This was a crazy fun week for us. It is the case lot sales in the stores right now so we kind of went crazy buying food this week. We went to the store and bought a lot of meat. As if we didn't already have a lot to do, we decided to pressure can all of the meat we bought rather than freeze it.
We bottled 40 pounds of chicken, cooked a spiral ham and made and bottled 14 quarts of really good bean soup. Then just for fun, we made some strawberry-banana peach jam as well. This process took the whole week and lots of kitchen time. As you can tell from the picture we made a killing with the cooking. This was my first time ever pressure canning and I was a little nervous I would ruin all of that meat but it turned out great.
This Saturday, we travelled down to West Jordan to go to Jayce Gardner's bridal shower. While Emily and I were at the shower, the boys and Charlotte hung out at Jen's place with her boys and Grandpa Farnsworth.
The shower was really nice and Jen had done an amazing job decorating and putting everything together with the camping theme. As part of the decorations, Russell made this awesome "Don't Feed the Bears" sign. After the shower, we came home with some new couches. Russell's parents were getting new furniture and we decided to take the sectional they were getting rid of. We put it upstairs in the front room. It really took up a lot of the space in our big room but it is nice because now we have more places to sit when family or company comes to our house.
Russell and Garret had a great idea to take the kids fishing at the Wellsville pond this week. They having been meaning to hang out for a while and decided this was a great activity to do together. The kids had a great time fishing and hanging out with their friends.
Of course like any fun fishing trip with kids, I had fun getting their poles ready and casting them in and reeling them in a few times before my pole got in the water. I think it is fun to do this, because I have memories of my Dad doing this for us when I was a kid. Sometimes I wondered if he ever got his pole in the water some days. Now I understand why and I laugh. Love my kiddos.
Logan was asking me every few minutes when he was going to catch a fish and I told him, "Be patient and you will get one." Of course just as he was losing all hope his line went straight and I yelled to Logan, "Come on Logan you got a fish." He ran so fast and grabbed his pole and reeled it in as fast as he could. He was a happy boy to catch a fish.
Here we are with his big fish and also his big smile. I asked him if we could let it go and he did not want to let it go. He wanted to go home and eat it. Then a few minutes after Logan caught one, my line went straight and I yelled to Colby to come reel this fish in. Colby had a fun time reeling in the fish and catching it. He was okay with letting it go though, he did not want to eat it. Garrett caught two good sized trout also. We had a great day as Dads with our kids.
When we got home and it was and it was time to figure out how to catch a Leprechaun. St. Patrick's Day was the next day and the kids were bound and determined to catch one. So here we are deep in thought trying to figure out a plan. They all brought some kind of object to the table to make the trap. We had a box, a juice bottle, a Lego house, yarn, rubber bands and tooth picks. They all had great ideas and we finally came up with a plan.
We cut a door in the box that was spring action closing by a rubber band. Inside was Colby's Lego house to help the Leprechaun feel at home. We also cut a trap door in the juice bottle. Once all this was in the box, we sealed it with a lot of tape so he could not get out. We all thought this trap was going to catch him for sure. We thought of every way to make sure he could not get out. Inside the box we left him some treats to catch him with. Bedtime came and we all hurried to bed because he would not come until we were sleeping.
When morning came and we ran into the kitchen to see if we caught a Leprechaun. We were really sad to see what had happened. There were green footprints all over the trap but the tricky little bugger was too smart for us.
He got in the box and played around inside and went inside the juice bottle where he was supposed to be caught, but we forgot one thing. The top of the lid was not glued on. He twisted off the lid and jumped out of the bottle. That tricky little bugger. He left his little green foot prints everywhere. He also ate all of the Lucky Charms and the gold Rolos. The kids were bummed, but they were excited to read his note and see that he came. It was a great trap except for the lid. Next year the lid will be glued!
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