Made In Oregon

I took this picture outside in the sun so you could see how beautiful and colorful our jam is. Left to right- Strawberry, raspberry-marionberry, raspberry, blueberry, marionberry-blueberry.

My mother in-law Annette came up and taught me how to make jam. We had such a good time together! We had blueberries raspberries and marionberries, the first day we mostly did mixtures of the berries, the next day we did double batches of each berry. The jam looked and tasted so good that I wanted some strawberry jam too so we went to Costco and got some strawberries and made a batch of strawberry jam the next day. Our jam is so delicious, I love it and it is pretty easy to make too. While we were making our jam Annette kept thinking of all the things she wanted to can, her favorites- salsa and bread n butter pickles, she has lots of plans for us to can some things next year.

Who Loves Gardening? I Do I Do!!

My beef steak tomatoes, yum I can't wait to eat a juicy tomato right off of MY plant!!! I just can't write it enough times, I LOVE GARDENING!!! Here are some Radishes that I grew, that is a penny in the middle, they were HUGE! They still had a lot of flavor, I thought they wouldn't be as strong because they were that big but I was wrong. The picture of me was taken on June 14th and I took the video on July 18, wow what a difference a month makes! We have been eating a lot of yellow squash and Zucchini. I just picked a couple cucumbers too, fresh veggies are so good! My tomatoes are getting really big, I can't wait until they turn red and my 2nd batch of peas is just about ready too. YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY I WANT VEGGIES IN MY TUMMY! That was a song, just in case you don't know me well enough to know that I break out into song whenever I feel like it!

Denton's 2nd, 1st Birthday Party

We had a 2nd, 1st Birthday party for Denton in Utah with our family and friends. It turned out to be very windy, cold and rainy. I had checked the hour by hour weather forecast and it said 30% chance of rain and 7 mph winds, I thought, we will be under a pavilion so we will be just fine, well we got a lot of wind and rain. Everyone ate really fast and then Denton ate some of his cake and the rain just poured down! We got the cars loaded up with all the stuff to go to my sister Karen's to finish up the party. and something blew out of the pavilion, I was holding Denton and something blew out of the pavilion so I ran out into the pouring rain, he started laughing at the rain hitting him. It was so cute, I kept running in and out from under the pavilion and Denton just giggled, he liked his rainy party!