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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger347125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6156246757252584511.post-46237936217507622912016-08-17T23:04:00.003-04:002016-08-17T23:04:39.383-04:00Happy 11th Birthday Caden!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Caden wanted to wait to celebrate his June 9th birthday when his cousins from Florida came to Indiana on June 26th. So we had a big birthday bash with 36+ people. Hosted it in the garage.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Caden opening his presents.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Took a picture with his Aunt Tricia because June 26th is the actual birthday for her. So we kind of did a dual celebration.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Caden picked dirt pudding for his cake. I asked Tricia what she wanted for her cake and she chose Tiramisu.<br />I had NEVER made it before and personally always wanted to try it.....so this gave me a great reason to make it. It was really good, but it was time consuming and expensive....so needless to say I am not sure I'll ever make it again.</td></tr>
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Although I once again don't have the greatest pictures and man, I am regretting the lack of pictures for sure. We did have a fun time celebrating your 11th birthday Caden. You are a good kid. We love you and pray you grow up to be a God fearing man. Happy Birthday!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6156246757252584511.post-71664509197593615352016-08-17T22:46:00.000-04:002016-08-17T22:46:04.305-04:00This and That<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
This summer we decided to let the kids get some kittens. They were so excited. Pets sadly do NOT last long around here as we live close to a busy road and we have animals that will hunt kittens as their prey. </div>
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In June Caden took a spill on the pavement. He was on a ripstick being pulled by Elijah who was on the mower. Ahhhh......boys will be boys. Caden's wheel hit a stone on the pavement and he went down hard. Thankfully no broken bones but we sure have some scars that remain.<br />
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For two weeks my sister Tricia and her girls came to Indiana. It was so nice having them here for that long. They came for vbs and then also for a week of relaxing. We hit up Indiana Beach one day.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ellie LOVED the rides. Sadly I get sick on any ride but thankfully Tricia's sister in law who was here that week as well loves rides and was Ellie's side kick on EVERY RIDE ELLIE WAS TALL ENOUGH TO RIDE!!!!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">more cousin fun...there wasn't a line so the kids rode this 4 times in a row!!</td></tr>
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And then we got a couple more kittens to help Sugar and Spice not be so bored.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Caden holding Salt<br />Sadly since these pictures....Sugar, Salt and Pepper are gone. We have gotten a few more named Brown Sugar, Poppy and Sage. Our remaining kittens to date are Spice, Brown Sugar and Poppy.</td></tr>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6156246757252584511.post-8729642787164660392016-08-17T22:31:00.002-04:002016-08-17T22:31:33.910-04:00Summer Fun on Lake Mississinewa<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
We have been boating several times this year at Mississinewa Lake. Its been a ton of fun. In June we were heading to the lake for the day and told Caden he could pick one friend to come with. Caden chose his cousin Alivia. I think Alivia was thrilled since it wasn't long ago her brother got to go boating with us during Elijah's birthday camping trip.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">She was so brave. She tried double skiing but wasn't able to get up to well. So she was willing to try wakeboarding.<br />And yes, even though I don't have a good picture of her up....she was out of the water for a few moments. Great job!!<br />A first time for everything.</td></tr>
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Then it was tubing time. Caden and Alivia rode the tube a long time and then they let Ellie join in on the fun. <br />
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Elijah chose to pick a friend and go camping for his 14th birthday. We packed up the camper, brought Avery Pritts along and spent a weekend at Lake Mississinewa in Peru.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lots and Lots of tubing. Avery wasn't up for much more than tubing so that is pretty much all they did on the water.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ok so you may wonder what this picture is all about, but we went and did disc golf. Everyone was really good at it EXCEPT me. When I threw my frisbee it would go in all directions. So everyone learned to "take cover" when I was up to throw. <br /><br />Even though there wasn't a huge deal out of his birthday I am pretty sure he had a good time camping with his cousin. It won't surprise me if this is what he picks next year too. <br />I know I say this probably every birthday but its true.....where does the time go?? To think that I have a Freshman this year.....a HIGH SCHOOL son!! Wow!! <br />Happy Birthday Elijah. We love you and we pray you stay dedicated to whats important. </td></tr>
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We took a belated trip to the Dominican Republic in April. Neither one of us had been there and had heard it was a nice place. Even had friends stay at this exact resort that we stayed at.</div>
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Just got off the plane and heading into the airport....it was cloudless beautiful skies.....too bad we didn't realize it was going to be one of two nice days we were going to have.<br />
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We stayed in the preferred club which was more quiet then out in the non preferred club. We had our own swimming pool right outside of our door so that was nice(when we used it).<br />
