What We Did Today. . .

Before I get to today's activities, we wanted to show off our garden. This is the big planter box of wild flowers. The colors have been really pretty. The space between the two houses is our potato patch. Last year we had over 100 pounds of red potatoes -- we're hoping for the same this year.

This is the main garden: Tomatoes, swiss chard, beets, and beans.

Tomatoes and beans, . . . .

Tomatoes and squash. Of course, all these tomatoes will start ripening when I've gone back to school. It happens that way every year. We do love using our bottled tomatoes!

This is an attempt to get the entire garden in one picture. It is a little wide.

Ok. So. . . Today was John's day off, and there are only 2 more of those days before I go back to work, and only 3 more before everyone else is back in school. So, Madi and Arden had their own plans, so we decided to take Gabriel up to the Hill Air Force Base Airplane Museum. It was awesome! Those planes were huge!!!!


This is a replica of the original Wright Brothers plane. It is amazing to me that the first plane was in 1911, and then by 1917 they were advanced enough to be used as combat planes.

It was impossible to get everything in these pictures, but the inside of the museum was packed with all the old WWII planes and displays.

This was one of the bomber and gunner planes. You can see the picture of how the man on the guns had to sit in that round globe at the bottom of the plane. Not my idea of comfortable!

Outside were the absolutely huge planes, from a C-124 transport, a B-52 bomber, and various other massive machines that couldn't possibly get off the ground, let alone stay in the air!

These planes were so big I couldn't get the whole thing into one picture!

After lunch, we went further into Ogden and went to the Train Museum. Another set of massively big machines!

I didn't know there was a Torch Relay car. Well, it's here at the Train museum.

Gabe was able to climb up on the trains and explore a bit. Most of the doors were locked, but just being up on the train was quite an experience. I climbed on one, and all I could think of was how the people would walk along those narrow walkways when the train was moving!

As we were there, 2 Front Runners went by right on the other side of the fence. Those would be fun to ride!Gabe got hold of the camera -- silly pictures of John!

All in all, it was a great way to spend the day. Hope everyone else is doing well.

Summer So Far. . . .

Here's the summer so far. We haven't done much out of the ordinary, but here are a few things we have done. The roses have been gorgeous this season -- again. John just has the right touch! The trellis is covered as well as all the other individual bushes. It's very colorful!
This is the climatis.
Gabe had his first piano recital in June. (June 12th). He did a great job! At the end of the blog is a video of one of his duets with his teacher. I couldn't get it to be where I wanted it, so it's at the end.

One day, John and Gabe went shoe shopping and came home with a t-ball set with practice balls, a new mitt and two real baseballs. Gabe has had a lot of fun practicing with them. We even took the set to the park one day and found someone there who wanted to play with him. His form isn't too bad. He just needs to practice more!

We tried to go up to Moss Ledge on July 5th, but everyone else was there, too. So, last Saturday, we packed up our hamburger "stuff" and headed up. Even then, we were lucky to get one of the sites: and that one was the one with the spring running right through it. Anyway, we took a hike up the mountain, and even I went with them! It was fun! I'm really slow, because I'm so unsure of my steps, but I made it. The scary part was when we were coming down and someone up above us must have dislodged some rocks. They came crashing down, and I really thought we were going to be hit! They were the size of bowling balls! And as they hit the sides of the canyon, they sounded like bowling balls, too! Gabe was already down, but John and I just had to plaster ourselves against the walls and hope they wouldn't hit us. They didn't! Whew!!!!!

Gabe found a large flat rock and wanted to break it up. So, he pounded it against another rock. Fun -- I guess.

This past Saturday Gabe was in the Days of '47 Youth Parade. Our Stake had a float in it with all the primary kids following behind. They walked from Trolley Square down to the City/County building.

This is only part of the group behind the float, mostly our ward. There were over 200 kids and adults in the group.

At the carnival at the parade's end, I ran into a friend of mine from the choir John and I used to sing in. This little girl is only 1 month older than Gabe. Look how tall she is!!!

Gabe went down a couple of the big blow-up slides. It was too hot to stay any longer than that!

Hope everyone has a great summer! See everyone this weekend for the 24th!!