First the Seed and then the Vine...

..then the flower very fine. Tabitha sang that song SO much that she learned in Kindergarten I STILL remember it. And she even had her little hand drawn pages too. But now we have the real thing!!

PUMPKINS!!!

Well, soon to be. We have never grown pumpkins before and thought it would be fun except they take up so much space. So we thought that since the majority of our tulips on the side of the house have stopped coming up, let's give pumpkins a try.

I'm in the mood for a giveaway. Take your guess as to what you think our harvest will be. How many pumpkins do you think will come from this.

What's the prize? Guess correctly and if you are local (and we get more than 1 pumpkin) you can come over and pick a pumpkin. If you are not local, then I can mail you a cute little something pumpkin-ish.

So what's your guess?

Yowza!!!!

I'm SO grateful we purchased central air conditioning 5 years ago. It comes in handy when the weather is like this!!

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Humidity:41%

A Sneak Peek

Here's a few shots that Cassie is teasing us with. I can't wait to see the rest!!!

Time to catch up ...again!

Sorry for the delay in posting. We've been in a whirlwind of activities around here.

4th of July was a nice, relaxing day.

Favorite part of the day ~ picking out the fireworks


Amber hasn't been home for 4th of July in about 4 years (she's always been off at EFY) so she's REALLY excited to go buy fireworks.


Rob is making his traditional Vanilla Ice Cream. This year he also added an new one ~ chocolate ice cream With HIS chocolate in a ganache. Boy!!! That was heavenly!!




Trying something fun with sparklers :D

We then rushed off to Utah for an ultra fast visit with Robert, Jessica and Lizzie.

Waiting for our flight


One happy little girl to be in her Papa's arms


Our cool chica w/her Auntie Amber


Lovingly abusing her Uncle DayDay. And he's enjoying every minute!


Our beautiful eternal family


Lizze LOVES flowers. She can't get enough of touching and smelling. And she even pulled one out of the ground that we promptly replanted :D


This was one of those shots where Jessica saw us sitting and talking with each other. So she came and took a picture of us. This is now MY favorite picture of me and my son.

Our "family photographer", Cassie ~ of CLG Photography flew in too and took some family pictures and senior pictures of Amber. STILL WAITING to see the sneak peaks. But from what I saw from the camera screen, they are going to be amazing!!


Cassie had never been to SLC so it was a lot of fun to play tourist and take her to Temple Square and show her around.

The night we flew home, my friend Lynette was coming into town too. She was here for her niece's wedding. So we had a wonderful house guest for the weekend.


Giving Lynette a taste of summer in Washington


On Monday morning, Rob and David woke up at the "before crack of dawn" to head out for Scout Camp. Followed by Lynette heading home and then taking Amber to the meeting place for girls camp. What did that mean? Amy was ALONE for 2 days!!!!! What a treat!!!

Amy then headed off to Girls Camp where she was in charge of Humanitarian Service projects. And to shock everyone ~ I spent 2 nights AT camp. Slept in a tent with 3 other gals!!! I still don't "enjoy" camping but I LOVED being with the young women in our church.


Amber, Tabitha and Liz (my other daughter for the camp)


Tabitha and Amber in the talent show singing "Sister" from White Christmas

Then time to come home and get clean. Woohoo!! Sleep in my own bed again!!!!

We've also been harvesting from our garden. The yummiest lettuce EVER!!!


Needed to thin some of the carrots but the kids wanted to eat then anyway. And peas.

Happy 4th of July

As we sit here in our comfortable homes, let us remember what this day is REALLY celebrating.

In talking with Amber and David I learned that they have NEVER had to read the Declaration of Independence at school. A big mistake on our parts as parents thinking that this is something that is commonly done. It used to be!! I'd really like to know what is taught in their various history/government classes that they are required to take in middle school and high school.

I know what we will be doing tonight!