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Well, Connelly has a really bad callic anyways, so I decided to try to make him be stylish with a fohawk that really is a mohawk. You all know I'm FRUGIL so you know I didn't pay a penny for this either. So I'm taking a poll: Likey? No Likey? Let me know. He is going to be a BEE for halloween. I'm thinking of spray painting it yellow with black strips on the side? Yes? I don't know. The costume does have a hood on it so I don't need to. It doesn't matter really because he is a doll no matter what. At least to me. It is late and the gel has kind of died so the back isn't as spiked as earlier in the day same for the front. I have to thank John for the cute and Tomi for the idea. I really do love it and I figure that this is the time of his life that he can get away with this and not be associated with a Gang or something to that effect. People at the gym today loved it too!

This is Chari in her Mexican dress at church. She loves this dress!!! Okay maybe she doesn't love it at as much as she had to wear it.... Chari woke up on Sunday morning to no dresses or any church clothes of any kind in her house. You might ask "Why?" Well this is where the story is hysterical. I had the brilliant idea on a Saturday when I had her van, keys, and kids to go and raid her house of any church clothing that might exist in her house. She was getting home late that Saturday night and I knew that she wouldn't look for her clothes. Sure enough Sunday morning about 8:15 am I get a text, "I hate you!!" She hates me but loves me because I did the best joke ever. I took all the clothes and left this dress with a bow for her hair and left the note, " You will sure look pretty in this dress at church, see ya there." I knew she would fit in it and doesn't she look great? Love ya, Chari

So from left to right in the picture it is: Peach jam, nectarine jam, spegetti sauce, Peaches, Applesauce and then corn. I have canned all this this fall. I even did strawberry jam and raspberry jam earlier in the year and also froze Tomatoes for soups. This fall has been so great to us. We were able to get ahold of FREE corn, tomatoes, peaches, nectarines and then I had a garden with peas, green beans, and zucchini. It has been a great learning experience. I dare jar anything. Give it to me and I will do it. I am going to make salsa tomorrow and later this week when the pears are rip I will attempt them. It hopefully will pay off and give us some good food storage.

  Nate had a competition at work to have the best "fu-manchu" and so here he is in all his glory. At work this is the e-mail that went out: "In the First Team Gallacher Fun Manchu contest we have a winner!!! Nate the Wolverine Breinholt. " We don't know the prize yet. Nate said that the prize was his "PRIDE". I think that went out the window when he shaved like this.

The Breinholts are known for not having luck. We never win anything, but today the stars were aligned and we won. Nate got a text today from his boss and co-workers telling him he won 50,000 sky miles. If we work it correctly it will be two roundtrip tickets to boston, MA in July for a trip long waiting us. We housed a family last December on the premisis that we would go stay with them. But due to me being in school and not wanting to use my student loans for a trip and not school we decided we needed to postpone a year. Maybe this coming July will look better. I'm so excited. Nate said not to post this and jinx us but I had to boast about some good luck in my life!!!

I haven't blogged forever so I'm going to just give a update of the summer and what I'm up to. First, Summer trips: We went to Bear Lake twice to boat and visit family. Mostly boat!! I love boating and it was fun. We stayed with Dad some of the time, but then went to the lake on the south end and stayed at my friend, Chari's family cabin. It was nice to stay right on the lake. I've never done that because we lived there why stay over night and all that. It was different and way fun. We went with a group of friends that time and Connelly played until he was too tired to walk. We went camping just locally twice and that is always fun. I like just camping close so that you don't spend most of your time traveling. We went up big cottonwood and american fork canyons. We did take a trip to Las Vegas twice. Once to move our friends, the Smallmans, and then the second time for school. I had a conference to go to for school in Las Vegas so fortunately we got t...

Connelly is so my child. Today I was changing the batteries in my camera because they died the other night during the hike for girls night out. Connelly started posing and saying, "cheese." He wanted to have his picture taken and just kept being so funny and wanting more and more. ..... Sound familiar??? I thought so.