More food stored!

This week for food storage I did two things. WOOHOO!!!

1. My mom and I canned peaches. It was hard work, but a lot of fun. We had to peal and pit a ton of peaches. My back hurt afterward. Then we canned some and made peach jam with the rest. I havent tried the jam yet, but doesnt that sound divine?

2. I tried an easy food storage dough recipe. It was AWSOME. I was already going to make pizza for dinner and instead of buying dough like I normally do, I decided to try this recipe. You can make it entirly from your food storage and get this... it only takes about 30 minutes.

The best part about the recipe, besides it being made from food storage and being delicious and only taking 30 minutes to make and being super easy... I used the left over dough to make cinemon rolls the next morning. I didnt let them rise as much as I should have, but they turned out pretty good considering.

And since I know your dieing for these recipes...

Everyday food storage - pizza dough

Food Storage deals - Peach Jam

It may seem like I got a lot done this week, but just ask Jared... nothing els got done. It seems as though you accomplish one thing, everything els goes undone. One day... one day it will all work out. But heres to food sotrage (this week anyway.)

Camping trip - part three

On our way home, we stopped by crater lake for the day. It was beautiful. Not much to it though, it is just a big lake. We saw lots of exhibits on how it was created. In case your wondering...

it is not a crater, it was a volcano (Mount Mazama) that built up lots of lava under it in a bubble, and 7,700 years ago it exploded (out the sides)and the top of the mountain collapsed into the now empty bubble where the lava was builing up and created a calldera. It took 250 years to fill up with water and snow and is now the deepest lake in the US. It is 1,949 feet deep. CRAZY! (I learned all of this from the museums they had around the lake. If I was 12 or under I would have gotten a ranger badge, stupid age limits.)

Since I know you all read and learned something from that little lesson on crater lake here are some pictures as your reward.


It is blue like that because it is so deep. It was really awe striking and beautiful.


Blurry I know but that is what happens when you let a stranger take your picture and your auto focus is busted. (stupid. Ill explain later.) Atleast the lake is in focus.


Love Love Love this picture. I Love my boys, I Love oregon, I Love water, I Love being outdoors, I Love this picture!

Crater lake was fun, next time we will stay longer and go camping there. One afternoon was not enough.

Camping trip - part two

On day two of our camping trip, we drove into town and went to Wild Life Safari, it is a drive through zoo/safari. It was really fun for Kroten, he is getting more in to animals. it is so cute to see him and his reactions. Every animal is either in the kitty or doogy classification, but were just happy he knows it is some sort of animal.


Kroten loved the fact that we were moving and he didnt have to be in his car seat. He liked the animals, but I think he loved all the buttons on the dashboard more.




Weird Bird!


Kroten admiring the kitties (llamas.)


I could have reached out and touched this ostrich. It was kind of scary.




This elk went in front of our car to eat on the other side. COOL!


Can't you tell he had a blast. He even enjoyed getting his face shoved in a hole so that mom could take a picture.


His favorite part was deffinitly the petting zoo. I think he was amazed at these weird creatures.


I am pretty sure that it ticked his hand when they would eat the food, that and it was super exciting to be so close to the goats. He would laugh and laugh. I loved seeing him so excited. It was a great day.

Thanks Sam and Josh for inviting us... your the best.

Camping trip - part one.

We went camping a few weekends ago with Sam and Josh. It is trips like this that make me wonder why we don't go camping more often. We love it, it is on my LONG list of things to do to go camping more often.

It is also my goal to take better pictures of the camping experience. I didnt really capture it, I will next time, I promise. But for now our crawdading experience will have to do. Jared and Josh went crawdading on the beautiful river by our site. They even ate tham (YUCK.) It was really fun.


My handsome hubby getting ready for the catch.


This was one of the little guys. Actually he was huge. I found him I was so impressed. The boys were down river a little ways and couldnt hear me, so I just stood here and stared at this little guy till they got back. I watched him for like 15 minutes and he didnt move. Of course right after they saw him he moved.



This is the boys trying get the above crawdad. Josh looks tough and strong, but that rock was not going anywhere. I am assuming it has been there for a very long time.



{YUCK.} But Kroten loved it.



Sam and I thought it was a smart idea to wear flip-flops (as always) for this adventure. I must be getting old, because it just isnt as easy to hike around in them anymore, especially in the water.


Sam Josh and Issac (their nephew) in our cool swimming hole.


So Kroten may look like his dad, but he thinks like his mom. We didnt put swim stuff on him cause it was kind of cold, and the water was deffinitly cold. But Kroten went from dipping his feet in, to full clothed water fun in no time. He loved the water. It was freezing and he was shivering but he still cried when we took him out.


And of course, what would be a camping trip without light pictures.


I LOVE CAMPING!!!

Owie.

Kroten was trying to be a big boy and run (he just learned to walk.)His body got ahead of his feet and he slammed into the couch {the part without cushions.} He had a little bloody nose and a lot of tears. Jared was so good at comforting him.

This is all that was left today, a big boy owie on a little boy. You can see a little bit of a bruise on his right eye, and of course his nose owie. Poor little man.

Wordless Wednesday

Finally...

...a little moisture and the end of the hotter than snot.

I was starting to feel like a peice of dried fruit.

Hello, my {blogs} name is MJ.

If I were as obsessed about changing my looks as I am about changing the blog, I would look like Micheal Jackson.

I know, I know, I am borderline obsessed with changing the blog (some would argue to scratch the borderline.) it is not becuase I like change, but becuase I can't quite get it the way I want it. The worst part is that there are times when I get it close to where I like it, then I see something cool on someone elses blog and I just have to have it. I swear one day my blogs nose is going to fall off from all the face lifting.

I mean seriously, it is just too much for me...
I want a background... no i dont.
I want a cool font... it's too much.
Center or Left aligned?
Bigger... NO, smaller.
That doesnt look good.
That girls blog looks cool, no I like that blog.
I want to be BLACK, No I want to be WHITE.

UGH... how do you get over it? How do you stop? And now look, my header is all pixely. I know how to fix it, but I am about up to here (Waving my arms above my head) with all my changes, and the time spent working on them.

One day my blog will be perfect. One day I will look at it and not think dang-it that doesnt line up right. One day I just wont care any more. One day it won't take me an hour to do a single post. One day I will stop eating cookies for breakfast.

I think I need Rehab.

Out with the old...

...in with the new.

Jared (for those of you who don't know him well) is blind as a bat. He also has had the same pair of glasses since he was 16. That is 9 years.

 
This is him in his current (OLD) glasses.

I have really good insurance at work (thank goodness) and we felt it was high time that Jared update, not only his look, but his prescription. So we went glasses shopping yesterday. We settled on a few pairs, some Jared likes and some I like, but we can't decide.

so we need your help.

please vote on your favorite pair.


Number 1: Smart and classy


Number 2: always a classic.


Number 3: Casual and Sophisticated.

You decide!

Wordless Wednesday