Happy Birthday ‘lil man!!!

Kenyon’s official birthday is today. 8 years old….boy where did the time go. The tike has grown into quite the little man. I made him a birthday badge to wear to school today. He was so proud. He has been spoiled thus far and received a Nintendo DS from his Grandmother and Dad. I of course will take him to dinner tonight for his birthday. (The place where they give sundae’s FREE on your birthday J) Gosh I hopefully have another 60 of these birthdays with him. This is the one day that he is happy alllllll day!

Mom’s Night Out

I attended my first “Stamp Camp” on Friday, September 10th. My co-worker, Heather, and I went to a Stamp Camp at a Stampin’ Up Consultants house in Fort Collins. We made a total of 5 cards.

The first card was a template card.

The second card was done using the Faux alligator technique. It took probably the most time but was my favorite to make. I learned how to emboss and I think I am addicted now.

The third card was a Masculine card that can be given to a father or male friend.

The last 2 cards were both Fall cards.

The whole process took 3 hours. We are going to go to another Stamp Camp on October 22nd. Hopefully miss Katelyn can go with us.

The Hayden Corn Pickers

The Greeley Stake in the LDS Church has a farm in Eastern Greeley. The Church posted a bulletin that you could go out to the farm and pick some sweet corn from the corn fields out there. A Sister from the Church sent me directions on how to get out to the farm and unfortunately we got lost several times. We finally stopped and asked a sweet lady at 7-11 and she put us on the right track. And just when we thought we had passed it we found it. My friend Hollie and her daughter Danielle joined us. We got out the cars and stepped into the corn fields. It was eerie. The wind was blowing around us and most of the corn had been picked through. The first couple ears of corn we picked were not very good. The deeper we got into the corn field the better the result. We got some really fat ears of corn. Looking back I bet all together we picked about 200-300 ears of corn. We stayed for about an hour and half. Hollie filled up about 6 bags of corn, I filled up a huge tub of corn, Katelyn filled up a bag for a co-worker and Kayne filled up another bag for a co-worker. After digging through bugs and tearing at the tall stalks we were tuckered out. We found our way out of the tall stalks of corn and at the road we had to sit and shuck the corn. Make sure we had some good pieces of corn and get rid of any remaining bugs…ewwww. We had lunch at Burger King and headed home for a nap. Kenyon and I washed the corn in a nice bath of water. Katelyn tore the aluminum. We wrapped the aluminum and placed the wrapped corns in plastic bags to freeze. We decided we will make this into a tradition. Next year we are going to collect much more :)