Amber and the Little Boys

Amber took the little boys on a walk down to Papa's pasture and back. I thought it might be a good opportunity to take some candid shots of them, such a beautiful day! If you follow my blog you've already seen these, but I decided that it's been too long since I posted on our family blog. :-) I'll try to do more, since I'm on here more often that Mom or Amber and I take so many pictures. It's kind of funny, putting duplicate pix on both blogs... lol. ~Jess~

Amber and ...him

Amber says this picture shows a great example of Anthony's personality.

Does it appear...

...that our children get good use out of our Rainbow Playset?

Many hours each week are spent swinging, climbing, sliding, and more!

Previous Baking Day Bounty of Cinnamon Rolls!

We gave these out as gifts. Jessica is very good at making these!

Baking Day back in March 2009

We try to make Saturday afternoons our official Baking Day and these two little eaters especially look forward to it!

Jam-a-thon

Bethany worked with me diligently for over 6 hours taking the stems off the 11 gallons of strawberries, stirring hot jam, and cleaning up the mess. She is a good worker with a great attitude!

Rebecca was in the midst of the work for most of the time it took. Here she is stirring three batches of fruit pectin. It had to be stirred constantly, and she did a fantastic job!


Samuel and Josiah were my strawberry loaders and stirrers of freezer jam. They had a wonderful time helping!




In all, we put up 36 quarts: 20 quarts of freezer jam and 16 quarts of cooked jam! Now we are looking forward to blackberry and peach season, too!
Here are the "fruits" of our efforts. (Several quarts were already in the refrigerator.)

Happy 4th Bday, Josiah!

Josiah turned 4 on the 22nd. He is such a blessing to our family. He's full of personality and quite the little man.

He loves his birthday presents, especially the giant metal Tonka dump truck and the smaller John Deere truck and trailer. (Don't you just love our wrapping paper? It's what we always use!)