Tanner Comes Home!

After two years of serving in the Bacelod Mission of the Phillipines Tanner returns to the San Diego Airport and a big welcome from his family and cousins.

Clever Amy!

What a great welcome home!

Lea!

Great picture of the Cheer team with Lea in the middle top row. 

Halloween Party for Keira and Eden

More pictures on Halloween I hope.  But Eden makes a cute little duckling this year and Keira is a princess riding a pony???  We will see later.

Kate turns Eight!

Such a beautiful girl, Kate turned eight today!  Saturday she will be baptized and all of the Pulsipher family is going over to Nevada for her baptism.  Tanner gets home on the 30th and every one heads for the baptism to be held on Saturday.  Congratulations, Kate.

The Hardy Family has a Memorial Trip!

James had meetings back east with his company Evantage for a few weeks so the family took the opportunity to meet him and spend a week of touring DC, Princeton, Harvard, Pennsylvania, New York and friends in Massachusetts.  These pictures are all out of order but looks like it was a very fun and educational trip as well.

Maria, Mitch and Matt Visit!!

 On October 17 Maria, Matt and Mitch came together for the weekend at my home.  I love having them and had prepared an apple pie, strawberry frozen salad, special chicken taquitos with cilantro sauce and had plenty of other food on hand.

We, Sadie and I, were happy to see Bruce, too, though we didn't get a good picture of him.  He looks bigger every time he comes.  Sadie is more calm now, but really enjoys playing and sitting with him. Early in the morning she was crying outside one of my guest rooms for him to wake up and come play.

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Maria and the boys went hiking and brought me a lot more freshly fallen sugar cone pines which I proceeded to bake and put in all my windows, etc.  Love them.

As usual, the boys also caught up on a few needed things around the house and yard like beeping smoke alarms and stacking wood, cover outside vents, etc.  So appreciate their help.

We went to Buffalo Chips and I love their gluten free pizzas and the boys had a big regular, of course, with plenty of left overs to take home with them.

They also bought me a newly carved birdhouse from in town which Matt secured in one of my gardens!

Maria and I had fun in Reno eating and shopping till it was time for her to ge.t on the plane and fly home.  So glad they come to visit.

Fall Highlights

Some Sugar Pine dropped into the street, I had never seen such fresh ones and the owner of the tree had gone for the summer so I took them!  They were very sticky on the ends with a heavy white sap,

I had heard they needed to be baked so I looked it up and baked them at 220 degrees--20 minutes on each side and they are beautiful.

Ron  M brought me a cord and a half of wood--it is so dry and burns so well.  Some man had asked if there was someone who needed wood and he would donate it.  So Ron and his family split it all and brought it to me.  So appreciative of that!  The missionaries were supposedly to help unload it and stack it but they had another commitment and couldn't get here till 6 PM.  So Ron had to unload most of it.  I helped but he did the greater portion.  One thing that was nice is since Greg T axed the big tree stump away, Ron can now back his trailer up to about 10 feet from my shed.  Anyway, I fed the missionaries at 6 and they worked until dark and stacked the back row and 1/3 of the second row.  I was too tired to work on it that week, but the next week I finished the stacking myself by doing a little, resting a little, etc.  It rained two days later, so glad it is tucked in for the fall and winter.

Sadie has a new cave to protect her from the elements.  Problem is it is bigger than necessary and won't be protected from the rain and snow unless I put the patio table over it--which will work well I think.  At first she just slept on top of it but she is now crawling in and enjoying it.

Sarah is Licensed to Drive!

Hard to believe, Sarah is 16 and licensed to drive--She surely looks excited!

Paper Artist

There is an app on my Samsung called Paper Artist and you can do fun things with your pictures.  This one of Keira and Sadie looks like an illustration in a book.

This one of the Hardys with Sarah looks like an oil painting.

A classic painting of Melissa.

A Waterpainting of the Stewarts.