I'm On the INSANE Tour!

That's right I am still on the insane "Carrie's Canning Tour" and am deliriously tired...but it's all worth it.

Before I get into that though...Have you thought about Christmas???? It's coming and over here on our Adoption BLOG I have some great stuff for you to get your loved ones. Gifts that give more than one, but 3 times... Check it out HERE.

So as I mentioned in the previous post we have been super busy canning and freezing, and for some reason this year I keep adding more. Last Friday my Mother and Grandmother graciously came over and helped me can 21 Quarts of peaches, and freeze 12 quart size bags with peaches too. (We love fruit smoothies in our house) Then between Saturday and Sunday the Hubby and I canned 64 pints of salsa. Yeah we eat a lot of salsa..... Canning it saves me tons of mula! Then last night I decided to try my hand at pickle relish with some free cucumbers my Grandma gave me. I have yet to taste it, but it sure looks good!





So what do the kids do while I am canning? They play in the dirty produce boxes...Cuties

Something Old, Blue, & New

Something Old....

Example: Not that long ago Mo tried to snatch the camera because he wants to play with it (naturally) and I still got a somewhat happy look out of him.



Then on Sunday the same thing happened; only he wasn't really happy. So this pic says for sure "Mom this is getting old!"



Something Blue....

My sweet precious PRINCESS EJ! EJ is very into princess all of a sudden, and she has a couple of her princess outfits on all at once...beautiful Guatemalan Princess

I am still trying to figure out where this girly side is coming from all of a sudden because she did not learn that from me... 4 SHUR!



Something New....

Pickles! Someone kindly gave us cucumbers grown for making pickles so I thought why not try canning pickles. Well, we liked them so much I have canned more the last 2 nights, and tried my hand at peach jam. YUMMO!

We are deep into the freezing/canning season right now so my nights and weekends are determined by fruits and veggies; OH BOY! It's so worth it though in the winter; really worth it. So far we have frozen blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, 2 bushel corn, and strawberry and peach jam. Right now I have a bushel and a half of peaches laying on my counter to be canned and frozen, then we move onto green beans, pears, apple sauce, tomato juice, and salsa! I think I may try apple butter this year too...

Anyway...here is a pic of my first 2 batches of pickles...aren't they pretty??? Yes, I love to look at the finished product and just beam at the prettiness of my own canned food...I think I must be getting old..... :)

We IZ Cute!

Wow! I feel like I can start breathing again now that the rummage sale is over. I will update on that and other things adoption wise soon on our adoption blog, but wanted to leave you with a few pics of the kids from a couple different outings this summer.