Impromptu FHE

Stupid me forgot my camera! Monday nights at our house are looked forward to by everyone in our family. It is really fun for Jason and I to watch Carter and Keaton's excitement over scripture stories and talking time with mom and dad. Today Jason had a student solo later in the afternoon. So me and the boys went up to the airport towards the end of the lesson and met Jason up there. After the student left we hopped in my Dad's plane. First Carter and Jason got in, and then it was Keaton's turn. He was waiting to get in and he was going crazy! He wanted to get in the airplane so much quicker than what was going on. Jason had given both boys "airplane flashlights" and we were loaded up ready to go! The boys were thrilled to take an airplane ride, even if it was just taxing up and down the airport. Since there is rarely any traffic we pretty much had the airport to ourselves and Carter was able to turn on the airport runway lights from the airplane. It looked really neat because it was so dark out there. Of course Carter wanted to take off, but I kept us on the ground due to my anxiety about having our whole family in a single plane. When taxied back to the hanger put the plane away and loaded up to go out to dinner. On the way out Carter started talking about his walky-talky he got today. Instead of saying "walky-talky" he said, "hockey-walky" and "walky-dockey!" It was so funny! We took the boys to dinner and Keaton ended up eating chocolate cake and all of Jason's steak, plus all of his pot roast. He is definitely a meat eater! He turned smurf blue from eating blue M&Ms for dessert. After we demolished the Golden Corral we headed home for bed. What a fun night!

The Better Butter

Well, the first attempt of making butter from our new cow did not go so well. I eventually ended up accidentally cooking it! My Vitamix blender is really powerful. So Jason got tired of waiting for me to get it right and googled how to make butter. This is our third attempt and it turned out so good! It is a solid, tasty, homemade butter straight from the cow! Jason stayed up until 10 p.m. with his little project and he did a great job. It may seem a little weird to get excited about making butter, but there is a certain satisfaction knowing that you can do things if you have the need to. You never know when that day may come that we may not have access to a grocery store and have to do things pioneer style. So a little at a time I guess. First we will master the milk cow thing and then it is on to chickens. We have one surviving chicken and a partially built chicken coop, but we'll get there and hopefully the Lord will bless us in our efforts of provident living.

The Party That Never Ends.