Bottled Chicken

So, brad had originally taken thursday off to bottle chicken, but then we had this other project with the GRASS come up! Yeah! Anyway, the wonderful husband that i have and the sickness that chooses not to leave me, he bottled chicken AND worked on the grass project during his time off. He bottle 40 lbs of chicken and 5 quarts of his elk meat. It looks kind of nasty but we already opened a jar (to make sure it actually cooked) and made chicken pillows out of it! Excellent food storage and fun! Now i just have to learn to do it! Or maybe i won't, brad did a great job!!! ;) He is the best!

Guess what we got?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Here are our helpers...

here they are prepping the yard...;)

Brother Westhoff let us use his tractor. Brad had the day off on thursday. He was taking it off to bottle chicken that needed to be done and that i couldn't get to since i have been so sick the last couple weeks. His sister called us on wednesday night saying they had a bunch of sod if we wanted it, for FREE!!! So brad worked on this project ALL DAY instead. While i was a siloutte in the window, the cold outside just made my cough worse, so i stayed in. ;( I wanted to get out there and get my hands dirty so bad! Erg!!!

So, I haven't taken a picture of the finished deal yet, because it's not quite finished. But by the end of it, we will have laid 5400 sq ft of grass all for the mere cost of $340 for sprinkler stuff!!! I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO overly excited to have it and can't wait to mow it!!!!!!!!!!! This day was better than Christmas!!! It makes me want to landscape the whole rest of the yard now. It looks so nice i want to finish it up. I will get pics of the finished deal in a couple of days...stay tuned!

D's "Blueprint" for building the perfect tent!!!

you will have to click on this to get a bigger view of it, then it's kind of too big of a view. Sorry. anyway, you can read my translations as to what he drew. Pretty accurate...we were impressed.

Okay, so last time B had a day off, the kids wanted to camp out in the front room with him. So D asked for paper and pencil. Then he went to his room. Busily working on something. He came out later with his "Blueprint" for buildling the perfect tent! It was so cute. He takes after me in the regard to paying attention to detail in his "blueprint". B was shocked at the detail he picked up on too! He wanted to draw up more options and have everyone vote on the best one, but it was late so we coaxed him into using this one this time. It was really just so cute. He felt sooooo big and proud too! I love to see him grow into a young boy, having real likes and dislikes, his personality starting to shine through. I love it!