Canning season must end SOON!!

Okay, i've been missing in action for a while now on my blog, hopefully someone has noticed ;). Every spare minute has been consumed with canning these last two weeks...oh and putting on a super saturday for our ward!! Busy, busy!

I have never canned before...only the few times I watched my mom do it from a distance. But this year, I got the bug. I'm not sure where I got it..but I did. It must be in the air.

Here is the list of things i've canned so far...
--Green beans
--Applesauce
--Freezer corn
--Peaches (canned, frozen, syrup, ate..you name it 80 lbs of peaches when through my house)
--Pizza sauce
--Choke Cherry syrup and jelly
--Apricot jam
--and I have 50 lbs of pears coming my way and WAY more tomatoes on my plant outside.

I have really enjoyed putting in my store downstairs and I'm sure will enjoy the fresh produce throught the winter! I also LOVE the sound of the 'popping' the lids make as they seal! But my mom even said I have a canning floor right now, it is sticky and dirty and I'd like to get it clean sometime soon!!

Preschool

Anthony started preschool. I cannot believe he is old enough to go to 'school'. He LOVES it. The first day he was so excited he woke up at 7:30 and wanted to go right then. He walked right into school and didn't even look back for me. He goes from 9-11 in the morning on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and I cannot believe how easy it is to only have one child :). I sure miss him when he is gone, but get a lot done too. Everyday when he wakes up he asks if today is a school day and as soon as I pick him up, he asks if he can call his dad to tell him he went to school and is a big boy :)! I hope his enthusiasm for school continues forever!!!

What a wonderful weekend...

I love labor day weekend. Not only is it so fun to have my husband home for an extra day, it usually falls right around my birthday so we try to do something fun. The last few years, haven't been anything spectacular, but this year made up for it. We had a WONDERFUL weekend of camping, bike riding, geocaching, fishing, relaxing, eating, etcetera. My parents, aunt, uncle and cousin with her boy came and met us at Riverside Campground close to Island Park. We got there Friday night and came home on Monday afternoon.

Friday, we just made dinner and enjoyed the company. Saturday, we went to Big Springs and saw the biggest fish we have ever seen. People feed these fish ALL day long, so they are seriously obese. HUGE! We also started our geocaching experience. If you have never heard of that, it is like a HUGE treasure hunt (or pirate treasure hunt as Anthony calls it). You use your GPS and punch in coordinates you have found on the geocache website and follow them to a box someone has hid and stashed with treasures. You take something out of the box and put something back in for the next person! So much fun for little kids!! Anthony had almost as much fun as me doing it ;). The rest of Saturday was spent hanging out, catching frogs and getting dirty.

Sunday, we went for a bike ride in Harriman National Park and enjoyed the beautiful outdoors. We also enjoyed some time in the hammock and then it got so cold we had to eat inside. Still a fun day though. Monday, we went geocaching in the morning and then went to Mesa Falls. I have never seen this waterfall and it was amazing!

It was such a great weekend and I hope for many more wonderful Labor Day weekends and I suppose more birthdays to go with them.