So I survived canning peaches with my mom. It was actually kind of fun. We started early Saturday morning sanitizing all the jars, rings, and lids, then jumped right in to the peeling and slicing. For those of you who haven’t canned peaches before, it’s quite an interesting procss. First you put a bunch of peaches in boiling water to soften the peel, then you transfer them to ice water. This process makes the peels practically slip off the peach. Then you slice the peach right off the pit and into the jar. Once enough jars are full, you top them off with syrup (sugar & water mixture) and place the lids on the jars. Finally the jars are ready to go into a hot water bath and boil for 30 minutes. Then repeat until you are out of peaches.

A little over half way through, Adam stopped by and my mom tricked him into helping up peel and slice the peaches. Plus it was nice to have someone there to do all the heavy lifting! So the process was sped up quite a bit having extra help.

All the while I was canning inside, Simeon was working on fixing the fence in our back yard. It had recently started falling over and we were afraid the dogs would knock it down and escape. Sim’s dad, Steve, and brother, Jesse, came up to help him as well. Finally our fence was restored and all was happy.

You can check out pictures of both of our weekend adventures in the photo gallery. I also uploaded some other pictures from the previous week, including my birthday party, Ellie’s bee sting, and some other random stuff. Enjoy!