Peaches, peaches everywhere!!

The whole gang helping out!

Such a big helper!















Seriously..........how beautiful is that??!!

Just a little bit of peaches :)










My friend Mendie was putting in an order for fruit from Utah, so I told her I wanted to order two boxes of peaches and one box of apples. Josh and I got to talking and thought that we should get one more box of peaches so I told mendie and she changed the order. Well the fruit came in when I was gone so Josh went to go pick it up and he remembered that we wanted another box, so he told Mendie that I wanted one more box! So he came home with 4 boxes of peaches and one apple!!! Holy cow it was a lot of fruit!!! So we got busy making jam and half peaches and applesauce and apple butter! My sister and family came up for the weekend to help me with all the canning and we had so much fun. It was a lot of work but we got a lot of jam! I have never in my entire life seen such perfect fruit, every single one of them were perfect and so tasty. Last month I was busy canning zucchini relish trying to get rid of all the zucchini, next is more tomatoes!!

The fair!

Oh how I love the County Fair! I have always loved going, ever since I was a kid. The animals, art displays, cooking, sewing, school displays, and lets not forget the most important........the FOOD! Oh my HECK, I love funnel cake way too much! And the curly fries! What more can I say. I have to starve myself for the next week and work off all the calories I consumed during the fair but it was worth it! James was doing another fund raiser for the Jamboree scouts, they were selling BB-Q sandwiches and the moms were in charge of the hospitality room for all the fair workers. So I spent many an hour at the fair this year. I can not tell you the number of snow cones that I bought for Haylee and Sariah, it's probably in the 30's! We could keep the LaFevers in business ourselves. All in all it was a great fair, but I am glad it's over! I am TIRED! And best of all Haylee won some ribbons! She was so excited! Last year she got robbed, so she was not sure if she wanted to enter anything this year, but I talked her into it. She entered two drawings and some zucchini relish. She got a first place ribbon and a second place for the drawings. And she got a first place on her relish! I entered some relish too but got nothing and she got the first place, she thought that was great! I also got a third on my salsa. So she earned 9 bucks! Way to go Haylee!

Catchin' up

Our men cookin breakfast

James' big catch!
I think Haylee's looks bigger! She wouldn't touch it so she put the stick in it to hold it up.
All ready to go for a ride!!

I guess I better post something, since it has been awhile! It has been busy busy around here! But mostly fun stuff. Well school started, as you well know, and I lost my camera so I have no first day of school pictures! I hate it when I loose my camera! The kids got good teachers this year, again, we have been lucking out. James is in 6th grade, it doesn't seem possible that he is that old....does that make me old? Naaahhhh. Haylee is in the 4th grade, and is really feeling like she is something because she goes to the middle school now. She was quite concerned with her school clothes this year, she "couldn't look like a dork at the middle school"! I am sad that the summer time is coming to an end and Fall is on it's way. I LOVE summer here. And I HATE winter! It is so cold and ugly. I will just savor the last days of summer. We have been canning lately, a bunch of zucchini relish, 6 batches! So if any of you want some, I have plenty so come get a jar! I have 16 tomato plants in the garden and they are all getting ripe so I will be canning those soon, yummy! I would take a picture of the stuff I have been canning, but the camera is dead. I did find it but the battery is dead and I can't find the stupid charger! We went to Lake Powell last weekend with the Lee family and had a blast!!! We were there four days and loved every minute of it. The weather was absolutely perfect. We had our boat, John Lee brought his and then we rented two jet skiis. So much fun! I have always been a bit afraid of the jet skiis, I know I am a wimp! Josh talked me into going on a ride, and I loved it! I even drove it for a bit and it was so much fun! So sorry, I have no pictures of the lake either. I was so mad about the camera, we almost went to Wal Mart to get a new one. So now this week is the fair, I love the fair! Or I should say I love FUNNEL CAKE at the fair!!! It is my weakness! Why do I have to love food so much? James is doing another fund raiser for his Scout Jamboree he is going on so we are busy with that. So if you go to the fair this weekend, stop by and buy a BBQ sandwich from the scouts in the big building and help send these boys to the Jamboree! Well I have kinda caught you all up on what is going on here at the Anderson household! I will post some pictures of one of our camping trips of the summer, this is the one that we went with the Ashtons and Josh's cousins.

