Food Storage Anaylizer Review

The food storage anaylizer was interesting. I found it informative, and easy to use (mostly). I think my biggest problem was that I needed to think about what I had saved up as what they wanted. You could find almost everything you had saved up, but it had to be their brand. (duh! They want you to use their stuff) So I mentally needed to convert what I have saved up to their quantities.

According to their calculations, I can live happily on my food storage for 22o days. But if I want to feed Baby Hero and Bug Hero, it goes down to 73 days. I tried to get the calculator to calculate it for three people, but it didn't listen to me. (I wasn't afraid, because I was able to divide 220 by 3 and figure it out. It's what I get for being a Math Hero.) We're slowly building it up--we'll have a complete 3 month storage built up in a few more months.

Anyways, it was informative and kind of fun to play with--will I always use their calculator. Probably not. But was it worth it to get $10 free? Definately. You should play with it to get a free $10 to spend at their website. I like their website. It's got great stuff to be prepared.

$10 free gift certificate from Emergency Essentials

So, I just found out a way to get a $10 gift certificate to Emergency Essentials--twice! There are two different ways to get one and you can end up with both. See http://preparednesspantry.blogspot.com/2009/09/add-our-button-to-your-blog-or-website.html for details on the first entry.

See here http://preparednesspantry.blogspot.com/2009/10/food-storage-analyzer-gift-card.html for details on the second free gift certificate. So, I'm going to do it. It looks good.

Happy Anniversary

About a week ago, The Hero's celebrated their wedding anniversary. It was really nice, because the Bug Hero was able to take most of the day off and then we could play lots together. We exchanged gifts, and the Bug Hero got me several books. (Bliss!) I think the best book he got me was Alcatraz versus the Knights of Crystallia. Absolutely laugh out loud humor. I loved it!

To go along with the humor, I made the Bug Hero a Tauntaun Sleeping bag. As seen below:Complete with tail and pillow head.
A close up on the head.

All I have to say is I'm amazing! I rock! And yes, I made up the pattern by myself. I'm awesome!

Needless to say, the Bug Hero loves it! He is now itching for a chance to go camping or have a cousin sleepover so he can use his sleeping bag.

And another humorous picture of the Baby Hero. This onesie is thanks to The Bug Hero's Sister. She sent this to us, and we love it.

The only question we have is, if the Baby Hero is the spawn of evil, which one of the two of us is evil? Or is it both of us?

Baby Hero in Action

We have enjoyed teaching the Baby Hero to like new foods. Some days he loves it and eats it right on up. Other days, he makes funny faces at us. Peas, he doesn't like, he gags on them until he spits them out. We love to feed him peas. Yes, we love to watch him struggle. Are we bad parents? I don't think so, I just think we love to find humor in everything. Here's the first time we introduced Green Beans.

This other video--playing with Dad and the Lightsaber. He is laughing. I promise you.

Wish you were here!

Yesterday we went for a family walk. We walked through our favorite park and enjoyed all the fall colors. It makes you wish you were here with us!Baby Hero laughing at the leaves falling.
All the colors! I love fall!
More colors!

Here are a few other places the Baby Hero wishes you were here for.
Chilling with the Bug Hero during Conference.
Exploring underneath the Math Hero and Bug Hero's Bed.
Bye! Thanks for visiting! Don't you wish you were here with us?

Side note: I love making presents. But there is a down side to making presents. You can't brag about how cool you are until after you give the present. I've been busy making presents, and I can't show them off. You'll just have to wait in suspense to see what I've been up to!

Walk Down Memory Lane

I found out a place to get free apples. Having grown up on an orchard, I lept at the chance to get free apples to turn into applesauce. The people adveretizing the free apples said they were perfect for applesauce--one catch. You have to go pick them yourself.

So I took a walk down memory lane. I went with a friend and we picked about five bushels of apples. I loved it! Even the part where the people told us, "we just shake the trees." I'm sure Grandma was rolling over in her grave, when she saw me shake the branches.

As we left the orchard, they told us they hadn't sprayed the trees. I looked at most of the apples and they looked good, so I thought, no big deal. Except, as I went and started cutting my apples at home--only about a third of the apples were usable. Most had little tiny worms/tracks of worms all throughout the apples.

Today I spent the morning cutting (and throwing out most of them), and saucing the apples. My hard work yielded 7 quarts of applesauce.

Worth the trip down memory lane? Yes. Worth it enough to try and go back, to get enough apples for my 52 quart desire for the year? No.

Rumor has it, that there are going to be free apples by the bushel load coming through the Entomology department. These apples are sprayed and the bugs are kept in check. Am I excited? YES!

I want to be like Dad

When I grow up, I want to be just like my Dad. He has these cool toys.They require flexibility to explore.
And they don't quite fit in my mouth.
But they are lots of fun!

Also, I think it's the best thing in the world when Dad or Mom uses this new toy of Dad's to beat the floor or the plush sea turtle toy. That's all for today.