Just thought I'd throw this in - I laid Max down last night - he wasn't asleep but you could tell he would eventually sleep without much fuss. So 30 minutes later I come in and find him like this. I guess escaping just took too much energy.

Raspberry Jam

So I totally lied that the raspberry jam pics in the prevous blog - I will add them separate. If Dad ever reads this, we discovered that we need some kind of 'thing' (Christine knows the name)that keeps the jars off teh bottom of a pan so we can make the low-sugar version....but this is my first attempt at makign jam. Slickety slick.

Erick's Birthday

We decided to hit up Bear Lake for Erick's birthday...Kyle and Christine have just moved down here, so we all headed out to Raspberry days (raspberry jam pics below) and hit the lake on the jet ski. The lake was super flooded so there was hardly any beach available, but we found a spot of land after ripping out some brush :D. Then we headed over to Laketown to the Weston's and the Raspberry Days rodeo. Tami' daughter Chelsea was the Rodeo Queen and Kathryn's girl Shelby was the princess. They were awesome and it was a great night for a rodeo....the bull fighter might not have agreed considering he got stepped on the head and pelvis by the first bull ride of the night. Slightly traumatizing.

Necessities 101

So Erick is quite the bargain shopper/yard saler. I am not. I enjoy a shiny new product that I found in T-10 seconds in a store that always sells said product. HOwever, we were perusing(sp?) the local Savers and I found this gem. Always a necessity, this is the obviously the first step to the creation of Popcorn cake. This popcorn popper was my #1 find of the....quarter. At least.