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And EVERY.SINGLE.DAY at least two weddings happened right beside our chairs. Nothing like up front and center to see everyone's weddings. This couple was the only couple we saw get married in the sunshine!! <br />
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This is the preferred club pool. Our room is in the background....ground floor room on the right corner.</div>
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Every morning we walked to the coffee shop for our morning coffee. Yummy! Yes that is a sweatshirt wrapped around my waist!!! Nick and I were heading out in the rain to walk the grounds over and over again until we got the distance we wanted that morning. You just gotta make the best of rainy weather......scrabble anyone???? We played this quite a bit on our trip. They had several games inside the preferred club lobby.<br />
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Another beach walk was underway. Look at those amazing clouds...Ha!!<br />
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Yummy food at this resort. And some really good drinks too!!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was the night in which venders come into the resort. We got all our boys a Tiki necklace(which nick is wearing:), and we got Ellie a pink bracelet(which I am wearing).</td></tr>
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Yet another dinner and again some really good food.<br />
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Although it was not ideal weather for a beach vacation we still enjoyed our time and recommend the resort. However both Nick and I don't have much desire to return to DR. We will be ready to try a "new" place and "new" destination.</div>
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Thanks to Nick's dad for getting this wonderful surprise party planned for Marcia(nick's mom). My mil loves to go to Shipshewana to the Blue Gate Theatre. So dad booked the hotel for a night, and got the tickets for the Home Game show and dinner. What a fun time we all had. </div>
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So us kids all drove up ahead of Gerry and Marcia. We got to the Rise n Roll Bakery about 30 minutes before they did. Sat in a back room and waited for mom to arrive. We all sang happy birthday and really surprised her. She was in tears. Then we ate an early lunch and headed on to a bit of shopping. Next we went to the Home Game show. I had never been to any of their productions, but I enjoyed it greatly and would go again easily.</div>
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Next we had a table reserved and food was brought to us. Yummy Amish home cooked food. </div>
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The surprise wasn't quite complete as once we got back to the hotel we had a little party for mom. Complete with cake, snacks, and drinks. I really had a blast making this cake for mom. Nothing like I had ever quite done before and used a "new" frosting to me and really enjoyed working with it. It was a White Chocolate and Raspberry 4 layered cake.<br />
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One last picture inside the hotel before leaving the next morning. Thanks Dad for making this possible. We LOVED it!!<br />
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I am SO FAR behind on my blog its a bit overwhelming. If only I could learn to just keep updated I wouldn't feel this way.</div>
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April 23rd was the birthday celebration of Ellie's 4th birthday. For the longest time she wanted a butterfly theme UNTIL she saw the movie Frozen and all things changed. I think its a cute movie, but wow its made her to prance around the house, tossing her hair around and wiggling her little bottom. Things I don't EVER remember doing as a kid:). </div>
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Needless to say we went ahead and let her have her Frozen theme Birthday Party. Oh how she LOVED it!!</div>
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Elsa and Anna cake that I made for her. She couldn't decide which girl she wanted me to make so I just threw in both dolls.<br />
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The food was really fun to do. We served Hans "we finish each others sandwhiches", Troll balls(bbq meat balls)<br />
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Sven's snacks (carrot sticks), Anna's frozen hearts (white chocolate covered strawberries)<br />
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Kristoph's ice blocks (blue jello jigglers), Melted Olaf (yogurt with pretzel sticks and eyes)<br />
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Elsa's coronation salad (ceasar salad), and Arendelle's frozen bay (blue punch)<br />
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Ellie is pleased to eat her yummy food. Hard to tell here, but she even wanted her hair like Elsa's coronation hair in the movie.<br />
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I find this picture a bit ironic in the fact that she is wearing her butterfly wings she got from her great Aunt Joan at her Frozen party. A few weeks after her birthday Ellie came to me and said "I want a butterfly birthday party next". Guess she still has her heart set on butterflies.<br />
Happy Birthday sweet Ellie. You are a true joy to have in our household. Oh how you make me laugh at your spunky attitude and goofy sayings. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6156246757252584511.post-30362283434823557302016-04-08T20:04:00.002-04:002016-04-08T20:04:50.563-04:00Washington D.C.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
On March 20th, Nick was scheduled to preach at Washington, D.C for church. With it being the beginning of our spring break we decided to make a mini vacation out of it for the kids. We left Saturday morning at 1am and drove straight to Washington. It was a 11 hour trip which wasn't too bad. Our first stop was lunch and we chose a really yummy authentic Chinese place. It had high reviews so we went for it.</div>
