We've been canning!

The last couple weeks we have been canning like crazy! It must be September. We have canned spaghetti sauce, tomato juice, peaches, and pears. The girls all love to help. Abby and Madelyn won't even let anyone near the juicer, that is their favorite job. Needless to say I have tomato juice from the ceiling to the floor. But we now have pantry shelves full of freshly bottled goodies for the next year.

Katy working hard.

Abby and Madelyn can still "strike a pose" while juicing tomatoes.
That's me being the "supervisor, teacher"
Collin cutting up the tomatoes and keeping us busy.

Rigby Family Reunion-Bear Lake

Labor Day weekend we had our annual Rigby Family Reunion at Bear Lake. Saturday we spent on the Lake. We had one boat and two jet ski's. Everyone had a great time playing in the water and getting wet. The kids had fun gathering shells and making sand castles. Abby and Madelyn went on a jet ski with me but they didn't like going fast over the water. They wanted to go back after we jumped our first wave. Later I took them out on the boat, they liked that a lot. Madelyn sat in the front and enjoyed going fast, while Abby preferred the seat in the back of the boat.


Saturday evening we got dressed in our family reunion shirts and gathered for our group pictures. This year they said "If you think I'm nutty, you should see the rest of my family." Ain't that the truth. Then we went to the "Pickelville Playhouse" to see the play. It was great! We all loved the villain "Juanito Banditto" because he reminded us all of Uncle Nathan. He was so funny! We have been quoting him ever since the play ended.



Sunday we went to church in Garden City then gathered to hear Jeffery and Terri's histories.

Above, Grandma Great and 27 of her 29 great grand kids.
Below, Grandma Great with her Grandchildren and spouses, minus Bryce, Richelle, and Libby.


We all had a great lunch together. Then Nathan brought out his tennis ball cannon. It was a great toy. They put about 10 tennis balls in at a time and then would launch them about 100 feet into the air. We were out on the big lawn trying to catch the balls as they would come back down. We mostly just ran into each other and the balls would hit the ground and bounce. But it was great fun. Then we loaded candy into the cannon and shot it into the air and let it rain down on the kids as they screamed and ran to pick up as much as they could. THe kids also got out the big tube and tookturns pushing eachother in it. Here is a picture of Madelyn "rollin" away.

We also has our "washer toss" tournament.



Katy won first place in the kids round and Alyssa came In second, while Jeffery won first place in the adult round and Collin came in second. So we have two trophies sitting on our cedar chest until we have to turn them over to someone else next year.