World Vegetarian Day 2020

I've been having fun seeing ways we celebrated when Lucky was a baby and getting inspiration for celebrating with Jet as the baby. That's why I put slow cooker beans and rice on the menu plan for World Vegetarian Day on October 1 again this year. Jet was able to join in and eat some, too.

Funny. It turns out I didn't have meat at all that day, not just at dinner. I don't think I realized it until dinnertime when looking back at what I had for breakfast and lunch. Hmm. Funny.

First Day of Fall

Everybody say, "First Day of Fall!"

September 22 was the Autumnal Equinox. I had Jeremy close the windows the night before... just in case.

It rained the morning of the Equinox. Ah, fresh. Jet and I went for a drive up Provo Canyon.

After school we drove up to Cascade Springs as a family, enjoying the Fall colors.

I commented to Jeremy recently how I'm not missing the Fall colors this year. I've been out so much in nature lately. I love it.

 

What a nice baby brother holding his sister's homework.

 

Jr. Jr. saw a few places where he wanted to get videos of me juggling. I love that he wanted to do that.

"You can't see me."

 

We all brought face masks and ended up using them. It wasn't too too crowded but there were enough people we passed and the paths are narrower than some places where it's easier to just keep to the side and turn your head. It worked out.

It was so pleasant. I love getting out in nature with my family.

 

We stopped at Deer Creek Overlook briefly so I could get a few pictures of a view you might imagine in a Tolkien novel. September 22 is Hobbit Day after all.

 

On the drive up, I commented to Jeremy that what I really wanted on this drive was to see moose. On the drive back down there were a few cars stopped on the road at one point and Jeremy called out that they were stopped because of the moose running along the side just down below us. They came up and crossed the road in front of us. Woohoo! We got some horrible pictures but I got to see moose like I wanted!

For a while on the drive down I kept exclaiming how excited I was to see the "meese," which sparked a little conversation about plurals of certain words. Goose geese. Moose moose. Mongoose mongooses. Octopus octopi or octopuses (either one is correct).

On the drive down Jeremy also told us a Jackerina story about the leaves on trees producing spores that make the Telford family sleepy. Jackerina called the North wind to help blow the leaves off the trees and when it got dark, the leaves couldn't photosynthesize and went to sleep. Yay! We were saved once again.

 

When we got home, we had caramel apple cider, a recipe I got from Stephanie O'Dea's slow cooker website, ayearofslowcooking.com

Mmmmm. Fall.

World Vegetarian Day 2014

October 1st is World Vegetarian Day.  I assured the children that eating vegetarian doesn't mean eating vegetarians.  It just means the food has no meat in it.

I think Nichole's look says it all.

Although Jr.'s is pretty good, too.

I knew it was going to be a busy day today so I planned ahead.  I found a beans and rice recipe to put in the slow cooker so we didn't have to eat meat on World Vegetarian Day.  I wanted to use some of those beans and canned tomatoes from the pantry and I wanted to leave some of that chicken in the freezer.

Jeremy and I enjoyed it.  They boys ate some, too.  And Nichole tried some.  You would think she'd be more enthusiastic about helping celebrate the holiday.
Oh well.  At least Jr. looks enthusiastic in that first picture.