kosmond1 – Page 28 – Backyard Honeycomb

Working late

This picture was taken at 3:58am this morning.

Count the boxes…. Yup, 47 of them. 47 3 feet sandwiches. That is 141 feet of bread that we had to bake!

We started at 4pm yesterday evening.

We kept feeding the oven and proofer with bread.

We had bread everywhere! This is only a little bit of what we baked. Every counter had bread on top. All the bread cabinets were full of either bread ready to go into the proofer or baked bread.

Every time the oven timer went off I heard, “George, where am I going to put bread this time!” 🙂

We worked as fast as we could throughout the night. We did have a dinner break, and around midnight we had to take an hour or so to take care of an emergency. I cut my finger quite severely and had to find band-aids. I’m not up this late very often…ok…never up this late. We had a hard time finding a store that was open 24 hours.

My dad kept up with the box making and rearranging the fridge to make sure we had enough room for 47 boxes!

He wouldn’t smile for me.

Around 2:00am I was getting pretty tired. My feet hurt even with wearing my old woman compression socks.

Always keeping a full oven and proofer.

Cutting bread. Again.

Sandwich after sandwich!

We do work well with each other. My mom kept the bread coming. As soon as one sandwich was done, more bread was on the table waiting to be assembled.

3:00am. We still had more sandwiches to build!

Still no smile 🙂

3:58am and we are done!

I forgot to take a picture of the walkin. It was stuffed! My dad worked hard all night trying to get every box to fit.

Happy Birthday

Paul wanted to celebrate his birthday by taking Eli sledding. A quick trip to my parents for a sledding inner tube and we were set.

It snowed very little yesterday, but we had enough to make it down the hill several times.

It was 14′ out there. It was frigid!

Eli had a great time and even let us have a turn.

We came home and put Eli to bed. He was exhausted running up the hill 80 times. So, it was just the two of us for birthday apple pie and homemade ice cream.

Happy Birthday!

Spelling and writing skills

Eli is improving on his writing skills and today he surprised me on his spelling. He told me he wanted to write CAT. So he did! He sounded out the word sound by sound and wrote each letter.

So we continued on with other words.

Eli missed the cut off date to get him into kindergarten so he will have to wait two more years. I’m going to have to work harder to find a school that will let him in early. He is doing so well academically, I don’t want to slow him down. I’m going to have to bake a turkey for the school admission people. Hmm… I need to start learning how to bake a turkey… Or bake any type of meat…

Utah finally has snow!

Not a lot of snow, but I will take it.

Why is he sitting in a milk crate? I don’t know either.

Santa

Eli was pretty excited to see Santa this year.

Last year was…

This year he was…so excited!

Saying good bye to Santa.

He repeated over and over what he asked Santa for Christmas. A ride on his sleigh, A nerf gun, excavator, and backhoe. I think Santa can deliver one of those 🙂

Temple Square

Seeing the lights at Temple square is always a family tradition.

This year we took the train downtown.

No snow yet for this year, but it was raining.

We were really wet.

Floating candles.

Thankful 13

Happy Thanksgiving!

I ran the Thankful 13 1/2 marathon this morning.

What does a 4 year old do while waiting?

Finished 2:20. 5 minutes faster than Las Vegas last week. I’m pleased with this time, because I wasn’t in a rush, but kept my pace throughout the full race! No walking. I also finished with 2:20 while running a couple miles up hills! A few hills in the beginning and then 2 hills at the end! I ran my pace up EVERY hill. I took it easy at the end, because I didn’t want Vegas to happen all over again. Running with my Gatorade bottle helped with that issue.

I’m planning on running this marathon again next year. Note: MUST bring my Gatorade bottle again. This race had poor aid stations. I wouldn’t have made it if I relied on hydration stops.

Dinner, well more like a late lunch. 2:00pm dinner. No need for pictures of our dinner. We all ate the same thing 🙂

We played games after. Eli picked this one. Rampage. He loves the dinosaurs.

Went to Paul’s parents house for dessert. But first it is gingerbread house decorating time.

My job was to hold the end of the bag closed so the icing didn’t come out.

Eli did a fantastic job!

We had a wonderful time with family.

What you get when you leave a three year old alone for a second.

Eli stepped? I guess he stepped… Not sure how he got in those!

Those black tubes are what fast food cups slide into. So when you take a cup out, a spring in the bottom pushes up the cups. I don’t know how else to describe them, but those are the black tubes.

We really don’t know how he got into them. How did he get one leg in and then the other? How did he get in and stay standing?? When Paul turned around Eli was already in them.

Train Museum

We finally made it to the train museum.

Switch board.

What did the passengers do back in the day without watches? When did they know when the trains came? Good question. The passengers only knew the train was going to be there either in the morning, noon, or evening. So they would just come to the platform around these times and wait.

Time zones didn’t matter either. Because it took days to travel from state to state.

Learning how to skip 🙂

After the trains, we went to one of my favorite restaurants.

They are known for their homemade pita’s. I always get a sandwich on pita bread. Everything here is excellent. Including dessert!

Need a close up!

On the way home we passed Devil’s slide.

What is Devil’s slide? “Devil’s Slide is an unusual geological formation. The slide consists of two parallel limestone strata that have been tilted to lie vertical, protruding 40 feet out of the mountainside. Intervening layers have eroded more quickly, forming a channel some 25 fee wide running hundreds of feet down the mountain.”

Another fun day!

Las Vegas Rock ‘n’ Roll 1/2 marathon

Went to Las Vegas with mom and Ferelyn to run the Rock ‘n’ Roll 1/2 marathon. We had so much fun! I’m definitely doing this race again next year.

We arrived in Vegas Friday afternoon. We picked up our bibs, and walked around the expo center.

Found my name. 40,000 people signed up for this race.

Checked into the hotel. Not too impressed with it. I knew the Luxor was an old hotel, but I thought they would have updated it. Nope. I didn’t even take pictures I was so unimpressed. I was very disappointed and I felt like we were staying in the motel 8. For $658.00 I want a $658.00 nice hotel. We also had to pay for parking $15 a night.

We stayed at the Luxor, because the starting line was supposed to be close to the hotel. Well, they ended up changing the starting and finishing line. Starting line was a little north of the MGM Grand hotel and the finishing line was in front of the Bellagio hotel. What did this mean? We had to walk a few miles to the starting line, run 13.1 miles, and then walk back several miles to the hotel.

I think next year I want to stay somewhere closer like the Bellagio, or the Paris. Maybe even the Trump hotel again because it’s smoke and gambling free with FREE valet parking!

Wanting to leave the room, we went to the Excalibur hotel for dinner. We saw the Tournament of Kings. Jousting. Too much fun. We sat on the third row in the middle of Russia. Perfect seats. The jousting and action was right in front of us.