My daughter, the couch potato...

I couldn't help but laugh when I looked down this morning and saw this.



Of course, I had to take a picture. She did not learn this from me. Ken likes to lounge on the floor using one of the couch pillows, so she was laying there like Daddy. New teeth alert for Isabella, watch you fingers anywhere near her mouth. She has two molars on top, one molar on the bottom, and the other bottom molar about to cut through. I swear she's been teething constantly since she was about 6 months old.

I got a new calling at church on Sunday. (For those that aren't LDS, this is basically a new assignment for service in the church.) I am now the Visiting Teaching Coordinator. Mom had been doing half the job and another sister was doing the other half. Well, they're going to combine the two halves again and I will do it all, especially since Mom is leaving, and the other sister is also leaving. I'm excited, I've known for a while I would get a calling in Relief Society, I just didn't know what. As long as its not RS President, I'm cool!

If I ever see another apple....

The canning is complete. Hooray!!!! I'm a little tired of apples now. Maybe we'll shoot for just one bushel next year instead of two. The grand total of what I canned: 11 pints of Spiced Apple Rings, 12 quarts of Applesauce, 7 quarts of Apple Pie Filling, and 24 half-pints and 2 pints of Apple Butter. Guess what everyone is getting for Christmas? =D

And can I just say that my husband is awesome! He was so great when he got home last night and took care of Isabella while I finished making applesauce. Then when I was done, he gave me a nice neck massage. It was great and I was tired and really appreciated, especially after cutting, cooking, and grinding apples from about 3pm to 8:30pm. I am a really lucky gal.

I hope everyone was able to get out there and cast your vote today. I went this morning and was in and out in 5 minutes.

Isabella had a doctors appt this morning, she is doing awesome. She's in the 75 percentile for height and the 95th for weight and head circumference. So she's doing great. She was not happy when they gave her the first half of her flu shot. Unforunately we have to go back in a month to get the second half.

And here's some proof that she talks, or rather yells (Anne do you remember Stoney yelling at all of us when he was her age?), and ignore the side conversation please:

My crazy child

I couldn't help but share the following two videos of my crazy daughter dancing. And heaven forbid she dance on anything but the book!







Canning update - I did four and a half quarts of applesauce today after having issues with the things I had not working to break the apples down enough. I finally got frustrated and went to Target to buy a food mill, which they did not have. I was going to buy a food processor but then, I found the food grinder attachment for the Kitchen Aid mixer. Hallelujah for that. I got it and it took me about 10 minutes to grind up the apples for that much applesauce. Unfortunately though, the pint jar broke in the water bath. Now I just have a bushel and a half left to do something with. I plan on still doing spiced apple rings, more applesauce, and some apple butter. Luckily the applesauce and apple butter take lots of apples.

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.