Canning update

So I did my first batch of canning. It was only 7 jars of apple pie filling, so I barely made a dent in the two bushels of apples. But the canning process went well, except I'm impatient with the canner coming back up to a boil. So far all the cans seem to have sealed, which is good. I will probably still do some more pie filling, but I'm also going to do some apple sauce and some spice apple rings. At least I know the apple sauce will make a dent in the boxes of apples! I may even use Betsy's mom's idea of using her turkey fryer (depending on how much propane I have). Then I can have two batches going at a time. One on the deck and one on the stove.

Halloween

Our ward Trunk-or-Treat was last night. Isabella was Tinkerbell. She had a blast wandering all over the gym during the game time. She could have cared less about the games. But when it came to the Trunk-or-Treating, she knew there was candy in her pumpkin.


Tonight we just went over to show off her costume to Ken's parents. Grandma Gallahan gave her a Winnie the Pooh Pumpkin with some candy in it. Ken wasn't feeling all that great so we just headed home after that. I'm thinking next year we won't be able to get away without taking her trick-or-treating.

Williamsburg

Ken, Isabella and I took a nice weekend trip to Williamsburg last weekend. My parents were nice enough to book us a room at the timeshare down there. We drove down Friday and came back on Monday. We enjoyed ourselves. It was unfortunately a little damp on Saturday when we went into Colonial Williamsburg, but it wasn't too bad. Sunday we went shopping at the Williamsburg Pottery Factory. It was great, we got some Christmas shopping done. Here are a few pics from the trip.

I know, I'm so mean putting my husband and child in the stocks. This is why Mommy has the camera! =D

Need some canning jars?

So I got two bushels of apples and need to do something with them. I decided I was going to can some of them. I checked my parents house to see if they had empty jars I could use since its been about 10 years since Mom canned. They had some empty jars and Mom said I could empty out the jars they had on their shelves that they hadn't touched in years. I couldn't help but laugh when I pulled some of the jars out. There were cherries that Mom had canned in 1979! And there were a few jars of something that had been canned in 1976!! Crazy! So now I have plenty of jars and only have to buy lids. Woo hoo. I'll get back to you on how the canning goes.

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