Studio C Signing

If you didn't already know, we are BIG Studio C fans at our house.  We have our Monday night ritual of watching the show without fail.  I found out that they were having a DVD signing at the BYU Bookstore tonight.  Jeremy and Jaxon are away at scout camp, but the rest of us piled in the car and went down to meet the cast, get a DVD signed and McKay threw on one of his Studio C shirts so they could sign it as well.  We had a great time!

When we arrived at the bookstore, we found that the line to meet the cast wrapped around the whole store!  The wait wasn't too bad.  We were in line for about 45 minutes.

Kayden couldn't wait to meet Matt Meese to tell him that he is his favorite Studio C guy.  Matt was flattered and said. "Thanks man!"

Jeremy and his infamous mustache signing McKay's shirt.

Josh was excited to meet Matt as well.  Matt is an obvious favorite at our house.

Natalie and Whitney taking a turn signing McKay's shirt.  He was blushing, but all smiles!

At the end, Kayden asked me if Whitney could sign his shirt.  I told him it wasn't a very good idea, but that we could take his picture with Whitney.  Whitney told him his shirt was too cool to sign.  Afterwards Kayden said to me, "Whitney is my friend, not my girlfriend, just my new friend."

The whole cast was so courteous and nice.  I am glad that my kids love a show that casts such nice people!  The only thing that would have made the night better was having Jaxon and Jeremy there with us!

Harvest Time

The Fall brings harvest time.  Only this year, I have no garden to harvest.  That didn't stop me from harvesting everyone else's garden.  This year I harvested salsa, jalapeno jelly, peaches, grape juice and applesauce all from other people's garden.
 

 Kayden helped pick grapes.  There were a lot of grapes!  He was a good helper.

 

Bottling grape juice.  So simple yet it takes forever.  For next year my friend and I came up with a plan to use two juicers at once to make it go by faster.  This year I used just her juicer, but I ordered my own.  Next year we will have two!

 

I have to show off my grape juice.  It is so pretty all sealed up in bottles.  The lighter pink bottles are from green grapes and it sure is tasty!  All that food harvested, what a sense of accomplishment!

As I bottled applesauce today, I sat and thought about my mom and grandma.  They were major bottlers.  Sure love them.  When I was younger, I swore I would never bottle food.  Too much work.  All it took was for me to inherit my grandmother's steamer and bottling equipment and I caught the buzz.  Never say never, eh?  Happy Fall Harvest!

BYU Game Fun

Grandma and Grandpa are out of town so they gave us their BYU tickets for a couple of games.  This was Kayden's first BYU game.  He got to sit by Josh, and Jaxon and his Dad.  McKay and I sat in Grandma and Grandpa's seats.  All the boys had a good time--as long has they had snacks.  Admittedly, Kayden wanted more entertainment by the third quarter and therefore played his Dad's phone most of the remainder of the game. He still cheered like crazy.  Go Cougars!