Our Beautiful Ballerina

I happened to snap (with my phone) this picture of K on her first day of ballet and I thought it turned out great!

Short and Sweet

I realized that I haven't written (err typed) on this blog in a month! So here's a quick little update!






























Yep that's about it! Okay, okay I'll elaborate a little! As far as the adoption, well it's still going. So far, no contacts. We are starting to work on all of our paperwork again, as it has to be updated every 12 months. September marks our  8 month waiting anniversary of being "on the books." And, I think that's about it! Short and sweet (like me!).

Sampson

Last Friday we had to say goodbye our sweet boy. He had declined rapidly in the last couple of weeks. I spent a lot of time with him on his last day. It broke my heart seeing him suffer. Everything I do reminds me of him. Just like the night after he passed when I was cooking dinner. He couldn't resist the smell of chicken, and that was the only "people' food that I would sneak to him. He would always get so excited when I was fixing it! And then in his last few weeks I boiled chicken just for him, cut it up, and fed it to him. Needless to say fixing dinner that night, knowing that he wasn't going to be at the edge of the kitchen looking up at me, brought me to tears. I know we made the right decision on letting him go, but it certainly doesn't make the pain go away. We miss him terribly, but glad that he is no longer suffering.

Canning Away!

 My garden, unlike last year, has taken on a mind of it's own. I'm embarrassed to even post pictures of the garden because it's gotten completely out of control! I planted based on our garden from last year. It's AMAZING what different soil can do! The things that I planted this year have grown at least 3x as big as they did last year. Which would be okay, but I planted more of each plant and we had less space. Needless to say, we had a crazy amount of fruit and vegetables. So far we've picked green beans, tomatoes, jalapenos, zucchini, watermelon, tomatoes, jalapenos, bell peppers, cucumbers, and you guessed it, tomatoes and jalapenos. The only things that haven't yielded anything (yet) is broccoli (which may not because it's a cool weather vegetable), cantaloupe (I was a little late getting those seeds out), and carrots (which, I think take a really long time to do anything). Over all I'm pleased with the outcome. Our good friends also had an abundant amount of tomatoes, so we decided to combine everything and make some salsa and pickled jalapenos. It's the first time that Nick and I have ever canned (although we grew up with our parents doing it). We are pretty happy with the results! I'm just glad we were able to use everything and it not go to waste!

We're ready to go to our friends house!

All the veggies from our garden (minus the store bought onions)

The men were chopping too! And sneaking bites :)

All the 'maters after we peeled them.

K and I acting silly while waiting for the finished product!

Mmmmm, yummy salsa!

All finished!