Tylen's Homecoming Date

Last Weekend (20th) was Wasatch High's Homecoming. Tylen asked Rachel Reese. She is a cutie. The boys in the group put on a pasta bar, they said it was very good. They went to the dance and took pictures. Danced for a while and went to a friends to watch the Incredibles. He had a great time.

Great Chicken

Kelly cooked dinner last night. I love it when he does that, it is always soooo goood!!! He made up a recipe for chicken. He took chicken breasts and butterflied them. in the center he put a couple of slices of deli ham, a slice (thick) of cream cheese, and some green peppers. He rolled them up and basted them on the grill with italian dressing. Oh my gosh they were good. We had seasoned roasted potatoes and salad with the chicken. It was great! I think Kelly should cook every night!

Apricots

Did you know that peeling apricots will turn your fingers, nails and everything you touch orange? I didn't either. We have a neighbor with two big apricot trees that were just overflowing. They told us to come on down and get some. I had the kids get two big boxes. Unfortunately, my timing was off and I had to waste quite a few, but I did get 11 1 cup containers of apricot freezer jam out of them. It was pretty easy, but I don't know if it is any good yet, haven't tried it. we will have to have bread and jam tonight and see. I really want to do strawberrys next year, they are too expensive now. I have gotten the preserving bug.

Crawdads, dillybeans and dirtbikes

Well, obviously it has been a while since I've blogged. so here is a short recap of some of our fun.
I got a receipe for Dilly Beans from friend at work. She brings them in and it is a good thing we are all in a back office, because we smell of dill and garlic after eating them. I discovered that Kelly has a hidden talent, he loves canning. He was right in the kitchen with me all night. This was my first experience ever canning. I have lots of plans to do more, but not enough time to make my plans a reality. We sent the kids to bed and got started around 10 we went to bed at 1am. The Beans turned out great, thanks Kellie (Knowles) for the Dill. I'll bring you some beans. After we eat the beans and carrotts we cut up cucumbers from our garden and put them in the leftover juice in the fridge for a quick pickle.

Kelly is the assistant Blazer Scout leader, they took their boys up to Strawberry to catch crawdad's. I know, the picture is of Caroline. Caroline and I went along to help, watch and eat. The boys had a blast, they made their own traps and caught a ton of crawdads. Then we de-tailed them (all of the boys probably went home and told their parents about pulling out the "poop shoots") and cooked them right in the parking lot at the marina, we had garlic butter and cocktail suace. I was surprised that all the boys tried them and they all seemed to like them. I guess it is just my kids that are picky. All the boys kept their traps they had made. It was a great activity.

A little over 5 years ago, when Kelly and I were dating, he came to visit and we went and bought him a dirtbike. He had wanted an old Honda XR for years. Well we found one on KSL and went to see it. He kept that bike in my garage and finally moved here to be able to ride it. He has ridden it a couple of times in Moab. One time there he did and endo off a rock and ended up having surgery to repair a Slap Tear in his shoulder. Well, the bike was burning oil and needed a general rebuild, so a friend from work offered to do that for him as he wanted to start a business doing that anyway. Well, a year and a half later, Kelly got his bike back. He was so excited, but had forgotten just how big of a bike it it. It is an XR 600 for you who know what that might mean, and now it is about a 630. Kelly will have to explain all that technical stuff. The bike will pick up the front tire almost on it's own while accelerating and Kelly is practicing riding Wheelies up and down our driveway. Good thing we have accident insurance.

Chelsea is enjoying Rexburg. We miss her tons.

hey hey it's monday

Alisha has been doing a great job at keeping everyone up to date on what is happening in the Earl World, so now I need to contribute my 2 cents worth. First of all, I work for an aerospace company in Spanish fork, Utah as a manufacturing engineer. I have been here for 5 years. I am the engineer over the Apache team. We manufacture parts for the Apache Helicopter and recently it has been my position to correlate information and data to Boeing. It sure was tough for me to step out of my comfort zone! I feel that I have done an adequate job though and I feel better now about what I do. Now that Chelsea is gone the house is more quiet,,, and more clean!! She had a tendency to leave stuff around making sure we knew that she lived there. now that she is gone, I find that there is a hole where she should be. I miss her. Over the weekend I patched a leak in the roof. It had been dripping down the chimney in the front room. I found that some shingles had been blown off in one of the wind storms that show up in Heber. I was able to reshingle the roof and then tarred all around the chimney again. While I was up there I decided that all the sattelite dishes and the tv antenna had to come down. We don't watch any tv and when we do it won't be with all that apparatus so with the kids help we took it all down and patched the roof where it had all been. It looks alot cleaner. That afternoon we drove down to Spanish Fork and picked up My Honda XR 600 from a buddy that had been rebuilding the motor. it was finally done. We got home fed the kids and at 9:30 we started canning. Alisha has a recipe called Dilly Beans that she aquired from a friend and we had fun! I won't go into any more detail on that though. she has pictures she will be posting later about it.

the workday is done and it's time for me to go. So maybe it wasn't 2 cents worth but I hope you felt it was worth it to read it.

Kelly

Hurricane Chelsea

Hurricane Chelsea struck the Earl household this week. Leaving in her path empty hearts, and a messy bedroom and bathroom to clean. (see pictures) Today, Chelsea left for college. Wow, I can still remember when I left Vegas for BYU, I think it was just a few weeks ago. Did I cry? YES!!! It is amazing the flood of emotions that come over you. I feel like 18 years isn't enough time to teach everything that they need to know, yet on the other hand, it is time to get out of the house. I am going to miss her a ton. Thank goodness for email and texting these days, we can keep in touch up to the minute. I know that Kelly has expressed his sadness in that he only had 5 years with her. He feels a little cheated. I guess it is time to start learning her own lessons and figure out who she is.

Labor Day Flags

Cameron and Keaton had to get up early today and put up flags for the scouts. It used to be a fundraiser, but the bishop said he wants every house in the ward boundaries to have a flag. It looks so neat to drive down the street and see every house with a flag. They put up about 35 flags.