Clean Up Time!

With no sports games to attend because they were all cancelled, we decided to tackle our yard and the clean up. Everything is covered in a layer of ash and dirt which needed a big rainfall to wash it all away. Can you believe it Saturday afternoon it actually rained a little - how perfect! We retrieved our trampoline from the neighbors yard which was all bent and broken, so we had to dismantle and trash it. In the afternoon was our ward carnival which was moved inside the building and was alot of fun. Chad sure enjoyed it, he was one of the judges in the pie contest and Abby won one of the costume prizes for most creative costume - a bottle of ketchup is her costume and boy is she ecstatic!

Following the carnival we went up to Chad's parents house, they live on 5 acres and have an avocado grove. With all the winds this week a ton of the avocados blew off the trees and would starting going bad very soon. We came to the rescue! With the dogs and the tractor we picked avocados for a few hours. Most were still very small, but it was so sad because there were so many that had fallen. I heard that in Fallbrook and the De Luz area (where they live) it produces 80% of the states avocados and 30% of those were burned in the fires. Watch out the prices of avocados are going up. Anyway we collected hundreds and hundreds of avocados, and hopefully they will still taste good because they are still not quite ready.

We have been to church, now we are working on Trents cereal box book report which is so not fun. I'm so excited for dinner I am making Byrons spicy pumpkin soup that I only make once a year at this time - oh it is so good!






Guacamole anyone?