July 24th, Happy Pioneer Day!

Well the 24th was great day for us here. We took all the kids to a huge Scout pancake breakfast, big here in Vernal. And it was $2 per child good price and great fun because they had a bouncer slide(I think thats what it is called?) a buffalo bladder toss(balloon toss) sack races and coloring and then a park to boot to play on. The smaller kids loved the bouncer, all loved the balloons and almost everyone fell over in the sacks.

At the same park was The Moving Wall, a traveling veterans memorial, http://www.themovingwall.org/. We walked through and observed, that part of the park was surprisingly quiet. A lot of names facts and pictures. If you have a chance I recommend seeing it.

After that was the parade, we didn't stay at the parade instead we went to Dinosaur National Monument. All the children became Jr. Paleantologists, they had to do book work and take the oath, the smaller ones loved it. Unfortunately the larger Quarry Visitor Center was closed, we did drive by it to do the hike and see the bones that have been left on a trail to see how they are found. The Quarry will be opened I believe they said in 2011. http://www.nps.gov/dino

Then of course we ate our picnic lunch we packed on the way home. Then we took 4 children over to the IFA and they where having a grand opening, new store, and the boys did the mutton busting they thought that was neat and received stick horses as prizes. L gets very nervous around animals so this surprised me a lot.

After that fun we took them all fishing, and PT pulled 4 or 5 fish out with the same 1/3 of a worm that we put on his hook. The fish didn't swallow the whole hook so O was able to get the worm back and about a minute after PT cast out he would pull in another one. L, KT, and S all where having fun the teenagers just hung out in the car. We did some great fishing that night.

I have posted the website links of places we went so if you are curious you can just link over.

My Birthday

Well the girls and B went to SLC on the weekend of my birthday, with M and spent 2 days with grandma, so that was fun for them and no arguing or conflict for me to decide over, so that was good.

I had a great day my birthday was on a Sat. and so O the boys and I all got dressed and went to the farmers market in the morning, lots of vegies yum. Then we came home got lunch and got ready for a day of fishing at Red Fleet in the boat! It was fun I got sunburnt and a fish was caught. We then went home and got Chinese Take out and watched a movie. It was a great memory making day!

PT's Birthday

Hey there we have been busy and I have not posted since the 23rd of July, so I am going to do a lot of catching up this week so stay posted!

Well For PT's Birthday I asked him what he wanted to do and gave him a laundry list of choices and the one he chose was the park. So I called M and had her meet us there with her cute daughters and all.

We made sandwiches, bought chips and instead of ice cream or cake, we had sno-cones, we packed up our snocone machine and brought that and luckily there was power at the pavillion. That way when ice melts it's not that big of a deal, or near as messy as ice cream.

We opened presents there and he got a football and a softball set so the park was a great setting for the gifts as well! When O got home that night, he gave him his gift, a box of 22 bullets and later that week took him and B shooting, PT has wanted to do this since last October when the girls and I went through hunters education and had to practice.

When I asked him if he had a good birthday he said it was the best and very fun.

Great Healthful Recipe

Had this great recipe I found on the web that I made for lunch the other day, and I am making today! I love it because the kids eat it up and it does not heat up my kitchen! Yay for fresh garden eating!

Raw Peperonata

Ingredients

1 red, bell pepper
1 orange bell pepper
1 yellow bell pepper
1 green bell pepper
1/2 red onion
1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
1/4 cup red wine vinegar
2 cloves garlic, pressed
1 Tbsp. fresh minced oregano or 1 tsp. dried
sea salt to taste

Directions:

Combine olive oil, red wine vinegar, garlic, and oregano and set aside. Core bell peppers and cut lengthwise into 1/4 inch slivers then in half. Cut onion lengthwise and sliver and then in half too. Combine peppers and onion in a large bowl and add dressing and salt to taste. I find it best to refrigerate for a few hours, stirring occasionally to work the peppers on top down into the dressing.

Today I am adding mushrooms to marinate we will see how they taste
UPDATE: Added mushrooms and they worked out great! I think most anything will work, just try what you like!

Makes: 6 - 8 servings, Preparation time: depends, Cooking time: n/a

Just had to add!

Thought I would add these great photos of the girls being silly together and some of the boys as well! On long drive


sometimes we have silly face contest with the camera-It's fun the kids are interacting and there is no DVD running. But it also gives me soooo much material! Enjoy.

Happy 7th Birthday P.T.!!!

What I love about PT;
He loves to be silly
He loves to look at things and wonder what else he can do with them, inventive or otherwise!
His Laugh
He is very gentle
He will dance wherever he is just because he feels like it
His brother is his best friend
He loves his sisters but loves to play tricks on them!
I hope you have a great day, and wonderful year!

Our page title

In case you were all wondering what is up with our title, it's quite simple
McParry is what my DH called me after we first got married so I have always wanted to use that for him, and Croft means;A small farm, especially a tenant farm. And since we are tenants and have chickens, rabbits and a decent size kitchen garden we thought that would be fun. So there it is if you can follow, I'm only explaining once.