One Word Wednesday.

OK, my friend Sherrie, who lives in the blog world HERE, has a wonderful entry posted today. It's called 'Wordless Wednesday'. It's pretty awesome and you all should check it out.

Wwweeellllllll, I thought I might take a little liberty with her idea, here's hoping she'll still love me when I'm done, and do a.........

'One Word Wednesday'

HELP!!!

Soooooo, what do you think? Think I'm still Sherrie's friend? I sure hope so cause I love her and her kids.

Love to All,

midRae

Another Munk Family Adventure.

As any of our friends, family, neighbors, acquaintances, or the wasps on our roof will tell you, midMan, myself, and tailEnd love to go adventuring most weekends. Well most Saturdays, Sundays you can most likely find us in church. We usually start off our adventures just like we did this past weekend, with a destination all ready in mind, like going up to Cedar Mountain and getting some really good pictures of the leaves changing colors. I was also hoping to find a really cool spot for some new family portraits. I have lost about 35 pounds since our last family portrait and I hate it, although it is a great reminder to keep the weight off, especially when it graces the family wall in the family room, out for all to see.

Anyways, this past Saturday off we go up the mountain, after a little tiff/misunderstanding between midMan and myself, with good intentions of getting some good photos. Little tiffs/misunderstanding do not put a person in the mood to take good pictures, they just make you want to go home and crawl into your own little corner of the world and pull the blankets in with you. So needless to say, no pictures of pretty fall colors.

About two miles up the canyon tailEnd says, 'Hey, why don't we go to the Grand Canyon like you promised me for my birthday?'

Two muttered replies follow, 'OK, why not.' And a quick thought goes through my head, I can get really good pictures on our way home with the light to the West. OK! Now lets all work on our mood. After about 30 minutes midMan and I finally just let our tiff go the way all tiff's should go, like out the window and forgotten, and get on with our adventure.

After 3 hours of driving here we are, The Grand Canyon. I was a little worried about the entrance fee, it costs $25.00 per car for a pass that is good for 7 days, but as we pulled up to the pay booth the gentlemen manning the register informed us that Saturday was a free day because it was National Park Day. Whoa! How cool for us, now I didn't need to worry about the money, but you could see tailEnds mind working out how he was going to get me to let him go out to eat.

The light was all bad for pictures, but these few turned out OK. Going on all of the trails to the edges was a little unnerving, especially with a 14 year old, who has no fear and has no idea that he is not immortal. I also have to point out that we came out to the Grand Canyon when we were a lot younger, our oldest was about 5 years old, and I didn't get quite so nervous back then as I did now. I think as I have aged, life, and the life of my child and husband, have become very, very precious to me and I understand so much more about the frailty of our lives.

But OH!! the views. They just take your breath away. And when you stop and think about the time and all that had to happen for this amazing site to be formed it can blow your mind. We encountered a lot of different people from all over the United States and from Europe. I think we, the residents of Southern Utah, tend to forget what beauty is right there in our back yard. We have so many National Parks and just natural beauty that surrounds us that we begin to take it for granted and not really see what is there right in front of our face. What we have are some really amazing things to see and learn.

Oh and tailEnd did manage to talk me in to letting him eat out at a restaurant for dinner. It was 7:00PM and we still had two hours of travel time until we got home, so knowing how much this growing boy needs to eat, I relented and we stopped for a bite to eat in Kanab, UT. The food was OK and we had calmed the raging beast that resides in tailEnd belly.

So, another Munk Family Adventure put into our record books. We can also add about 300 miles to our adventure meter. Boy do I love our adventures. I have a few more pictures, which I will share in a later post. But alas, no pictures of fall colors, it was pitch black as we drove home, maybe this next weekend. I hope you all have enjoyed our adventure.

Love to All,

midRae

Not Me Monday.........

Sooooo......as you guessed it's that time of the week again and we are joining McKMama on her weekly adventures of what we definitely did not do this past week.

My week was, well let's just say it was a little stressful. I did not cry in front of tailEnd this past week because I had so much going on and I just could not take it any more. Nope that is definitely not something a mother would do, we would never let our children see us in our weakest moments. Nope, never.

And we definitely did not go to the mountains this weekend with the express purpose of getting fall pictures and only came home with this one.

Nope that is not something that I would ever think to do. And this picture was actually taken while we were in town looking up at the mountain. Nope I would never let a misunderstanding, little argument, with midMan get in the way of our fun family weekend. I would never do that.

Here's to a little better week with a little more of myself under control and I'm hoping that the leaves and colors hang on for one more week so that I can take a few pictures. But if not I definitely will not feel sad for the opportunities that I let slip by, nope not me. :(

Love to All,

midRae

Me...Unusual? Never! Never! Never!

OK, my blog world friend, Lynnette, offered up a challenge today. And the challenge is to share something unusual or strange about yourself that not everyone knows. I have thought about this all day and had just about given up. Then I went over to the one blog that had joined in the challenge and decided that I just might have an unusual something about me.


And what would that unusual something be you ask? Well I don't think that it would be all that exciting for most people but midMan and myself truly believe that we were born in the wrong century, we should have been born about 175 years ago. We have discussed this at length and really feel that we would have been so much happier with life if we could be living out in the middle of no where, being totally self-sufficient. You know, the really quiet life.


I would love to have a few chickens, a big garden, some meat hanging in the smoke house, a big old root cellar, totally stocked of course, and the know how to make it all work. Our idea of fun. Our three boys sure don't agree with us but I guess, to each his own, even in the same family. Now I'm off to football.


Love to All,


midRae

Culinary Magic.....NOT

This is one of my favorite books. It's my recipe book.
It has hand written recipe's from many years ago in it.

It also has a lot of recipe's from HERE.

The Pioneer Woman rocks and she is publishing a recipe book.

It comes out the end of October and I have already ordered my copy.

I sure wish she was coming to southern Utah on her book tour.

But, alas, no such luck.

This past weekend I made these sandwich's.

The only thing we could say was, "Yummmmm!"

Then I decided to make this,

so that I would be able to just throw it in the oven after church.

Give us an even bigger, "YUmmmmm!"

I decided to include these wonderful little things, too.

"Yum, Yum, and an additional Yum!"

Oh, and we must never forget dessert, ever!

The sweetest neighbors in the world brought over some apples,

so guess what I made? Betcha can't guess.

Actually I betcha did.

Mmmmmmm, Apple Pie.

You know I really should start taking pictures of the finished product,

even the ones that bomb, which is usually the outcome,

instead of just the recipes.

I'm sure that would be just a little bit more interesting than looking at my old recipe book.

Love to All,

midRae

PS...............the pictures seem a little dark, so I would like to say I'm sorry. Hopefully the next ones will be a little lighter. I'm still figuring out the camera and Photoshop so please bear with me. I'm sure this process will be going on forever, let's hope that we all see a little improvement over time, I'm thinking maybe a college course is in my future when it comes to taking pictures. What do you all think?