Love in a Bottle

Brian loves very spicy homemade canned salsa - the hotter the better. He has been out of salsa for a couple of months now. So I decided to show him how much I love him and make him salsa this weekend. It takes so much work to make that I decided that I would quadruple my recipe so I only had to make it once. He showed me how much he loves me by helping me chop pounds of peppers on Friday night. He stirred it all afternoon on Saturday and even helped me process it. (I even had 2 canners going). It is amazing how a Camp Chef makes canning manly. Brian was the Quality Control Manager. He stirred and tasted it all day while he watched the Olympics.

We ended up with 33 3/4 quarts of salsa. We would have had more, but SOMEONE tasted too much of it during the day.

Happy Birthday Bryce!

Bryce had the BEST Birthday EVER!!! All he wanted to do was go camping at Grandpa and Grandma Crook's house. He loved hanging out with "Big" Jacob (that is what we call him at our house) and Terena. It seemed like we celebrated his birthday for about 5 days! He will be getting baptized (if he is good) on September 13th. He is pretty excited about that.

The Bartschi Family Campout

Here are a BUNCH of pictures from our Bartschi Family Campout with Brian's mom and most of his sister's family. We went to Washington Lake in the Uintah Mountains for three nights. Kendal informed me that I was too old to do this:

I had to prove her wrong.

Here is a picture of Uncle Mike bugging Bryce:

Here is a picture of Kendal bugging Uncle Mike:

Here is a picture of Kendal bugging Gavin: (do you see the pattern?)

Bryce put A LOT of miles on his bike.

Brian bought Bryce a new pocketknife, so if Bryce wasn't riding his bike, he was carving on some sticks.

Here are Smart Bart and Kiershta. Where's the muffins?

Here is Briana. She was Bryce's audience. He loved to make her laugh.

Chris was a good burger flipper and a self proclaimed "perfect marshmallow" roaster!

Gavin fishing. What a life!!

Grandma and her "hardly used" paper plate:

Here is Jolene before she got giggly tired.

A rare smile from Kendal:

And you didn't think that I got any pictures of you Mike.

Awake Rochelle...

Asleep Rochelle:

Tempes, the Yahtzee Queen! Bryce still talks about all the 5's that you got.

We did do some fishing.

Here is the only fish that we caught:

Of course, it was caught by Kendal on her pink fishing pole.

Here are some photos of everyone eating s'mores and making a sticky mess of themselves.

It rained a little bit. Here are the chicken adults under the canopy.

Bryce was not so chicken.

Here are some photos of the "Freaky Tongue Club":

Bryce is working on joining your club next year.

These next pictures are for Brian. He made fun of me for taking so many pictures of the "foilage". (I did take a lot)

We had a lot of fun and were sad to leave. We hope that everyone will be able to come next year so we can have a bigger and happier "Happy Circle"!

Summertime

Here a couple of pictures of our summer.

Here are a couple of pictures from our ward camp out.

The water was ICE cold.