Schulthies/McCune Mini Reunion 2011

Sunday after church, the day after Spencer's wedding and reception, we held a mini Schulthies/McCune reunion at Van and Susan's home. It was a simple lunch and a great time to get to visit with family we don't see very often, the cousins from Washington and Utah. They had planned it around the wedding anyway, killing two birds with one stone. The kids enjoyed Susan's lovely yard and the adults had a good time talking and catching up. It was a lovely afternoon. (Mom and Dad, you were missed. Hope you are having fun on your Alaska cruise!)

Some of the family groups that we were able to snag photos of. We should have started this earlier, and so we didn't get everyone that was there.

Neil and Shelly Goodfellow Family

Travis and Pam Schulthies Family

Preston and Cheryl Schulthies Family

Brent and Berniel Hartley Family

Grandma Joan, her children and their spouses.

[Grandma] Joan and her children that were able to attend (my aunts and uncles). Berniel, Launa, Preston, Joan, Jim, Van, Shelly, Travis and John.

Thanks everyone for making the effort to come! It was a lovely afternoon. Good Food, Good Family, Good Times!

Spencer and Genniel's Wedding

Traveled back from Shoshone Falls and made it just in time for (my cousin) Spencer and Genniel's reception. It was lots of fun. They had a soft serve ice cream machine, chocolate, vanilla or swirl with your choice of toppings. It was so cool. There were some fun decorations indicative of the Frahm Onion Farms which was cool. The presents were placed in a nicely decorated onion box and Courtney Hansen did a fabulous job on the cakes. My favorite was the fondant onion though. Welcome to the family Genniel!

LOVED this grooms cake (for those of you who don't know, the Frahms raise onions and store them in an onion shed, onions are their livelihood)

Shoshone Falls

We drove to Twin Falls, Idaho to see Shoshone Falls and to meet Sheree and Wade's families to arrange for Sis to go with Sheree again. They were beautiful, breathtaking, and worth the drive. I had seen the sign on the freeway many times while driving to and from Utah, but never stopped in my lifetime. Tommy is good about getting us to go places we haven't been. This was well worth the stop (or drive, depends on how you are looking at it)! They were just stunning.

Walking back to the car, the kids couldn't deny/resist their inner child and enjoyed rolling down the hill. Over and over again. Lilly was content to chew on Wade's finger.

We had some car trouble. Wade was our lifesaver We had to buy a new battery and he installed it for us mechanically challenged family of ours. Everything was a good as new after that.

Thanks Again Wade!

We all Scream...

I Scream...You Scream...We all Scream...for Ice Cream

Summer=Ice cream

No explanation needed.

(had Sis staying with us for a couple of days)

Canning Chicken

So I had this brilliant (seriously! where do these crazy ideas come from?!) idea to can my own chicken. I loved buying canned chicken at Costco, but didn't want to do that anymore. I wanted my own on the shelf. I just didn't know the first thing about how to do it. So I researched lots, watched lots of youtube videos (so cool btw) and got brave enough to use a pressure canner for the first time in my life. Oh, and had to grab a friend to do the project with me. Breanna said okay. Still don't know if I pressured her into it, but she was nice enough to try it with me. We had two pressure canners going so it would get done faster. What I learned: IT IS SUPER EASY! It just takes time to bring it up to pressure and then cook, then cool down and release pressure. It is super yummy too! When it was done, there was lots of liquid in the jar, but the only thing we put in the jar was chicken and 1 tsp of salt (Breanna opted for 1 bullion cube instead of the salt, I like her flavored a lot better). How easy peasy is that. This is probably the most proud I have been of anything canned before. So easy. I will be doing this again for sure. Thanks Grandma Joan for letting me borrow your canner.

the bullion gave it just a tad darker color than the salted ones

So proud; had to throw in another shot of our finished product!