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We then finished our drive and went straight to the Air and Space Museum near the airport. This was one of the "to do" things on Elijah's list. (Elijah is history crazy)<br />
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So come evening we were all getting hungry and nick had this great idea..... "lets eat at a new cuisine each night for dinner and try foods we have never tried before". My kids were excited as they are adventurous when it comes to food. Liam might have been my most reserved child about this idea, but he was still very much willing. I absolutely LOVE that my kids will eat and try anything!! What a blessing.<br />
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Sunday after church we headed to Arlington Cemetery for the changing of the guards. It was a bit tough to keep Ellie so quiet during the ceremony but it was good to see. It was soooo cold this day. We had our winter coats, hats and gloves piled on.<br />
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Monday we headed back into Washington. Our hotel was actually in Vienna so we had a small drive each morning and afternoon to get into Washington. We were right by the metro station, and thought if driving goes poorly with so much traffic we will use the metro. However, driving wasn't an issue for the most part and it saved us 40$ each day by driving our own vehicle and finding a parking garage. Thanks to an app that reserves your spot within the garage for 20$ a day.<br />
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Our first stop for the day was to National Archives. (yes this was on Elijah's top of the list....he wanted to see the constitution). There was about a 45min-1 hour wait but thankfully we were sitting in the sun and we had a wall to sit on. It actually felt warm sitting here waiting so it wasn't a big deal.<br />
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We then marched on......oh the walking we were going to be doing on this vacation. I've been to Washington DC when I was a kid and the number one thing I hated about it was all the walking (let alone I am NOT a history person). Little did Liam know how much he was going to be walking. We did bring along our Schwinn bike/stroller carrier and it was extremely useful. Not only for the two youngest kids, but it has a nice large pocket in back that we kept our snacks, drinks, and coats(when not needed).<br />
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From there we walked to the Washington Monument. We did not go to the top of it, but we did walk up and get a good close look.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the World War II memorial taking a break to eat our "lunch" that we had packed. </td></tr>
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We then traveled by foot along the reflecting pool down to Lincoln Memorial. Then onto the Vietnam War Veterans Memorial Wall. (no picture)<br />
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Ahhhh, it was FINALLY time to sit down to a meal. This night we chose German. OH. MY. GOODNESS....was this by far the best meal(in my opinion). Once again we went by reviews to choose this place. It was 4pm so the restaurant was literally empty. Which I was thankful for. We again ordered three meals, and because we were so hungry we could have eaten more, but we knew we had snacks and drinks back at the hotel(each night the hotel furnishes snacks and drinks).<br />
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Tuesday we took a tour of the Capitol. We had made prior reservations through our state representative's office before our trip. <br />
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We then got to go meet our state district representative Jacki Walorski. She was in a meeting with the secretary of defense but stepped out to talk with us and get a picture. <br />
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We then traveled to the Jefferson Library (another of Elijah's top places to see).<br />
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After visiting the Library and Supreme Court, we walked ALL...THE...WAY to the other end of the National Mall to the Tidal Basin and saw the Jefferson Memorial. We circled the tidal basin and saw the Franklin Roosevelt memorial and the Martin Luther King memorial.<br />
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On our last day we drove down to Mt. Vernon to tour George Washington's home. This might have been my favorite day and perhaps that was because by the afternoon it was 72 degrees and sunny. (talk about extreme weather conditions....we got to washington with snow coming down and we leave a few days later with 70 degrees).<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfCJjnmr8fFXP_xhSDmROjvr3GUQZqXURkCb7KBc_iewlttD2FKnwkbZL3b31Ib1kCAskuwxxsmUiGF_ZVTqW1zWZ56LiQNB6WiRihZb7bFi78w6nhpiENb8d2YaWci69IeVbgPOg2m0s/s1600/IMG_9631.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfCJjnmr8fFXP_xhSDmROjvr3GUQZqXURkCb7KBc_iewlttD2FKnwkbZL3b31Ib1kCAskuwxxsmUiGF_ZVTqW1zWZ56LiQNB6WiRihZb7bFi78w6nhpiENb8d2YaWci69IeVbgPOg2m0s/s320/IMG_9631.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>
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We then drove to our next restaurant. Once again we went off of reviews. This time however, I would NOT give this place high reviews. Food was good, but the place was a nasty hole in the wall. Granted some hole in the wall places are just fine, but this place was DIRTY!! I was appalled watching the guy clean off the tables with a rag, to then wipe up the floor with the same rag, back to the tables again and then disappeared into the restroom.....REALLY?????? Ugh!<br />
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We left Thursday morning for home and was back at our abode by 9pm. What a nice educational getaway. <br />
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We had a fun time celebrating Liam's 7th birthday back in March. His actual birthday is the 20th of March but we had his party on the 13th. </div>
