Baby Shower!!!

Hi people who read our blog (i.e. firends, family and other people we love). I am using this post to let you know that my awesome friend Laura is throwing me a baby shower on January 16th and you are invited. It's going to be at my mother's house in Twin Falls and I'm working on addresses. If you believe that I don't have your address, or you want a more personal invitation (which I strongly believe in, the mail is just so much more personal over facebook or blogs) please let me know what your address is so I can make sure that you get an invite. Love ya all tons!!! ~JJ

Washer+Dryer For Sale!

We are selling off our washer and dryer.  The place we are moving into has one equipped.  Tell all of your friends!  It's a hot deal, only $100 for the pair.  Give Corey a call at 208.420.1993 to stake your claim on them before anyone else.

Pregnant Jentri

Well, we went out the other day and figured that we had better start photographing this beautiful gift.  Jentri is about 7 months along...... I think.  Bad husband for not knowing?  All I know is that our new friend will be coming to this earth around Valentines Day in 2010!  We are so very excited for this new addition to our family.  I am so very excited to take him camping, climbing, and on all of our wonderful adventures.  Did I say he?  Why yes I did, by the way, it's a boy.  Anyways, here are some photos.

Questions???

Ok people, I have questions! And I want some answers!

Does anybody that reads this thing know anything about digital scrap booking? I'm looking at getting into it a little more and I'm needing some suggestions of where to start. Ideas?

Also, what on earth should I do about baby classes? Are they good? Are they lame? Do they help? I'm not exactly sure if I have time to fit them in but I'm willing to try, but I need some feed back.

Thank All!

Adventures in La Grande

So at the end of September Corey, his parents and I drove over to La Grande, Oregon to visit Great Aunt Donna and her husband Archie. We totally came for the Honey because Donna and Archie raise honey bees on their property and every year they harvest the honey and sell it. Ron, Corey's dad, had made a long standing deal with Donna that if he would come and visit her, she would give him some honey but he said he wouldn't come unless she had some work for him to do.

So off we went and I must say that the girls got the better end of the deal. The boys spent the day sheet rocking Donna and Archie's enclosed front porch while the girls got to spend the day helping Donna can stew and make raisins!

This was about the third time I've ever canned anything in my life and it was a blast. We went to the garden and "harvested" the onions, potatoes & carrots. We had celery & remaining veggies from the store. We chopped everything up, layered it in the jars and then pressure cooked them for 30 minutes. If you want the full recipe let me know and I'll post it, but didn't they turn out pretty.

Then after lunch we got to start working on raisins. Aunt Donna has about 4 different kinds of grapes growing in her back yard and we got to go out and pick the grapes from all of the vines and then we had to wash them.

After we rinsed them we had to pull all of them off of their vines and put them into a bowl so they could then head to the dryers. I must say that this was probably the worst part of the whole process but that's just because it was wet and I can't stand getting water all over everything, my forearms in particular.

Off to the dryer to spend the next few days becoming raisins!

Unfortunately we had to head home so I didn't get to see my finished product but I had a blast anyway and the honey that she sent home with us is AMAZING!!! Corey'd live off of it if I would let him, he has such a sweet tooth thanks to his momma.  Until next time let the good times roll!!!