David's Latest Project

My new calling in the ward is the Food Storage Preparedness person. So I decided to have a canning night in my garage the first week of November. Oh, boy did David move into action. He put up the attic ladder that I gave him 2 years ago for Father's Day, insulated the attic and put up flooring and shelving in the attic from recycled signs. He enlarged the pantry to a 6 by 13 foot room (over doubling it). He spent alot of time on this along with his father and few other guys from work. This is something we have talked about doing and it's great to have it almost completed. He needs to put shelving up in the new pantry, again old signs, and I'll be good to start filling it up.


Before shot. You can see the writing on the wall. My old pantry size. And now my new pantry. The kids have had fun making it a Clubhouse. A 6 by 13 foot room would make a decent bedroom or play room?? The new storage area didn't even quite take up half of the 3rd car stall so just maybe 6 or 7 years down the road a little kids car might fit. Maybe one of those Smart cars.

So I'm going to have another canning night in January so I think I'll plan on doing it in the backyard!!

Halloween

Here's my little clan on Halloween night. Pirate Girl, Dracula (Thanks Mom for making the cape), Hannah Montana, a Princess Ballerina out of the dress up box, and Landon as Spiderman. He is totally into Spiderman right now, even though he has never seen a cartoon or anything about it.

We went to a JCB (tractors) party and they told each kid to take a pumpkin home. I don't think they knew I have 5 children. Anyways we snagged 3 of them and they were huge. We had fun cleaning out the guts, as the kids would say.

On Halloween night our cul-de-sac all gets together to BBQ then go trick or treating. Lots of family are invited to join also so there's probably 30 people or so. This year we had David's parents come and my mom and Boyd. When Mom showed up alone, I was disappointed Dad wasn't with her and called him a party pooper. About 10 minutes later, a creepy guy showed up wearing a black cape asking each person if they would like some of his potion. Some of the adults were getting a little nervous but as soon as he came towards me I knew exactly who he was. Sorry Dad to call you a party pooper. Thanks for getting into the spirit of it. I just wish I would've taken a picture of him.

The next morning the kids got up early and traded their candy with one another. Do you remember when we did that? I guess it's just an instinct kids have.