Wednesday, June 26, 2013

New Words

Kinley decided to say "Night Night" to Grandpa on Facetime the other night!  It was so cute!!!  She was in the tub when we were talking to him.  We had to hurry up and say goodbye to him since she started grunting and was threatening to poop in the tub.  But, we made it to the potty!  Good Job Kinley!!!
So Kinley now officially says: Dadda, Mamma, Brother, and Night Night.  She is growing up so fast!

First Party

We had such a wonderful day celebrating Kinley's First Birthday.  Some of our dear friends joined us to celebrate our little lady.  I made Kinley a ladybug cake.  It was so much fun!  And, I am pretty proud of how it turned out!!!  Tim rolled his eyes at me when I told him I wanted to make a cake for her, but he was happy to let me do it since he was on call the day I was going to be making it.  (Apparently I get a little uptight when constructing these cakes...)  I first made her smash cake.  And, I was super proud of how it turned out.  And then I tackled the big cake and it just got even better!  What a fun thing to do!!!  
We had a BBQ with hamburgers and lots of good food.  Tim set up games to play in the yard, and we had fun just hanging out.  Then it was cake time!
Kinley really enjoyed her cake.  I knew from her personality that she was going to get into it and do justice to that ladybug!  Oh boy did she have fun!!!
Thank you to all who helped celebrate our sweet girl!!  What a blessing she is to our family!!!

Monday, June 24, 2013

Canning Season

Whoop whoop! Canning season is here!! The kids and I picked sour cherries on Saturday and came home to can some pie filling. I also put a batch on the dehydrator. Oh yummy!! Today we went and picked blueberries, and I just canned them in juice so I can decide later what I want to make with them. Unfortunately I had my first canning causality. It was so to loose a whole quart of blueberries! :(. Next month peaches start, so we are just warming up the canner!!