Spring Break 2019

It's a good thing that I didn't have much planned for spring break because we spent most of it just like we do every other year...sick! There were stomach bugs and effects of stomach bugs which kept us pretty much stuck at the house. My parents and brother Robert came to visit though...

April 2015

April came and went faster than seems possible. We spent a lot of time outside getting the garden planted and Dale worked a lot on making our storm shelter garden...this year we're trying to grow pumpkins there.

Dale roto-tilling the garden

Kimball's class had an Easter egg hunt at the local park...I got to play the role of Easter bunny and hide 300+ eggs (thankfully some other moms were there to help!).

We've hit the stage of children waking up at all hours on holiday mornings because they're too excited to sleep. Cameron woke up at 3 in the morning on Easter to see what the Easter bunny brought...I was mean and made him go back to bed until 7:00.

Easter morning 2015

The boys loved the egg hunt throughout our house and Kimball ate his entire chocolate bunny in one day. We also got to watch General Conference on Easter Sunday.

Cameron fell asleep during General Conference

We spent one afternoon fishing at Brother E's pond. The boys caught quite a few fish and Lily wanted so badly to play in the dirt.

The boys started soccer and have loved it...it's been so rainy though that most practices and games have been cancelled/postponed.

We celebrated Kimball's 8th birthday and he was baptized. Becky came to visit and took family pictures of us.

Lily turned 9 months old! I got to go on a field trip with Kimball to the Goddard Science Museum.

Lily in front of a teepee

This year is going by way too quickly!

Garden 2013

I've been so excited to have a garden this year and was very pleased with how it turned out. This year, I decided to mostly experiment and learn through trial and error. So far, I've gotten 3.5 cups of corn (blanched, cut off the cob and frozen), 3 cups of pureed pumpkin, several bell peppers (green, red & orange), and 35+ pounds of tomatoes which I have used to make 15 pints of salsa and 18 pints of crushed tomatoes.

Cameron next to our tomato hedge on top of the tornado shelter

I planted a bunch of tomato seedlings on top of the tornado shelter since grass hadn't grown in, and they went insane! While we went to Utah earlier this summer, the plants went from tiny to too ginormous to put in cages, so they just made a huge hedge.

This was my first year canning as well and even though I was extremely nervous and intimidated, it worked out well!