Graham County Fair

Last weekend was the fair and this year we enter about 28 things. Mostly we enter produce that we grew either in our garden or we planted at Mark's parents. The girls each got 7 ribbons. Mark got 5 or 6 and I got one blue for my grape jelly. We had a good time looking at exhibits and seeing the animals. I'm pretty sure the animals were the girls favorite part. They wanted to ride the carousel, but it was 3 dollars a person. Next year we hope to have even more to enter in the fair, now that we have an idea of how it works and what things we can enter.

General conference

I always look forward to general conference, however I don't look forward to entertaining the girls and trying to keep them quite so we can actually learn something. So we put up a tent for the girls to sit in and listen like the people did for King Benjamin's talk. They were both really excited. Audrey was a little too excited about the "camping". Hailey got the idea a little better. I printed off the church's conference booklet for her to color. I also gave her cheerios and a bingo game. She did pretty good. I've seen a big a difference in Hailey just in the last 6 months since the last conference.

I really enjoyed this conference, especially Elder Bednar's talk about family.

What do you want for Christmas?

Audrey is really interested in Santa lately. At the end of summer I went to pull out the girls fall clothes and I found a swimming suite that I thought Audrey could have worn this summer. I let her try it on and she danced around the house like a ballerina. (it had a little ruffle) Then she said "Santa gave this to me for my birthday." A few weeks later we were sitting on the back porch of Mark's parent's house watching the dogs and Audrey said, "Mom, Wucy (Lucy) doesn't have any eyes. Santa will bring her some for Christmas." The innocence of a child is so sweet. Now when I ask her what she wants for Christmas she said ,"Eyes for Lucy"

Nightmare

Early this morning I woke up to Audrey crying "mama!". When I got to her room she was thrashing around in her bed (still asleep) saying, "I want to brush my teeth!, I want to brush my teeth!"

Audrey's prayer

Last night when Audrey was saying her prayers before bed she said her normal, "bless Mom, Dad, Hailey and Audrey." and then she said, "bless the scarecrow and the apple that we can take a bite of it." The girls and I had decorated the bulletin board in their room with fall die-cuts and since Audrey doesn't close her eyes when she prays sometime she looks around the room to get idea about what to pray for.