I took some pictures at the Thanksgiving Point gardens this spring and they turned out so well that I had some blown up and printed on canvas. They will be fun to hang as a grouping in the family room, if I can find some wall space...

Shhhhhh! My mom doesn't know that I am writing this one. Sooner or later she'll find out, but hopefully it's later!

Mom always critiques my job and says that it needs a lot of work (Always!). So here is one that I am not sure whether or not that mom approves it, but I am going to publish this!

I have always wanted to be an author when I grow up so mom says that here is a good Chance. If anything, I MUST get my grammar and spllif (I mispelled that on purpose!) and blah, blah, blah right. My mom saylkjl jksjbm sieowiulkb sjlkjalkjdlfka;llsdkjg;laksdjlfkajsdlkjflaskopuj

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Now, I am going to post about the time that we went to Manti, for the Mormon Miracle Pageant.

We got to my great-grandparents house,in Fairvew about 2:00-2:30, and we went straight inside. While we were playing downstairs, my little brother Caleb (shown in the picture)had managed to get outside, and was playing. Their house has a well, and they have a metal plate covering the well, so that little kids won't fall in. Anyway, in the hot summer sun, it was really hot (it is metal!) and Caleb stood on it. My parents had to take Caleb to the emergency room in Mt. Pleasant, wich is about 5 min. away. It put a damper on the whole vacation.
When we went, we went on a tuesday night. It was June 17, 2008.

We stayed at Their house, because they live in Fairvew, and Manti is only about 25 min. from Fairvew.

It was really cool, because it was the first time that any of us had ever been ( except for mom, she had been with her Young Womens group a couple of times!) About 10 min. after it started, all of us fell asleep. Only mom, dad and I stayed up for the whole thing. My brother Drew woke up when all the fire comes, and the mountains move, and all of that jazz.

We got to my great-grandparents house about midnight, and we were all super tired. We went straight to bed, and slept until 5:00 in the morning. We were all super tired, but we had TONS of fun.

Now for more pictures, the best part (just for you Mel!)

Hi! It's Anne again. My mom wants me to post about the chores that we have to do. When we get up in the morning I have to milk, and my brothers, Drew and Hyrum, have to do farm chores, which consists of feeding and watering all of our animals, except the cat. First they have to feed and water our chicks. Then they have to get our goats hay, and clean out and refill their water buckets. Next comes our laying chickens who have to have scratch grain, layer grain (for protein,) and oyster shell (if you want paper thin shells, don't feed your chickens oyster shell.)

Then we go inside and clean our rooms.

After we clean our rooms, we have to do our chores. Weekly we rotate between vacuuming the living room and hall, doing the bathrooms, and dusting the living room. On Fridays, we have what we call Friday Chores. It's when we do our deep clean of the house. Whoever vacuums has to vacuum the whole house, and sweep our hardwood flooring. Whoever does the bathrooms has to sweep and mop, clean the toilet, and scrub the bathtub. Whoever does dusting has to dust everything that collected dust during the week. Also, we have to do the baseboards and the door jams and the mudroom and the doors and the blinds and the sliding glass door and the mirrors and the windows.

Then we have breakfast. When breakfast is over, we clean the kitchen, whether or not washing is included. Also, did I mention that our dishwasher doesn't work? Yep, we're old-fashioned. We wash by hand.

After breakfast, we have to practice our instruments. I practice the Violin, and Emma does also. Drew and Hyrum play the Cello. We all play the Piano.

After all those chores, Sep. thru May we have school.

In Summer, we do outside work. like we work on our barn, our plants,ect.

My Dad says we don't have enough chores because we fight to often. I disagree. I think that we have more that enough chores. What do you think?

My mom says that all this work is good for us, and we should do it well. She uses the motto of the Spencer W. Kimball to teach us this, "Do it, Do it right, Do it right now."

This is me, Anne, with Jefferson, one of our new baby goats. They were born July 4th, which is where they got their names. This is one of Silly's twins. His brother is named Adams since Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died July 4th, 1826. Our other nanny goat, Nessa, had a single baby, Caramel. My mom wanted to name Caramel "Bloody Heck" since he was the third boy and we really wanted another doe. Here are some more pictures.

I am excited to start this blog, despite the coercion (Mel) it took to get me going! I am definitely going to rely on my older kids to keep it updated, though. It will be so much fun to share our lives with our far-flung family!

Blog updates will often be my childrens' writing assignments, so please feel free to comment on unusual grammar, spelling, etc... They LOVE to have their writing critiqued!