End of Summer fun!

Nana and D-paw have been here for the last week.

We had a BIG birthday to celebrate.

Austin turned 11...where has the time gone!!!

We had a little celebration with family last Friday night.

Scott smoked some chicken and pulled pork and

Mom and I added all the fixins'.

It was very yummy!!

And what is a birthday without some CAKE??

Miss Suzanne came thhrough for us again with the most awesome cake!

He wanted a guitar on it and we found this picture on the internet and she went from there!!!

Here is the happy birthday boy!!!

(hee hee-- he didn't notice that we were short a candle!)

Making a wish...actually we all know what he wished for...

he has his sights on an iPad

After the we were done partying mom and I went to work...

she brought the most massive amount of tomatoes I have ever seen.

We went into Salsa Production....

48 jars of salsa later and 7 jars of canned tomatoes, I am happy to say

that there are no more tomatoes in the house.

All of these came from her garden.

I wish I had taken a picture of them before we made them into salsa,

some of them were HUGE!!!!

Yummy goodness!!!

This is the pack of seasoning that we used in them--

not too hot.

This was the first batch we made.  I have never canned anything before in my life and

was SO excited hearing those little lids go "POP"

We had a really good visit and miss them very much.

All day long Jackson has looked at me and said,

"Nana D-Paw go Mzurri"

and I will tell him,

"Yes, Nana and D-Paw had to go back to Missouri"

he will reply with an

"ohhhhhh....go see um?'

Soon Buddy, we'll see them again soon!!