Family date night.

I would like to start by saying that I didn't have my camera. (I will now hang my head in shame and cry.) I wanted to at least write it down since it was so fun. A couple weeks ago after Jon's health fiasco we got a note from Grandma Sapp. A card for Jon, and a note for Kaylee to be more precise. The note came with a twenty, and instructed Kaylee to take the family out for dinner. She was SO excited to plan out a family date night.

Kaylee indded planned it all out. She was so excited to take us to Red Robin. YUM. And were all looking forward to a night out. And then our plans got postponed a week. And patience is not a strong quality for an excited five year old. We herd about family date night every day leading up to it. So a week later when the day came she was almost bouncing out of her converse on the way to school.

Right after school, and I do mean right after we got buckled in and stuck in exiting traffic, Kaylee announces that she needs a toilet NOW. So instead of going home, and since we couldn't turn around to get back into the school we headed straight to Aunt Shannon's house and made it just in the nick of time! And then instead of going home we stayed to visit. Which is why Kaylee didn't get her outfit change, and I didn't have the camera for our family date night.

Why didn't we use our phones? In an effort to save money for our adoption fund we have downgraded our phones. They do take photos, but they are SUPER horrible.

Jon met us at Shannon's after work and we visited for a bit before heading out to dinner. Jon on the drive to Red Robin. YUM. decided we should also take the kiddos out to the movies. So after dinner we went and saw Planes. The kids did great! AND it was Regan's first movie theater experience. His eyes were bugging out of his little head taking it all in when we first arrived.

All in all it was a very successful and fun family date night. We are all looking forward to the next one.

FSA family night.

Such a fun night with our adoption friends last night. It is always so nice to get together with friends. It was nice for some of the guys to finally meet and chat. Bromance was in the air.

These two are getting their little man in about a month. I can't hardly stand how excited I am for them! They of course loved on the baby lots for practice.

Miss Kenzie was loving my shoes. So I of course had to get a picture of her adorable self.

And her Mama is one of my favorite people to take random photos of. I love you Michelle!

The kids were pretty worn out from playing hard. Kaylee was on the verge of a meltdown which she later had. It was awesome, and not at all embarrassing…… Sigh. But before the meltdown the children had fun in front of the camera for me.

Love these buttmunches! Big thanks to Sally and Brigham for letting us invade their lovely home.

Tomatoes. 150ish pounds of ’em.

So Shannon went to Utah to help Mom out post hip replacement. (This was during the first week of school.) While she was there she found out that this food rescue place just got in an unexpected shipment of organic on the vine tomatoes. $11 for 66lbs. HELLO! So I went and got some. Unfortunately it was one order per household. However when Shannon got back into town they still had some so she ran over and got an order. At that point they were REALLY wanting to unload them before they all rotted, and asked Shannon if she wanted two orders. She almost got two orders, but then thought better of it.

So between the two orders and what she brought back with her from the garden (Jon's Dad has an AMAZING garden!) we were swimming in tomatoes. And if we didn't have to worry about taking and picking up kids from school we would have been done much faster, and probably would have grabbed that third order. Because we are completely crazy like that!

I didn't want the tomatoes I picked up on Saturday morning to spoil any faster than they already were, so I took out some shelving from the bevi fridge and crammed them in to wait for Monday and Shannon.

Every single tomato had a sticker. EVERY.SINGLE.ONE! I found this annoying and excessive. I kept reminding myself of the sweet deal we got on them as I de-stickered and de-vined them for washing,

This is a picture of most of the tomatoes washed and ready to go. I lined the boxes with paper towels and stacked them up to conserve space in my little kitchen.

This is where we lived for the next several days between kids and school. For the several hundreds of tomatoes we had we only tossed around 20 due to rot. I was thrilled with how well the organic tomatoes held up.

Our treasures from Utah. This whole tomato/Utah garden deal softened the blow of our garden failure this year.

We processed 28 quarts of diced tomatoes, 8 quarts of spaghetti sauce, 19 pint and a half jars (24 oz jars) of spaghetti sauce, 35 pints of salsa, and 5 quarts of pickles.

It took us four days, but we got it all done. Just in time for weekend fun. Thanks for being crazy with me Shanny!

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