Tales of the Traveling Totes 47 and a Giveaway

Welcome to the 47th 

Tales of the Traveling Tote, 

where women who love 

MacKenzie Childs and 

love to travel, take their 

totes all over the place. 

Come explore with us!

As many of you know,

we are serving as full time 

missionaries for our church, 

The Church of Jesus Christ 

of Latter Day Saints.  

We are serving just less than 

an hour from our home at 

Heber Valley Camp.  The 

camp serves 40-50 thousand 

youth each summer and 

another 75,000 visitors on 

the Faith Walk each summer.

We were chosen to work 

on the Challenge Courses, 

so we have been training 

since the first week of 

April to be certified 

Challenge Course workers. 

The camp has 125 missionary

couples.  Others work as 

Camp Hosts, Greeters, 

Mountain Maintenance, 

and Building Maintenance.  

At the end of the season 

we will help build two 

more Challenge Courses 

like the one above. 

This is our home for 

the summer and we will 

return again for another 

six months next summer. 

We are at a high elevation 

here so we have had to 

climb the courses twice 

while snowing. 

(Let's just say I am not 

a thrill seekers, so this 

has stretched me, but I am 

growing!)

Once a week we get a day 

off - our Preparation Day. 

We usually come home 

and see the family and 

get things done at home. 

This week my son said 

we should go visit 

Ballerina Farm and do 

their farm tour up in 

Kamas, Utah.  

They also have a store 

just down the mountain 

from us in Midway, Utah. 

I grew up in Wisconsin 

and my aunt and cousin 

had dairy farms, but I 

have never seen one like 

this.  The stalls you can 

see on the left are 

"waterbeds" so that 

the cows don't get sores 

from laying down. 

The cows freely walk around 

the barn and decide when 

they are ready to go into 

the milking stall.  They 

line up and it is all 

automated.  The manger is 

a 29 year old woman and 

she told us that one cow 

likes to be milked 5 times 

a day and another 3 times!

They also had Rhumba type 

cleaners that automatically 

muck the floors.  It was so 

fun and educational.

The grands got to pet the 

new babies.  

At birth the manager 

decides which cows 

will become meat cows 

and which will be milk 

cows. 

I love how these kids 

wore their western hats!

Another P Day we went 

to visit a local cheese 

place.  My favorite cheese 

that we bought was a 

Lemon Sage Variety.

Speaking of cows, just 

before we left on our 

mission our daughter 

who lives next door and 

our son and their families 

decided they wanted a milk 

cow.  She has wanted one 

for years.  Ballerina Farms 

has convinced a lot of 

young moms that they 

want a cow!!!

Ruby is a Jersey milk cow and 

is expecting.  She was 

very unhappy being all 

alone so we also got a 

Black Angus for meat.  

We are renting a neighbor's 

pasture for them.  

And my daughter also got 

these ducks and my son 

got six Runner ducks. 

It is turning into a menagerie!

Thanks for visiting, 

now on to our giveaway!

Pop on over and visit

Ricki Jill and leave a 

comment to win this 

great bag.

And then 

visit these other ladies to 

see where they have been 

off to lately!

Jackie and Miss Madi K @ Purple Chocolat Home (you are here)

Debbie with Miss Aurora @ Mountain Breaths

Patti with Miss Kenzie and Miss Taylor @ Pandora's Box

Linda P with Miss Lola @ Life and Linda

Rita with Miss Luna C @ Panoply

Sarah with Miss Merri Mac @ Hyacinths for the Soul

Ricki Jill and Countess de Monet @The Bookish Dilettante

Emily with Miss Courtney Childs@ The French Hutch