Thursday I decided to hike Y Mountain.  I wanted my exercise that day to be fun!  And I totally enjoyed it!  I really like hiking, but just don't do it very much.  I bundled up good, and took half of the layers off by the time I got back down. 

Took me 40 minutes to get up, (to turn #10, level with the bottom of the Y), and 33 minutes to get back down.  If the weather is good, I plan on doing it again on Tuesday.

Happy New Year!

I've been so busy with new grand baby, two funerals, then Christmas, I haven't done much of anything else!  Tom and Melissa were here for Christmas (so nice!), and this picture was taken Christmas morning before church.

I've been busy!

It's been kind of busy around here!  Melissa's grandmother died, very sad, but that meant she came down for her funeral.  Had her, her parents, her sister and her nephew over for tacos on Wednesday.  What a lot of fun!!!  Jacob, Elise and Riley were there, too, so everyone got to see the new little one. :-)

I spent yesterday morning going through a box of scrapbooking stuff, and diffying stuff out.  Spent the afternoon in Nathan's room getting that cleaned out.  You can now actually fit the bed in again!  Yeah!

Riley is now just over 7 1/2 pounds.  Yippee! 

Here's the most recent picture:

Oh my, isn't he just precious!

Done!

I'm done!  At least with what I can do myself. :-)  I moved all the buckets into the new food storage room, (putting the ones we don't rotate in the closet), and got everything else on a shelf.  I could have put some of the buckets on a shelf, but they fit nicely in the closet, so I won't worry about them.  I put most of the wheat in there, and I actually do use the wheat, but I don't go through it very fast.  I left 2 buckets of wheat on the shelf.  But the rest (beans, sugar, salt and the rest of the wheat) got put in the closet, and I shut the doors after I took the picture. 

Now to just get Jacob to take away his stuff.......

The two big shelves: plenty of room to add more.

The rotation racks.

The closet!

almost done.....

I built the new shelf (took about 1/3 of the time as it took to build the first one) yesterday, and today finished emptying the shelves from the old room onto the new shelves.  I still have to move in the buckets. There's about 25 of them, and they weigh about 30 lbs. each.   I decided that would have to wait until another day.  I even put the paint cans up in the old shelves!  Yeah!  Man, when this is complete, it is going to be soooo much easier to access our food storage and the other stuff that has been stashed away in inconvenient ways!

Looking good!  When I'm finished, I'll post some photos!

Whew!

What a busy, busy Saturday!  Went to the temple, first thing, then home and we raked the leaves and picked the rest of the apples.  Then we had a bite to eat, then I cut John's hair.  Cleaned up quickly so I could run over to the 13th ward building and go to their Preparedness Fair.  Very good.  Was there from 2-4.  Then came home and built one of the shelves for the storage room.  I built it all by myself!  (Well, John did help me put in the last shelf, since it was so high.)  Can't wait to get one more built, then I can move the stuff from the "old" storage room into here.  Yeah!!!!

Almost time for our date, but first we're going to look at different cruise options for next summer...... 

Here's the shelf:

4 ft. wide, 2 ft. deep, 72 inches tall.  Just right!