Pumpkin Patch #2

We went out to Oakley today to the pumpkin patch. It was SO FUN. Our kids fed the goats, played with the bunnies (Mylee told Aunt Tauna Kay that's all she wanted for Christmas), we went on a hay ride, picked our pumpkins, broke pumpkins to feed the goats, went on a pony ride, and ate lunch at the good ol gas station/restaurant.


Shaun was teaching Tayla how to putt. It was soooo cute!





Mylee. This is the best picture of her I could get! little stinker!


Tayla is my poser! She loves to pose! If you say Tayla look here her posing side just jumps right out!


Me Russell and Mindy on the hayride

Shaun and the girls on the hayride

Most of the gang on the hay ride

Tayla's pumpkin

Mylee's pumpkin!








the girls playing and trying to feed the bunnies. (they were feeding them anything and everything and feeding eventually turned to poking but Tauna Kay says she's getting one for Mylee for Christmas!)

Pumpkin Patch #1

We went to the pumpkin patch a week ago. Our kids LOVED it. They both picked our their own pumpkins and did a small little pose for me!

Tayla starts preschool

It's been soooo longs since I've done any posts. Tayla just started preschool and she LOVES it. They have a color day every week. I've been making her tutus of her color. She gets so excited to go to school. It's so cute!

Just some random butts

I caught Mylee trying to clean up our big mess after she got half naked!


And some pretty faces!









This is what happened when I asked Tayla and Mylee to hug so I could get a picture!

Onions have layers.....

And they DON'T taste good!!! Ask Mylee she would know! She peeled this onion and bit it!

She dressed herself

All I can say is she dressed herself!

Late V-Day post

For Valentine's Day Shaun couldn't find the right flowers for me...so he says, but I'm not complaining! He said they all weren't good enough and so he bought me two bouquets. He also bought the girls both a rose. He was so sweet and adorable! I tried to get good pics with the girls and their flowers but Mylee was cranky and would have nothing to do with pictures! Here's what I got though. I figured I better journal her crankiness because it's my memory and hers and I want to remember it!






Sorry on some of these my camera was going crazy with the light!

Wii foots

Tayla put these "slippers" on and told me they were her slippers and then she changed it, they're my Wii foots she says!!! hahahaha!

The art of canning with Mindy

One of the stores here had a REALLY AWESOME meat sale a week ago. I convinced my friend to go first thing in the morning (which was a good thing because by 10 Am most things were sold out) to go get a bunch of meat. I told her how easy it was to can and we needed to do it. We were debating about going later but I told her we needed to go before they opened! We were in the parking lot at 6:30am and shopping by 6:45 even though they didn't open til 7. WHOOP WHOOP score for us!!! I decided that since we had just gotten taxes back that I wanted to buy about a year's worth of meat, and I'm pretty sure I came close! I at least got enough to last until the next sale in October! I told Shaun that with the jam and corn I would be freezing that I wanted to buy a freezer. I found such a pretty freezer that I LOVE so much and FILLED IT!!!!




So after we bought our meat we spent 5 hours separating and wrapping and ziplocking and freezing all of our meat. By the time we were done we both felt like we needed to bathe in Bleach in order to remove all of the ICKness of raw meat!!! We didn't just freeze meat, we also canned it. My camera battery was dead so I didn't get a picture of all of the jars we canned seeings how we have used some of it!!! But I've been working on some today that are just chicken and I did take pics of those. The first pics is some of the meat and some of the prep stuff like bags and such. It was INSANE but I had a blast! Did you Mindy?!!!!













I LOVE my mom for giving me all of her canning stuff and I LOVE all of the opportunities I have had to learn to can. It's like Heavenly Father has been telling me that I needed to learn it and teach others. I have had so many jars given to me just because people didn't want them or my mom was done canning. I am so grateful for the start and the push and the passion I have gained learning how to can.