Latest Utah Trip

Well Kim and I are either really brave or really stupid but we decided to do a road trip to Utah to visit Melanie. Now mind you that is 12 hours in the car (each way!) with a 2 year-old and a 6 week-old. Are we crazy or what?!! But actually the girls were great travelers and all things considered, it was a fun trip. Thank heavens for video players, Kinsley will sit for hours in her car seat watching movies! The weather was great and I wish we could have stayed for another week. Some of the fun things we did:


Here's Kinsley taking her turn driving!

We went swimming in the neighborhood pool and the kids had a blast.

We got to watch Redden play baseball at 2 playoff games. His team won both. Go Redden!

We went to a horse parade in downtown Lehi and the kids loved chasing down the candy that was thrown out.

Ryder was such a good helper and loved holding Kamri. Aren't they cute?!!

Ranger and Kinsley had fun playing together all week.

We went to see the movie UP and everyone enjoyed it.

We hit the wood connection and made some cute Uncle Sam hats!

Thanks Melanie for letting us come and entertaining us all week. Now it's your turn to come to Arizona, see ya soon!

Farmer Ron

In honor of Father's Day I thought I would do a post about Ron. Technically he isn't my father but he did give me 5 great kids so he deserves mention on here from time to time. Ron is a farmer at heart. In addition to raising buffalo, cows, pigs, chickens and 4 dogs, he loves to garden. And he is really good at it! Every year he spends hours getting the soil ready, planting, watering, weeding and finally reaping the benefits of his hard work. We are enjoying tomatoes, carrots, radishes, cucumbers, green beans, 3 kinds of squash, black-eyed peas and he just picked his first watermelon. Plus there are beets, onions, peppers and cantaloupe still to come!

Here he is in all his glory.

Our son-in-law Tommy helped put in a watering system.

Look at those carrots

His first watermelon, isn't it beautiful!

Can you say zucchini?!!!
My contribution was bottling some of the bounty.

Thanks for letting me brag on my talented hubby!

Apricot Adventure

I made the trek out to Kim's yesterday to help her bottle apricots.

We went from this:

To this!

And I also got some cute pics of the girls:

What a fun way to spend the afternoon!

Samantha's Blessing

Samantha was blessed yesterday. Curt did a great job and gave her a beautiful blessing. She cooperated and didn't fuss or cry. They live in a young ward and there were 5 babies blessed. Afterwards we went back to their house and enjoyed a yummy meal. It was great to spend time with family.


Samantha looking precious in the dress that Emma also wore.

The cute family of five now.

The kids hamming it up for the camera.

Papa and grandma with the guest of honor.

We love you Samantha!

Happy Anniversary

Wow

33 years
5 children

5 in-law children

9 grandchildren, 2 more on the way

Where does the time go?

I love you babe!

Jennings Family Swim Party

At the start of the year my sister and I decided to put some dates down on the calendar for Jennings family get togethers. We feel it is important to keep getting the family together as we are growing fast and getting bigger every minute. (6 new babies have been born in the past year with 2 more coming soon!) The first one was in March at Gordon's and last night we went to Debbie's for a swim party. The evening turned out perfect with great weather, great food, and great people! Here are some random pics of the fun:


We finished off the evening with some yummy homemade ice cream made by yours truly. The next date will be in October when Ron and I will host a sausage gravy breakfast. Can't wait!