Making Salsa

Thank you, thank you, thank you, to my friend Christy who gave up an entire day to teach me how to make salsa, the bottled kind. I've made fresh before, but this is quite a bit more involved. After all the cutting and chopping and scrounging around for just a few more tomatoes we had this coooking on the stove...
During this time we were also entertaining our three boys, taking holding H breaks or feeding H breaks and just chatting and having a grand old time. Once it was on the stove cooking I made sno-cones for everybody with my handy dandy new sno-cone maker. The boys were so adorable sitting on the front porch eating their treats.

Since the salsa had to cook down for awhile and Christy does have a life outside of helping me in my canning ignorance, they left and I spent a few minutes working on a blog I set up for our wards book group. Realizing G was being awfully quiet, I went into to the kitchen and found this.

"What are you doing?!" I say. "Bubbles Mom!" he says, looking so pleased with himself. Fortunately, most of the 'bubbles' ended up in the sink. Unfortunately that was the only dish soap I had and it is now mostly gone. Fortunately my sense of humor kicked in and I made him reinact the whole thing so I could take pictures to post on the blog.

After all of the adventure, I did end up with 9 1/2 jars of pretty salsa. The 1/2 jar didn't have a chance to last longer than K knowing the salsa was done and yes we have some chips.