Baloney !!

I thought I'd take a minute and write down a memory from when I was a little girl.   Our family ate quite a bit of baloney.  I LOVED baloney.  I haven't had baloney in years !!

Whenever we would go for a long car ride, we would stop and buy a loaf of bread, a package of baloney (cut and wrapped by the butcher in the grocery store), some curd cheese, and away we would go !  (we didn't eat out much when I was a kid)

One of my favorite vivid memories is of shopping at the local grocery store, Doyles (as in Doyle Tucker's place).  This was located where Morgan Mercantile is now.  We usually parked out back, and would climb up the big cement steps on to the dock, and enter through the back door, which was a big wooden barn like door.  Right inside the door was the butcher department, and Mr. Tucker

Doyle Tucker
Such a nice man - always smiling
(This is Aunt Pam's dad) 

  would be there, in his big white apron.

Every kid who walked through that door got a free piece of baloney.  He would slice it off a big stick (of baloney), right in front of you.

The baloney was wrapped in red plastic, and we would peel the red plastic "rind" off our piece, hold the plastic in our teeth, and bite down, while pulling the plastic, so we could get every last scrap of baloney off the plastic.  Then we would take the round piece of baloney (approx 4 inches in diameter), and fold it in half, and then fold it again (it's in a quarter piece now), and then take a bite out of the pointed end, and then unfold it, and Voila !!!  there would be a perfect hole in the middle of the baloney, which we would then nibble on as we followed mom around the store shopping.

 I LOVE that memory !!

This and That

Cam and her Cousins in AZ
They had a great Thanksgiving

Brightyn loves her Preschool (sh'e on the far right, in case you can't tell) 

Payson and his cousins on the Brooks side of the family.  I think this was on Thanksgiving.  They had a great time. 

Miss Bexlee and her Mama

Payson reading for his Principal at West Haven Elementary
The Principal was SUPER impressed. 

Treyson is a great helper with the dogs

Miss Bexlee got a black eye !
I guess we missed it, or it went away fast.  I never saw it. 
I'm not sure what happened. 

Happy Friendsgiving !! in AZ

At Sakura's in St. George - these were the only pics I took.  We ate here one night.  It was like Beni Hana's
I'd love to take the GRANDS there, I think they would LOVE the show that is put on.

The tile floor in the basement is coming along.  This was a couple of weeks ago.  Tagg came to help.   He's a great "Back Butterer".  It's almost finished now, mostly the grouting left. 

Landon and Bright, and Bex, and Braelynn came up to our ward dinner the other night.
It was great to have them there. 

Kacey's beautiful entryway.  She decorates so cute !!

My car after Brightyn fixed it up for me !!
Landon asked me if I wanted him to take them off - I said, NO WAY, I'm a Grandma........it stays :)

Sleepover!

The "Littles" came to our house on Thanksgiving evening to sleepover.  They played a game of throwing the ball on the kitchen floor.  Man that kid is flexible !

Bexlee was right down there with them. 

How bout a kiss Bexlee?   No??

Brightyn's creation FUN is how you spell PHONE
She sounded it out just right ;)

Pretending to bed down for the night

This girlie got the couch
I had a major Grandma FAIL, and Bexlee had to go home.  She wouldn't take a bottle from me.........
Landon and Kacey had to come and get her.

Next morning we gathered eggs

Filled up the cartons

Decorated the tree while listening to Christmas Music (awesome)

They love pulling out the unique ornaments, many which have pictures of their parents and themselves. 

Payson found his, and wanted to take it home. 

Yup, there he is !!

Such GREAT helpers. 

Then it was Christmas Cookie time. 

Selfie Time

Back to the cookies for the 2nd time.
This was a NINJA Gingerbread man - look at those black lips !!
She was sneaking the frosting. 

A little left over slush.

Went to visit Grandma Ben - she wasn't home :(

Stopped in at Grandpa and Grandma D's - worked on a puzzle

On the way back home to West Haven, Payson drew this awesome pic of a plane.
We had a great time together.
Love the Littles !!

What a Great Day !! - Thanksgiving 2018

Bird getting ready to go in oven at 6am.  Dressing ready to go in BIRD !!

Best Potato masher ever :)
I made 12 pounds of Pioneer Women Mashed Potatoes.  Everyone loved them, especially Roger.  They had 3 cubes of butter, and 2 cubes of cream cheese..........no wonder !

Poor new stove..............all dirty. 

As usual, we set all the food on the island bar, and fill up our plates...............

Good food !!

We had 3 tables set up, and I think there were 16 there.
Me & Roger
Mom and Dad
LuAnn
Joni & Kerry
Erika and Aaron
Brian and Elizabeth
Zac and CJ
Treyson, Tagg, Thatcher

Pioneer Women said that 5 pounds feeds 10.
I thought we would maybe have 20 guests, so I did 10 pounds.......plus a little more.
This is the dent that was made.........
WOW, I made was too many potatoes, but there were plenty of left overs !!

Then we went and lit the burn pile on fire.

We have a family of pyros

At first we stayed close, to warm up (even though it wasn't that cold)

Then it got BIG !!

And we had to move back because of the heat. 

Of course there was swinging.............

And the usual picture
(Kuk is taking this one, so she's not in it)

It was a GREAT DAY !!