THIS WEEK.

You guessed it, it's been another crazy week. 

Because of that, I'm blending it all together into one post! 

Here we go...

 For my mom's birthday we put together a missionary wall! :) This is Trevor's very first letter, the letter he read on the video I made for him, (this video) with a map of Mexico and heart over his mission. 

 We also took one of Trevor's old ties and made it into a countdown! On the 3rd of every month my mom can cut off a link of the tie! (We thought this would be nice, especially cause Trevor had a countdown before he left on his mission.)

 Then Cecilee put together this shirt and badge frame! :) 

I'll be sure to post a picture of the finished product!

 We celebrated my Mom's birthday last Sunday, here is the DELICIOUS cake that Cec made!

 Dinner that my mom didn't have to prepare! Her favorite :)

 Her opening our missionary wall :) SHE LOVED IT!

We had a great time celebrating our mom. I LOVE MY MOM!!!

Jeff came home grumpy last Thursday, but these HUGE teddy bears sure cheered him up!

4 Teddy bears :)

 Saturday we took on the project of putting a new sprinkler system in! My dad was the brains and we were the labor. It took all day but we had a good time working together and beautifying our yard! :)

 Angel moved down Friday night, just in time to help with the yard! Haha :) I'm so excited for him and his new adventures with Cec!!!

 My dad worked hard, as you can see!

 We have the greatest family, we had my dad, mom, Cec, Angel, Syd, Grandpa Horlacher, Andy, Joe and Bree all come and help!!!

Our finished product! I LOVE IT! Although we are only renting from my grandparents, I sure love doing project to improve it!

 If you didn't know, I've been doing a million apple recipes lately. I've canned a total of 30 jars of applesauce! I feel like such a homemaker :)

 Apple chips, I still haven't mastered this one yet. 

We are down to our last 3 boxes of apples! HURRAY!

On a closing note, we have our annual Haunted House fundraiser this Thursday and Friday! Come get scared and donate to a great cause! ALL PROCEEDS GO TO OUR CAUSE, LUCI! If you can come, PLEASE DO, if not you can still donate here.

Well I hope everyone has a wonderful day! :) Hope you feel updated in our humble little life :)

45 years and wiser too...

Yesterday was my mom's 45th birthday! 

CRAZY!!!

She spent her birthday helping with a neighbors funeral (love you Natalie), a quick lunch with my dad, then off to work the closing night of "The Little Mermaid" up at Tuacahn.

My mom is an amazing person, she is always so giving and kind and she makes everything she does look easy with her beautiful smile.

In honor of her birthday, I thought I'd share a few things you might not know about my mom!

 My mom in her younger years! :) She's a fox!

 I love my mom!

 :)

My mom's pride and joy!

Here's a couple things you might not know about my mom:

• She loves oreos (that's where Trevor and I developed our passion for oreos)
• She does the finger dance when she dances
• She supports her kids in EVERYTHING they do! It's amazing!
• She is wife, mother, daughter, is in the Stake young womens, Ivins princess pageant director, works a day job, a night job, and manages to do a million others things as well. She's amazing!
• Her favorite color is red
• She will only eat a pb&j sandwich if she can dip it in chocolate milk
• She is queen of taking pictures and having them posted for everyone within minutes!
• Her full name is: Tonya Irene Dole Singataonga Ah Quin Horlacher
• She sleeps through every movie she "watches"
• Her dream would be to make peoples wishes come true every day! :) (like make a wish foundation)

She is kind, giving, loving, caring, supportive, happy, and so Christlike and is my role model! I am so blessed to call her my mom and literally would not be here today if it weren't for her!!! I love you Mom and I hope you know how much you are loved by your family and friends!!!
Happy 45 years!!!

Drive home = Drool worthy

On our way home we decided to take the scenic route. 

Yes it was scenic and gorgeous.

I thought I'd share...

 Well it was beautiful and we had a blast! We missed Cec but had a blast!

Apple Harvest...

We had so much fun up in Glendale this past weekend!

We went up to hang out with family and help with the apple harvest!!!

My grandparents have a beautiful property that they built from the ground up, I love this place so I thought I'd take lots of pictures to make you all fall in love too!!!

Check it out...

 Their fields.

 Goober Syd haha :) love my little sis!

 The view from the cabin, overlooking the field to the bridge that crosses the creek.

 Three Bear Ranch :)

 We have TONS of red delicious, yellow delicious, and Jonathans!

 My grandparents have two rows of apple trees. These tree were tree that my grandma's dad used to own and take care of as she was growing up. They are seriously the BEST apples in the world!!!

If you want some apples, message me 435-773-1289 :)

 Simple beauty.

 They were just screaming for me to take their picture.

 Can't get enough of the views.

 Nothing like a cute little school boy apple.

 Cute helpers.

 My apple picker.

 One of my favorite things about going to the ranch is the no make up, wild hair, and no cares!

 The view from the bridge.

 When I'm there I can't stop taking pictures, it's just too beautiful!!!!

 Are you in love yet?

 Years ago they used old cars to hold up the creek bank walls. It makes for some cool pictures!

 He was only pretending to drink ;)

 This bridge Jeff is sitting on my grandparents built. They actually built everything on the property! They are a do-it-yourself power couple that truly completes amazing things!!!!

 When I'm there I like to explore. That usually involves me picking flowers. This time I decided to make a wildflower bouquet.

 Here's how it turned out. :) I loved it.

 The cabin a little closer.

 That's not even all of the apples.

 Beauty in the little things.

 Like a tractor.

 And a wagon full of apples, pulled by my dad!

 After all the picking was done, it was time to cut and juice the cole apples (apples with defects).

 It's quite the process...

 But the juice is worth every second of work.

 My amazing grandpa.

 The strained juice ready to drink or freeze!

 The foamy stuff that gets spooned off.

 More of our apple crew.

 We juiced a total of 12 gallons!

It was an awesome weekend with family and apples! We have an apple harvest every year and every year I'm even more amazed at all the hard work my grandparents do! 

I'm not lying when I say that these are the best apples EVER! 

So if you really want some apples message me and come pick some up!!!