The Woods meet the City of Trees

My parents came to Boise this last weekend which was awesome. Even though I had to work both days they were here, I had been sleeping really well and was able to spend some time with them during the evenings and also at work. The first day they were here I opened up shop then Lauren and my Dad came in at lunch time.  My Dad and I then commenced to make over 100 lbs of granola, 2 types, cranberry blueberry, and cranberry almond coconut. Lauren worked the rest of my shift up front while we made and bagged it all. It's awesome.

Besides frosting some super cute pumpkin sugar cookies my Mom also learned how to knead bread and roll rolls.

The production side of the bakery.  Our mixer bowls hold 140 quarts. 

Parents, thanks for coming up here even though it was so quick, late Thursday to Saturday afternoon.  You guys helped us get a lot done including; granola, cleaning the back door of the bakery, frosting sugar cookies, brainstorming and recon on honey-butter production, figuring out that the wheels I bought for our broken subaru don't fit, supplying us with a car for the last month, a game of NERTS, and last but certainly not least eating at two really good restaurants. In fact, I will have to make that last item it's own post...

i love fall- a collection of photos

This fall has been beautiful. We went peach picking about a month ago but i haven't written a post about it yet. Maybe it is the car wreck that happened on the way home that has made it a bitter sweet experience that I wanted to forget!







A few friends and I started a little preschool group for our 4 boys. It's really not a preschool but we call it "play-school" and we each take a turn having it at our house once a week. We have a theme every week so it makes it simple to make a quick lesson (and by quick i really mean quick- 2 year olds don't have an attention span-heck my 28yr old husband doesn't have an attention span!) and then we sing some songs, have a snack, and play. It has been really fun for Liam and he looks forward to it every week. Last week we took a field trip to a pumpkin patch. Liam kept calling it a pumpkin catch which i thought was awesome.










Liam really loves his pumpkin. It has been by his side ever since we brought it home. The other day he had it on my bed and i heard him say, "What pumpkin? (silence as if he is listening to the pumpkin tell him) You wanna go home? But pumpkin, you are home!" He just cracks me up lately.