Vintage Eve Marie

Gwen, Mignon, or Reese do you remember this dress?

One of us used to wear it. Mom thought it may have been Reese or myself, so she let me have it for awhile to use for Eve. I thought I recognized it, but I looked through my pictures, and didn't see it. I'd love to have something that may have been mine, but I want to make sure it wasn't yours. Anyways, Eve is so cute in it. I think today may be the only day she'll be able to wear it. It's a bit small, but I still love the baby doll look. Thanks for letting me use it, Mom.

Oh, and Mom, do you know if someone made it? I can't remember if I already asked you this.

YO MELSZERS - WEBMISTRESS EXTRAODINAIRE

MELSZERS...THANKS FOR THE OUTSTANDING HOLIDAY FORMAT OF OUR BLOG WHICH IS SO PLEASANT AND READABLE. YOU AND GREGSTER DO UNBELIEVABLE THINGS ON THE 'PUTER. MOM AND I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN. AND CONTINUE TO BE IN AWE OF ALL 16 OF OUR WONDERFULLY TALENTED KIDS! LUV...pops

1st Solo Flight

Hello everyone,

It's the middle of the night and I can't sleep so I thought I'd give you all a little update on how things are going. Now that my financing has all gone through for school I've been able to make some considerable progress. I've passed off all the basic maneuvers, advanced maneuvers, emergency procedures, weather, and airspace navigation/radio communications in the helicopter and on the ground. I do engine out procedures on a regular basis where my instructor cuts the power and I fly the helicopter safely to the ground. We've also been doing a lot of work off airport practicing pinnacle and confined landings along the Boise river, foothills, and canyons which is pretty fun. Friday night I had my first night flight which is quite relaxing with all the city lights and has a bit of a romantic feel to it. Yesterday was my first Solo Flight!! It's was a liberating experience for me. I've been looking forward to my first solo flight for a long time. Helicopter training is a bit different than fixed wing. Uncle Randy said in his explanation that trying to keep a helicopter level in a hover is like trying to stand on a beach ball in water. I wouldn't say it's quite that hard but pretty close. Especially at first. In helicopter training, a lot of students actually drop out before a solo flight is even possible. Anyway, thankfully things have been coming along pretty good for me. Next week I will do my first cross-country flight where we will fly to Twin Falls or Ontario, fuel up, and fly back. Shortly after I will do my first Solo Cross Country. Then, I won't be to far from getting my Private Pilot License. After my private license, I'll start working on my instrument rating, followed by my Commercial License. Then my CFI and CFII. So I've still got a way's to go but am making progress. Here are a couple of pictures of my 1st Solo Flight for those who might be interested.

Love you all,

Bryant

Tag Team Sisters

I thought I'd share a picture of Mignon's skills in action. For those of you that don't know that Nonny bakes amazing bread, where have you been?! She's a master, and I was so glad to have her come teach my young women how to "know dough". We made Bread in a Bag, using Ziplocks and hand power instead of mixers. The girls loved it, and their braided loaves turned out so beautiful.

We also made a special loaf to be used for the sacrament on Sunday. While the bread was rising and baking, I gave a lesson on the importance of Sacrament Meeting, and how to prepare for it. I pulled my lesson from the conference talk given by Elder Oaks. For some reason I was super nervous to give this lesson, but an hour beforehand, Greg let me sound off to him, and it all came together. I have to hand it to Greg...he's an excellent 3rd counselor.

Anyways, I just wanted to say thanks again, Mignon, for all your preparation and expertise. It was really a lot of fun. I loved it!

(PS- Mignon, will you post your recipes on the recipe site...or can I? I'll give you the credit for them.)

O-B-A-M-M-E-R !

Can we all say President O-B-A-M-A? Say it again, slowly with me. O-B-A-M-A. Okay, it's going to take some getting used to. All I can say is, I hope nobody is planning on making alot of money for the next four years. And um, I'm totally freaking out about healthcare. Being in the healthcare industry, it could very well affect our job. Take a deep breath. I need to relax here, I know. Sorry for the small rant.
On the flip side, I will say I do think it's a HUGE step forward that the country can get beyond it's racism and vote for an African American for President of the United States. After serving my mission in the south, were racism is still VERY, VERY REAL & SCARY, this is AWESOME!! For that reason, I'm stoked for the guy. Guess we'll see what happens.

http://theqfam.blogspot.com/

So my adorable woman, who spends half her waking hours out on Rhapsody creating the playlist for her life, has created a blog. You need to check it out. She waxes philisophical about some of it. It's very cute.

Garth

New Recipe Site

Announcing (dum da da DA!): Quigley Cuisine

A while ago Mom asked me if we could create a recipe site as part of our online good times. I thought it was a great idea, but just haven't gotten around to it...until now. The recipe site is a GO for launch. In fact it already has several recipes on it, so you can get a good feel for how it will work. I hope no one minds (Jana and Jen) that I already posted some of your delicious recipes for you. If you'd like to post some of your own (please please do!), I just need to set you up as an author. Please leave a comment on this post, and I'll send you an email invite. (FYI- I am not making Quigley Cuisine a private blog like I have the rest of our sites. Let's share our recipes with everyone.)

For those of you that will be sharing your recipes (again, please please do), I have a few tips.

First, I encourage you to take a picture of your yummy dish. Is it just me, or do pictures make a big difference when choosing a new recipe? I love seeing those mouth watering photos. As you will see, Jana is very good at this. All her food looks scrumptious. (For those of you that use photoshop/photobucket to size your pictures, the post field is 500px wide.)

Second, put the actual title of the recipe in the title field. This will help when we're trying to search out a specific recipe.

Third, to make our site ultra functional, all authors need to use LABELS. Labels are basically just a way of separating posts into categories. We will be using labels to form a recipe file. I've created a quick tutorial to demonstrate what I mean.

When creating a new post you have to opportunity to label your recipes into
different categories, just like you would file your recipe cards into different categories.
I've circled in red where you would insert said labels.



If you click on "Show all" it will show you all the categories that have already been created for this blog.



Simply click on an existing label (or multiple labels if your recipe calls for it) to add it.
Or, if you don't see the category you need, you can just type it to create a new category.



All labels need to be separated by a comma, but other than that there is really no tricky stuff about it.
If we all use these labels, it'll make looking up a recipe VERY easy.
Now that you know how to use labels, feel free to use them on the forum too.

Now go post something delicious!