EVANS EDITORIALS: October 2010

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Contact Russell Leavitt (or Candi). Prices are $20 for one gallon of juice or $15 for a bag of pomegranates. One bag has approximately 7-10 pomegranates, depending on size (some are HUGE... softball size or bigger!).

Pomegranates are super healthy and full of antioxidants so eat up!

Chuck & Snick Update:

Hello Everyone... greetings from the Worden household!

I've been at my job for two months now working as a Medical Assistant for a Podiatrist and I'm really enjoying it. I've realized that I HATE the smell of dirty feet & toenail dust but I really like the other stuff like unwrapping post-op bandages, seeing amputated toes & feet, taking out stitches and watching the Dr. remove toenails or pull long pins from surgery out of people's toes!

Chuck and I celebrated our 8-year wedding anniversary last week on October 19th. We have a tradition on our anniversary of repeating what we did on our first date, which is going to dinner at Macaroni Grill on Rainbow & Lake Mead followed by Borders Bookstore, Cost Plus and then ice cream at Cold Stone.

Wedding Day Luau - October 19, 2002

Warm Springs

Chuck has been out of work for exactly one year now which amazes me that despite the situation, we really have been so blessed! We have somehow been able to make our house payments and have the things we need. It has been a rough year and very difficult but little miracles and blessings happen all the time that make us realize that Heavenly Father is watching out for us.

We and our next door neighbors put in sod grass a couple weeks ago. Wayne and Rylan were very sweet and came over to help. Chuck put in a little retaining wall around the tree out front so I can plant flowers in it. The other neighbor next door gave us his leftover block and we had just enough blocks to complete it (we just need to cap it now). I love having grass.... something that most people probably take for granted but I am soooo happy every time I come home and see grass instead of dirt. It only cost us $100 to do our front yard! A third neighbor brought over three different pots with cactus & aloe vera in them.

Chuck had a Happy 50th Birthday on October 8th.

His sister Shaunna sent a sympathy card along with the gift shown below offering "support" during this difficult time. Ha ha!!

I was released from my calling as Enrichment Leader in Relief Society about a month ago just got called at the Beehive advisor in my ward.

Here's a pic from the Halloween dance on Wednesday.

Chuck has been in Phoenix with his sister Liz for just over a week now. She came and picked him up and said she was keeping him for two weeks! He's been having fun hiking, playing glow-in-the-dark frisbee, going to the pumpkin patch with Emily and her kids, etc. I took this picture from his niece Sadie's facebook. He's holding up "Vampire Wine"... yikes!

Bountiful Baskets

Thanks, Melissa, for telling me about Bountiful Baskets!! I got my first basket this week and I'm so excited!

Here's what I got this week for just $15

Bountiful Baskets is a food co-op offering high quality, low-cost produce on a weekly basis. Participating states include: Nevada, Utah, Montana and Texas! Most items are grown as locally as possible and items such as bananas and pineapples come from small farmers in Mexico. You make a $15 "contribution" during the week online by credit card and then pick up your basket on Saturday at a designated location which is usually a park, school or some type of community area. You bring your own box, basket or bags to transfer all of your produce into to take home.

All baskets are the same (you don't get to choose what you take home) and items change week to week based on what's in season and what they can find at great prices. When ordering your basket you can usually choose from a few other "offerings" to purchase such as 9-grain bread, tortillas, etc. Your very first time, you will have to pay an additional $3 basket charge. You don't have to order every week.... only when you want to.

Las Vegas has several locations, Logandale's pick-up site is at Grant Bowler Elementary School and Montana has a pick-up site in Billings on Broadwater Ave.

Click HERE to check out the Bountiful Baskets website. If you have any questions, feel free to ask Melissa or myself and we can help you get started.

Enjoy! Snick

Saturday, October 23, 2010

College Life... Hello from BYU!

Apartment Pics:

Living Room

Kitchen

Notice the cute vinyl saying on the cupboard made by Grandma

"I Kiss better than I Cook!"

Bedroom

Carissa & Courtney: Kung Fu Masters!

Nice action shot!

Scary Blue Foam Day

Cosmo, Courtney & Carissa at a BYU football game

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Limo Ride to School

The other day Randy had driven someone out to the speedway in the limo, then had another run an hour or so later at the Redrock Hotel. So, on the way there, he stopped by and gave the boys a limo ride to school. I wish I could have been at the school to take pictures of them getting out too. They thought it was very cool. Rylan told his whole class about it. Chandler told his whole table, which is big, considering Chandler is very quiet at school! Thanks Randy!

Eyeballs

Debbie made these cake balls and after the Primary Program on Sunday, we all helped decorate them. I think they turned out cute!

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Solomon Family Update

10/6
I attended a job training conference in Chinook, MT which is about 20 miles from Havre where Milo works. So, I was able to stay with him at night and then drive back to Chinook in the mornings to attend the conference. They arranged for us to go on the "Havre Underground" tour one evening and Milo came along with us. It is an underground museum showing how the Havre business community operated underground after a huge fire in 1904. It proved to be very convenient during prohibition as tunnels led everywhere to businesses, residences and "other" businesses. There was obviously a lot of "hanky panky" going on down there. The tour was very interesting and definitely worth the money.

Me and my LDS friend and coworker, Tammie, in the saloon. Our sheriff said he was worried about us two going off to a conference together, so we brought him back this picture.

Milo posing with the "Madam" of the brothel.

10/15

Senior Night Football

Senior Night is a big event here. The parents make collages of their senior to display in the school the week of the last home game. The night of the game, the parents are introduced along with their senior at the start of the game. So, we got to hold Andre's hand and walk through the team tunnel out to the center of the field. The moms were given roses, and then parents could give their senior something if they wished.

Connor is proudly holding the candy bar bouquet we had for Andre.

Andre's collage I put together that was displayed at the school.

Milo, Andre & Suzy being introduced at the beginning of the game. I apologized later to Andre for wearing the opposing team's colors. (Oops!)

All nine seniors (Andre #12)

Milo & Suzy

Andre's fan club.

Alex playing her sax in the pep band.

10/16

We attended Alex's last cross country meet in Joliet about 20 miles away. She had been running her three miles in about 27 minutes and needed to shave off another minute in order to qualify for state. We gave her a lot of tips and encouragement, and as you can see from the photos, she pushed it really hard. She came in at 25:53. She is excited to attend state in Helena this weekend.