Amy and Matt and Kids

The pond after the forest fire and pouring rains

The guys are trying to unplug the bottom of the pond so it can drain.

Angelique playing the muck

Look muck boots!

Ryan spraying off Sammy

Ben and Julie's Isaiah, Sam and Jayden

Ryan spraying off Sam

Ryan spraying off Isaiah

We went to the cabin for Matt's mom's weekend, which is her birthday weekend. I sat most of the time as I was still recovering from my broken ankle. Weeks previous there was a terrible forest fire just west of the ranch. Fortunately it was contained before it reached the family property. Then there was heavy rainfall. All the ash and debris ran down and the stream and flooded onto the property and into the pond clogging up and making a mess of it.. Matt and his brothers and brothers-in-law work a good portion of the day Friday and Saturday trying to unclog the bottom of the pond where there is a drain and clearing up the debris where the water leads into the pond. In the end, they completed what they set out to do! There still is feet of muck to clean out and the stream flowing through it is really helping.  Saturday night the guys took a break from work to cook.  Their sisters arranged a mock "chop" show. Matt and his 4 brothers each were contestants. They were given a bunch of ingredients but their dish had to include, pork chops, garbanzo beans, mushrooms, and salt and vinegar chips. Matt made a fabulous mushroom sauce to go over the pork chops and then had a salad on the side and added a few garbanzo beans and the chips. HE WON! I really thought we took pictures of it all but I can't find them in my computer. dang. We drove home Sunday morning, got home at 12 noon, all of us showered and we barely made it to church on time at 1pm! The younger children performed in the ward primary program. Matt's mom made it there too to watch them.