What I CAN

My neighbors, the corn ones, gave us a TON of green beans. this started the canning frenzy. below it the picture form the first day, then above was a few days later. what i don't have pics of is all of the applesauce, apple pie filling, and carrots that have also been done. WHEW! Mom and i have both been pretty busy! mom has also canned a bunch of pork. i'm not sure the total number but i think it is close to: 29 quarts green beans, 23 quarts tomatoes, 15 quarts pumpkin, 20 quarts applesauce, 52 quarts apple pie filling, 14 quarts carrots, and 7 quarts pork. of course mom and i are splitting this, so it feeds two armies! :)

hard work results in great dinners!

What's in a Name?

Jacob wrote his name all by himself for the first time and was very proud of it. He refuses to do it on paper, so i guess it must be more fun to do it on the magic erase thingie. not bad for a four year old who is still learning his letters. we didn't even have to tell him the order of the letters. he know how to spell it correctly without help!

Finally!

this is the first quilt i ever made. i made it while pregnant with Jacob. it has been sitting folded in my room ever since because it was going to cost me 100$ to get it quilted. this summer i broke down, spent my birthday money and had it done. and WOW! i LOVE it!

Corn have Ears?

The neighbors were kind enough to let us reap what the have sown. we went sweet corn picking! jacob loved it but poor jessica was too short and quickly tired of the tall stalks.

at leat she had fun chucking it! it took her so long to do one that she only got a total of three done while we were doing this. (out of 106)
Jacob was much faster at it and quickly found that his favorite part was the silk. he was also very interested to learn all of the parts of the the corn. the stalk, tassell, leaves, ears, silk, kernell, and cob. he thought it was funny they were called ears and i was waiting for the question "can they hear?" but it never came. he must be smarter than to think that corn can hear. :)

i have lots of organic sweet corn in the freezer now! yay!

baby jamie

so this is jamie in september:
yes, she has a lot of dark hair. yes it is all over the place. yes, it still sticks up like that when she is upright.

this is jamie in the begining of August. Yes she is still this cute!

Counting sheep

Jessica has a small world. This world is so small that the smallest things can effect it. the largest of these small things is her sheep. this sheep goes everywhere with her. She is unable to sleep without it and it always makes staying at a different home a little easier. she carries it around the house by the "scruff" of it's back. it actually has a permanent "holding" spot there now.

but for all that it is worth, we as her loving parrent turn the house upside down looking for this sheep every night, finding it in a closet, a shoe, stuffed in the couch, inside her purse, a cabinet, or just about anywhere it could fit, just to see this little girl gleam when it is handed to her and she is kissed goodnight.

only to start all over again leaving me with one final question: Where will i find the sheep today?

June

June was a busy month.... (this sounds familiar) Jessica got her "big girl bed" as Jamie needed the crib... we left the crib "broken" for a while, but jessica did just fine with her new bed. she loves it and won't get out of bed unless we tell her to.

Jamie got bigger, and cuter. AWWW... look at those eyes! and i just love to smooch her cheeks!

Jacob got a "davie crocket" hat from mom and dad when they went to canada... the tail is real so we have to keep it away from the cat, but the hat part is fake so jacob can play with it all he wants... and he loves it.

Jessica got into mommies garden, though she told me she didn't. she could not figgure out how i knew!

jessica found a new way to eat spagetti. this is one of her favorite dinners and i made it one night while we were at mom and dad's holding down the fort while they were in cananda.

YUMMY!

we thought it would be okay to give her ketchup with her fries... she sure showed us! she loves ketchup too... the fries are just a tool to get the ketchup to her mouth, and on her mouth, and nose, and eyes, and hair.

jamie got cuter. this was also taken while at mom and dad's. she was between 3-4 weeks old here. she had started to grin and i was desperatly trying to get a picture of it. everytime she saw the camera the grin would dissappear.

mom went without a toilet for a week while the bathroom was being redone. this is where the throne sat. i had a hard time holding it all day and was glad jessica was not yet potty trained and jacob was a boy! (he just went outside)

we got some chickens and i had to take care of them while mom was away. the kids got a kick out of unpacking them and holding them. everyday jessica reminded me to check on the chickens.

no, jessica is not killing the poor thing. she really is being gentle!

daddy was playing iwht the camera on the couch at mom and dads with the kids. i liked some of the playing around pics.

well, this is all for now. i have to make dinner and feed jamie. laundry is also calling my name!

TTFN!