Retainers

For those of you who were lucky enough to have braces and then get a removable retainer this is for you! 

 Just imagine your eating lunch in the school cafeteria, you finish and you throw away your retainer, yes I said throw it away, you continue your day not realizing what you have done until you get home, and your mom asks where it is. Can you guess what mom said..... you got it "Geoff your going dumpster diving for your retainer" being the person I am, I couldn't let him do it by himself as it would NEVER have been done.  So I grabbed two pairs of industrial strength up to your elbow rubber gloves and went to help find it. After going through about 15 BIG black trash bags full of nasty half eaten lunches and milk cartons galore, I know..EEEW, Geoff found his retainer.

Troop 71

Nathan is the newest cub scout member for troop 71, he was so excited to get his scout shirt for his birthday. He has been wanting to come to scouts for the past year with me being the den leader and all, so he went to his first pack night as an offical scout this past Tues. and had a great time playing Halloween games.

Black Eyed Pea

I have three peas in my pod and the second one is always getting a black eye, wether inflicted by himself or others. This Black eye is the result of a friendly game of catch with Geoff and Todd on sunday afternoon. Todd threw the football and Geoff tackled Chris to the ground so he couldn't get the ball then his elbow hit him in the eye. There is a reason as to why you shouldn't play rough sports on sunday.

Oh well!

Family Night

While playing the game Smart Mouth, the letters B & T were played. For those who do not know how to play the game there are two letter tiles revealed and you have to be the first one to say a word that starts with the first letter and ends with the second. Geoffrey said "BIT" while I said "BUTT". Geoffrey said, "you get the points because yours is bigger".  As we were moving on to the next two letters, Todd had to stop and point out what Geoff  had said about mine being bigger, meaning my (BUTT) word. Ha Ha we all had a great laugh with that and thought we would share it with you! :)

Feeding the Family from Bottles

Well, the week of October 10th my friend and I had the great idea to bottle salsa. My friend has never bottle salsa and I have never done it without the great experienced teacher, Lucy. I called my friend on Wed. morning and we set out to Lucys for some salsa making, we ended up making 14 jars of salsa. Yum! Yum!.

On Friday I still had a ton of tomatoes left over from our salsa making adventure, so I decide to make chili sauce, I once again have never made this on my own, but thought what the heck it can't be that hard so I did and it wasn't hard at all just real time consuming with blanching, peeling, cutting, squishing and draining the juice off the tomatoes....an all day process when taking care of kids at the same time. The pictures below are of my chili sauce, I made 10 pints and gave 3 to my friend. The way your house smells when bottling salsa or chili sauce is absolutely delicious. 

I can't wait till I can bottle some more stuff, I do have 25 pints of green beans that Lucy canned earlier in the summer for me. I did however  plant, water and baby the green beans in my own little garden.
It has to cook down for 2-3 hours, you can see in the pic where it started out in the pan.

Happy October

This is a fun filled month with birthday parties and Halloween arrives. Watch out for all the little gobblins and witches as the fly around this month. Here is my all time favorite scary video and song....Michael Jacksons THRILLER!!!