criss cross apple sauce

Behold the mighty fishermen! Wait! this are the applesaucers! That sounds kind of out of this world doesn't it? Nana picked some of her many tasty green apples and Isa came over and cooked them and squished them. I got to help a little. I loved that sqisher that when turned warm sauce comes out one end and all the skins and seeds com out the other! There are still more apples so if you bring your jars over before I do you can get some too. Harvesting apples truly is a sign of the coming fall.

Summer is now done and school is going to start this week. Darian and Wade will be ready, they have been working hard at home school all summer. One of our recent projects was learning about the Huichol (WEE-chol) Indians of northwest Mexico. We learned that they are famous for their brightly colored yarn paintings. These paintings tell stories about their history and religion. A yarn painting is made by pressing yarn into beeswax that has been warmed by the sun, we used glue. Both boys thought hard about the symbols they wanted in their design. Darian is working on a sun with bows and arrows surrounding. Wade has candles, fire, sun, a flower as well as arrows.

We are all excited for school to begin. Darian and Wade have been practicing getting up on time and getting the animals fed and taken care of as well as making a lunch before 8 AM. The bus will come at 8:25. They are doing better and better every day. I am supposed to be practicing getting up with them, to make breakfast and see them off. I am not doing so well. I drag my self out of bed at 8AM. I will do better this week.

I am trying something.

I have a degree?

Saturday Night (August 16, 2008)

Jonny: "Isa, come read this."

Isa: "Someone is trying to sell you a framed copy of your Bachelor's degree? So they gave you your degree?"

Jonny: "I guess."

Isa: "How does this company know before you do?"

Moments later Jonny, for the first time in many months, scans through his academic records online.

Jonny: "Bachelor of Arts, awarded May 17, 2008... Looks like they gave it to me after all."

!Felizitaciones to our recently Spanish bachelored Jonathan Wade Hatch! I never knew, but he had even made the Dean's List his first semester in 2005...maybe his future little Squeaker was motivation. Hooray!! We love our Jonny/Papi.

Counting one of our many blessings!

Mark gave little miss Camilla Anjanae Freeman a name and blessing at mom and dad's ward last sunday. It was a marvelous, beautiful, uplifting and spiritual experince. It was so nice to have so much family around. Afterwards we enjoyed sloppy joes, games and one anothers company on the farm. Cami slept through the party. She was very pretty in the dress and shoes inherited from me which I got from Nana. I also was able to stratch my creative itch and made her a cute bow.