7 Day Challenge

I have just recently completed the 7 Day Challenge that foodstoragemadeeasy.net put on. I thought that I was pretty prepared and we could handle about anything. Boy was I wrong. Each day they had a challenge to test our preparedness. Have in mind that we were not allowed to go to the store or spend any money for these 7 days. Here are some of the things that I learned:

The first day was we had to leave our house with our 72 hr kits and only the things on our grab list. Well I had just emptied out all of the food in our kits to rotate and so we would have had to go without food for a few days. I learned not to take out food until have bought new food to replace and need to get better food and snacks.

Day two was a pandemic and we were quarantined to our house. This one was easy as I have a lot of comfort foods and medicines already stored for a sick person.

Day three was an unexpected dinner guest that you had to make an appetizer, a main dish that was meatless, 2 side dishes, and a dessert. This one was pretty easy for me. Although I wish I would have had more fresh fruits and vegetables. I made fresh guacamole with chips, fettuccine alfredo, with cooked carrots, peas, and broccoli, and a chocolate chocolate cake for dessert. It was Supper Yummy and was an easy day.

Day four was economic crisis. We had to make bread from scratch, not use cable or cell phones, or internet. Oh yeah did I mention No Water! That was a hard one for me. Every time I turned around I was washing my hands. I do have a weeks worth of water bottles for every member in our family but that is it. I have 2 EMPTY 55 gallon drums in my garage. But they don’t help when they are EMPTY. The only hard part of the day was NO Water, didn’t do so well with that!

Day Five was an Earthquake and there was not electricity and water and our computers got fried. I learned a lot this day. I already had NO WATER! And found out that I need to get other ways of cooking without electricity. We have the dutch ovens and Matt made a lasagna for dinner which was really good. The rest of the day we ate cereal and sandwiches. I did back up my pictures a few days before but would have lost all of our other documents and need to back them up. I am going to work on a solar oven. FHPE in October is on making your own solar oven. I can’t wait.

Day six was Healthy Lifestyle. We had to make a low sugar breakfast, low fat lunch and a from scratch whole wheat and/ or legumes dish for dinner. This was a good one because I have been wanting to cook healthier to loose some weight. I made a 13 bean soup for dinner that I have been wanting to try for a while now. It was actually really good. And my Delaynee who will not eat beans ate it!!!

And Day Seven was the easiest of all, to make a dessert from scratch. But you were out of fresh milk, eggs, and butter. Thank goodness for powdered milk, eggs, and butter.

Thank goodness for those powdered items because I was out of milk and eggs from the beginning of the challenge.

I would encourage all of you to check out there website if you at all interested in getting any type of food storage or preparedness stuff together. www/foodstoragemadeeasy.net

Most of all I learned I am not as near prepared as I thought I was and am now on a quest to become better prepared. Starting with this really cool e-binder that they have that tells you step by step what to do and to buy to be prepared for anything. Oh yeah and I will fill those EMPTY water drums that are in my garage this week.

Thank you Jodi and Julie for helping me to start to become better prepared.

Some of my Favorites!

Here are some of my favorite picture in the last 5 months in no particular order. There are a few more but are on a DVD by Boyd Robinson (He did a fabulous job!)but my computer does not read it. So you will have to come see my scrapbooks for those. Or go to ironwoodphoto.com and e-mail me at dbushman1@cox.net and I will give you the password.

All other photos were taken by my sister in law Manda and by my friend Trina Leishman. Thank you to both of you!

In March we took these. The girls love to have their picture taken.




I love this one of Clint's hands and feet.


Girls at the temple.









Clint was blessed on August 2nd. 2 months old.

So precious Father and Son.










Clint 41/2 weeks old.








Clint at 3 weeks old.











What beautiful girls we have.










And boy do they love OTTER POPS!

First Day of Kindergarten

So I am only 4 weeks late on posting this...
Rise and shine sleeping Beauty! She didn't want to get up. Good thing she is in the afternoon class.

The night before she laid out what she was going to wear down to her undees. What a cutie!

Callie loves her big sis and always has to give her a hug before she leaves:)


Here we all are waiting for the bus to pick her up. They pick her up in front of our house.







Callie got tired of waiting and started playing in the dirt.


Waiting by the mail box were the bus picks her up. Doesn't she look so adorable and all grown up? I cried when the bus pulled up and she left. We were not going to let her ride the bus but since she could talk she has been asking when she can ride on a bus. So we decided to give it a try and see how it works and she loves it. And yes we followed her bus to school and I video taped her walking to her class and her sitting in her classroom. My baby is growing up!!!

She loves school very much and is making lots of new friends.