Making Apple Cider

Saturday Jim and the boys picked apples and made apple cider. Grandma and Grandpa cleaned the cider press and we got to try it out. We had a lot of fun making cider. Monday we will process it.

 

 

 

Colville at Lakeland 28-17

Dustin suffered Thursday with a hernia but Jim was able to reduce it. After Jim and Grandpa gave him a blessing Jim was able to push the strangulated intestine back where it belonged. Dustin played in Friday nights game. They didn't give him the ball much but he did make two touchdowns and had some great runs. He is recovering well and will start lifting weights on Monday.

Update on Jordan in Brazil

September 10, 2008
Hey family,
Life Rocks here on the mission. I love this place we totally achieved our goal. We had 2 baptisms and 11 investigators at church and we taught 12 lessons with members and we got 15 new investigators. We achieved the AMMON STANDARD and our pictures got put in the mission NEWSLETTER along with two other companionships.
I am now a QUALIFIED ELDER OR SOLDIER. Transfer is next week but you can still write on Tuesday because P-day will be on Wednesday. Tell James Micheal happy birthday on the 12th, 3 big years. I love this work and am happy to hear that everyone is doing well. I’ll tell you if I got transferred or not next week.

Elder DIVIS

Dustin's First Football game of the Season

Friday night Dustin's team drove to Sandpoint for their first game of the season. The team played very well. Dustin made a touch down, recieved a pass and made 21 yds in rushing. Sandpoint shut down the middle which is where Dustin plays but he always drew three players to him even if he didn't have the ball. He is looking forward to their next game against Lakeland which is also an away game. Dustin is number 11 and he plays fullback.

 

 

 

Trissa's visit

Trissa flew to Spokane Monday night and James' family picked her up at the airport. Dustin, William and I went to Spokane on Tuesday and picked her up. We went to Macey's Clearance and the boys got new Sunday clothes. Trissa, Grandma and I worked on Trissa's baby quilt. Grandma taught us the knot to use and we started tying knots on Tuesday. Wednesday Trissa helped me clean the kitchen and then we tied more knots. I had to go to Mutual so Trissa visited with her dad while tying knots. Grandma, Trissa and I went to our Applique group Thursday morning and Trissa and I worked on her quilt. We finished tying the quilt and sewed the binding on Thursday evening. I took Trissa to James' and he will take her to the airport tomorrow morning(4:30am). Trissa just needs to hand sew the binding onto the back of the quilt. We had a great time visiting with Trissa.

Labor Day Fun

James' family came to visit Sunday night and stayed until Monday night. Jim worked on the house a little and then they played Carcassonne. James Micheal had fun playing with Great Grandma's cats.

Tori's Birthday Party

Saturday we went to Tori's Birthday Party. We had a barbeque and the kids swam in the pool. James' family came,Jer and Jill came along with Tabby and Sophie,Jodi's family and all of Rip's family. We had a great time. We stayed too long and didn't arrive home until 1:00am.

 

 

 

Triathlon Slideshow

Weekend in Utah

Jim and I flew to Salt Lake City Friday morning via Denver. We got to talk to Trissa at the airport. We were delayed in Denver about 45 minutes. We arrived in SLC at 5:00pm. My sister came and picked us up and the airport in my parents car and drove to her husbands work. She went home with him and we took the car to Laura's. We had spaghetti and Texas Toast for dinner. Nikki,Craig's sister, was there and spent the night. They were working on her bike and getting it ready for the race. Jim and I drove to Orem and spent the night at my parents home in Orem. They were in Virginia so we just made ourselves at home. We drove to Jordanelle Saturday morning and arrived around 9:00am. We found Laura in the transition area and wished her good luck. We took pictures when we could and met Craig's parents along the race route. We spent the day with Laura, ending at a ward barbeque they were in charge of. They were both very tired but came early and left late so they could set-up and clean-up. We slept again in Orem. We went to church in our old Orem ward and visited with our friends. We met Laura and Craig at the Brink's for dinner and celebrated Laura's birthday. Monday morning we were up at 5:00am and drove to Lyle's work where we met Lyn and she took us to the airport and returned my parents car to her driveway ready to go and pick up my parents when they return. Audra picked us up at the airport at 2:00pm and we got to spend a little time with the grandkids before we drove home. We had a great weekend.

Laura and Craig Triathlon

August 23rd, 10:00 am Craig goes into the 68 degree Jordanelle reservoir for a 1/2 mile swim.


10:10 am Laura and Nikki start their 1/2 mile swim.

Craig finishing the swim and going to get his bike.

Laura finishing her swim and trying hard to get her wetsuit off.

Laura taking bike to the starting point.

Craig returning from a 12 mile bike ride.

Craig leaving on the 5K run.

Laura returning from her 12 mile bike ride.

Laura and Nikki starting on the 5K run.(Nikki's bike tire went flat 4 time before the bike race started so she could not ride her bike and was disqualified. They allowed her to run so she started with Laura so she could get her time.)

Laura at the end of the race just before the finish line.

Laura finished in less than 2hrs. She did very well for her first race. It was a very hot day. Jim and I got sunburned but enjoyed being there and watching Laura and Craig.

It's a Girl

Sara Ann Chipman was born August 13,2008. She is my brother, Alan's, daughter. He has 4 boys and has waited 9 years for his little princess.

Cleaning up Grandpa's Land

Dustin, William and Grandpa started working on the fallen logs at 7:00am Monday morning. They worked hard each day until 1:00pm.(Chainsaws are band after 1:00pm)By Saturday late morning the job of getting all the fallen and dead trees cut, stacked and piled was done. Peter came to get them Monday afternoon in his logging truck. He will split and cut the logs and the YM will help load and stack the fireword in the shed of a ward member who hurt his back and cannot get it for himself.

Apricot/ Pineapple Jam

Grandma, William, Dustin and I picked apricots at the Carnline's. Saturday I made 5 batches of apricot/pineapple jam.

Working in the Garden

Grandma and I are working to get out the tree roots, grass and strawberries so we can make a raised strawberry patch. It is a lot of hard work.

Filling in the hole

Working Hard

Dustin dug this hole for the cement post that Jim got from Jerry and painted with orange paint and sprinkled with refective rocks. William is guiding the post into place. William is filling in the hole. Getting ready to fill in the dirt around the septic outlets. Filling in the holes.

Huckleberries

We went huckleberry picking Monday and Tuesday. Jim picked on Monday night and we got almost 2 gallons and the boys and I got another 2 gallons on Tuesday. Wednesday the boys and I washed the huckleberries and we froze some and made jam out of the rest.

Working at Grandpa's

Jeff has been working hard to get things done for his Dad before he goes home on Thursday. He has re-shingled the roof, painted the house on the parts needed, weed whacked, trimmed trees, removed pine needles from the roofs with a little help from Dustin and William.