Do YOU have the force?

The trunk-R-treat was last night.  Here are a few shots of our Star Wars fans...

Princess Leia

 Anakin Skywalker

Apples to Apples

Yesterday we went to mom and dad's and spent the day canning apple juice.  It was a rainy day, but not too cold.  It seemed like summer heat compared to the Fall we canned apple juice up at Denise's in Colfax.  Remember that Denise?  Brrrr.....

Meg and grandpa working hard.

 We were so thankful to have Treyse there.  He was our muscle for the day.  He did all of the cranking and squeezing of the juice!

 Josh came later and helped us pack all the jars into boxes and load up the cars.

Ariela came down from Albany and helped out too!  It was so good to see her!

A big thanks to mom and dad for letting us make a big mess in their garage!  
Our total was 219 quarts!

In memory of Steve Amos

This is a solo from last weekend's General Conference in SLC. 

One of our friends, Steve Amos, passed away from lung cancer last Friday.

This song is for him.

Steve Amos,  you will be missed!

A day I will never forget

I am going to try and get through this post without starting to cry. 

Yesterday we went to Sutherlin for my nephew, Colton's soccer game.  Their team wears pink jerseys throughout the month of October for breast cancer awareness.  I loved seeing all of those boys sporting the pink!  I don't know if any of the team had anyone in their families with breast cancer, other than Colton. 

After the game all of the family members stand on the sidelines and clap for their boys.  The boys run across the field over to their families.  Colton came towards me and took off his pink jersey and handed it to me.  I gave him a big hug and all I could think of was, this is my sweet little Colton that I used to carry arond with me, not so many years ago. He would have his binky in his mouth and his blanket thrown over his shoulder.  Sometimes he would take his binky out and say my name, "Ritta...Ritta.." in his low, baby voice.   What a sweet gesture for him to give me his jersey, and by the way, instead of putting his own last name on the back, as all the other boys did, he had them put Myler.  Just for me. 

Colton, I hope you know how much that meant to me.  You touched my heart with your sweet gesture!  I will never forget that moment for as long as I live!  Thank you for that! I love you!

Fall school days

Can I just say that I LOVE FALL....
The leaves are turning beautiful colors and the crisp breeze is blowing through your hair (sort of), the weather is perfect!  Sometimes we can't help ourselves and we do some school outside.

And then we go out to grandma and grandpa Reber's to dig up some of their pototoes.  Who doesn't love to dig in the dirt? 



I hope each of you are having a wonderful Fall day!