Canning my tomatoes.

Ok i said i would can my tomatoes and i did!My awsome mom taugh me the safe and proper way of canning tomatoes and about everything else!I inherited her pressure cooker a 23 quarts!

So after sterilizing just about everything(if you know my mom you know what i mean) we blanch the tomatoes, shock them and peel them,

Now they are in the mason jars in that big sucker!Ist 30 years old and i love it, i don't want a new one, i wanted that one!Since i am the only one in my family that cares about learning to do all kind of stuff to better myself as a homemaker she said i could have it!I love learning this stuff!I want to be the best homemaker i can be!I want to show this model to my children, i think its important for them to see their mother doing this for her family, i am not sure why i feel so strong about it but i do and i usually follows what my heart tells me!It is so rare now out days that you see someone cooking from scratch, so much that its an event when someone does notice...You usually hear people saying oh yes ...she made it from scratch..... that cracks me up because before that was obvious.. that they made their own stuff.My goal is not too show off or to come off like if i am prideful, i just want to do it because i want too ,as simple as that,My mother did it and i am talking about becoming a good homemaker here in case you got lost in all my jargon... and my grandmother did it and i want too!It makes me proud of myself!There is nothing like a day where i clean,cook,and play/work with my kiddos!I was born to do this and i love it!

here is cooling off that pressure cooker.. you don't want to open this while there is still pressure otherwise you would ge a hack of a facial with no face left at the end:)

And here is the beautiful product!they will last 3 years being yummy in there,,, 3 for sure because we had some of my moms that were that old!Thank you mami for teaching me!

Santa barbara and Solvang trip

So here we are in Solvang a little danish town and we stop and got some ice cream(expensive ice cream..that suck!but it tasted good!)

solvang lokks like that ,

And you came buy a horse ride around town,

Now that mami sliding down for natalia and on tha picture we are in Santa batbara.

And this was fun, we got to ride our bike a long the coast for 2 hours !biking on the beach is great and the kids love it!

Medieval times

So while my parents are spending time with us, we decided to take them to medieval times and to have a good time!The food was surprisigly good and my children loved the show,especially my boy.

My parents had never been to a dinner theater/show so they really enjoyed the experienced.On the above picture there is Christian showing his hard muscle(the elbow:) next to one of the guard.HE really hought ha it was awsome.

It was so amazibg to watch his face looking at the performance, he was so intense, you know how sometimes musiciens are when they really get to feel the music?like their bodies make some movements that shows that they feel the music?i hope you get what i am saying,.Christian was just like that,everytime a knight would fall out of their horses or get back up he would scream from his core and every sound coming out of his mouth was so sincere and intense.The fact hat our red knight won just made it even better, the last battle was the best when our knight was almost dead he got back up and used all of his strentgh and courage to defy the evil thats when i heard a shout of joy!Christian had both arms all flexed with a smile that reflected pur joy,And that was all worth it to me!

My daddy and me!He really liked it!

a good family time! too bad our family picture is so horrible!

The tooth fairy came

Well well...it finally happened, Eve is losing her baby teeth!snif!snif! She is definitly growing up.It is just a tooth but i don't know why it made me so sad,perhaps it is just that it was a milestone that was really big for me!But anyway, i have to get used to it!Meanwhile ,Eve loves sticking her tongue in her hole, or putting a strw there and sipping thru it!she is enjoying growing up!

Just a cute family picture!

That was taken 2 weeks ago by a guy at church, our ward is trying to take family pictures of all the families in our ward and that ... is our.... not perfect but that will do!We will be taking our family picture(the real one) fairly soon!

Happy Independance Day

Here is my little American family they were all so cute!We had a really busy day that started with a run for mommy in the morning followed by a fabulous breakfast at church

And then a pool party at aunty marge to celebrate Byron's birthday,it was super fun and they had the best tacos ever!

We ended the day with fireworks like most americans do, we were with family and friends that we love and i cannot think of a better day thanspending time with those we love to be with.Mu kids also got to ride a horse, somebody brought their horse at curch and decided to give rides to all the primary children, it was awsome!I would of gotten a ride mysef if i would not of been wearing a skirt!I truly appreciate being a us citizen, i still have a hard time calling myself an American because i was not born here but i truly feel a deep love for this new country of mine and i am proud of it !I love America.

Camping by the beach

So we did our first family camping trip, it was fun but exhausting(3 kids..what do i expect?) thanks to the Carlson's for letting us borrow their spacious tent(i would of died using our hiking tent!)

My kids had a blast with their friends the Parkins, they are such good friends, eve and Jack have been friends since they were 8 months old!Kyle and christian the younger brother have since made friend.They spent most of their time on the beach, riding their bikes scooter, eating etc...

Here is Jill my friend that invited us camping, She is a very good friend and i love just love being with her!She and I went biking on the beach and ...i felt like a 8 years old little girl riding her bike with her best friend, it was great.

Jared just showing off Christian new fishing rod, a superman fishing rod,its probably why he is holding it!

He is my little angel riding her friends worm, she loves that worm!She actually took that worm were skateboarder do their ramp stuff....that was funny to watch!The marshmallow were great and my kids had a blast and based on that i say it was a great camping trip!

Cousin Kayleigh

We went to visit cousin kayleigh my sister's daughter, my kids were so nice to her,on the first picture there is Christian kissing a little cold hand and telling her he loves her,

Eve let me take a picute with her at her side,Kayleigh is 13 years old now, and she was born normal with no signs of cerebral palsy until she hit 6 months she still could not hold her head and she would choke on her food almost everyday, after several visits she was diagnosed with c.b and my sister decides that she would get better care here in the US. And she is definilty better taking care here than canada(can't beleive that they missed her diagnose at birth!)

And Talia was very intrigued by Kayleigh's roomate....

Here she is my beautiful nice that one day will rise and run with my children, ....thats what my kids say.... we love you Kayleigh