Canning Day & Baby Watch!!

We spent Saturday morning making pickles and picante sauce! Came out great-even if we did have to buy the cukes from Wood Duck Farm's road side stand! Ours just didn't grow-no matter how much watering we did! But- the tomatoes, peppers and onions all came from the our garden-minus the ones we got from the Allbright's! Good stuff!
And we are on baby watch!! Alana is to check in at the hospital at 5:30 am in the morning to be induced!! So baby Kylee will be here tomorrow! The kids seem to be more excited at this point to get to spend the night with us!! Jordan has enough toys packed-you'd think he was going cross country instead of across the yard! And Kaytlynn is worried about Grandpa not feeding her! We'll have to leave here at 4:30 am to get there on time-hopefully it will go quickly-Kaytlynn sure came fast!!
And THANK YOU GOD!!! It finally rained today! It was SO wonderful!! We still have a chance to get some more overnight-and it seems the grass is already growing!! Hopefully we'll be able to move the cows across the road by the end of the weekend-there is just no grass left anywhere!
I'll post baby pics asap! Gotta get things ready for tomorrow!

Vacation Pics!

The crew with the Penquin at the Aquarium-Mady doesn't like him at all-Kaytlynn didn't either after this pic was taken!

All of our penquins!

Well, my summer break started today. It was so hard leaving work yesterday knowing I wasn't coming back until July 26th. We have so much still to do before school starts back again. I let my boss know that she could call me at anytime and I'll come in and do whatever needs to be done. But I do have lots to do at home before then!

I have an eye appointment in a little while-I've gotten to where I can't see with my glasses and can even see better without them! The crew has been working some on the bathroom remodel-but we've hit a snag-the clawfoot won't quite fit in the area where the old tub was! So now the plumbing will have to be rearranged to make everything fit! So much fun!

Jeff made 14 pints of pickles on Monday and I finished up the juice with 4 more this morning. We are still waiting on the call from the locker plant to pick up the steer-sure thought it would be ready by now-but the longer it hangs in the cooler-the more tender the meat! Jeff's been tinkering with the welding machine-the valves are stuck and it won't run-Shorty was needing it to finish up his new catch pen-he's making a little headway-only 1 valve is still stuck.

Hurricane Alex is not sending any rain our way it appears. It has given us cloudy days which mean cooler temps though! We do get a slight shower every now and then-but hardly enough to even drip off the house.

We are having Jeff's dad's 80th birthday party on Sunday-he still isn't doing very well-should be a pretty big crowd-he has a very large family. Gonna have hamburgers and hotdogs and birthday cake! We still have a good chance of rain on Sunday-but we'll just make the best of it!

Have a great day!