Odds & Ends

Earlier this year I told Vaughn that I wanted a TON of tomatoes. He honored my request and planted EIGHT tomato plants! I've watched them grow all summer at the same time watching my ever growing stomach and started to get worried. When I made my request I wasn't thinking that I'd be having a baby around the same time that the tomatoes were ready. So I became bound and determined that I would do something useful with them so they didn't go to waste. 

 Mason has been my big helper. He helped me wash the tomatoes and then take the skins off. For my first project we made salsa! I had almost everything I needed out in my garden. I love being able to just go out and pick out some onions, peppers and tomatoes!! Thank you Vaughn for all your hard work to grow what I ask you too!!!  

This was my second picking of tomatoes!! This time Mason and I made spaghetti sauce! It made the house smell so yummy, but it also made me so very tired! I don't know why I could paint bathrooms and our laundry room when I was 9 months pregnant with Sam, but with this baby I can't can a few cans of salsa and spaghetti sauce without feeling like I had done way too much. Must be because I'm older now. Who knows?!

Later I went in to clean the boys bathroom and when I went to clean the toilet I found this note.

"Mason did it."

Still not sure what Mason did, but I just had to laugh at Drew! 

He seriously comes up with the craziest things! 

After scrubbing the bathroom floor I had to take a little break. So I stayed sitting on the floor. (I'm lame, I know) Anyway, Sam soon found me and started doing what she does best. Making a mess of something clean. 

And she was done. She climbed out and went to go find something or someone else to terrorize! 

On the 25th Sam had her first bloody nose.

I can't remember how she got it, but she looked like she'd been beat up pretty good!

These two are my two crazies. They are always either fighting and driving me crazy or they are getting along too well and playing too rough and driving me crazy. I think my life will be so much easier once school starts again!!

There are so many reasons I love this picture. For one thing they are all doing what we asked them too without fighting us. For another they all seem to be doing a really good job and another is that my boys are left handed!! I wish the gene would have carried on to Sam, but I guess you can't have everything you want! Ha, just kidding!