The MacDonald's

Make a Smilebox scrapbook What a Crazy week it's been! It started off with Social Services calling and telling us that the kid's mom and dad were relinquishing their rights on Thursday, but only on the 2 older ones and not on Lana. Then that afternoon John came home to tell me that he had been cut back (this would be the 2nd time). We have made the first cut back work, I'm not quite sure how we're going to make the 2nd cut back work as we are now officially 60% less then we were originally making. 5 days later the Bishop came to our home and released me from my RS Prez calling, 4 days later John was released from 1st Counselor in Elder's Quorum. So after many days of thinking, "what does this all mean?" we have come to the conclusion that we are in need of a much needed mini vacation. Jaidyn has been watching the old Mary Kate and Ashley Movies and has recently taken up a huge liking to mysteries, more specifically mystery solving. So this was her mystery ...

We started 0ur Saturday insanely early, 3:30 a.m. to be exact. Luis, Luhani and Lana were having a hard time figuring it all out, I seriously think they thought we were completely off our rocker. After a quick stop at 7-11 for some waters and juice, we caught the 4:30 bus to the Reno Balloon races. It was still very dark out and we managed to work our way right smack dab in the middle of all the balloons to watch the Dawn Patrol. The kids loved it! Jaidyn especially, we have taken her a few years back but she really enjoyed it a lot more this year. Grandma, Grandpa, Kaelin and Trent showed up shortly after Dawn patrol. Tired kiddos It was a very long day! After the balloon races the family went home and took naps, while I went to our ward Super Saturday. We had such a fun day!

Here is the 64# of pears and 50# of peaches, plus 32# of pears and 25# of peaches for grandma Sharon, we are planning on canning on Tuesday. I think we'll have our work cut out for us, but I can't wait. I love to can, it's so much fun and this time I get to teach my Mother-In-Law (who's never canned) how to do it. I'm sure she's going to be addicted as well. Here are the recipes we're going to be using.. Pear recipes Peach recipes (this one's coming soon) Happy Canning!