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Liam chose a Lego theme. It was fun planning this party. I decided to make it a "build your own" menu. Sadly I failed to take a picture of the food bars itself but we had a build your own burger bar and a build your own salad bar. Liam chose a build your own sundae bar as well so that meant no cake decorating......but then I saw on pintrest brownies that were frosted into lego's. So I decided that looked cute and I figured it was easy enough. </div>
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We also created his name and several other words out of lego's to display around. I think he had a good time. </div>
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I also found lego molds on amazon so I bought them and made jello jigglers out of them. Wow, that was time consuming but oh so fun to eat!!<br />
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We love you Liam and are so very thankful for you and the joy you bring to our family. Happy Birthday little man!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6156246757252584511.post-75298088128688526252016-01-13T14:48:00.000-05:002016-01-13T14:48:08.208-05:00 15th Anniversary!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
January 7th was our 15 year anniversary. Crazy to think we have been married that long. We were able to get away for the weekend and thru air miles and Hilton points we were also able to get this trip "free" minus the food in which we ate.</div>
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We traveled to Miami Beach leaving on Friday 8th and stayed at this lovely Hilton Cabana Hotel right along the ocean. They are attempting to make it feel very "resort-ish". They prepare your outdoor chairs with towels, walk around and offer to get you a drink or food, and pamper you. This hotel had two pools. One on the third floor deck outside and then one also down front along the beach.</div>
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When we arrived our room was not ready, but they upgraded us to ocean view/pool view room. What a PLUS, otherwise our room was suppose to be street view. </div>
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We had a few food items on our list that we wanted to make sure to try while there. We had never had Empanadas, Churros, or Cuban sandwhich. So when we arrived on Friday we walked to a really fun cafe which served a variety of foods. We tried Empanadas(pictured below) and churros here. We loved the Empanadas but would not need to have any more churros in our opinion.<br />
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We also got this very unique pizza that had ham, green olives, scrambled eggs and red roasted peppers on it. It was AWESOME!!<br />
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The hotel sent up a bottle of wine and chocolate covered strawberries the first night in honor of our 15 year anniversary. So thoughtful!!<br />
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This is the view from the third floor pool area down to the ground floor pool and beach area. <br />
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What a lovely weekend getaway we had. Warm sunny south florida. <br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6156246757252584511.post-86539698423771235212015-10-01T13:33:00.000-04:002015-10-26T17:46:50.164-04:00Garden 2015 TotalsI am happy to say it was a very successful year in the garden. I am so happy with the size of my garden and all that it holds. Today was the last day of my canning days for this year. Glad its done!!<br />
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Totals:<br />
Green Beans: 11 quarts<br />
Dill Pickles: 24 quarts, 4 pints<br />
Salsa: 33 pints<br />
Tomato Juice: 28 quarts<br />
Rhubarb Jam: 11 pints<br />
Pickled Beets: 13 pints, 3 quarts<br />
Freezer Corn: 12 quarts<br />
Applesauce: 17.5 quarts (12 gallons apples picked)<br />
Blueberries frozen: 24 lbs<br />
Zuchini Bread: 20 loavesUnknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6156246757252584511.post-2793675423129043372015-09-16T20:54:00.000-04:002015-09-16T20:54:00.177-04:00First Day of School<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sure do love and pray you boys have a wonderful year this year. Work hard, put in every effort, have fun and above all....be an example for Christ.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6156246757252584511.post-90415318103983073952015-09-16T20:46:00.002-04:002015-09-16T20:46:17.244-04:00It is finished....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ours hopes and dreams are to put in a kitchen on the right side of the above picture. We found a fridge on a garage sale and we hope to install cabinets/counter, sink, and an oven this winter.<br />
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We left on the 19th of August and headed to Knoxville, TN. We stayed two nights at an Embassy Suite so that Nick could work at his old stomping grounds Thursday and Friday. The kids and I tried to keep busy during the day to help pass time.<br />
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One afternoon we spent several hours at a local splash pad and park. Yeah it wasn't probably the greatest place for Elijah(bored easily) but the rest of the kids enjoyed it.</div>
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We were able to eat at our favorite restaurant on the lake one evening and then the other evening we ate out with our "old neighbors" Lucas and Gina. </div>
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On Saturday morning (4am) we headed on to Arley, Alabama for a 6 night stay at Nick's coworkers home he owns on the Lewis Smith Lake.</div>
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Such a beautiful home on such a beautiful clear calm lake. We truly enjoyed this to the fullest.<br />
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One of the great things about this is the fact that you don't have to pack a lunch for the boat, nor do you have to take "all equipment" needed to have fun. Just leave it all on the dock and come in and out to swap out equipment. <br />
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Each day we sat outside on the patio for lunch so we had a great view of the lake.<br />
