Tomatoes!

Tracie and Troy have zuchini, we have roma tomatoes. Dan and McKenna picked a few on Saturday. It was my job to wash them and prepare them for... something. I think I am going to make spaghetti sauce out of my 30 pounds of tomatoes and freeze it. Dan loves spaghetti. Can you believe that this came from one tomato plant? It is now a huge bush! And there are still green ones on the plant. Maybe it is time to invest in a water bath canning machine. Salsa would be good. Yum!



If you pick and leave the stem on green tomatoes, they will turn red in a few days. Like I need anymore red ones right now. Dan heard somewhere that tomatoes will do that on their own. We didn't believe it until we tried it and it does work. Hope you learned something new today. Also, if you stick them in a paper bag, they will turn red faster. I will post the color change in a few days.

Update

Kenna getting her certificate for patience at an assembly.

Dan's birthday was on the 26th. McKenna and Ryleigh got him a couple of Star Wars Legos to put together. I got him a book about Flipping Houses. I made scallops for dinner and we had apple pie and ice cream. We went to Boondocks to play arcade games. We had a blast!

Ryleigh trying on her cow costume for Halloween!

2.8

No, we didn't have an earthquake... Dan and I went to our first parent-teacher conference as parents. I was nice to hear that McKenna is doing well in school. Mrs. Atkinson tested McKenna's reading level. 2.8 grade level. She is awesome! She is going to go to a first grade class starting this week for reading group. She is going to start a reading program that the 1st through 5th graders participate in, where they read books and pass tests and receive recognition for so many books completed. It is nice to see that she will be challenged in school and won't be sitting bored in Kindergarten (Dan was worried about that).

McKenna teaching Ryleigh all she knows.

She's a great big sister!

I came downstairs and this is what I found...

Personally, I think it would give me a headache.

Ryry loves her big sis! Loves climbing on her, that is!

Patience

We received a letter Saturday informing us that McKenna has been chosen from her class to receive an award for patience. I guess the school has a virtue they work on each month and select some students who portray that virtue and recognize them in an assembly. We are so proud of her. Anyone who knows me, knows that Kenna must have inherited her patience from her father. Sometimes at home I think she is the total opposite of patient (probably just me being impatient), but she must do better at school. Funny thing is, just yesterday Dan and I were watching a movie and she must have interrupted three or four times to say she wanted a snack. We kept telling her after the movie we would have dinner. She is an awesome girl and we love her.

Ryleigh is going to be our little musician someday!

Hooray for Dan!!!

We found out this morning that Dan passed the last two tests he just took! Wahoo!!! He has one left that he is taking in a couple of weeks. I know he will do great. We are both so excited for him to finally be done with getting his architecture license. Dan, I am so proud of you!

This weekend, I had to work Saturday so we missed Brooke's baby blessing :( Sorry, Tracie. We were there in spirit. We spent Sunday doing the usual stuff. Dan had a couple of meetings in the morning, then church (my CTR 7 class had to do sharing time in junior primary), Dan did tithing after church, then came home. We had dinner with some friends which was delicious. It is amazing what two families can put together at the last second for dinner. We bbq'd steak, salmon, and chicken. Adrianne made rolls and cantalope melon balls. I picked some corn on the cob from the garden and made brownies for dessert. It was a feast. We have some sad news about our pumpkin plant. It died. It became infested with squash bugs. It was gross. The trick we found out is to rotate the spot where you plant any type of squash every year or buy some special bug killer before they do too much damage. We were too late.

Monday we spent the morning sleeping in until 9 then went to breakfast. We went shopping at the mall then relaxed in the evening at home. It was nice to have everyone home and nothing really to do.

This morning we all went back to our daily routine. Dan went to work (that is when he found out about the tests), Kenna went to school, and Ryleigh ate breakfast. Lots of breakfast. She had 6 ounces of formula and rice cereal mixed with baby food apples and oatmeal. She will eat just about anything.

You would think milk in your eye would hurt. She just lets it sit there.

This is the aftermath of pigtails taken out last night. Nice do.