Monday, September 28, 2009

Peaches, peaches, and more peaches!

Last Monday, we had a home economics day! We canned 5 boxes of peaches, (4 of which were mine) and boy did we have a whole bunch of sticky fun! My Mom, sister Stacy, and sister-in-law Brittaney all came over to join in the fun. I had never canned fruit before, so I had no idea what I was doing. I know this probably sounds lame, but I must say I felt almost like I was re-living a scene right out of Little House on the Prairie. I think I'm in love with canning and feeling a bit more prepared today than I did yesterday.

Brea enjoyed some 'play' time with the cousins. Its so fun to watch them play together.


Megan manned the lid station for three hours! She was such a trooper.



Cooper and Hyrum were awesome at blanching the peaches, and were able to also help with the cutting for a tiny bit.


Jarom rotated between blanching and cutting most of the day. I was so impressed with how long he stuck with it. He is turning out to be such an amazing boy!


We ended up getting over 90 jars of peaches done! WOO-HOO! I just put them on my shelf yesterday and was so thrilled to think about how yummy the are going to taste for the next year.

2 comments:

RPH said...

TOLEDO!!! That is a ton of peaches! Good thing you had so much great help. Your kids are cute.

Tricia said...

Wow!!! I learned to can last week, but I didn't do very many jars...you will be so glad to have all of those yummy peaches on hand! Your family is darling and you're an amazing mom...I love reading your inspiring posts...keep 'em coming!