McAlister Matters

Sarah and I are still taking our guitar lessons. We are half way through the course. Obviously we have a long ways to master the guitar but it is getting funner and the music is starting to sound better. We did have a recital #8 but it wasn't too memorable. Here is the one from last night with the girls. Saturday was a cloudy and cool day. We pulled out most of our garden in the morning and then went for a short hike with the kids on the Farmington Creek trail and had a picnic at the Farmington pond. The girls enjoyed seeing the ducks and geese.

Summer is over and we've been busy as usual. I'm going to do a quick recap of what's been going on. Kahlan and Juniper had lots of fun with their cousins going to the movies each week together. They also swam often in the backyard. We gardened like mad people and made a splendithora of wonderful things including: peatopia, cherry pie, peach pie, gallons of tomato sauce, fresh salsa, jalapeno salsa, peach salsa, frozen corn, canned pears, and zucchini every way you can imagine. On July 14th, we went to the pioneer village at the 'This is the place' monument park with Grandpa Bob and Grandma Ingrid. Kahlan got to ride a pony and pet a pig. On July 15th Kahlan went to a friend's birthday party, met Moana and learned how to hula. On Kahlan's 4th birthday we waited 3 hours to watch the Bountiful Pioneer Day fireworks with Mike and Alicia. The fireworks were great but we stayed up way too late with the girls. The next day w