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One of Caden's sayings that week was "a first time for everything". So of course he was trying to jump wakes on the wake board.<br />
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And he became a master pro at flipping off the high jump and the walkway that lead out to the dock.</div>
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Elijah really worked on getting AIR on the wake board. One time he was able to get across the entire wake width, but landed with a bang into the water. OUCH!!</div>
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Elijah really enjoy's slalom skiing as well. I believe he prefers slalom over wake boarding. So he kept trying to "lay down" on the water as he went outside the wake.</div>
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Our boys are not to big into tubing but they sure seemed to have fun hopping tubes since we were able to use the owners other tube along with our tube.<br />
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And as I was snapping pictures of the boys on the tubes I looked back into the boat and this is what I saw......how precious. I think Ellie was praying for their safety!!!</div>
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And due to Caden's popular phrase "a first time for everything" he got up on one ski as well and really LOVED it. By day two he was in and out of the wake.<br />
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In the evenings we found plenty to do. We played around the world...<br />
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Now Liam was just as adventurous as the big boys. Here he tried wake boarding for the first time and with much success he was up and at it quite quickly. No picture but he also got up on double skis. Needless to say he enjoyed wake boarding more than double skis.<br />
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However his all time favorite is knee boarding. He was quite good at it by the end of the week.<br />
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And FINALLY Ellie was jumping in. She has always been afraid to get her head wet, but not after this vacation. She was jumping in constantly.</div>
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Elijah diving off of the high jump from the dock.<br />
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On Thursday we cleaned up the cabin, and headed onto our next stop....Gatlinburg, TN with the Harold Gutwein Family. We celebrated gramps and grams 65th wedding anniversary. Thanks to them for making this possible. We stayed in the beautiful Gatlinburg Mansion in the mountains. Such a lovely view and the cabin was AWESOME!! 14 bedrooms with attached bath in all bedrooms. A large kitchen enough to seat 46+ people. A 35 seat home theater room, a couple hot tubs, 2 arcade rooms and lots of space:).<br />
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One of the bedrooms was used for all the little girls. The first night they all slept in the top queen bunk bed.....of course they got no sleep and therefore the remainder of the nights they had to use all the beds in the room:).<br />
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Having fun with the arcade games and pool table and air hockey.<br />
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One afternoon the majority of the group went for a hike. Sadly Elijah walked into a bee hive and was stung at least 15 times that we could count. Poor guy. Thankfully he has been stung before so I knew he wasn't allergic.<br />
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Thanks Gramps and Grams for taking us to this Mansion!!</div>
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We got home from our extended vacation on August 31st. What a wonderful couple weeks away. However it is ALWAYS nice to get home and back into routine. </div>
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Its been a good year. The garden has done pretty well. I was having trouble with my zucchini plants this year with blossom rot, but with some lime and calcium my plants overcame that obstacle and have produced MORE THAN enough zucchini.<br />
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After the lettuce was finished I planted another two rows of beets so that this fall I can do some canning there. I hope to can around 10 quarts of beets.<br />
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My green beans did great (compared to last year) and I had them in abundance so I tried my hand at canning green beans as well which is new to me this year.<br />
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Here is the run down of what I have done this summer in "putting up" produce for the winter.<br />
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Green Beans: 8 quarts<br />
Dill Pickles: 21 quarts and 4 pints<br />
Salsa: 33 pints<br />
Rhubarb Jam: 11 pints<br />
Applesauce: 17.5 quarts<br />
Blueberries: 24 lbs picked<br />
Sweet Corn: 9 quarts<br />
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I also take the abundance of zucchini's that I have and make bread and freeze those. So I have done 18 loaves of zucchini bread.<br />
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My regular tomatoes are NOT ready yet. Only the roma tomatoes which is what I make salsa with. So once those regular tomatoes are ready I hope to do my usual 30 quarts of juice. We shall see if I can get that many tomatoes this year. My tomato plants don't look the greatest. With all the high winds and rain we had in June each of my tomato plants blew over at least 3 times causing them to be uprooted. Each time I added more "steaks" into the ground to hold down the cages and I replanted the plants. So we shall see.<br />
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I anxiously await VACATION!!!!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6156246757252584511.post-82580116603511822762015-07-13T13:40:00.004-04:002015-07-13T13:43:37.774-04:00Warrior Dash 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I have always wanted to do some kind of mud run. A couple years ago Nick did a Mud Run with a group of guys and I tagged along to take pictures. Man.....did it look fun!!</div>
