Words of Advice

This is what we learned this week.
1. Don't do business with friends. (except the Campbells mortgage/real estate team)
2. Get any deals you make in writing.
3. Listen to and then follow the Holy Ghost.

In other news,
Jill is heading out on her first babysitting job. Doesn't that bring back memories of your babysitting days? And it makes me feel a bit old. She has spent the afternoon getting games and projects ready to take. She'll do great.

Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis

Lucy tops our news this month with a new diagnosis of Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis.
She has always had different shaped legs, first it was her ankle, now she has one knee that is way bigger than the other because of extra fluid on it. So we finally took her in to get it checked. After two different doctor's exams, an X-ray, an MRI, and blood work (actually we haven't gotten the results back from the blood work), they decided it is juvenile arthritis. She has a mild case because she doesn't have pain in her joints, but she will have to take medicine and go to lots of doctor check-ups until she grows out of it (we hope). The worst part (but best part about catching it early) is the chance of chronic eye inflammation, which could lead to blindness, but it is very treatable if it is monitored and medicated. So she has to go to an eye doctor every 3 months for the next few years, and get checkups from the rheumatologist.

Austin, Jill and Hanna started back to school today. We had such a fun summer.


Jill is starting 5th grade with Mr. Allen who has the theme of Survivor, and he has horses and he judged one of Jill's 4-H Horse Shows this year. Hanna has Mrs. VanSlyke for 3rd grade, and her teacher is an environmentalist who doesn't eat meat. They are both excellent teachers so they are very excited to start school.

For Waite Family Fun Days, we went camping and then we played in Tony Grove Lake in my Dad's canoes. It was super fun.

All of the Waite grandchildren (except Capri)


Grandpa Randy watching the canoe of kids come to shore

We had a fun ward party last week. The bishopric did a skit of a spoof of Rapunzel. Austin was the prince. He had a cantaloupe and a bowl of pancake batter dropped on his head. He gets himself into those kinds of situations quite often.

Then we played Limbo. No one in my family won.

HannaLucy

Kaylynn
Jill

Family Picture

July - We love summer

We have gone 4100 miles in the last 5 weeks:

*Trip to Salt Lake to see my high school friends and high school reunion

*Trip to Ogden to see my college friends

*Trip to Canada

*Trip to Salt Lake to see the Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house


*Trip to Lagoon
*Trip to Huntsville for Austin's mission reunion

In between those trips,
Jill went to 4-H Horse Camp

Jill had a 4-H Horse Show

Hailey (quality cousin) stayed with us for 5 days

Sarah's family (6 kids plus parents = 8) stayed with us for 5 nights

Kid Zone Band performance

Jill, Hanna, and Hailey barrel raced in the 24th of July Junior Rodeo

Hailey on Amigo (after the injury)

Austin gets July off, and we love it. We play, we work, we do projects, we ride horses, we run errands. We are going to be sad when he has to go back to work on Monday.

But we have had a super fun summer so far. We have done lots of fun things.

Summer So Far

We have been on summer break for one week.
So far ....
*We have gotten more rain than we usually get in all of June. Our garden is growing nicely. It does need some sun to balance the rain. We even added some free raspberry and blackberry starts this week from a guy in our ward.
*Jill went to her first 4-H Horse Show. She did great. She got 1 Blue, 5 Red, and 1 White awards. (Blue is best.) She did so good considering we haven't ever even watched a 4-H Horse Show before, let alone compete in one. Austin had to leave to go to a baptism during part of the day so Jill and I had to saddle our horse. Let's just say there were tears involved (from Jill) and then Jill was in the arena warming up with all of the other girls and I hear another girl yell across the arena, "Hey, Dad, Jill needs her saddle tightened."
*Austin got to go to a calf roping jackpot. It was supposed to be outside but they moved it inside. Jill and Hanna ran the gate at the end of the arena. They liked it, and it gave them entertainment while Austin roped. (I forgot to take my camera).
*All of us have started our summer jobs at South Cache. Jill, Hanna and Lucy clean all of the lockers and scrape the gum off the bottom of the desks. Another lady and I check every locker combination to make sure it get set to the right one for next year. We like getting some extra $$$.
*Jill is at Summer Games in Cedar City with her soccer team. Can you believe I have a kid old enough to go on trips without us? We are going to go down later.
*Austin and I spoke at our ward's youth conference about dress and appearance. We told lots of stories about dating (the bike rack story) and getting engaged (the dusty roads of life). It was pretty fun.
*We may have some more news to share. We will know by tomorrow at 5 p.m. I will give you a clue that we have been hanging out with the Campbells.

