Is this normal?

I was washing dishes and Dawson came in and told me that Cora had climbed up the ladder and was on Caits bed. How did this happen I thought, Dawson is too little to help and Cait is watching Fiddler on the Roof? I should have known that she could do it herself. She is very brave and finally of my three kids I have a climber. She climbs everything. I guess I should fix their bedroom door so that she can't climb up there and break her neck falling.

Do you think I should change her diaper?

Ramblings

Two things: I have juiced and yielded over 50 quarts of grape juice!!!! Can you believe it? It has taken me a total of about 20 hours to finish and an enormous back ache. But the juice is delicious and we will be all the healthier for it.
Number 2: Dawson just might be a vegetarian. He learned yesterday where meat came from and he was not too happy to find out that we have been eating cows, chickens, and pigs. He learned that through hunting we kill animals and then eat them. He was all about shooting them, but he said only mommy and daddy can eat meat. Even Cait and Cora can't eat it. He went on and on about not eating any more meat. Apparently, today he has not thought about it, because he just ate a bunch of ham.

Number 3: Sorry I need to add a number three. Miss Belle said Pretty yesterday. She grabbed my necklace and said "pretty". I was so proud.

More And More And More

I guess I should not have been so ambitious with canning the apples, because now Dave has me doing Grapes!!! Since Dave's Grandpa died we wondered who would be using the grapes from his vines, no one had claimed them yet so it was my job today to go pick them and now I have to juice them and can them. PROBLEM, no one in Tooele has bottles anymore?? What's a girl to do? Well since we took the grapes, Ann doesn't need all of her jars, fortunately she has a lot, because from the pictures you will see I have a lot of grapes to juice.

Aren't they cute? Cait was a very big helper today. But there was still snow on the ground at grandma's so it was cold and her little hands were freezing.

Fire Station

I had the privilege of walking Cait and her kindergarten class to the fire station today. Cait was so excited to have mom in the classroom with her and it was fun to see how she reacts to her teacher and friends. I was really glad to be able to spend that time with her. She loved the station and has been talking about it all day. She even gave daddy a lesson in fire safety today.


My camera was on the fritz so I had to use my cell phone, so sorry about the fuzzy pics.

Cait and one of her bestest friends,

Class pic anyone? I accidentally cut out the other teacher and the one fire fighter that talked the most. Oops.

To Think....

I blamed the noise on the baby.

Hairy Apples????

Okay a little bit of a creepy title, but it's October right?

First things first. I like to do funny things to Cait's hair sometimes. She wanted her hair to be curly for school today, so last night after a bath, this is what I did to her.

And this morning this is what it looked like. This is before I combed it.

And after.

No I didn't send her to school like that. I pulled it back. She thought it looked glamorous, but her mean boy cousins made fun of her.

Today we bottled apples. I wanted to do it the easiest way possible, so we peeled them and put them in water then sealed them. Easy as that. But tomorrow I am going to be making jam and apple butter so it may not be as easy. We have a lot of apples so if you are interested let me know and I might be willing to part with some.

The little baby jar is Cait. She wants to watch it for a long time and see what happens to the apples.

When We're helping We're Happy....

Apple Pickin' time has come. Maybe a little early, but I am in hurry to have canning season over. So the furling and I got busy. I am a little afraid of ladders and falling so I couldn't get all the way to the top, Dave will have to do that when he gets home, but we did get a few. Probably enough to do some Apple Butter and that's it. I'm alright with that though. The kids did great at first and then got sick of helping when I asked them to clean up the apples that had fallen from the tree and were all yucky. So much for being happy when helping. Enjoy the pics.Buddy worked hard even though he hurt his finger. Which is a big feet for him. He usually quits when he gets the smallest of boo-boos. Checkout Miss Belle, always trying to steal the spot light.

So I took a pic of her so that she would be happy.

Look at that hair fly. She wants to be a super model. Maybe Herbal Essences will hire her for some kid shampoo or something.

The crew at work, can you believe it? I hardly could, it was a miracle.