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SOOOO.....I took it upon myself to search for a local mud run near us. My friend from Tennessee had recommended doing a warrior dash. I have never heard of them before and so I searched their website and low and behold.....they were going to be in Crawfordsville, IN. </div>
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So I asked my dear hubby if he would like to join me in the mud. He said "yes" and I quickly signed us up.</div>
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Along the 5K route they had staff taking pictures at the 12 obstacles that are within the race. We stopped to pose for this one but neither of us remember doing this pose at all??<br />
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We came home from St. Louis to find a basement with an inch of water throughout the entire basement. While we were gone many inches of rain fell. Our sump pump outside that empties the tiles around our house underground stopped working. We didn't realize this until after working 5 hours on extracting water that the water was still coming in through the ground/wall base. Once we got the pump working the water stopped coming in and we finally made progress on removing the water. My dad, grandpa, dad's hired man, nick, and I worked from 8am-1pm using shop vac's to remove most of the water. We then called in a company to finish the job.</div>
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Never in all my grandfathers life has he seen this much water sitting around. Here is our front yard!!<br />
It is now been nearly three weeks since our flooded front yard and we officially have a drive way back. Our yard still isn't completely mowable yet, but we are getting there.<br />
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This was about three days after we got home that Nick had to go down into the sump pump area because it was back leaking because of all the pressure of water underground and around the tile. This was at 11pm at night!! I was holding a lantern for him to see.<br />
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We had to remove the carpet due to the stainmaster pad that was underneath the carpet. It has a plastic top which didn't allow the water extraction company to remove the amount they felt was safe for drying purposes without getting mold. When they removed our carpet they found MOLD!! (not from this water issue but from when my dear son left a window open and I failed to dry it properly). So we had them remove the 9ftX14ft piece of molded carpet in hopes we could still order the same carpet. Sadly it no longer is available. <br />
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Baseboards were also removed to help dry it faster.<br />
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We are currently under construction here at the waibel household and will be until sometime in August when new flooring will be laid in the basement. I am currently in the midst of painting. Stay tuned sometime in august for a finished basement project. <br />
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PS: I am counting my blessings it was only an inch of water and ONLY water.....and not sewer like some around here had. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6156246757252584511.post-75215445878110709022015-07-02T22:32:00.001-04:002015-07-03T15:11:32.910-04:00St. Louis, MO<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Nick was to preach at St. Louis church on the 12th so we decided to make a long weekend getaway. We sure did enjoy our time away. Lots of things to do in St. Louis so we stayed busy.</div>
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Several hours of swimming. When we weren't out and about, you could find everyone in the pool. sadly the hot tub was broken all weekend.</td></tr>
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One day we went to the City Museum. We are SOOOO glad we left an entire day for this event. There is so much to see and so much to do. My boys were a bit skeptical by the name and even the outside of the building looks run down and awful. But when we got to the front entrance of the place my boys eyes lite up and they were so excited. So much climbing around and sliding down, and getting lost:).<br />
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This was a wooden indoor climbing place. It was a jungle of path ways and openings in which you never knew where you would end up. Of course we lost the kids a few times, but nothing serious. We even lost nick once. He went down a slide and we had no clue where the end of the slide was.<br />
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This was an indoor Skate park....minus the skates of course....so you just ran around these ramps and funnels. Personally this was my favorite area of the 4 story city museum.<br />
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Ellie liked the ball pit but honestly I'm not a huge fan of these things....ewwwww.<br />
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Pretty cool chairs they had here. You just roll around on them.<br />
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Alright folks....this is the outdoor part that caught my boys attentions pretty quickly. What boy doesn't want to crawl all over and go to great heights to investigate planes up in the sky!!<br />
Even Ellie did this stuff. She was more brave than I was. Yes, I did crawl through all that stuff but ONLY once! The boys all did it several times.<br />
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Nick, Elijah and Caden going through the tallest wire tunnel.</div>
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We also went up into the arch. Something I had never done before. A bit claustrophobic in the tiny little "cell" you ride to the top. The view from the top was a little "dizzy" feeling for me, but the kids sure loved it.<br />
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Besides the arch and the brewery we also went to the FREE St. Louis zoo!! Sure had fun here. Kids enjoyed the animals and got a good amount of walking in:). (ok, so kids didn't like all the walking, but still they enjoyed the zoo).</div>
