November 3, 2010

This is the first post in days. The reason for the gap in recent posts was the 400 pounds of apples in my garage that needed processing (no exaggeration). About a million quarts of applesauce, apple pie filling, and apple butter later, I am almost done with canning for the year. I am pickling beets tonight and then I am putting away my water bath.

In the mean time, much has happened here. Rachel had a family birthday at our house on Sunday. All of her most important little people were there. Namely all of her cousins. At one point she came inside quite indignant, and had this to say. "Sam is not being very nice! He is pushing Brady down and NOT ME!" What she meant was that Sam was pushing Brady down the slide. She was disappointed that instead of sympathy from us all she got was a big laugh. Speaking of big laughs, Lilly was the hit of the party. She was doing her best to get a rise out of everyone, and she did well. Lilly has so much personality. Everywhere we go, she makes people smile.

Carson is such a boy. His new way of showing affection to anything male is to tackle, hit, kick, or punch it. So if you run into him on the street and he attacks you, just know it is out of love. He thinks his boy cousins are the coolest. While Asher was giving the blessing on the food, Carson marched up to him, jumped on him, and pushed him down. We had to start the prayer over.

Yesterday Shelby took the kids with him to vote. He asked Rachel before they left if she wanted to go voting. On the way there she asked "what do you need to take on a boat?" Shelby told her she would need a life jacket and a swimsuit. She responded "Dad! I forgot my swimsuit!" She thought he had asked her if she wanted to go boating. Today I asked her how she liked voting and she said "there wasn't any water."

OK, really quickly. For Halloween Rachel was a princess for the 3rd year in a row, Lilly was a ladybug, and Carson was a lion. We did trunk-or-treating at the church Saturday night, and then we carved jack-o-lanterns at home. Lilly's was FREAKY!