HAPPY THANKSGIVING

We hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Pies, Pies and more Pies

Today I made pies, pies, and more pies. If it was up to my family they would have me make so many pies, but this year I told them I would only make five.

This is what they chose:

Two cherry cream cheese

Banana cream

Peach

Pumpkin

I was to tired to go down to the basement to take pictures of the cream pies that are in the refrigerator, so you will just have to look at my pumpkin and peach. They turned out perfect! Hopefully they will taste just as good as they look tomorrow.

Thankful & Grateful

At this time of year I am especially thankful and grateful for so many things in my life. I could name so many, many things, but I thought I would just write down a few of them. I have been kind of down lately not being able to be with family for the holidays, but then I remember that I have been blessed beyond measure for so many good things that it brings everything back into perspective for me.

1. My Heavenly Father and my brother Jesus Christ.

2. The church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

3. Doug, for his love and support and how hard he works to provide for us.

4. Jessica my first born, who is talented in so many things.

5. Hunter who is very unselfish and loving.

6. Spencer who makes me laugh daily.

7. Taylor who loves mom, dad & life.

8. My parents for raising me in the gospel and teaching me correct principles.

9. Doug's parents for raising such a righteous son.

10. Family - all of my extended family

11. A Forever Family

12. Temples and being worthy to attend them.

13. Friends - you know who you are.

14. My calling in Young Women's

15. The Young Women - I never thought I could ever love these girls as much as I truly do.

16. A job

17. A beautiful home and everything in it.

18. Talents

19. Health

20. Scrapbooking, my form of keeping a journal.

21. The scriptures

One Word Game

Where is your mobile phone? purse

Where is your significant other? work

Your hair color? blond

Your mother? unselfish

Your father? giving

Your favorite thing? Gospel

Your dream last night? nothing

Your dream goal?

Room Your In? Den

Your hobby? scrapbooking

Your fear? snakes

Where do you want to be in 6 years? grandmother

Where were you last night? home

What you're not? organized

Where you grew up? AZ

The last thing you did? vacuumed

What are you wearing? clothes

Your TV? old

Your pets? none

Your computer? laptop

Your mood? happy

Missing someone? family

Your car? new

Something you're not wearing? socks

Favorite shop? Target

Your summer? enjoyable

Love someone? family

Your favorite color? red

When is the last time you laughed? this morning

Try keeping it to just one word.

I tag Jennifer, Kathleen, Heather, Mykelle, Cheria, Sarah, Becky, Kimberly,Kelly

On Tuesday, Jessica and I were driving to an appointment and we were talking about all of the canning I had been doing. She asked "Mom, will you teach me how to can?" I responded of course, I had been wanting to do some jam, with the berries that I have frozen. So are asked her if she would like to can some jam? We decided to do it yesterday after school.

I taught her two different methods: First we made Raspberry Freezer Jam

Second: We cooked & made Blackberry Jam

Jessica stirring the jam while sitting on the counter, which she know she is not allowed to sit on.

Ladling the jam into the jars. Cleaning of the rims and putting on the lid & ring. Turning them upside down. Finished product: 9 jars of Blackberry jam

Time with my daughter: priceless How many teenagers do you know that ask there mother's to teach them how to can? Jessica said" She wanted to learn, because she will need to know how to do it when she is a mother." She also is going to use it as one of her young women projects. I had fun teaching and speding time in the kitchen with her. She will now be able to pass this knowledge on to her children one day.

This is what I have been up to lately:

Canning gound turkey Getting ready to pressure cook

The cooking process was not bad, but the cool down process took forever.The finished product: 4 quarts & 11 pints = 18 pounds of turkey

I love these moments

Jessica

Hunter Taylor

Spencer with duckie (from Grandma Udall) and otter (from Grandma Slade)

Bottling Butter

Our Relief Society President sent the weekly R.S. announcements and on the email was a link to this blog Green Apple Orchard. It shows you step by step on how to can butter. Yes I said butter. I got the itch and on Wed. I canned 6 pounds of butter and ended up with 15 half pint jars. It was so easy that on Thursday I decided to can more. Kroger had a good sale on butter, $1.70 a pound. I did 18 pounds more of butter. I ended up with 45 more jars. In total I canned 60 jars of butter in two days. It only took a couple of hours each day.

Here is the starting of melting the butter.

The butter in the jars needing a good shake.

The jars of butter cooling in the refrigerator.

The finished product. This was the first day, I did not take pictures of the second day when I did 45 jars. I should have, was just to tired to find the camera. I recommend you trying this. If you have any questions give me a call it really was very easy to do. My next adventure is to can ground turkey and chicken. Wish me luck I have not done this by myself, but have been taught how to do it, but it was five years ago.