of our 6' kennel and we have no clue how he manages it. We had him in there in Blackfoot and never had an issue but came home one day a few weeks ago and he was out. I left the back door cracked in case he could get out again and when we came home Koda was in the kennel crying and Neiko was sitting in the house thumping his tail all excited to see us. Guess who had pumpkin pie while we were gone. Yep the bugger ate a whole pie. Thank goodness he was nice enough to leave us one. Also I guess its a good thing Hope and Rich are the only ones who like pumpkin pie.

So we made 4 apple pies
1 Cherry
and 8 pumpkin pies out of that we threw away 5 pies. How pitiful is that.

Oh well maybe we will have better luck at Christmas.

Thanksgiving and Pizza

My Uncle Larry and Aunt Christy were here from South Dakota. We have not seen them since I was pregnant with Hope, so probably 11 years. We usually go to Caralyns for Thanksgiving but she wasn't hosting this year. I offered to cook dinner at my moms house but Lorie called and invited us to dinner. That was fine by me. Lorie was excited because she and Rory were on a mission the past 2 holidays. All of her kids were there except Heather and Josh, they had tickets to the Dallas Cowboys game, but the grandkids were there. She invited my parents and Larry & Christy as well. Autumn went to Jaron's side of the family. We had a great time with everyone.

My parents were leaving for Arizona on the 2nd and I forgot to bring them their gifts so we decided to drive to Idaho Falls Friday. My dad had mentioned he wanted a tv so Rich and I went to Costco Friday and bought a 50" tv for them. My brothers went in on the television with us.

We also decided to go to a place in Rire called Stoplight Pizza. Home of the 32" pizza. This pizza was HUGE. It was a lot of fun to go get pizza there. Their cheese sticks are so good. We ordered 2 pizzas I got a small one for the girls of cheese/pepperoni and the rest of us had the 32" supreme. The piece were so big one piece filled us up. It was pretty decent pizza. We ended up taking 3 large pizza boxes home, thats how much was left over and we were all stuffed.

 Hopes hand showing how big a piece is.

 Mom and Dad Larry & Christy

Tymber holding a slice up. 

After pizza and on the way home we had to stop in Blackfoot for a viewing. Our neighbor passed away. She had been in pretty bad pain from failed back surgery quite a few years. The past several months her pain was almost unbearable. We lived next to them for 15 years almost and they are such sweet people. she was 81 and they have been married 62 years. When we were sealed we made it a point to have a room with wheel chair access so she could come to the sealing even though it was painful. Harold LOVES Tymber and when we walked into the viewing he just hugged and hugged her and didn't want to let her go. It was sad. He is so lost missing his sweet wife and it will be difficult for him. I feel bad but it is for the best knowing she is now pain free.

Crazy

That is what the past few months have been. Crazy crazy crazy. We closed on our house October 16th and the people who bought it left on a cruise. We couldnt move out until October 25th. Thank goodness for the elders quorum. About 7 men showed up on the 25th and helped load 3 trailers that my brothers had loaned us. Around 10 a.m. my dad, mom, Autumn, Jaron, Rory, and Rick showed up as well. Rich was in a lot of pain due to doing to much during the week. It was hard on him but he pretty much had to stay out of the way. By noon everything was loaded and we were on our way to Pocatello. We left the dogs at our house in the kennel. They were freaking out with all the packing and everything going on. It was pretty good weather except the wind picked up later in the day.

Thank goodness for my mom. She remembered everyone needed to eat so she made sloppy jos and a salad. We were all pretty hungry when we got to the new house so we heated up lunch and ate. Then I sent Rich down to his moms house to rest. He was having a hard time watching everyone unpack and unable to help. I knew it would be easier just to get him out of the way. My brothers, dad, Jaron, Autumn, Tymber, and I jumped right in and started to unload. Once some of the kitchen stuff came in Autumn and my mom jumped in and started to unpack and put some kind of order in my kitchen.

One super funny thing that happened when we were unloading Tymber and Autumn decided to unload a mattress, Hope wanted to help so they had the bright idea of having her carry the mattress from underneath. I walked outside as the mattress fell on her and Autumn and Tymber were laughing their heads off. Tymber fell over she was laughing so hard. All three of them were cracking up so hard they couldn't get the mattress off from her. It was pretty funny to see all of them trying to work together but fail miserably. Sisterly love.

Rory stayed and put my beds together, it was great. Rich also came home and they hung our tv. Jaron was a life saver. He is really strong and we sure worked him hard with all the unloading. He took the brunt of the heavy stuff. He informed me next time we moved he will make sure he is in the hospital that day having knee surgery, even though his knees are perfectly fine. Rick and my dad were also a huge help. They put up a fence for our dogs seems how we are sharing a yard. Rich and I have reflected how dumb we were not to put a fence up years earlier. Especially because it cost us around 100.00. The dogs love the room to run.

About 5 pm we went back to Blackfoot, dropped Autumn and Jaron off ( he had to drive my expo because we had to pull a trailer and I don't pull things) and pick the dogs up. We went in the house and the dogs looked around and just started to whine. They were so confused. It was really scary for them. They were so happy when they got to the rental and seen all our stuff. Its taken them about 3 weeks to adjust its been rough on everyone.

Moving has been a huge adjustment. Hope had a really hard time and cried when she had her last day of school, cried when we left and cried when we went back that Monday to clean. She really loved our neighbors and their kids. She has some great friends here though and is liking her teacher and making new friends.

Tymber had a hard time too. Both Rich and I were and still are extremely sad but without a doubt selling was the right thing for us to do. We are still unpacking and adjusting. I don't think this place will ever feel like home seems how its just a rental but we will do the best we can until we can buy again.