Troy joined the Anderson family through marriage nearly 26 years ago. When Monica started dating Troy there was a general inquiry by the younger siblings about who Troy was. Since there seemed to...
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This poor old blog. I actually really miss it. I'm not sure where to start so I'm just going to upload some pictures and go from there and try to do a little catch up. Okay, so here was one...
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Back in aught-five there was an explosion of babies. Just in August, came my son and 3 girl cousins. Four months later 2 more cousins arrived, yet another girl and finally a boy. &nbs...
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Since 1999 I have been invited to The Mister's extended family camp. Back then, it was aunts and uncles, Grandma n' Grandpa, and cousins. Being the oldest grandchild, The Mister of the House was ...
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The summer is whizzing by. I don't quite have the heart to tell my kids that school is starting in less than a month. Our cousins that moved to Connecticut last year have been back "h...
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Last Christmas my mom gave me a fun carrot peeler. She learned how to make veggie bouquets at Relief Society, then became veggie connoisseur to me and the granddaughters during our family C...
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This picture is telling. Isn't it pretty? This was taken on one of the very few cold crisp winter days that did not have a valley inversion. Of the roughly 60 days that make up ...
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I often feel like Easter doesn't get enough attention, so we are hitting it early this year. I was very excited when I saw this Easter Countdown. It is a full 30 days! We starte...
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Over the past year, I have slowly been trying to make our front room more A) Pretty and B) Useful to our Family. Most homes have them nowadays, the pretty front room that's small but stuffe...
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One of my goals in 2012 was to lessen the garden waste due to end of summer burnout. Are you familiar with this? You have buckets and buckets of corn and you take the time to pick it,...
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The blah factor of winter always gets an uplift in February. Just as I was contemplating a fun toy or goodie to make for the kids school Valentine's, the kids started coming up and asking: ...
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Back in the 80's when I was a mutt, my parents loaded everyone up and took us to Oregon and Northern California. It was such a stark contrast to my Idaho and it's own form of beauty. ...
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This morning was a slow start, and I didn't even party last night. I welcomed with some relief, the vigilant cold (flu?) that forced me to stop the frenzied partying, eating, consumin...
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Today's Garden Tour is a quiet, thoughtful, garden in the back of a comfortable cottage. The tended gardener is always quick to say he's not fit to give advice, but his raspberries look abo...
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I'm so excited to give my second garden tour on ye olde blog. Today we will be visiting the garden of a woman who has been drawing house plans on scratch paper since she was about 9. ...
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Earlier this month we sent our pigs to the county fair. After 3 years of raising pigs over the summer, we finally figured out: A) How to get the pigs from the very back of our one-acre lot-...
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Inevitably, every young new mother who flusters her way through church or the store, will run into some sweet Grandma who lovingly states "Oh, appreciate them when they're young...they grow up so...
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A few months back there was an article in the local paper about a young couple that just moved to Cache Valley. The young mom had grown up in a big family with a HUGE garden, and she was getting ...
http://mrsolsenipresume.blogspot.com/2012/07/garden-tour-hosers-garden-on-edge.html
My girlfriend, and The Mister's numero uno secretary is experiencing some stress with a very very sick little boy (and her only son). So my question is: Have you bought your shirt yet?
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In a movie only a Grandmother could finish, here lies the Olsen kids in 2012. Tell me with these sights, sounds, you couldn't pretend you were at the beach. Better yet...ALONE at the ...
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On the very northern shore of the big Bear Lake, lies a beach with the swoosh and whir of the ocean tide. The lake is sooo big, the background mountains so perfectly blended into blue sky, the ro...
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But watch out, because fruit trees are a delicasse to these goats. Today I sprayed weeds with a straight vinegar wash (mixed with a touch of dish soap so it clings better). That means no masks or...
http://mrsolsenipresume.blogspot.com/2012/05/one-thing-to-do-with-overgrown.html
Saw this yesterday on the farm? What the?
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When you crawl out of bed and greet yourself in the bathroom mirror; or get ready to go out and try to look skinnier and prettier than you feel; or catch a glimpse of yourself in the grocer...
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This Mother's Day found me content and very blessed. I couldn't help contrasting from a year before: Baby coming out of NICU Whooping cough in my kids schools Me hiding from the world and Whoopin...
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