SALSA WITH THE SISTAS

garden fresh peppers, onions and tomatoes

labor of love, jan cut up all the onions and then took one for the team by burning her hands with the jalepenos..ouch!

stacie adds the essential ingredients

getting the approval from patti

master canner right here--amy was team captain

youngest team member and also birthday girl! what a way to spend your 21st bday! welcome to adulthood kensie haha--just the salsa bar for you

quality control--"too much salt" (jk)

first this

then discard this

soon to be bottled like this

sweating over a hot stove

phone hack! (just getting you back :))

kensie wins mvp award for cleaning out the moldy tomatoes (after jan gagged her way out of the kitchen)

the culprit

can't blame her..she has a peanut allergy..wait..what?

70 bottles! we make a pretty good team

because team photographer was gentry

are you proud mom? (why did we not glean your canning skills sooner?)

homecoming for Amy and Elisa 2013 theme: 007

BOND...JAMES BOND

OGLES...ABE OGLES

Elisa looking lovely

reporting for duty...

they don't look like much of a threat...too sweet :)

not much labor in St George

labor day in st george--love this temple

on our favorite hike in st. george--red cliffs

amy and her bests: hayley and courtney and our exchange student elisa

i don't know what we were thinking here--the girls just ran up there before we knew what was going on...the steepest hike brian or i have ever been on (including crestone needle, a 14,000ft peak in colorado)

the singing bush from 3 amigos (not really but we love to see if we can get it to sing to us everytime we pass by)

sleep-over

just before they plunged into the pool below