Nice Buns

In Canada, this is a pan of "buns." I keep telling Austin that in America we call them "rolls." Anyway, if you have a breadmaker, you should try this recipe. We love it. I make them at least once a week because they are so easy.

Austin has honestly made these comments: "That is a nice pan of buns. I have been waiting for years for you to develop this talent."

I have used the dough for rolls, cinnamon rolls, breadsticks, and pizza dough. The rolls are really good if you brush them with melted better when they come out of the oven. Sometimes I let them raise the full time in the bread machine. Sometimes I take them out after they are done mixing and only let them raise on the pan.

Basic Roll Recipe for Bread Machine

In Bread Machine, add ingredients in this order:

1 1/4 cups warm milk (I microwave it for 1 minute)

1 egg

3 1/2 cups flour

1 t salt

1/4 cup sugar

1/4 cup shortening

1 T dry yeast. (buy yeast at Sam's or Costco in the square blocks - it is way cheaper)

Turn bread machine to dough setting. When dough is raised, form into dinner rolls or cinnamon rolls. Let rise until nearly double. Bake 350 for about 15 minutes or until nicely brown.

YOU HAVE GOT TO TRY THEM. YOUR FAMILIES WILL LOVE THEM!

A Load of Nunn Events

A lot has happened in the last month for our little Nunn family.


First, we celebrated Carly's first birthday. I was going to let it slide by with cake and 2 toys for gifts that I bought for her, but the other girls wanted a whole celebration. Lucy said we had to decorate, so we put up streamers and bought a balloon. Hanna was disappointed that we didn't have sticky buns for breakfast since that is our birthday tradition.

But Carly did enjoy the cake and candles, the toys, and the gifts from the grandmas and Aunt Diana.


We love having Carly in our family. Austin says daily, "Were our other kids this mischievous?" Carly loves to go where she isn't supposed to go (like onto the soccer field during a soccer game). She hasn't made it through a Sacrament Meeting since she was in the sleepy newborn phase. She can make a mess like no other. She loves to smear her food and then toss some on the floor. She only lasted in her high chair for a few months. She just crawled out every time we put her in, so we just ended the battle and put her up to the table in her booster chair. She also likes to make messes like pull the books or pants off the shelf. She doesn't like strangers, but she is a pretty happy kid when she is with one of her parents. But she has the cutest laugh and smile. The one partially dainty thing is that when she ate her birthday cake or when I give her a peanut butter sandwich, she just picks off little bits to eat at a time.

Another huge event in our family is our new dog, Roxy. Austin promised Hanna at the beginning of the school year that if she read every day for 20 minutes, she would get a dog at the end of the school year. So Les found us a great dog that is a red heeler-border collie cross. She is so friendly and fun. We let her in the house for a while each day, and she hasn't caused any problems. Carly and Lucy love to play with her also. We will eventually train her to push the cows up the alley when Austin is roping. The other day Lucy told me she was going to call Les and ask if he could get her another dog.

Hanna and Carly meeting Roxy for the first time.
Hanna and Roxy

Soccer has taken up much of our spring, which is mostly good. Jill is playing on a competitive soccer team. She is the goalie, and she is really good at it. She even had to play goalie for a shoot-out the other night because the game was still tied after double over time. She has made really good friends with her teammates. She gets to go to Summer Games in Cedar City with her team.

Jill playing goalie in the rain

Hanna is on a girls rec soccer team of 1st-2nd graders. Hanna has made all of the goals for her team this year, except 2. She is so fast.

Hanna's mid-air soccer move

Another big event was a trip-job interview-almost moved - to Powell, Wyoming. We took a family trip to check out Powell. We went to church, and the people were so, so friendly and told us that they love living there. Then Austin had a job interview to be the assistant principal/athletic director at Powell High School. I went with him to a meet the candidates open house where the staff and parents came to meet the applicants. Austin left thinking he didn't get it because he doesn't have athletic director experience. Much to his surprise, he got offered the job. The list of advantages of taking the job were great (great pay, smaller school, smaller class sizes for our kids, great community, etc) but he just did not feel good about it. So after much stress and praying, he decided to decline the offer.

Jill, Carly, Hanna, Lucy hanging out with the horse statues at the Super 8 in Powell, Wyoming.