The FUN in FUNdraising

This is the year of the fundraiser!!  We have been involved in a total of 5 (now 7) of them this year so far.  The Easter Car Show, the baseball fields, the 4th of July, and on the street corner: selling cotton candy, and a breakfast at the Ironman. Update: at Peach Days and Western Days too Luckily we were able to raise some money to send Mr. L and my 13 year old son to the Jamboree and History tour for 18 days, they just got back 5 days ago.  And what a sight for sore and lonely eyes were they.  They had some wonderful experiences.

We were just involved in another fundraiser, this time for Mr. L's parents, to send them to South Korea to pick up their 8th son who is serving and LDS Mission there.  With the economy and their line of work, the funds just were not there, so my husband, with all of his experience raising money had a great idea...."Hey, why not have a fundraiser?"...so 6 of the 8 boys and their little sister and her faithful best friend, plus some of the wives and, of course, mom and dad LeBaron, were able to sacrifice their time to be heavily involved in running a Navajo Taco booth at the Fair for 4 days.  Which was a very remarkable thing.  I was so touched to see how all of the brothers banded together for the love of their parents to pull off such a tremendous challenge.  They all worked together like peanut butter and chocolate, and made a very enjoyable day. 


Mr. L #2 (my man) frying scones, his bro. Mr. L #4 and #5 rolling and cutting scones, Mr. L #1 cutting up produce, Mr. L #7 making scone dough, Mr. L #6 and little sister and her best friend serving people, SIL at the front taking orders, me between here and there, mostly making meat mixture.  Dad LeBaron was running all kinds of errands and rescued us too many times to count, he came in the nick of time with cheese, sour cream lettuce, salsa, crushed tomatoes.  I am not exaggerating, we'd be almost out of something and here he'd come with the very thing we were almost out of.  Mama LeBaron worked her fingers to the bone doing all of the prep work:  cooking up meat and beans and shopping, plus being everywhere making things run smoothly.

I was impressed by the generous people who just told us to keep the change or gave an extra $20!  It is so wonderful to see that there is still a lot of good in the world.  People are kind and giving and not just self motivated.  


I am so grateful that I was able to help more than half the day yesterday.  I was sooo beat and sore by the time we got home, which was late.  I want to publicly thank my SIL A. for watching 3 of my kids yesterday, and a big thank you to my parents too, for taking my 2 youngest, and a close family friend, MaKayla for helping the other day, making it possible so I could help.  THANK YOU!!!!!   

So was it worth it? YES!!!  Getting these brothers together was special, seeing them interact is priceless, hearing them rock to the super stellar band that got us through some really tough last hrs of the night...UNFORGETABLE.  Dancing with Mr. L to a slow song in the middle of floor a bit SILLY but waaay FUN!!   So Yes, I would hafta say it was FUN!  

LeBaron Boy #8 Mission Bound

Art's brother Christopher got his call to the Seoul Korea West Mission, and will leave Dec.3. He is the 8th son to go. Art's parents always go get them from their missions too. They have been to London, Connecticut, Australia, California, Alaska, Africa, Montreal in Canada, and now Korea. Wow!!! Kudos to Bonnie and Larry!

Collecting Sand @ Sheep Bridge

<---so big in her first suit.

building a sand castle.

The tub said it all when we got home. We accrued some great specimens:} Got Dirt?

So we went with the in-laws and Uncle Don and his new wife and their friends. Anyways, we had fu-u-un as you can see.

Oh and look closely and you may be able to see a bare bum- or should I say a "le-bare-bum"? Ha Ha. (That was so funny I forgot to laugh.) We had a blast.

Let the piercing begin

I knew my Mother-in-law was sweet but she definitely went up a few levels. Her oldest son wanted to give her a nice gift for Mother's Day and chose some beautiful pierced earrings. A great gesture except for the fact that she doesn't have pierced ears. So she and her daughter decided to git 'r done. I'm impressed:)

Holy Calf/ Birth Control is Overratted

You don't see many people with cows anymore, but my husband's family has one. Father LeBaron insisted on having one for all his 8 boys to milk while they were growing up. (that sounds like they had 8 cows, no just one at a time.) They said they weren't raising cows they were raising boys. (dang, I need to get some skills, some typing skills.)

So My husband's family is outta town for the week and this cow is gonna pop, and last night it did. It had a calf, it was really special to see a new creature come to this earth. Our 11, 6 and 5 year olds were there to see it too. Pretty fascinating, not too gross.


The really cool thing is the calf started trying to stand up about 15 minutes after it was born. The cow kept licking it preventing it from doing so though. It finally stood up on it's skinny legs and was walking around trying to find a teet but the mother cow wouldn't let it. Anyway pretty interesting. Now my 11 year wants to see our baby born. His dad says wait until you have your own.

Now for the second part of the title! My husband and I have been married for 13 1/2 years! :) I can't believe it. We really struggled to have our second child, but with the help of a doc we found out I had low progesterone. So never really figuring out the birth control thing we are now pregnant with number six. Unbelieveable (does this have spell check?) so now we really need to come up with some solution as we are ready to have this one complete our family. BTW we have a boy, a girl, boy, girl, boy and now we're having a girl. Why mess with perfection? oh and did I mention I don't know that I can manage anymore. I love them to pieces though.