our story: No...silly!

It has been trying times in our household with the kids name calling. Whenever Ella gets mad, she calls things poopie. Her and Brock have also picked up saying stupid whenever they get mad. I think they get that from me. That is a word I tend to use when approached by crazy drivers. I don't use it often, but the kids pick up on EVERYTHING! So, we are trying "word replacement" to ween them off of saying stupid and poopie. We say silly instead! It has been working with Brock, but not so much with Ella. I think she is still a little too young to understand. We are hoping for more progress.

We started our weekend off by making oatmeal raisin cookies for Daddy. It seems that Mommy and Baby make a trip over to the freezer a few times a day just to make sure the cookies are okay. Cookies never last too long in our house. As usual, the kids ate more of the cookie dough than they put on the sheet. Brock is getting pretty good at using the cookie-baller, but Ella just insists on eating the dough and then spitting it out and playing with it. I made sure none of Ella's "cookies" were baked.

When daddy got home, it was time to give Brock a haircut. Daddy was in charge of using the clippers, while Mama used the scissors. It was time he had his fluff-a-puff tamed down. We were pretty impressed at the way it turned out.

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Chad and his dad went hunting on Saturday but didn't have any luck. They had a little 4x4 come right underneath their stand and a doe that was too far away. Chad is going to be going out in search of ol' mossy horns all week. Fhaa fhaa fhaaaaaa (snort wheeze)!

We spent the entire day on Sunday cooking and canning salsa. I couldn't help but laugh when we were getting things chopped up and ready. Chad was doing the jalapenos, and I was quartering the onions. He was by the sink gagging and coughing from the fumes of the jalapenos, and I was balling and sniffling over the onions. We were a match made in Heaven! Surprisingly, the only time I got hurt was when I was taking the food processor out of the box and cut my thumb on the blade. I have to say that this is our best batch yet! We ended up canning 25 quarts and had a little left over for some yummy snackin'. Grammy and Papa are going to be jealous of this magical ambrosia we have put into jars. =)

Chad vs the jalapenos

Squeezing the lemons. Brock thought it was funny when the lemon juice would get into my cut.

Today has been a pretty gloomy day outside, so me and the kids are kickin' it inside trying not to go stir crazy. So far, the day has been pretty productive. Have to say that I have 2 of the best helpers ever!

They love to vacuum, and that vacuum is heavy!