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Kids wishing the gorilla would carry them through the park.<br />
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We got to the park right when it opened at 8am. From 8-9 am there are a few things that were "free" that normally cost to do. Like the stingray encounter. Kids loved this. Oh and for those who plan to visit the zoo anytime soon....get there at 8am and you can get street parking which is free and then you don't have to pay the 15$ parking fee!!! <br />
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Last but not least we saw something pretty cool at the zoo. Something I had no idea took place. You learn something new everyday. This hippo plunged into the water and proceeded to open his mouth WIDE....and what do you know.....all these fish come swarming into his mouth. They were cleaning the hippo's teeth!!! It was amazing to watch. So many fish swimming around and IN HIS MOUTH!<br />
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We spent ALL day here. From the time they opened till they closed. Work provided an "ok" lunch, but then we decided to head to the Farmhouse for dinner after wards. I sure enjoy that place. For those who have never gone.....and have heard its expensive....it can be, but if you are up for a burger and fries....GET THE KIDS MEAL!!! Its half the cost, but literally its bigger than any regular sized hamburger. Yummm!! Thanks Tate & Lyle for a fun filled day!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6156246757252584511.post-79285593126124166122015-07-02T21:18:00.003-04:002015-07-02T21:18:58.210-04:00June 9th<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy 10th Birthday Caden David!! You are such a joy to have in our household. You bring lots of laughter and fun antics to the family dynamics. <br />
Caden chose to have a "friends slumber party" for his birthday this year. He invited some of his best friends from church. Actually its his entire Sunday School class at church.<br />
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Swimming....was missing one of his friends in this picture.<br />
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I made pizza dough for the kids and then let them each make their own personal pan however they liked it. It was fun to see what each boy wanted to put on their pizza and the quantity of each item!!!<br />
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Time for gifts. He got some fun gifts. A model truck to put together, a frisbee type activity, water guns, money, etc.<br />
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Time for cake and ice cream. He chose a secret agent theme. I was able to find some plates to go with this theme and then I had to just "wing" it for the cake. Glad he wasn't to picky on the cake....it certainly wasn't anything special.<br />
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Happy Birthday Caden!! We love you!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6156246757252584511.post-9379815275961636542015-06-04T21:46:00.001-04:002015-06-04T21:46:29.299-04:00May 11th<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy 13th Birthday Elijah!!</div>
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Elijah chose to have one last family birthday celebration. I told him this was his final year of making a huge ordeal out of his birthday. Yes, we will still celebrate his birthday yearly, but will just do it a more simple style. Maybe a friend or two, going out to eat, etc.<br />
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And THEN we had a huge interruption....a very large snake was slithering right outside of our garage door!!! WHAT??? OH. MY. WORD.....I have seen a snake here and there in my yard when mowing but I have NEVER seen one this size!!! I was in utter disgust. Needless to say I still watch where I walk when walking in the grass. You just never know........<br />
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The kids had a water balloon fight, rode the zip line and enjoyed the go kart. Then it was time for gifts....<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elijah wanted a gun cleaning set. So this was his gift from Aunt Karis and Uncle Austin...money folded into a gun.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elijah went shopping beforehand with Grandpa and Grandma Waibel so this was the gift of what he had picked out.</td></tr>
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Elijah didn't have a theme for his party except for the fact that his napkins had a 13th on them. So he picked 2- 4 layered cakes for me to make and wanted Coffee ice cream and Vanilla ice cream to go with it:).<br />
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This year for Christmas we got out kids something they have been asking for since we moved to this house nearly 6 years ago!! Needless to say they were thrilled and were fine with the fact that when they opened it up for Christmas this year that we told them this was their birthday gift for this year as well:). </div>
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This was at the beginning stage when the zip line was up but the proper zip line platform was incomplete. Nick giving it a go and trying it out. The zip line is 180 ft long.</div>
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Notice the ladder that was just propped up against the tree house so we could stand on the roof.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elijah took his turn</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Even Ellie took a turn</td></tr>
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And then the platform was complete by Elijah's family birthday party and this allowed anyone who wanted to to feel somewhat "safe" and have a ride. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is my Grandpa Gutwein doing it. </td></tr>
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You will notice my grandpa isn't wearing a safety harness. We didn't make the adults wear one if they didn't want to, however it is MANDATORY that any child who rides this zip line MUST wear a harness!!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My dad even did the zip line.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And to top it off my mother did it as well. She didn't climb the ladder but rather we pulled her up by a rope to the top and then let her "go".</td></tr>
