Happy Fall!

To our family, Fall means...

school-time, the Fall Festival, Halloween costumes, the Galena Country Fair, bow season, football games, apple picking, wearing sweatshirts and jeans, shorter days, and great open-window sleeping weather. What does Fall mean at your house?

My Theory is Blown

I've always thought Bryton and Avery preferred foods they weren't forced to eat while they were in my womb. Avery, for example, prefers hot and spicy stuff like "zesty pickles" and salsa, while I craved sweets when I was pregnant with her. Bryton prefers sweets, even though I went through a bottle of hot sauce a week, as a condiment, the entire time I was pregnant with him. Avery has since blown that little theory of mine out of the water. I had an immense craving for Ramen Noodles the last 2 months of my pregnancy with her (this didn't help my sky-rocketing blood pressure, at the time). So I let Avery try them a few months ago and now she'd eat Ramen Noodles for every meal if I'd let her - but don't worry, I don't let her. I can only blame myself, and I just hate that!

One Batch Down...

Yesterday I put up a triple batch of salsa, according to the recipe I use...which sounds like a lot, but really only produced 15 pints. So, I'm considering this one batch. The way we go through salsa, we'll need a little more than that to last 'til next summer :)

Mommmm....

This morning Bryton's school bus pulled up, and as I was shuffling Bryton down the stairs in my bare feet, (I was showered and dressed for the day, just no shoes yet) I slipped and missed a step. Let me tell ya, it hurt because I managed to land with my leg completely straight, causing a lovely jarring effect on my back. Anyways...we had to keep on a movin' to the bus and because I was too busy thinking about how much that little slip hurt and how great it must have looked from the bus driver's perspective...I didn't think about how embarrassed Bryton was 'til awhile later. He said, "Mommm" a few times in that tone :) Should I just warn him now that his mother is a klutz, and this is only one example of the many times throughout his life that I will embarrass him, purposefully or not?! Nahhh...we'll let him figure that one out on his own.

Our Little Man

Tomato Time

Ohhhh...its that time of year. I only hope that I can keep up!!! Lets see, what will we do w/ our tomatoes this year?! Can salsa (at least one variety); make fresh Garden Salsa; create BLT's, tomatoes on cottage cheese, tomatoes w/ Italian dressing, pop the grape tomatoes in our mouths like candy, and of course we'll give some away to friends and family...that should just about cover it! Could there be a more perfect summer vegetable?! Yum!

Fun With Their Cousins

Bryton, Avery, and Isaac had a great "toy playing weekend!" I love watching the 3 of them interact. And of course sweet Samuel was right in there playing, too, but for some reason I don't have a picture of him in the mix (probably because we were usually trying to keep his play area a bit separate from the 3 little Indians) Such special nephews we have!