Our Garden

I just wanted to post about our awesome garden because we are so proud of it! We had so much fun and almost everything was successful. Tucker's favorite crop was the carrots. Every day he wanted us to go dig one up. We canned (for the first time) pickles, tomato sauce, beets, and relish. We learned that we need to plant more tomatoes and that maybe we don't need 7 zucchini plants ( I know. I know. What were we thinking!?!) As much as I loved it I am pretty excited to not feel the need to go weeding for a few months.

Jeremy's Wedding

Hooray! My little brother, Jeremy, married a wonderful girl named Amy Jane last week. My camera was lost (but now is found.) so I don't have any pictures but they are a wonderfully cute couple and I am so excited for them. I just love weddings! Andrew and I have decided that we don't want to wait until our 50th wedding anniversary for a big shebang so we might have one at 20 years. We just are one of those wierd people that LOVE planning.

Date Night- Game Mania

Andrew was in charge of this night. We simaltaneously played four games. It got a little crazy! We played backgammon, dominoes, chess, & checkers. We had a bean bag for each game that we used to mark whose turn it was. So basically we just ran around looking for a bean bag on our side and took our turn and then threw the bean bag back on the other side. We tried to finish within a time limit, which I think started at half an hour, but we were having so much fun we ended up just finishing all of the games no matter how long it took. I discovered that I don not have the skills to play more than one strategy game at a time. I was so confused with the chess game. I lost that one so fast! Andrew totally beat me. He won backgammon, dominoes, and chess. I managed to win checkers. I think we will definately repeat this date night.

Dinosaur Museum

For Andrew's birthday, one of the things we did was go to a dinosaur museum. Even though this wasn't a dinosaur we thought it was fun! It was pretty crowded. Miles was especially having fun exploring his vocal chords but since it was loud anyway, no one could really hear him. It was perfect!

Their absolute favorite was "digging" for dinosaur bones at the end. They didn't quite work together and so they were constantly finding and covering the same bone the whole time.

Adelia's room

This is an art project I did on Adelia's wall inspired by my sister-in-law, Tonia. The butterflies are made out of paper. I thought it turned out pretty cool.

Tucker's Faith

Yesterday Tucker couldn't find a specific Lightning McQueen toy. I haven't seen it for a really long time. He had only looked for a few seconds when he wanted to say a prayer. He said a simple prayer that he would be able to find it and right at the end of the prayer Miles spit up everywhere. He rarely does this but I told Tucker after I took care of Miles I would help him look for his toy. I went up to get a burp cloth and what was in the the burp cloth basket? Lightning McQueen! I know that Heavenly Father answers even the simplest of prayers. It was so sweet to see Tucker's faith.

Kennecott

We went on a fairly spontaneous visit to Kennecott Copper Mine with Grandma & Grandpa. It was amazing! This is one of the tires from the trucks they use. I could not believe how big they were. Tucker and Adelia both loved the museum with all of the replicas of machines. It was SO crowded and we were especially grateful for the extra arms from grandparents.