Mid Summer

Sorry for all the plant pictures. This is really my first time planting a garden and it is fascinating.

I love the colors.

I LOVE the curly tips of pea plants.I finally got them strung up. A little too late so I was using wire to help them stand up and then I realized these curly tips are so strong and I could wrap them around the wire and they would hold themselves up!

It is getting hot in Utah. I broke out my ghetto pool and the kids love it. I usually would just have the sprinkler but I feel like I'm wasting so much water letting it run like that. 

recently Jacob has been bringing me blankets wanting me to lay them out on the floor. Then I will sit on it and say "nacks?" 

If there is water near by Jacob is in it. Jared was running the sprinklers to check them out and they made a big puddle in the driveway. Jacob was in heaven. 

Birthdays!

I was able to go to Girls camp for 5 days this month! It was so much fun. I was able to bond with the girls and the girls really bonded together. Girls camp is such a great thing. Thank you to all who helped so I was able to go! 

I went a little picture happy with my kids when I got home.

The weekend I got back the Fongs had a birthday celebration for all three of their kids. We had a lot of fun celebrating with them.

I stressed over what to get these two boys and decided on these figurines and they were pretty excited. That made me happy. 

Next we have Jared's birthday! He is 29 years old. Sooo old!

He didn't want cake so we did brownies and ice cream. We also had mexican for dinner. Jared could eat mexican food for dinner every night.

Jared wanted to get out and do things for his birthday. So the day before we went to Springville splash pad. It was so nice and fun. Mae had a blast and Jacob loved every minute of it. Especially when his cousins got there. 

On Jared's birthday we went to the Payson pool. It is a very nice fairly new pool. But it was SO windy we could hardly enjoy it. The kids still had a ton of fun we just didn't stay very long. 

And last I don't think I ever posted these pictures we had taken by Anna Marshall for Mae's first birthday!

They turned out so cute... even though my kids weren't really cooperating. 

Super Man and A Garden Update

Grammy sent us this super fun shirt that has a cape attached to it! I didn't think Jacob would have any idea what it was but right when I put it on him he started running around saying "zoom zoom!"

He then posed with his fist in the air!

I guess he knows what Superman is... unless it just comes programmed in little boys heads.

Today I got the camera out to take some pictures of my growing garden and Jacob said "cheese!" so I took a picture of him.

He thinks its really funny to see pictures of himself with his tongue sticking out.

Here is my growing garden!!

Cucumbers

tomatoes

strawberries

Lots and LOTS of strawberries.

Jacob LOVES to sit in the car and play like he is driving. After all this picture taking I found him like this. looking pretty proud of himself.

We had a fire in our fire pit on memorial day. Burned wood looks cool. 

And last here are our little teenage chicks. They are kind of at an awkward stage where they have half fluffy baby feathers and half real feathers.