fall 08

Hi everyone! thought I'd send you a little update! Hope you are all doing well!

Let's see.....Just finished making Shredded Beef French Dip Sandwiches for my make-ahead freezer meal group. Here's the recipe if any of you want it. Way easy. Super yummy too!

French Dip Sandwiches

Water (as needed)

1 chuck roast (or rump)

1 envelope au jus mix

1 envelope onion soup mix

shredded mozz cheese (way optional)

hoagie rolls

Mix au jus mix and onion soup & & water in slow cooker. Add roast. Cook on high for 5-6 hours or until tender & shreds easily. Serve on rolls with cheese and dip in au jus.

It's GREAT TO BE 8!!! Spencer turned 8 & is an official cub scout! Isn't he adorable!?

For Halloween Day/Nevada Day we went to Cali. No, not Disneyland. Knotts Berry Farm. We have annual passes. It was great. We went on every ride not once but two & three times in a row. Sometimes I was worried that I wouldn't be able to get off a ride b/c the majority of people wanted to go on again! The kids did "Camp Spooky" (instead of Camp Snoopy). The kids did a fun little treasure hunt there.

Nat doesn't seem real happy here, does she?

OH, gotta add some more fun pix. This is the father-daughter activity day for the girls. It was a Fear Factor Halloween theme! Thanks Dad for joining them!

Good thing Sandy & Dad get along, huh?


LOOKING AHEAD: Thanksgiving & Spencer's baptism is coming up! Many of the Whites are coming from out of town. I can't wait!!!

Anyway, thanks for letting me share a little of my October with you!!!! Love, Jen

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Hi everyone. Hope everyone is doing well....Well, I'm not very good at remembering to update my blog. Actually,I forgot I had a blog!!! Life is so crazy! Anyway, we are doing great. School's almost over and we've planned a week trip to the beach the first week of June. We are all pretty excited.

It seemed like overnight it has turned into summer here in Vegas! Today it was 103 degrees!!

Yesterday we went to Mount Charleston for a High Priest brunch. Spencer insisted we were among the Sequoia & Redwood trees that he just learned about in school. I don't think these were the tallest trees in the world, but I took a couple of pix anyway....

Well, we went home, did chores & enjoyed swimming in a warm pool! We finished our Saturday with a trip to Town Center to watch Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia). Hannah has been especially interested (ok, downright obsessed!) with seeing this movie since we read Prince Caspian aloud last winter.

The kids had a lot of comments about the movie on the way home & it sparked a lot of interesting family conversation! What a fun day!

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