Hyde Park Happiness

Well, I had intended to post on the blog last week, but ended up at an all day, into the night, birth. I got home at 1:30 a.m. and got up early to get breakfast ready before Emma left for school, which left me sleep deprived for a few days, so I forgot to get on the blog. 

Anyway, we've had a couple of good weeks.  I've canned lots of spaghetti sauce and some tomato soup - thanks to Scott's Aunt Karen for the delicious recipe!  I'm still hoping for enough tomatoes to make a batch or two of salsa, but we'll see how they hold out.  The rain has been wonderful and we're glad the tornadoes didn't come this far north!  Hopefully it will dry out enough this week for us to dig up all the potatoes we have left in the garden.

Emma attended the homecoming dance last night and had a lovely time.  She went with a very nice boy who asked her to Junior Prom last year after she'd been asked by someone else, so she promised him another dance date and finally made good on it!  They had a ping pong day date the day before, which was a lot of fun.  She has started the marching band competition season and have a very fun show this year.  I hope some of you get to see them march.  It's weird to think it's her last year.

Lauren has come a time or two to help with the canning.  It's nice for us to keep each other company while everyone else is gone.  It's especially nice to play with baby Wesley, who is learning to roll over, spit, play with toys and laugh.  He's so cute and fun to have close by.  I'm glad to get to stay with him while Lauren goes to the temple now and then.

Dad and I are officially a year older now.  Surprising how birthdays are not very important when you get our age, except that we are now being bombarded with invitations to learn about social security, hearing aids, AARP, funeral plans, and assisted living centers.  We're not really interested in those things yet, so we'd rather not have any more birthdays for a while :)  We are planning to serve a mission or two before investing in those other things...

We are delighted with happy news from Idaho and hope to get up there soon to see all of the new acquirements!  Hope all is well with our wonderful family in all different places!  We can't wait for General Conference next weekend!!!!