The Mesa Temple Christmas Lights

The Native American Dancers performed and the Nativity.
The Grandkids and their Mom.We saw a wonderful musical show too.
Each year we visit the beautiful lights at the Temple. The Nativity scenes and Wiseman on their Camels.Thousands of lights.

Christmas Eve Traditions

We celebrated with our homemade soups Potato, Tortilla,and Chicken Noodle,fresh rolls, plus lots of goodies. We celebrated Jesus Birthday with a cake made from cupcakes.
We played the DVD Joy to the World, for the Nativity this year and didn't dress up.The first time in all my life time, we didn't act out the Nativity.Then we played the chimes,a wonderful tradition, where everyone holds a lead pipe cut different lengths to make the different notes.We hit the pipe with a really large nail to hear the sounds. Yes,we had music to follow.It was enjoyed by the youngest and oldest.
We played the game Mr.& Mrs.Wright, where I read the story and you pass the gift left or right when you hear it in the story.It was fun the children did it first and did quite well keeping up with the story.Then the Adults tried it. Aftger we did the White Elephant gift exchange.I ended yo with a extra large remote control for the TV.Ron had a set of push up weights.

Our Christmas Photos

Our Home at Christmas

We have our Christmas lights up early this year,hoping that my brother Ron and Betty would visit. Our Christmas tree is a Charley Brown Tree,with gorgeous Christmas bulbs
that which depict our Savior made by me. The Santa was at our Ward Christmas Party,and was a highlight for all the children. We also had a beautiful display of 35
Nativity's. A wonderful dinner of Hawaiian Haystacks.

What do we can in Arizona?

We don't have any berries fruit except Oranges,Grapefruit,Lemons and Limes here to can. We freeze the juices from the fruit in December when they come on.So I bought a Pressure Canner for my daughter for Christmas and we have been canning. I Canned 40 lbs of raw Turkey at 37 cents lb.Produced 10 large quart bottles. Then I canned five bottles of raw chicken breast cut in strips.Here are the photos.They turned out wonderful for food storage.She canned sweet and sour pork dinners and pinto and red beans too with crystallized ginger to prevent the gas when eaten.

Happy Thanksgiving

The Oreo Turkeys
The Little Pilgrims
On Thanksgiving we went to our Grandsons Brandon for delicious turkey dinner with all the trimmings.They cooked the turkey mashed potatoes and gravy. Tina made green bean casserole.Sarinah made her famous dinner crescent rolls and dressing. I brought homemade cranberries made with frozen cranberries, 2 cups sugar and two chopped apples and two oranges, plus grated orange rind. Delicious.Then I made Sweet Potatoes my favorite I mashed 2 bananas into the cooked sweet potatoes instead of adding sugar. Sprinkled the top with toasted pecans. More of the family liked this, better than last year.After dinner the guys watched the football games while the ladies cleaned up. The grandma's helped the great grand kids make, cute Oreo turkeys, and Pilgrim Hats out of construction paper to wear.They enjoyed the crafts today. The weather was perfect a slight breeze and 81 degrees. No rain or snow.

Carson's Baptism

It was a wonderful day for our Family, another grandchild was baptised. Carson turned eight years old. His Dad baptised him. All the Family were there, who lived close by. Then we went to Lunch at Pei Wei. After lunch they went Hiking the Superstition Mountains.It was a nice cool day finally, after a long hot summer.