Turkey Fry

Two years ago, Jimmy's dad got a turkey fryer for Christmas. Jimmy decided its been sitting in the box TOO long. Time to learn how to fry a turkey!

We got the turkey-oil-propane. Here we go!

Peanut oil=Liquid gold. Some places sell it for $15 a gallon. We needed 3 gallons!

Heat the oil (the set up) Jimmy's dad made the metal tray to cook it on. Its a nice flat, large surface. If we cook it on concrete, then oil won't get everywhere. See thermometer in oil on the side. We keep the oil at 350 degrees.The lucky bird-see the cool rack to hold the bird. This was nice setup. Easy to move the bird around.
The bird in the fryer.


Waiting for it to cook. (It took an hour. Jimmy had to push a switch every 15 minutes to keep the gas on. A safety feature.) Jimmy's on the phone with his brother-Yes JOE-finally Dad's Christmas gift is finally being used.

Its cooked! Yummy!

Jimmy's an animal-he loves it! YUMMY!

We can re-use the oil after each use. It can be used three times. On Thanksgiving, we are frying our third turkey. I can't wait to try out Jim's new toy in the summer. It can steam and boil too.

Its so fun trying something new.

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White Wash Sand Dunes

Camping in November? Yup. We did it. Jimmy's dirt bike friend, Spencer, was finally back in town. The weather was gonna be good. So we planned a camping trip. We left Thursday afternoon & drove to the White Wash Sand Dunes, which is between Greenriver and Moab.

After a stop in Greenriver for water and a little break.

Then pulling into camp at sunset.

We drove 45 minutes on dirt road. Um, parts of the dirt road were CRAZY. There were low spots we had to be careful of-luckily it hadn't rained there in a while, or the mud would have been a problem. We had to be careful to not scrape the bottom of the trailer as we went down & back up these washouts.

Once we got off the main dirt road, we had a 0.5 mile downhill descent on a ROCKY dirt road. I was already freaked out cause of the dirt road we just traveled, but this last part made me nervous! I had to close my eyes, and just hold on......Jimmy did an amazing job driving, but I had not been on a road like with with a HUGE truck, trailer, and my FAMILY. In our camping adventures, we had NEVER traveled a road like his. I was happy to get to our destination.

Friday morning, we shot a shot gun some. We hit an empty water bottle down the hill. It was fun. Cute to see Jimmy do it with the kids. Jimmy & Spencer went out on a bike ride.

Jann & I + kids went on hikes. It was fun. My kids haven't been hiking a lot, so it was fun to see them try & climb. Sometimes they were scared to climb up or down something, but they conquered it.

Another hike in the afternoon.

Another day, another hike. Different route. We let the kids lead the way. We walked away from our camp, then looked around and let the kids choose which way we headed. They loved being in charge!
We directed the kids back to a spot we hiked to the day before. We came at it from a different direction. They got so excited when they recognized this place from the other day. Yes, I hauled my 27 lb baby in a baby carrier. I didn't want to invest in a big, hiking backpack until I knew I would really use it. I still don't know if i want one.
Jimmy got a little beat up on his bike ride. I will have to figure out how to get the pix & video off of Spencers facebook page.....hhmmmm....But he had fun.

Hanging out around camp.

The 'fish' cop stopped by our camp to see if bikes were registered. We were fine, but he sure talked our ear off. I like charlie just sitting in the dirt playing as the ranger guy was here. We blew a tire on our trailer so here is Jimmy putting the spare on. Cirrus, the dog, helped. Good Boy. Cirrus & sophie became good friends during this trip. Cirrus was almost a babysitter for Sophie. We knew the two would be together. ahh-love a good campfire!My cute kids asleep on the couch. I moved them to their beds-but awww! precious! Ashley was laying the same direction as the others when I walked in the trailer, but flipped sides before I could get the camera. One last ride before we go home.

My cute family!

Last stop-dumping before we got home.

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