"Best in Show"

So July has been a little CRAZY!! So much has been going on, I am ready for things to slow down a bit. First, for the 24th of July celebrations our ward float was given to the primary to do. No big deal right? Well thats what we thought, wrong!! Mendie and her hubby were also in charge of the Rodeo so she would be busy with that and couldn't help too much. Jaime had other things going on so it was Amber and I. Well we had late nights and early mornings, thank goodness for our hubbies and good kids!! And in the middle of doing a float James had a fundraiser for the Scout Jamboree. So I had to help him sell tickets, and make a spaghetti dinner for a couple hundred people. That turned out well and he made some money to go. He needs $3,000!!! I know--Holy CRAP!! But it will be an experience of a lifetime! A small group of boys get to go and they are going to New York, Washington DC, Boston and check out the church history sites there. Tons more plus the 100 year anniversary of the Boy Scout Jamboree, which the President of the US goes there to see the boys. So anyway--thats what the fundraiser was for. But the float was totally worth it because we won "Best of show"!! And we were not humble about it either!! It was fun and I had a great time with Amber. So after all that was our Whiting reunion, which I was asked to give a demonstration on how to make my great grandmas Danish Dumpling recipe-----to 800 people! And to make enough to give everyone a sample. Thanks to my great family we pulled it off! It turned out to be a lot of fun, and I got to hear my grandma tell some stories about them that I haven't heard before. I love to hear her stories. So after the reunion was over my mom and dad took James and Haylee back to Canada with them, thats where they live right now. So they are having a great time, they went to Niagara Falls yesterday and loved it!! They fly home Saturday (by themselves) and start school Monday!! WOW! And to top it all off, I noticed last night that our freezer in the garage was not shut all the way and all the meat in there was thawed out, it was about a 1/4 of a cow and a 1/2 of a pig!!! A lot of meat! It was still cool and not spoiled yet so Josh and I stayed up all night canning it! It was kinda fun though, we rented some movies and canned all night in the basement. Not a very romantic way to spend our time without the older kids but it was nice to hang out. Well I think that I have blabbed on long enough, Sariah just came in here wearing tons of make-up and smelling like a cheep hooker, looks like she found my make-up bag :0) Gotta go give her a bath!!

I've been TAGGED!!

How to play this game. Post these rules on your blog; List 3 joys, 3 fears, 3 goals, 3 current obsessions/collections, 3 random surprising facts about yourself. Tag 5 people at the end of your post by leaving their names.
3 Joys:
*My family.
*Summertime
*Great food!!
3 Fears:
*Speaking in church/bearing my testimony. (I'm with you on that one Michelle!!)
*Something happening to my husband or my children.
*Rattle snakes in the back yard!! (Josh found one last night in our back yard!!)
3 Goals:
*Travel far and wide!
*get more organized
*Get my year supply all caught up
3 Current obsessions/collections:
*Reading
*gardening
*Cooking
3 Random surprising facts about myself:
*I have sky dived
*I have a tattoo
*I am very spontaneous
Okay, I played along now all you have to!! If you read this you are "Tagged"
Annie

High School Musical!

We got Haylee tickets to go see "High School Musical" the play at Gammage, ASU. It was so much fun, the best part is she had NO idea! It was a complete surprise! We left James and Sariah at my sisters house and just Haylee, Mom and Dad had a special date. She thought we were taking her shopping, then we parked at Gammage parking garage and started walking. We told her we were not going shopping, but somewhere else, then she started to see the signs hanging around the building and started to get excited. We walked in and I showed her our tickets and she was so excited!! Holy COW it was crazy in there, if you have a pre-teen girl you might know what I mean :) and you might also have both CD's memorized as I do because it's playing at our house non-stop with practiced choreography moves! When they turned out the lights and the stage was lit up it was crazy loud with girls screaming!!! It was so funny! Haylee was still in shock and just sat staring at the stage. I have to say that they did a great job on it, it was really good, Josh even liked it! It was a lot of fun, the best part was seeing Haylee's face when the realization hit her what we were up to!

Livin in the Country

Oh the joys of living in the country! James and Haylee like to swim in the irrigation ditch in the backyard. A couple days ago they were out there and Josh and I were in the house, well Haylee comes screaming into the house yelling "Snake, snake!" We go running out to see, you never know with her, she gets scared easily.....it could have been a stick :) She was right it was a snake! Our dog Molly was barking at it and James was poking at it with a stick. It was a huge blow snake. I think that was the third one we have found in a week that big. We are trying to teach Molly to find them. Yesterday I heard her barking out by the shed, so Sariah and I go see what she had found, I was expecting another snake. She had something cornered up behind a door laying on it's side. I called out to Josh to look behind it to see what it was, he pulled the door back and a big grey squirrel ran out right for Sariah and I! I spook easy so I screamed, Sariah was laughing at the whole scene. Molly was ecstatic that Josh freed her victim and took off chasing it! It was funny to see Sariah! She was telling everyone the whole day "Molly chasing a squirrel!"