This past weekend, I got an email from a lady in the ward saying she had free raspberries! I love raspberries, so I emailed my Mother-in-law and we went a picked them together. We got about 3 #10 cans full. It was a lot of fun. Saturday afternoon, we made jam at her house. This was a first for me! It was a lot of fun. I got 11 1/2 pints of raspberry jam, and it is so yummy. My MIL made some sugar-free jam sweetened with lemonade instead of sugar. Well, lets just say lemonade isn't exactly a sweetener. It was so tart! We added a little sugar to make it edible, and it was actually pretty good. We had a lot of fun. I have more than enough jam to last me a long time. Here's a pic of our creation!


Yesterday both kids had a bath and were in their church clothes. They looked so cute! Here are their pictures.

Lindsay loves Daniel so much. She'll say, "He's my baby brother because I love him."

He was wondering what I was doing.

It's hard to get her to look at the camera and smile at the same time.

There's our happy boy!

The kids and I also went to Reed's Dairy family day on Saturday, but my mom has the pictures, so I'll save that, and our pictures at the Twin Falls temple open house, for another post!

Tagged

So, my former co-worker Sydney tagged me...here goes!

Four things you may not know about me:
1. I could say the alphabet backwards at 3 years old
2. I don't have any sisters, and neither does my husband, mom, nor dad
3. Both of my children were born on the 2nd to last day of the month (well, most years for Daniel -- October 30 and February 27) -- not cool when you work at Melaleuca
4. I met my favorite author, Ann Martin, author of Baby-sitter Club Books, when I was 10

Four places I go over and over again:
1. The Park
2. Wal-mart
3. My Parent's house
4. church

My four favorite foods:
1. Tacos
2. Spaghetti with meat sauce
3. Jamba Juice or any smoothie
4. Ice cream

Four places I've lived
1. Shelley, ID
2. Provo, UT
3. Current Location
4.

Four places I've worked:
1. Target
2. RGIS Inventory
3. Melaleuca
4. Mommy!

Four places I'd rather be:
1. somewhere air-conditioned
2. with my hubby, sans kids
3. watching the Olympics, in person instead of on TV!
4. camping

Four movies I watch over and over again:
1. My Best Friend's Wedding
2. Horse Whisperer
3. Message In a Bottle
4. Hope Floats

Four people I am tagging:
Any 4 people who read this and want to do it!

Nothing too exciting...

So, nothing too exciting has been happening around here. That's why there haven't been any posts for awhile. Well, I guess you can classify a new water heater as exciting. Sunday morning, while getting ready for church, I went to the laundry room to get Lindsay a shirt. I stepped in a puddle of water! I thought it was from the washer, and was really frustrated because we just got the washer and dryer in December. But, no, it was the water heater. That old thing (I have no idea how old it is- it was in this house when we bought it), had rusted through- Josh could poke his finger through the bottom and go all the way through. So, we turned off all the water to the house since we were going to my parents for a couple days. We didn't want to come home to a huge flood! So, Tuesday we went and bought a new water heater ($350 dollars later, good thing we have an emergency fund). Wednesday we had the water turned off all day because the new water heater wasn't hooked up all the way. It was really frustrating! Thankfully, Josh's dad came over and helped us get it installed. It is a lot more efficient. It has a setting that if you don't use hot water for a certain amount of time (like 11 pm to 7 am, for example), it won't heat the water as fast during that time, hence, saving you money. So, I'm excited to see if our power bill goes down at all. After going a few days either without hot water, or without water at all, I am really grateful for our new water heater.