{"id":1727,"date":"2013-11-05T16:41:14","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T23:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2013-11-05T16:41:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T23:41:14","slug":"catch-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/?p=1727","title":{"rendered":"Catch up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay it’s been too long since I posted anything.\u00a0 So this is one big catch up post.\u00a0 I’ll post a bunch of pictures with a short description of the event.\u00a0 Hopefully that will get me caught up for the holidays.\u00a0 I like to keep record of all the stuff that happens in our lives and this is sort of a family journal.\u00a0 Not only is it good for me to have a record so I can remember all those great moments but also so we can share it with our friends and family who don’t get to see us often.<\/p>\n

First we have to go all the way back to September.\u00a0 YES I said September.\u00a0 That is where I left off.\u00a0 After school started and things start to get crazy canning season starts.\u00a0 This has been great for my family’s food storage but also very time consuming.\u00a0 Corey and I love our garden and we get a lot of produce out of it.\u00a0 Have I ever mentioned how much I love my mom?\u00a0 Well I do A LOT.\u00a0 She came up for a week and a half, despite not feeling well, and helped me can. I put her right to work canning green beans.\u00a0 Everyday we did something new. The biggest thing we canned was apple sauce.\u00a0 We had the apples from my tree and some apples that a friend let me pick.\u00a0 In the end we canned 48 quarts of apples.\u00a0 I really did have a lot of fun with my mom and really do miss her when she is gone.<\/p>\n

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You’re seeing right that is a 5 gallon bucket of applesauce.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mom and I with all the applesauce ready to process.<\/p><\/div>\n

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On to the next event.\u00a0 Our camping trip to Craters of the Moon National park. We are fortunate to live in an area where we don’t have to travel far to get to some great camping spots.\u00a0 We said goodbye to our tent trailer and got ourselves a new trailer.\u00a0 We had to try it out the weekend we got it.\u00a0 We joined some friends up at Craters and had a blast.\u00a0 We explored caves and lava fields. This was the first time I’ve been to Caters.\u00a0 I’ve driven past and wasn’t very impressed but once we explored I was amazed.\u00a0 We’ll come back again.<\/p>\n

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Our new home away from home.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Kids<\/a>

Kids climbing rocks<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Walking<\/a>

Walking through the giant tunnel<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Exploring<\/a>

Exploring caves<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Well<\/a>

Well paved walking trails.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Even<\/a>

Even here pretty things grow<\/p><\/div>\n

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Group Picture<\/p><\/div>\n

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We have made it to October!\u00a0 This was the first weekend in October.\u00a0 We decided to take the trailer out one more time before we had to store it for the winter.\u00a0 We ended up going to Palisades Reservoir.\u00a0 Again I feel the need to express how blessed we are to live in close proximity to these wonderful places.\u00a0 When we arrived it was snowing.\u00a0 It was a pretty cold night and we only lasted one night before deciding to pack up and head home.\u00a0 It was beautiful.\u00a0 So many fall colors mixed in with the snow.<\/p>\n

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Our very snowy campsite.<\/p><\/div>\n

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All the wildlife we saw. He didn’t like Corey.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"View<\/a>

View of the Lake<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Family<\/a>

Family photo<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Fall<\/a>

Fall Colors<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Being<\/a>

Being silly on a rock wall.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Next there was a free ice skating lesson at the hockey shelter.\u00a0 We signed the kids up and they had fun skating on the ice.\u00a0 Did you know ice is slippery? It was fun to watch them skate around.<\/p>\n

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Last on the list and then I’m all caught up.\u00a0 HALLOWEEN! We had a blast this year at our ward’s trunk or treat.\u00a0 Corey and I dressed as Bert and Mary from Mary Poppins.\u00a0 Sophia was a ghost, Levi a zombie, and Preston a nerd. The trunk or treat was the Tuesday before Halloween.\u00a0 That was good because on Halloween it rained and was very chilly.\u00a0 Sophia and Levi went trick or treating but Preston just wanted to hang out with his friends playing games down in our basement.\u00a0 I guess he is growing up.\u00a0 If anyone knows a cure for that please let me know.<\/p>\n

\"Sophia<\/a>

Sophia the Ghost<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Bert<\/a>

Bert and Mary<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Zombie,<\/a>

Zombie, Ghost, and Nerd<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"carving<\/a>

carving pumpkins<\/p><\/div>\n

\"scraping<\/a>

scraping out guts<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"finished<\/a>

finished product<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Monkey<\/a>

Monkey see, Monkey do.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"All<\/a>

All lit up.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay it’s been too long since I posted anything.\u00a0 So this is one big catch up post.\u00a0 I’ll post a bunch of pictures with a short description of the event.\u00a0 Hopefully that will get me caught up for the holidays.\u00a0 I like to keep record of all the stuff that happens in our lives and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11,43,49,33,51,50,52],"tags":[23,55,53,7,3,45,41,8,5,4,6],"class_list":["post-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canning","category-children","category-corey-2","category-family","category-hobbies","category-levi","category-preston","category-sophia","tag-camping","tag-canning","tag-children","tag-corey","tag-family","tag-friends","tag-hoilday","tag-karin","tag-levi","tag-preston","tag-sophia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1760,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}