Some Pictures from the Past

Gabe got sick this morning, so we are home from school today. I decided to use some of my extra free time to send out another blog.

These pictures were taken the summer that John and I got engaged. While spending a few days down in Castle Dale, we went to the Wedge and then Joe's Valley. I found these pictures recently, and, although we have them on disc somewhere, I couldn't find it. Sara and Morgan were able scan them and e-mail them to me. I hope everyone enjoys these. It's great to be able to share long-distance! If anyone wants copies, I don't know how these will work. If they don't, let me know and I will e-mail them to anyone who wants them.





Arden
Madi I know you can't see this one well, but it is Les down in the rock crevice.
On the day we had gone to Joe's Valley, the shoreline was that icky, sticky, gooey mud. Madi, Arden, and Leslie had a ball getting as dirty as they possibly could! We called them the "Mud Monsters!" This was the before. . .

during. . .

And after!

Here are a couple of pictures of our garden, again. The first one was Gabe's watermelon -- the small variety. They were really good, and just right for a couple of servings. The pumpkins have taken over our side walkway. The plants are going through the roses, and one of the pumpkins even grew up and behind the trellis (which has had its own problems).The sunflowers got completely out of hand! They flopped over, and we couldn't get them to stand back up. They were just too heavy. Gabe and Jonas tried to hold them up, but they coudn't get them any higher than this. You can get the idea of how big they were, though. We have since cut off the heads and are drying them for future roasting and salting.

The pumpkins have gone out of control! They have taken over the entire walkway between the house and the park fence! We can't even walk through. The vines have even gone through the roses as well as up the trellis. (The trellis has had problems staying up with the strong winds we've had this summer). There was even a pumpkin that started growing half way up that trellis!

Here are the tomato plants. They have been a little slow ripening -- until now, that is. We've got tomatoes coming out of our ears! And we only have 2 plants! The only problem is that there is a hornets nest in the railroad ties right next to the plants. That means we have to wait until the sun goes down so we don't have to fight with the hornets. John has already been stung, and Gabe got stung by a bee on Sunday.