Family History Fair

The 10th Ward in our Stake hosted a Family History Fair today.  It had wonderful things to look at, learn and even eat!  I taught a class on using FamilySearch.org.  I prepared a PowerPoint presentation, so I would cover all that I wanted to.  I ended up teaching the class 3 times, so not bad. 
 
Unfortunately, as it goes with almost anything to do with Family History, it wasn't a great turnout.  People were there, but it should have been 5 times as many.  Oh well.  I had fun, the people who came had fun and learned new things!  Plus, they brought in one of the scanners from BYU, and I was able to scan about 125 pictures in about 15 minutes.  And it can scan both the front and back at the same time.  Very, very cool.  I wish I could have keep scanning, but they needed to clean up. :-(  But I can go to BYU and do it!   The only reason it took me as long as it did for those 125 pictures, was because I was only stacking about 5 or 6 at a time, because I wanted them to go back in the same page they were in in the photo album.  The scanner feeds them through probably about one picture per second.  Amazing!

Here's one of my favorite photos that I scanned!

Rearranging the living room.

I have been wanting to rearrange the living room for about 4 months now, and I saw that yesterday was a great opportunity to do it.  Neither John or I had any commitments outside the house after the morning, and the family dinner was coming up, so I decided it was time!  What I thought may take about 2-3 hours, ended up taking about 6 or more.  We started about 11 or 11:30 a.m., and I didn't finish putting the last things back on the shelves until after 5 p.m.  Of course, we had to vacuum in spurts, and I had to dust everything.  We cut a piece of wood that fits from the front of the TV stand all the way to the wall, so the bird feathers won't go down behind the TV.  Man, is that going to save a lot of time and trouble!

Cucumbers, etc.

I just went out and picked a few cucumbers from the garden.  I think these are some of the longest cucumbers I've ever grown!

I also picked the last of the peaches. So sad.  We've had many great years with them. Now what's left of the tree can come down.

Super Saturday

Our Relief Society put on a Super Saturday.  There were lots of different projects: A tile with the B virtues, stick horses, children's aprons made from a kitchen towel, hanging towel w/ hot pad, children's rings, braided headbands, Christmas bags and tags, and a mini quiet book.  I may have missed one or two, but mainly that was it.  I made the bags, tags and quiet book.  They are pretty cute, if I do say so myself!

The mini quiet book is made from name badge holders, and 2x3 pictures. We're supposed to add some pictures of our own.  I think I'll call it a "purse quiet book."

Neighborhood party

Last night we hosted a neighborhood party.  We invited everyone from our street, the street over, and around the corner, which was about 33 houses.  We had 10 families join us, so we thought it was a pretty good turnout.  It was a lot of fun.  We had a net set up in the front yard, and Cowboy Golf in the back yard, and so the kids were entertained while the adults chatted.  We had to clean up when the mosquitoes started biting. We want to do it again in about a month. :-)

We set up chairs in the carport so we'd have shade.

Who needs a Super Soaker, when you have a bucket?

The garden and a new recipe!

John making the orzo salad.

Our funny cucumber that grew around a brick.

The salad, almost done, along side our vegetable bounty that didn't make it into the salad.

Yesterday we tried a new recipe using Orzo pasta.  It's just a basic salad, with lots of cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce, scallions, and of course, orzo, in it. We put in our fresh picked bell pepper, too!  Topped it with fresh made balsamic vinaigrette.  We also made a squash/onion/tomato stir-fry.  The protein of the dinner was Italian Sausage, barbequed.  Yum!  This is a big bowl, by the way.  We ate well over half of the salad, it was that good!

Education Week

I had a great time going to Education Week.  I went to lots of great classes, but the funnest class was with Chef Brad.  He inspired me to cook with more grains than wheat!  In fact, today I made Oatmeal and Brown Rice Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies.  They're pretty good.  My primary class liked them, so that's a point in my favor!  I found the cookie recipe online somewhere (sorry, I didn't copy it), but I had to add a lot more flour than the recipe called for.  Chef Brad has a great website with great info and recipes.  His TV show is on BYUtv.  Chef Brad