So life goes on…

Who knew I would be so bad at blogging?  Well, I could probably be the one to give anyone a heads up.  In my world of “if only” I would be the best blogger, keeping a great record of my family experiences, showing the cutest of pictures, and being the most intriguing writer to be read in the blog world.  But my “if only” world doesn’t exist, and I am a horrible blogger; but I won’t let that stop me from doing a sometimes update, because, quite frankly, I just want to do it.  Oh, and we now have more family and friends that decided they didn’t want to stay local anymore, so the updates may be a little bit more appreciated since they aren’t here to see us grow.

Well, a quick spill of the recent happenings:

Our Wonder Brig turned 8, and for most of you, that means he was baptized.  Yeah Brig! 

We had an enormous harvest, and I mean BIG.  I hate to admit that I didn’t preserve as much as I wanted, but what I thought has gone to waste, my sweet honey just reminds me, has gone back into the ground to help make next year even better.  At least we had the bounty of freshness all summer long.  So long sweet candy tomatoes, see you next year!

We have another baby coming too, so please be understanding when you come over and see my house in disarray .  Well, now at least I have an excuse, and yes, I am going to use it for all it’s worth.  Truly, we are very excited for this little one, but I can’t believe I am soon to be momma of 6…whaaat?  It’s funny what things you learn along the path of life; all the dreams I had as a kid somehow don’t make the list anymore, and all the new dreams I’m making are coming true.  I sure was a naive one.

Well, here are some snaps of some things and any things.  I always carried a little camera with me, but probably for 6 months now, the batteries were dead, and I just never changed them.  So if we ever got a photo of something worth taking a photo of, it was by mere chance; yes, we have another camera that sometimes gets remembered.  So here they are:

Some backyard pictures, This is the Place Heritage Park, Top of Utah Marathon, Brig’s birthday (yes, I made the cake), and some of my family tree at the Utah State Fair.

     

Pictured below we're at Strawberry Reservoir…we had a crawfish boil, and those babies were huge.

Oh so bountiful…

I have been mentioning to many that I would post a bit on Bountiful Baskets (a food co-op) that I think is absolutely awesome.  I will just say, if this co-op is in your area, take advantage of it.  The cost for the main purchase is $15 per basket (worth about $30-$40), and the optional $7.50 for the Italian or Mexican packages , and $10 for the bread bag ($2.00 per loaf), which is 100% natural, no odd ingredients.  We have been doing this co-op for a couple of months now, and I have saved so much grocery money, because all I buy when I go to Smith’s is dairy and occasional meat (we grow rabbits, remember).  Once our garden harvest is more productive we will probably not use it as often, but right now it is perfect for us.  Here are a few pictures to show you the bounty.  Let me know if you’d like more details.

 

 

Moab in May…and other stuff

Yes, it has been half a year since I’ve updated, but I’ve been busy; this family life stuff really takes up a lot of free time.  So much has happened…oh where to start…Well, I’ll just do what I can, and hope I get a few things of interest posted.  To start off, we had an awesome trip to MOAB…yes, our annual tradition happened in May.  WE HAD A BLAST!  This year we rented an RV to help with our family fun, and fun it was.   We decided not to camp because the weather was so rainy, and I just wasn’t in the spirit of taking the tent (yes, I wimped out).  We’ve tent camped more than I can count, we needed a new adventure full of crazy RV moments.  We now have memories that include using a toilet in a bouncing, swaying, not so easy to do, closet; a brief night of the throw-ups for no reason we could think of, and a peeped on bunk that no one needs to know about (I wanted our cleaning deposit back).  Aside from those short set backs, the rest of the trip was as perfect as a family could hope for.  We went to the usual Powerhouse Dam; and what’s a visit there without the usual someone falling in.  This year it was Kurt.  He has no idea how it happened, he was being so careful, just like I told him to be.

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We also did the walk downtown and let everyone pick their yearly Moab t-shirt.  We had lots of picnics (much easier in an RV), played tons in the sand, and visited Arches (I love that park).  Here are a few more picks of the trip.

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Garrek ran the Salt Lake City Marathon in April, and both he and I ran the Utah Valley Marathon 2 Saturdays ago, in the pouring rain.  It was so fun to run a race with him, it technically was the second race we ran together.  When I ran the Riverton 1/2 marathon a couple of months ago, he signed up the night before so he could pace me to finish at my goal pace, what a guy;)   Now we just need to decide if we are going to run the Deseret News Marathon on Pioneer Day.  I don’t know how many more I can train for, it’s quite time consuming.  I’ve been lucky to find a great friend and running partner who helps me get the runs in before the sun comes up…thanks DG!  She also ran the UVM and qualified for Boston, for the 4th time! 

We finally got a trampoline, after 2 years of promises, and the kids have almost already got our money’s worth out of it.  It is such a great energy release for the older ones, and a perfect baby pen for Talia.  We’ve had lots of fun jumping with and without sprinklers, laying on it looking at cloud shapes, and everything in between.  The only thing left, that I can think of, is sleeping out…maybe this weekend.