Birthday Boy Tyler

This week has been jam packed as usual. We celebrated Tyler’s 6th birthday and boy was he excited. He has been asking when his birthday would be for like the last 11 months. He opened his presents before school and got to play for a bit before they had to go to school. After school he wanted to go to Toys R Us and use his gift card from the grandparents. So we went and he found the best toy ever, a Playmobil knights and castle thing. I asked him what he wanted for dinner and he wanted salmon. I make this Lemon Herb Salmon and it is Ray and Tyler’s favorite. So I made that with steamed broccoli, and mashed potatoes and gravy. IT was Delic! We hurried off to Tyler’s soccer game after dinner then came back and sang Happy Birthday to him and had cake and ice cream. I think he had a great day.

I went with my friend, Christina, to pick free tomatoes and peppers. I was going to can salsa, but I had never done it before. I printed off some stuff from the extension office and found the water bath canner, jars and rings. Then I ran out of time, so I had to wait until the next day. I decided I wanted to get a food processor, I had looked into them a couple of weeks ago for shedding zucchini to freeze. Anyway, I decided to just get the one at Wal-Mart, but when I got there they were all gone (3 weeks ago they had like 10) To make a long story short, after an hour of having them look in the computer to see if they had any then digging in the back by the Wal-Mart employees, they found one. But then they didn’t have any of the regular canning lids, so I just decided that I didn’t want to stress about measuring everything EXACTLY to avoid botulism, and decided to just do freezer salsa. It still took me all day, but in the end I think I ended up with 13 quarts of salsa and a GIANT mess! IT took me days to recover from the mess. But the salsa is good. It was still kind of fun and I think I will do it again, maybe even tomorrow, now that I got a recipe from a couple in our ward that shared some yummy salsa with us.

Ray and I went to a play at the Hale Center Theater, with his work one night as well. It was called "Over the river and through the woods". I really enjoyed it. We got a babysitter and Kyle did really good, I was afraid I would have to leave during intermission to come home and feed him.
Yesterday night I helped a neighbor friend who was having a reception for her brother in her backyard. It was a fun night! My friends Christina and Linda helped as well. Ray stayed home and tended all the kids. Kyle once again did really good and went almost 4 hours without needing to be nursed!

Speaking of Kyle, he is getting so old. He is now 8 months old! He isn’t crawling yet, but he sits up really well and is a good natured baby. He loves getting around in his walker, he can go pretty much anywhere and even around corners in the kitchen and to the computer room. He does get stuck in the hall though.