Gotta love those kiddos!

This weekend we decided to make some sausage.  60 lbs of polish sausage to be exact.  Yum!  Brock came over to help us so about 10 am yesterday we started rolling.

We have realized there are 3 ways to get something done with the two kids.  You can send them away...  but what fun is that?  You can lock them in a room...  but the neighbors start wondering at all the yelling  (Mommy, Daddy, LET ME OUT!!!!)  Or, you can involve them (Dane) and give him a job.  Well, I was kidding about the first two so we gave Dane tasks and got him involved and we had a great day.  

Here are some pictures from our fun, productive day! 

This is Dane cutting his own little pieces of meat.  He was right next to me so I could closely monitor what he was doing.  But, he did great, was very careful, and learned a lot.

Everyone's working hard and having a good time.  Brock was so much help.  He jumped in and helped with every part and then played with Dane during the down time.  We really enjoyed having him!

I look a little crazy here.  (you would too at this point! lol)  But, Kimber was tired from all of her hard work!

Stuffing the sausage into the casings.  Everyone is posing.

Brock was working hard!  I was sneaky when I took this one so no one posed!

Then it was time for baths!  Dane is so good to Kimber.  She was splashing, stealing his toys, and crawling all over him but he just kind of ignored her and kept playing or would hand her a toy he didn't want.  He is a really great big brother.  Here are some bath time pictures of our kiddos!

As I'm writing this, Clint is finishing the last batch of sausage.  We had to smoke it in four batches.  Then we bake it to make sure it gets hot enough.  Lastly, we vacuum seal it and put it in the freezer.  Now we will have lots of yummy sausage for months to come!