The Smith Family Blog

Pickles group: Whole pickles: Pickle Chips: Bread and Butter pickles: Salsa: We (Kezri and I) spent this whole weekend bonding over the waterbath. We started with Saturday and doing the Salsa for this year. We were able to get 14 jard of salsa done and then on Sunday we ended up doing pickles. We weren't going to do pickles tillt he following week but the place I ordered the pickling cukes from got a box in early. We ended up with 5 quarts of whole pickles, 5 quarts of pickle chips, 7 pints of pickle wedges and 5 quarts of bread and butter pickles. (Mom, I think I found the recipe on my own. It called for celery seed and tumeric.) David loves them and hopefully they won't all be gone before you get to visit. Next weekend will be the apple butter and then I can put the canner away for the next year. I know every year I says this one will be the last but then at this time of year I can't help it. Oh I also made these awesome homemade fresh biscuits this weekend (fro

and no pictures. This is the first year in forever that I haven't gotten pictures. I blame it on the fact that I wasn't even there. Kalaree has started seminary. 6am seminary to be exact. She says it is fun but we will see what she gets out of it. Her schedule is rather easy and she seems to enjoy all of her classes so far. Of course it is all based around the girl to guy ratio thing for her right now. I think she may have me beat in the boy crazy thing for high school. (Yes, I am admitting now that I was boy crazy in high school.) Kezri says she really likes her class this year. So far no one has said anything about her ticks, which she is extremely happy about. I think coming back she is feeling more comfortable with the routines and what not. Her teacher and the school psych or nurse have a thing planned to explain to the other students about what tourettes is and why Kezri does what she does. She is quite excited about just having it out there so others can know. Kami hasn&

We got the girls WASL scores in the mail today. Kalaree participated in the reading, math and science and Kezri had to take the reading and math. A score of 400 is passing in all the different tests. Kalaree passed both reading and science. Reading was 402 and science was 404. She was just under passing in math. Kezri did well and she scored 466 out of 500 in reading and 425 out of 550 in math. I am quite proud of both of them. Kami won't take the WASL till 3rd grade. She was quite upset that she didn't have scores to discuss.