What we've been up to...

Since it's been a little while since I've posted anything...I thought I'd post some pictures of us from the last couple weeks.

This was the last nice day before it started to really get cold. We spent a little time outside blowing bubbles and having fun.

A week ago Monday for FHE we decided to paint some pumpkins. Nathan had a blast! I tried to put an old T-shirt on him but he wouldn't let me, that would be why he is only wearing his diaper.
Contemplating his pumpkin? I'm not sure what this was about.
Chris got in on the fun too!
Audrey didn't paint one, but she's still supporting us and looking cute.
The finished pumpkins. (Yes I helped Nathan with his. He needed a pirate!)Nathan trying on Daddy's hat.
Audrey must have had too much fun in her saucer. She just wore herself out.
I found Chris and Audrey zonked out the other night. Too cute, had to take a picture.

More completed projects...

I've still been working on completing more projects since we've had Audrey, in case anyone's been wondering, and have finished a few (I can't show you all of them, some are for Christmas and I wouldn't want to ruin any surprises!)
Here's a peak at 2 things I've done with more to come.

This cute bag was made as a church bag for toys and such, but with having 6 outside pockets works great as a diaper bag and since I needed a new (bigger) one anyway, it's perfect. The best part...everything except for the straps for the handle were all leftovers from other projects. I got the pattern out of this fun magazine "Quilts and More".These 2 beanie hats were made to donate to work for it's annual "boo-tique" (I know cheesy) to earn money for our United Way campaign. Again left over yarn so no cost to me! Yay!
Now I'm having fun trying to also get caught up on scrapbooking, so I might post a few of those as I get them done too.

Enjoy!

Too cute!!

I decided to post some random pics again. Nothing really exciting happening around here.

Looks like Nathan's up to something, or will be soon....

My boys!

Nathan and mom. A little self portrait, glad I only got part of my face :)
And our little princess! She's been enjoying her self quite a bit in her little exersaucer. Got a few pictures of the fun!

This picture makes me laugh. She's always sticking her fingers in her mouth giving herself the fishhook, but this picture reminds me of Dr. Evil from Austin Powers..."One million dollars!" LOL

I can!!!

So, last year when we planted our garden we really wanted to be able to can some stuff. Mainly salsa. Well we didn't get our tomatoes on soon enough or nearly enough when they did start to ripen to do anything.
Well, this year we had plenty of tomatoes and we were able to make 2 batches of salsa. I made a mild batch (for me) last weekend and this weekend made a hot batch (for Chris, although he says it's not too hot, whatever!). Here's some pictures of the yummy stuff.

This is it cookin', waiting for it to boil.
Getting it put into jars.
Into the hot water they go.
The finished product. Yummy!!!!
Will the success of my canning this year, although not much, we hope to do more next year. I may get in some whole tomatoes this year, but that all depends on how many more tomatoes I can get before the vines freeze...and how ambitious I get! I'll keep ya posted.