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Thanks to Nick for building such a nice platform. Anyone who wants a ride.....give us a call. :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6156246757252584511.post-79416010036616437162015-05-08T21:46:00.001-04:002015-05-08T21:46:18.435-04:00Rhubarb Jam<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
A new adventure for me......making my own rhubarb jam. </div>
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Did it turn out??? Not exactly. Oh don't get me wrong it taste amazing and I could eat it by the spoon full, but sadly it didn't set or thicken enough to be worthy of toast. SOOOO....instead we popped open a jar tonight and dished up ourselves some vanilla ice cream and emptied one pint of rhubarb "jam" onto our ice cream. Delish!!! I'm thinking it won't take us long to gobble the remaining 7 pints I have. I'm thinking even pouring this scrumptious stuff on top of pancakes!!! Guess I'll wait for my rhubarb to grow some more and give it ONE more try. Perhaps someone who reads this blog can give me a tip or has a recipe they know is tried and true:)!!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6156246757252584511.post-7111181871965004122015-05-08T21:39:00.005-04:002015-05-08T22:07:28.658-04:00Garden 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One of the things I truly enjoy is gardening. This year I was so excited to have nick help me make my garden 3 times the size it was last year!!! I crammed so much produce into it last year and I knew if I wanted to do more canning this fall that the garden had to increase in size. In picture below the original garden is the left side of the garden where the black tiles are sticking up. We use railroad ties to outline our garden and keep it as a raised garden. So the lines dividing my garden into three sections are the railroad ties. The front right corner is the only thing that got planted after this picture was taken and that corner contains my watermelon and cantaloupe. This year we also made a new fence around the garden to keep wild animals at bay. Those crazy deer, squirrel, rabbits, wild turkeys and such that roam our yard!!!<br />
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In my garden this year I have planted<br />
4 big boy tomatoes<br />
6 roma tomatoes<br />
2 green pepper plants<br />
2 mini sweet colored pepper plants<br />
1 banana pepper plant<br />
1 habenaro pepper plant<br />
1 salsa garden pepper plant<br />
1 orange pepper plant<br />
1 eggplant<br />
2 rows of detroit beets<br />
2 rows of bush green beans<br />
1 row of green onions<br />
3 plants of english cucumbers<br />
2 rows of lettuce<br />
2 rows of sugar snap peas<br />
2 zuchinni plants<br />
1 yellow squash plant<br />
5 bush pickler plants<br />
3 hills of cantaloupe<br />
2 hills of watermelon<br />
rhubarb plant<br />
and in the back right corner I have 3 plots of herbs (cilantro, parsley and basil)<br />
and on the left edge of the picture you see a dark soil spot...this is dill.<br />
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The white dot in the center of the garden is the water source. Nick dug a trench and put pvc pipe underground from our house out to the garden so that there is no water hose strung across the yard. This allows for a wonderful sprinkler to sit amidst the garden and water it with ease. (hence the turquoise sprinkler sitting in mid air).<br />
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I use cut grass as my soil cover to keep weeds at bay and soil moist. It works awesome and then its great for compost come fall. Looks like I'll be busy this fall when all that produce is ready. <br />
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Actually......I started a bit of canning today already.....<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6156246757252584511.post-88451751000529344502015-04-27T21:27:00.003-04:002015-04-27T21:29:07.493-04:00Happy 3rd Birthday!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
April 23rd was Ellie's birthday. We had a large party for her back on April 11th and had 32 guests. Since I don't have enough room indoors I set up the party out in our garage. It worked well and Im thinking of having Elijah's out there to in May. It was a crazy busy weekend and so I decided Haystacks would be an easy meal. Thanks to who all helped bring toppings and fresh fruit salad.</div>
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Ellie adores Sofia the First and thus gave me a great party theme. It never fails that she requests that movie every time we enter into the vehicle. </div>
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Eating her yummy haystack and fruit. I also made a purple cow punch as the choice of beverage.<br />
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We put Ellie and all her gifts on the steps in the garage so everyone could see her quite well. She was cracking me up.....thrilled to open gifts then totally "show off" as she opened each gift. Such a girl in SO MANY WAYS!! Below she was flipping her hair around as she proceeded to put her new sunglasses onto her shirt and her purple headband into her hair.<br />
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After gifts its always time for cake and ice cream. She was pleased to pose with her princess cake.<br />
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Ready set blow!!!<br />
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Because of the number of guests we had I also made rose designed cupcakes. It was my first time at making roses actually and I loved it. Guess I know what I plan to do for her 4th birthday:).<br />
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Ellie Mae....oh how you light up our lives. You are a true joy to have in the family. We love your spunk and love the fun little things you do that make us laugh. So very thankful to be your parents and look forward to what is in store for your life ahead. We love you!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5