Tis the season..

The painting got put on hold for a couple weeks for the canning. I went up to the Farm in Layton after work on a Wednesday to pick tomatoes. The girls were such big helpers and we got two boxes full. Thursday and Friday were spent canning tomatoes. Then I decided I really wanted to make salsa. So we went up to the Farm on Friday and picked another box of tomatoes and I spend the next day making salsa all day long. The following week I got a box of apples and Angela (my girlfriend) and I made apple pie filling. In there I also got a box of peaches.

So I ended up with

28 quarts of Tomatoes
40 pints of Salsa
7 quarts of peaches
7 pints of Peach Jam
17 quarts of Apple Pie filling

Yummy stuff! I all ready have a list of things I want to try to can next year! I can't wait. I love being able to fill the food storage with things I canned myself.

Let the work begin...

(I wish I had a real before shot, but I didn't save the one on the internet on the real estate website and then it wasn't available anymore)

We started working on the house right after we signed...technically we didn't have keys yet, but it was my weekend off work and I wanted to get started. We had carpet scheduled to be installed on Tuesday after we signed so we wanted to get as much done as we could.
The front room had wainscoting on the walls. Which I like, the girls had it in their room, but I didn't like it in the front room. So I ripped it out. Which left a problem. It pulled off the drywall paper. (note the dirty ugly carpet)
So I had to plaster the walls and then sand them down, then prime and then paint. It was quite the task. I was glad I got it done before carpet. I used the electric sander and it sent dust clear upstairs and down.
After...I still need to hang stuff on the wall, but we have it painted. We hired someone to come and do the vaulted walls. There was no way I was going to get up that high and Erik didn't want to do it either.``
I still need to paint the bay window and we need to put new baseboards in. We ripped the baseboards out of the whole house. They were really small and grungy. The builder that put them in put them right on the floor instead of leaving a space for the carpet. It looked silly, so we are putting new ones in. (note the new carpet, we love it)
I had red in my from room before, but with the vaults and the wall shared with the kitchen I didn't know which wall to paint red. So I think I will just get some red curtains to go in the bay.
The tan we painted in the front room is what we used through out the whole house. It is looking pretty good, but we still have a lot of work to go.

Preschool

Ashlyn started preschool this week. She was excited and loves it. I now have two kids in school. I am getting old.

My kids are growing up and there is nothing I can do about it. :(

Prayer

We are working on prayers with Brylee. She is so cute when she folds her arms.

This little girls wants to be so grown up. She is now standing up to go up and down the stairs. She also loves playing copy cat with her sisters. She is such a joy to have in our home.

Dacia C. First Grader

I was pretty nervous with Dacia starting first grade. Having her gone all day was going to be hard. Well, she started school and she loves it....and I am doing fine with her gone all day. I can't believe she is getting so big.

(pictures to come)

The wait is over...

on August 21st we signed paper on our new house. It was a very long wait and we are very excited to finally be in our house. We were originally waiting on a different house, but that was going no where. We found this one and put our offer in the beginning of July. Things took a while with this one too, but everything worked out. We are excited, now let the work begin.

I wish the grass was still this green. It's dead! I hope it comes back in the Spring.

Thanksgiving Point Gardens

On August 18th we went to Thanksgiving Point. The girls loved the water. It was fun to get out and play on our last week before school started.

Moon Lake

So it time to get back on the blog wagon. It's been a long time since I posted. So I will try to catch up on everything going on with the Gumbrecht family.
The last weekend in July we went up to Moon Lake. We went last year and had lots of fun. My mom rented the same cabins for all of us...little did we know that the cabin we had last year now has a only in it where mice like to come in. We, correction, ERIK spent the weekend setting and emptying mouse traps...I think the final count was 7.
The first day was windy and we counldn't do much with our little boat, but the second day the weather was a lot better. My brother rented a bit boat while we were there too. It was fun and went alot faster than our little inflatable boat and trolling motor.
It was a fun weekend and we were glad to get away.