Dad's last house sold

I'm officially out of the Real Estate business!  Dad had 4 houses when he passed away. We were able to sell the one in St George and the one he lived in within a couple of weeks.   Sept. 24, marked 6 months since Dad passed away.  Jeffrey had been living in the rental across the street from where we grew up, for about 25 years.  Mom had always said it would be his house, since he had been there so long.  He and Jen decided that they would really rather have the house we grew up in, instead, so we gave them 6 months to get it ready to sell and move out.  6 months to the day, we closed on Jeff's old house.  His darling step daughter, Lauren and her husband Taylor bought it.   Jamie did the mortgage for them.

Jamie also took care of the transfer of the title for Jeff and Jen.

Dad's 90th birthday celebration (without him)

September 16, 2018 Dad would have been 90 years old.

I was able to go to the cemetery and visit his and mom's grave on Saturday.

To honor Dad, we did a random act of service for whoever we wanted.

I baked some of Aunt Sandy's yummy zucchini bread and took to some of my neighbors.

Then I invited our kids, Lani, Jeff and Jen for dinner.  (Lani wasn't able to come) but everyone else did.  We haven't had all our kids together for a while so it was GREAT!

The Adults (Josh and Merijane were behind Jeff and Jen)

The girls

The boys (I don't know if they ate anything, they mostly just played)

As we walked out to tell Jeff and Jen goodbye, we noticed a car EXACTLY like Dad's parked at my neighbors house.  Oh how we miss that guy!

Labor Day Sleepover

The Sunday before Labor Day I sent out a text to see if anyone was available to come to Sunday dinner and then the kids were invited to stay for a sleepover.  Josh and Jordan's family already had fun plans, but Krista and Jamie's families were available.  Monday morning the girls woke up and wanted to walk to the grocery store to buy stuff to make breakfast.  

We made Orange Julius, Pancakes and Bacon

The girls printed all these cute sayings off the internet and colored them to put in their rooms or lockers at school.

These two came upstairs looking like this and put on a cute little show for us.

Aida and Sohie fell asleep on the way home,  They all played hard.

How to make a delicious peach pie

The other day my friend posted on Facebook that she had some peaches that she wanted to give away.  Logan was at our house, and so I asked him if he would like to go pick some.  He was excited and asked if we could make a peach pie.  Here's how to do just that !

The first thing you do, is pick the best peaches.

Put them in a box and take them to your house

Take two large peaches and smash them

Add 2/3 c. sugar, 3 T. cornstarch and 1/2 c. water 

Cook, stirring constantly about 5 min until it boils and thickens.

 Then add 1/2 t, almond  extract and 2 T butter

Make a single crust pie crust

Roll it out

 Carefully place in pie pan and flute the edges. (thumb, pinch, thumb, pinch) then bake

Slice 4-6 remaining peaches

Carefully mix the sauce you made with the sliced peaches and pour into baked pie shell.

Walah!  A delicious peach pie

I took some peaches over to Krista and taught Sophie how to make a pie too.

We had so much fun!

Her's turned out amazing as well

My friend Diana called me back and said she had  more peaches, so I went back and picked some more and was able to make 22 quarts of peaches and a little peach jam.