Adventures in Our Family: Dacia

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Sunday, November 03, 2013

Canning

Here are a few pictures of what I canned this summer.

This was the first time I've ever canned peaches & they were a lot of work, but they are oh so good!!!

This is what I made with the peach skins--Peach Honey. Here is the link to this awesome recipe by Gertrude Buchanan.

This was also the first time I canned pears & after all the peaches I canned, it was nice to have help from Matthew and the kids. It sure went a lot faster with help.

I kept the skins from the pears as well and made yummy pear honey using the same recipe as the peach honey. All I can say about all this honey is yum, yum, yum! It's divine on toasted honey whole wheat bread.

This is the first year I grew pickling cucumbers & my plant took forever to grow cucumbers, so I only got 3 jars of dill pickles. I think Matthew is waiting to open them because he knows he only has 3 jars & he'd probably eat an entire jar at one sitting. :)

We have raspberry bushes that provide lots and lots of raspberries, so I was able to make enough jelly to get us through the entire year & I still have a little raspberry juice in the freezer.

*pics taken 10/19/13

Saturday, November 02, 2013

Halloween 2013

This is Dracula's wife.

She's got some cool glow in the dark teeth.

Me, I'm a witch like every other year. :)

This is our little pumpkin. She left the hood on long enough for the picture and that was it.

Ethan went trick or treating as himself.

Carlie and I went trick or treating with the family for about two blocks then we went home. My hands were just too cold. It was sprinkling the entire time we were out, but luckily Carlie was in a jogger stroller, nice and warm with her blankets. Her siblings were nice enough to share candy with her.

Lexi dressed up as a witch again and I didn't seem to get a picture, but this is her after taking a warm bath & drinking hot cocoa. Look at all that candy mommy gets to eat. ;)

Ethan ate a lot of candy as he was trick or treating and it looks like the sugar has finally gone to his head.

This is our candy monster. She loves to eat candy. Can you tell?

*pics taken 10/31/13

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Shooting

We decided to go shooting on labor day with Jessie, Barry and our kids & it was a lot of fun.

This is Kalin shooting with her dad.

Matthew and I went shooting together in Aug. when the kids were in school. We decided to throw clay pigeons with a hand thrower. Well, let's just say that Matthew ended up throwing them himself because all I could seem to do was throw them at him or not at all. That is one talent that I don't have--throwing clay pigeons. To top that off, I got this lovely burn when one of the 9mm shells popped up and got stuck into the side of my sunglasses & burned my face. Lovely. So much for eye protection. It may not seem like we had a great time shooting, but we actually had a lot of fun, laughing and all.

*pics taken 8/29/2013 & 9/2/2013

Sunday, October 27, 2013

Sunflowers

Ethan loves sunflowers, so for the last two years we've grown them in the backyard where our yard is still waiting for some landscaping.

This year they grew even taller then last year, but unfortunately they couldn't handle the strong winds where we live and many of them were knocked over or broken in half.