Drive back to CA (but with more than we expected?)

Before we headed home from UT we stopped to visit Meggie and ended up with some hitchhikers for the ride home. Here's Jason at the park near her place.

Shelly helped make (I mean eat) bread at our pit stop on our way home (Thanks Aunt Grandma!)

Addy wanted to help too... :-)

Apparently she's an equal opportune bread eater - raw or cooked!

Um, Katie - Are you sure that toy is designed for you?

They sure had fun playing in those toys that Aunt Grandma has!

Yup, I'm a slacker!

So, the kids have been gone for just over a week, and you'd think that I would have spent the time updating my life on here - but no... I was having too much fun being out of the house and not having to worry about the babysitters, taking naps without the background noise of kids and finishing projects without interrupting fingers and hungry bellies and tired babies. It's been good!
So, two weeks ago Shelly got a call from Aunt Grandma wanting her to come play at her house in UT for a week. I was only slightly put out that they didn't ask for Jason too, but they conceded nicely into taking him as well, so all was forgiven quickly. :-) Shelly was quite excited to be able to go play and ran to get her clothes as soon as she heard (which, I'll confess, I made the mistake of telling her this on Monday and they weren't coming until Thursday or Friday). She was quite bummed that she didn't get to leave right then. Jason, of course, didn't have a clue what was going on. I hear they had a blast with Aunt Grandma and Aunt Katie for the first several days, and then had fun playing with the Schofields for the weekend of the 4th. Aunt Becca is on her way (I think) bringing them back here for me. All this free time and I didn't have to do a thing! How awesome is that!?! It's probably past time to update the last month and post pictures I've been meaning to put up for a while now, huh?

Green Show [Reagan's Mom]

[I stole this one from Aunt Grandma's friend's blog too.]

As part of the Utah Shakespearn Festival that takes place in Cedar City every summer they have their "pre-show" or commonly referred to as the Green Show. We took Reagan and boy did she have a good time singing and dancing to the music. We met her new friends "Jason and Michelle" and Grandma Cindy there! What a fun night with friends!

Shelly and Jason at Aunt Grandma's House [Reagan's Mom]

[I stole this off one of Aunt Grandma's friend's blog. Reagan is the other cute little girl in the pictures]

Grandma Cindy invited us over to her house for a swim party with her "other favorite adopted grandchildren" to play. Here is a few pictures of Reagan being tortured by her dad with the garden hose! Michelle and Jason are Reagan's two new friends and boy did they have fun together. Grandma has had this house since her daughter was little and rediscovered it again in her garage. Reagan loved this house and cried when she had to leave! Thanks for such a great afternoon Grandma! We love you!

More to come

I have much more to put on here, but it takes so long to upload pictures! It's too bad that it's so time consuming and I don't often find the time it takes to actually post stuff with pictures without the kids whining or hitting the computer...
I'll put more up as soon as I can get around to it, I promise! There are lots more fun pictures from the last month - I just need to sit down and actually do something about it!

Utah Trip

We drove up to Utah for Memorial Day weekend. We neglected to inform the Schofields that we would be visiting. It was quite the excitement leaving Shelly on their porch and then running away to watch the reaction. Julibeth was quite excited to see us there!! Too bad Mark’s folks were out on a date… We went to BYU campus to try to find them, and succeeded in finding their car, but no actually bodies to go with it. So, we left a not on their car...


Needless to say they were not overly excited when they got in the car. Dad was quite nervous wondering if something might have happened with the cows, and Mom was assuming it was a prank. The look on their face when they walked into their living room and found us was priceless! :-)

We then had quite a bit of fun hanging out with them and getting to visit. We played on the farm with the kids










We also got a chance to visit other family...

This is Mark's Uncle Jim. He lives just across the garden from his folks.
This is Mark's Grandma and Grandpa (his dad's parents). They're a lot of fun to hang out with and make candy with ;-)

Our Garden – Still Growing

Here’s our garden. It’s started producing! We were able to enjoy some broccoli, and there are still random strawberries ripening from time to time. We’re expecting a decent batch soon. There are now a good amount of green ones.
We’ve also had some carrots (mostly because we had to thin them out), and we’ve finished off the peas, and the beans have been nummy.
The corn is now taller than that! That was taken a few weeks ago. They now have tassels and the ears are starting to silk. My mouth is watering just thinking about it.
Our corn is getting pretty tall! While the top one was taken about a month ago, and the bottom one was earlier this week... I can almost smell them
We have realized that there is a time limit for enjoying broccoli though… They make a rather pretty flower, but not quite as tasty… :-)