making salsa

I started with all my bell peppers I grew in the garden. And I added hot peppers also from the garden.

Tomatoes from the garden, and look what you get! Oh I love salsa! And I even added salt. Larry will be happy. But I am bummed out as I thought the yellow and purple peppers would keep their color and it would give my salsa a neat coloring. Nope they all cook to green.

My helper all afternoon. As it has been an all day affair here. I forgot to take Stephen to his volenteer work tonight. I swear my mind is gone. But with a helper like Mini you know the salsa is good!

National Night Out

Mini loved driving the truck

All the kids and the 2 firemen.

Matthew got to climb in and play too. He wanted to check out the oxygen tanks.

I told you she liked driving. She hung out in there a long time.

See what I mean?! Like 4 other kids came and went and there she sat. Good thing those guys were not in too big a hurry!

4 wheel riding

Dominic has a small 4 wheeler and it is set to only go so fast so on Sat the kids got to try it out. Stephen first. And since he is my caustious one. He went driving around and never hit a tree.

Jim gave the little ones a ride.

Including Twitch who loves to go for rides.

Then it was Samantha's turn.

Needless to say I made her get off after a bit. She would not go a speed she could control. It was stop or full on. She hit a tree not once but twice and then Mom ended her ride. Magically I think she has learned that maybe a bit slower would be better. But we will see next time we go up. She is my child who loves to show off. What am I to do with her?

Going to see Jim and Kay

We left to go visit Jim and Kay and Dominic for the weekend. ummm yes that was 2 weekends ago! YIKES where does the time go?

Anyway Mini thought her shirt was making her crabby so it came off. And magicly she slept the whole way up there. That dang shirt. Good thing it came off!

What to do on a rainy day

When it looks like this outside what do you do with 3 kids who are home with you?

Well in our case you go bowling!

Why do people turn away? Really it is not worth your energy! I just take more!

The kids had a good time and we stayed dry and best of all Mini went to sleep on the way home and took a good nap once we got there! All that weight lifting she does while out bowling.

swimming

We went to Tia and Kents for supper on Wednesday night. The kids got to swim.

And swim they did for over an hour.

Stephen is under there. Do not ask why. I never figured it out.

But he built this structure to play under and swim with and he had a good time playing under it too. Tia was like here is a boy scout doing his thing. Because he focused on it for a long time getting it just right and then playing.

A hoody

Mini found a dress in her closet. It has a hood. Of course she is all into wearing it! God she is beautiful when she is not whining!

Off to bowl

We went with Rachel and her girls to bowl on Tuesday. The kids had a good time and we just had the big kids in one lane and the small kids in the other.

Mini and the puppies

Gizmo and Twitch are Mother son. Gizmo is much better with kids. She is 2 1/2 years old. Twitch is not that into Mini. Except is she is giving love to another puppy not being him.

But when she would reach for him he would back off.

But get right back in there to make sure she did not give her love away. Reminds me so very much of a cat!

Good times at the cabin

I am not saying she has a lot of people wrapped around her little finger but man she does seem to have it in with a lot of people!

Peter made her a hot dog at 10pm and she had to put on her shades because the fire was so bright.

A lunar moth was at the cabin this weekend. I had not seen one in years. And when you do see them they tend to be on the cabin this was on the fish cleaning house.

Fishing was good. Some days really bad but mostly good. Roger caught this 9 lb Northern. Though I claim 1/2 it was my rod he used.

going bowling

Man does she not look thrilled?

He is happy to be throwing a ball down the lane.

I took the kids and Julie brought her kids plus some to play a few games of bowling with us. We bought the kids a pass so they can bowl 2 games a day for the next few months. And I plan to us it a lot. The kids love to go and I get top sit and visit with other people. Well and help Mini get the ball downt he lane sometimes.

We even fed the kids pizza while there. They had a blast and they got to play with friends. I think I may take them again today after I get my shirts done that I will be getting picked up tonight.

Our Anniversary

For our anniversary, Mini and I went and got my tire fixed.

We went out for breakfast while we hung out and waited.

And then Dennis took me to dinner that night

I am sure he loved every minute of it. It is the first year in a while that we celebrated with no one being sick. So maybe he was just excited no kids or none of us were puking not sure. Or maybe after 13 years of being married to me he has finally lost his mind and just does not seem to know life is hard! LOL Love you honey and happy anniversary like a whole week late! I know I will never keep this thingup todate. This blog is always a week behind it seems.

I should work on that.

Becky's Grad party

Mini and I hung out at Becky's grad party and played cards with Nancy and Kay, Dennis and Larry. I got to talk to a lot of people I had not seen in a long time.

Mini of course hung out with kristie some. She loves her!

Jim was trying to take a nice shot of us girls

And we were all laughing at him

I got to sit and visit with Judy aka Clara she is doing good and still doing chemo. Mini chased a girl around with a toad. She was afraid of it. Mini was trying to show her they are not scarey. The girl was 35 years old. She was not buying into it. The other 3 not in pictures. Yea they stayed outside and got rained on. Every kid had to pee when it started down pouring. Every kid had to pee again as soon as it started raining again later. And mud puddles were jumped in. We had a really good time.