Jalapenos and more Jalapenos

Our little garden did really well this year. We planted lots of jalapeno plants in hopes to make salsa and sweet jalapenos...turns out in ONE picking we got 4lbs of Jalapenos!!! 

My good friend Jessica gave me her recipe for the sweet Jalapenos and we were off!!!  We also decided to can pickles in the same day...so we were once again canning ALL day. 

Alex liked helping out with the lids, he got to use the magnet to get them out of the hot water, he did a great job too! 

Ken sliced Jalapenos for a LONG time, me...not so much, no way I was using that slicer. I told him to sue the food processor to slice them but he preferred the slicer. 

Here's all our pickles. Some dill, spicy dill, and some bread and butter.

And here's all our sweet jalapenos!!! We did buy some more so this is about 9lbs worth. It was a messy and sticky process with all the sugar but I think it's worth is. 

And look at that cute boy!!! 

This concludes our canning adventure for 2011. NO MORE!!! 

Getting busy with homework

Alex is a big boy now and had his first homework assignment. Each week he'll have a "letter" card that he has to find things that start with that letter and put on the card. The first one was "A" of course. 

He's doing really well with cutting. Check out the tongue, hahaha. He always has that tongue out when he's working hard on something. LOVE it. 

My Alex is growing up fast.

Hanging out with Kaycee!!!

We've been babysitting our little buddy Kaycee again on Tuesdays and we love it! She is so easy to watch and her and Alex just love each other.

When she first showed up she Nikki had her hair all done pretty in a cute little outfit.  

But then....hahaha...yeah she didn't like her hair up anymore and we lost the sweatshirt AND she found the cucumbers in my garden basket. 

turns out she was really loving the cucumbers. She at a good chunk out of two of them. 

SEE!

We love hanging out with princess Kaycee!! Alex is always asking me when she's coming over again. 

Boys Photo Shoot

Braxton's mom took both the boys to get pictures done by one of her family members at the Union Station. They came out so great!!! 

Thanks Mama Stef!!!