Ellis Halloween Party

This year we had our Halloween party at Derrick and Shannon's house. We set up tables, and games in their garage. Everyone dressed up so we had a runway show where all the kids had their time to strut their stuff in front of everyone while Christopher Waken (Heath) did their commentary. It was hilarious!! Janet Jackson (me)
Skeleton (Wesley)
Tinkerbell, and Cinderella (Zoe, Maddie)
Concert Violinist, and My back up guitarist (Mom, Johanna)
Iron man (Joshua)
Larry, Eore, Greatest Grandpa, and Police man (Larry, Jared, Grandpa, and Lance)
We played a lot of games, this was ring around the Rosy.


Grandma Debbie and Grandma burger showed up too
Lance giving Grandma kisses
Whitney dressed up like Princess Aurora
Cramer, and Cat lady (David and Julianne)
They all got awards for walking the runway. Zoe was loveliest pixy fairy, Whitney was Cutie Pie Princess, and Gracie was fanciest princess.
Lance takes after his Daddy.


Iron man and Spider man ( Josh and Preston)

Hallie and Deacon were the Characters from How To Train Your Dragon.
Three Princesses

Let it Rock!!Berny went and Derrick and Derrick went as Berny.
Christopher Waken and Vampire ( Heath and Mollie)
Bobbing for apples

Shannon was an opera singer
My pretty princess
Janet and Berny ( Shannon and Derrick)

Mom and Dad

Trunk or Treat
This was a fun idea. Our ward did this thing were lots of people decorated their cars and gave candy out to the kid as they walked by. These are the Butler kids, Scott and Jamie Butler.
Libbie and Michelle

Cutting Wood and Canning at Grandma and Grandpa's House

After we had our wood cutting camp out dad took the wood home. But it was a really big job to slit it all and stack it. So everyone came to help, it was awsome to see everyone working together and getting it all done. Mom put us women to work canning pears and plums too. I love my family.

They worked until dark and after dark.

They got a lot of wood stacked

Sunday Afternoon and Grandma Debbie and Papa's House

This was a really fun day. Before it got cold we went to visit Grandma Debbie and Papa. It was a beautiful day so we got out our horse Little Man. Lance was so brave he got right up on him and loved it.

Lance looks just like his daddy.
This was as close as Whitney would get. But in her mind she was leading the horse. She is so funny! I love her.

Berny Working with Little man. Maybe someday he will be big enough to ride. I guess he fits in with everyone else in our little family.


Grandma Debbie, Whitney, and Lance
Lance is such a tease. Grandma Debbie looks great she has lost 51 Ibs so far and is still losing. I am so proud of her.


Grandma Debbie found apple on her apple tree that has never produced apple before and they were really yummy. So we feasted on them while watching Berny work with the horse.
Whitney wouldn't ride the horse but she would ride Papa.
Victor and his dog Titan, later that night.

Gleaning Potatos With Grandma Debbie and Papa

Every year the Telford's let everyone go out and dig up the potatoes after they have harvested them. They will often leave behind potato's where they could not get in with their big equipment. Like right next to a rock pile or on corners of the fields. So we go out with our shovels and did up the left overs. This year we got back to Richfield to get potatoes later than we should have because I think the whole town of Richfield had already picked over everything. We went through two different field and were not finding much of anything. Finally Bernave found a sweet spot out in the middle of the field where they had misses some rows on accident, I'm sure. The problem was that by the time we found that spot it was starting to get dark. So we all hustled and ended up filling four sack. Not including all the potatoes that Lance ate. He loved them dirt and all. Debbie said that was how Berny used to like his potatoes too. What can I say, they are born and bread Idaho boys.
I started out trying to keep Lance out of the dirt by putting him on a gunny sack. But there was no way he would stay on that thing not when there was so many things to put in his mouth. Then I tried working one handed and holding him. But I think Whitney was more help than me working one handed so I caved and let the little farm boy rolling the dirt. He loved it!!
Whitney loved it too, she drove the truck with Berny and she helped pick up the potatoes and put them in the bag. She also came up with the idea to fold them in her shirt and then carry a lot to the bag not just one at a time. Smart girl.

Dirty boy! Idaho Boy!

Lance eating potatoes

Whitney and Grandma Debbie

Papa and Dad trying to find potatoes. The sad thing was that we would find spots that had been dug up with frozen potatoes all over the ground. Some one had dug it up and only took the really big one and left everything else to get ruined by nights frost. What a waist!!

Mom and Whitney, Mom with one potato and Whitney with her shirt full!

Dad and Papa would dig and we would fallow and pick up what they dug then put it in the bag.

Papa (Bernave)

Whitney driving the truck with her dad. She would turn the wheel and Berny would push the gas. It was a bumpy ride.

The kid with the finished product. I am so glad that Bernave found those rows when he did or we would have ended up with maybe one and a half bags.

Witty Whitney Moment

I actually have two Witty Whitney moments. The first one happened at Grandma Debbie's house. Whitney needed to go to the bathroom so she ran to Grandma's bathroom while she was going #2 Debbie walked in on her. When she did Grandma Debbie told Whitney "Yucky Whitney, you poop is stinky." Whitney replied, "Well Grandma its not food!"
The next one happened today. Berny and I got some presents for a family in town. One of the gifts that we got was Barbie that had really pretty wings on her. Whitney really likes it and she has been carrying it around all day. I told her that she could hold it but not open it, because we were giving it to a little girl that really needed it. Later she brought it to me and said, "This present is not for the kids it is for Grandma Debbie." I asked her, "What will Grandma Debbie do with it?" Whitney replied, "Grandma Debbie will give it to me." Such a witty Whitney!!