Football games and cheerleaders

Colby and I went to the HS football games last year and enjoyed it, we watched some friends boys play football and just had fun and they are cheap date nights. Anyway, this year we are enjoying not only watching the football games again but also watching Alissa cheer. She has been having a lot of fun and working hard. She did a great job at her first game, it was so fun to watch her. This picture is actually of her 3rd game when Grandma Jill came for a quick weekend visit to watch cheer leading and soccer. I am so glad Grandma brought her camera, she got some great pictures.

Canning peaches, plum jam, peach jam, pickles, salsa, spaghetti sauce, canned tomatoes

My camera took a little swim in the river back in May, so I will just link to Ashlee's blog so you can see what we have been up to the last couple of weeks. We are looking forward to getting apples soon for apple pie filling and applesauce, we are also going to try to can an apple cinnamon syrup.

No more bootie!

HaHaHa, that is what we called Racheal's boot that she had to wear for 8 weeks, but she is officially done with her bootie! She had x-rays taken and it is looking great, she still has to wear tennis shoes all summer, no flip flops, until her next appt and then we will see how soon we can start back up with soccer. The season starts the week after her next appt, so we are hoping for good news. But for now she is just excited to be able to walk without her bootie! Yeah!

Driver's Ed is a lot like the first day of kindergarten

You drop them off at the front door, you hope they like their teacher, you hope the teacher likes them. You also hope they make new friends and pay attention when they should. You think about them all day long and wonder what they are doing now as you look at the clock for the one hundredth time. You can't believe she is old enough to be doing this. You worry about them and get so excited when it is finally time to go pick them up and then you pick them up and ask them all about their day and all you get is "it was fine". LOL

Goodbye's are hard, especially when you are 15.

Alissa's boyfriend moved to Texas a few days ago. She had a little going away party for him at our house last weekend, they sat around the fire pit and ate desserts and had fun. So anyway, here is a picture of the two of them that night of the party.

Surgery Day

Racheal's surgery went well, they decided not to put the metal rods in her bones because she is allergic to metal and they didn't want her bones to reject the rods, so she will have longer in her walking boot and a little bit longer recovery time. She had a rough few days after the surgery but is finally walking on it and starting to look more like herself. She had her follow up appointment yesterday and the Dr says it is looking ugly and that is just the way it should. LOL He's a funny guy. So he said it looks like it should and all is well. Hopefully she will be back to school on Monday. Here is a picture of her before they wheeled her away, trying to be brave.

Bridal Shower

I helped host a Bridal Shower Tuesday night with 3 other friends, it turned out very cute. One of our dear friend's daughter is getting married next month. We had a lot of fun and she got a lot of really great things. Thanks to everyone who came and helped! We all made different mini desserts and made a mini dessert bar and had a chocolate fountain and pink punch. We had mini cheesecake bites, tuxedo brownie bites, creme puffs, a chocolate fountain with everything you could ever want to dip in chocolate and then some, and mini cupcake bites and cake balls. I just wanted to pass along what I made in case you ever need any cute dessert ideas. I made the cupcake bites and the cake balls, both were yummy. And they were even better the next day...how that is possible I don't know. Surprisingly the cupcakes were easier to make than the cake balls. Check out the website I found them on and try them. So Yummy!!!! (I will try to post pictures when I can)

http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2009/03/quick-and-easy-cupcake-bites/

http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2009/03/cake-pop-lesson-1-the-cake-ball/