Homemade Bread

Making homemade bread for her elective class- Home Ec. 

Turned out... mar-ve-lous!!

 

Canning

We canned a lot this summer! Today we made green salsa and green chili sauce. 

 

Homemade Pasta Sauce

YUM!!

 

Shucking Corn

Every other year we buy between 200-300 ears of corn to freeze. There is an assembly line of shucking, washing, boiling, cutting it off the cob and then putting them all in freezer bags to store in the freezer. It usually lasts us about 2 years and then we need to do it all over again. It's good for the kids to learn these skills!

 

Preserving our Garden

We plant a garden every year and try to preserve as much as we can from it. This year we got tons of zucchini, cucumbers, squash, peppers, jalapeños, tomatoes, and onions. This year we made several batches of relish, sweet and dill. We canned dill pickles with the cucumbers, and that was a hit! We made several batches of green chili sauce and tomato sauce, salsa and also a big batch of apple pie filling, from all the apples we went and picked. So we made quite a bit with all we had. The girls  helped and learned quite a bit too. 

Conference Weekend/ Apple pies

 

Fourth of July!

Hanging out with good friends on the 4th, there is nothing better. We love our group of friends and always have a blast! 

Ryan gets asked every year if he would sing the National Anthem at the yearly fourth of July Breakfast put on by another ward in our Stake with a few other guys. It's always been a privilege to hear him and the guys sing. 

We also got invited by some of out best friends to go boating and spend the time on the lake! I love boating and water skiing so of course I wouldn't pass that opportunity up! I used to go boating with my second family, my best friend, Kim growing up and have so many fun memories of skiing and hanging out on the lake with the Clayton's. 

 

Thanksgiving