gardening

We planted a garden at my parents home. 

A huge garden, we weren't sure if it would grow or not,

so we planted double and it grew triple amounts.

It was a crazy! 

 

 

 

truck load of squash

 

This is only about third of the carrots, we grew purple ones too!

 

first crop of cucumbers, I love cucumbers and really ate my heart out. 

 but sometimes there is too much of a good thing... 

This is the pumpkin that Rylie grew from a seed last year in kindergarten, she was pretty excited about it!  I was quite impressed. 

Bode using his dump truck to haul pumpkins to the porch.

I have bottled beans, peaches, and salsa every year.

This year I (well my mom with me assisting) bottled for my new cold storage

21 quarts of green beans

7 quarts of apple pie filling

2 different types of pickles

apricot syrup and jam

beets

carrots

I can't wait to line the shelves of my new cold storage



 

more pumpkin pictures, can you even find my kids.

we grew 80+ pumpkins

 

Picking the harvest....

 by the truckload.



More September fun..

I am catching up on my blog... ha ha  My intentions are so good and then its the last thing that gets done.  So be prepared fro a lot of posts to come!!

 

 

Rylie is loving her new school and is doing awesome. 

Here she is at the school fundraiser

 

With her buddy Kailey and her buddy Bode. 

He can't wait to be like Rylie and do all the fun things at school. 

 

 Aggie homecoming parade...  Go Aggies!!

Rylie went to a fall party with some new friends.  She had such a good time and got her face painted at the party.  I love it and Love her eyes in this picture

 

 after the makeup all came off, she danced with the Sky View Vistauns and LOVED IT!

Picking the perfect pumpkin!!

 

Home Depot Safety Fair, showed up Saturday morning to get MORE stuff for the house and ended up letting the kids do a craft airplane and the safety fair.  Cheap entertainment! 

labor day weekend

 

Labor Day Weekend, school is in full swing.  Life is back to routine and then we get to escape it all again on Labor Day Weekend. 

This year we headed out camping up emigration canyon and

spending the day at Bear Lake.  Kade and Erica families joined us and it was a great weekend.

 

 Rylie & Oakley are dressed and hair done as twins. 

 Sunday afternoon, we headed up St. Charles canyon for a drive.  Ended up at blue springs.

Then finished the weekend off with raspberry shakes, yes we enjoy our raspberry shake.

Bode enjoyed it too!!

more august happenings..

Mike

ran the top of Utah half and did awesome.

Spent some awesome time at the park this summer!  My kids love the park and are the perfect age to go run and play.   We have almost been to every park in the valley.

Back to school

Back to school...

Rylie first day at 1st Grade

and at a new school.

 

She is growing up on me and I was not ready for the 1st day of 1st grade.  It seemed so far away six years ago, but then it came.  I tried to hold it together, but there was tears!!  She begged me to walk her in, I did it through the tears.  She says "mom, why are you crying?" and I could tell that I was making her nervous.  So I said "these are happy tears, I am just so excited with all the fun things you will do in 1st grade".  Gave her a love and was out.  she did great!!

She is kinda liking lunch, but loves recess and PE, Art, Music and learning a new language. 

 

This big guy is growing up too.

His 1st day at joyschool

He gets a little anxiety about leaving me, but has done well with his school

He loves learning, playing, friends and playing some more

august

Seriously, where does summer go.   Its such a crazy fun few months and yet so busy. 

Grandpa kept Bode while I ran an errand, I was only gone a minute and when I got back they were both sound asleep on the floor.  I can't ever get Bode to nap, pretty cute.  He loves his grandpa!!

 

Rylie at the SkyView tennis camp... 

I think we about hit all the parks from Logan north this Summer, including the splash pad. 

Kids love a chance to play in the water

 Mike did the epic relay again this year.  We followed him along the course and then took advantage of an opportunity to go to Jackson Hole. 

We stayed  in Alpine in a motel, the kids were a bit nervous at first then settled right in and thought it was pretty cool.  Swam in the pool. I mean bathtub

Yes, he is trying to push her off the bed.  

Saw Mike off on this last leg in Hoback and took off to JH square.  What a fun place to hang out and shop!  Kids are really becoming some pretty good adventurours

 at the finish line 2013 Mile High Runners. they were an hour faster than last year!

Way to go team!