My Husband, Jon loves to garden. The other day he asked me why I hadn't put the garden we're all so proud of, on our blog yet. So here is this year's garden.

We usually plant different kinds of peppers, squash and cucumbers.

We(I mean he) planted watermel-on and cantelope as well, and we ate our first watermel-on last week...mmmm it was yummy.
We are excited for the cantelopes to ripen up.

As you can see, we have a ton of tomato plants and tomatoes coming out our ears; We get pretty busy this time of year canning salsa, and whatever else you can do with tomatoes. It's a lot of work but nice to have on the shelves.

These are our raspberry plants; we are excited at how big they've got this year and expect to get a lot of raspberries next year.


And last but not least, these bushes are our currants and blackberries, we've gotten a ton of them this year and recently used them in some jam we canned.

My Husband is very proud of our fruit trees, vegetable garden and berry bushes...and I am too. So this post is for you Jon, happy gardening hon!

So my hubby loves "produce" gardening and I love my flowers. We got curbing put in this year so I was able to plant a lot of flowers around the house...yeah, it was a lot of work but well worth it.

These bright yellow flowers are number 1 on my "favorites" list this year.

Next on my list are my dahlias; they are so beautiful with their bushy green leaves, producing tons of flowers all different colors at once.

I love coming out everyday to see how my flowers are doing; it seems like I always find something new and beautiful blooming...it's a lot of fun!
If you notice, there is a huge green plant off to the right in this picture...when I was done planting my flowers my husband asked me why I planted a tomato plant there. I didn't believe it was a tomato plant until it got bigger, now it's humungous and producing a lot of tomatoes too! Oops! wont make that mistake again, at least the neighbors can enjoy it.

Caleb started his first day of kindergar-ten on Tuesday Aug. 26th, 2008. I can't believe our once little baby boy is off to the big school. It makes me so proud and yet sad at the same time. I never thought the "school days" would come so fast.
Caleb is liking school so far, it was a little overwhelming for him at first, but he is getting used to it. He is lucky because he has a lot of kids in his class he knows from our ward. His teacher, Mrs. Wilson is so cute and sweet, I know she is going to be great. What a handsome boy!

These lists aren't in any particular order, but here you have it.

8 things I am passionate about

• Family
• My relationship & service to the Lord
• The Gospel of Jesus Christ
• Being a Mom
• life
• Christmas & Easter
• music
• sports

8 books I've read & enjoyed

• Book of Mormon
• Every month's Ensign (does that count?)
• How to live a covenant marriage(awesome book!)
• Standing a little taller (haven't read cover to cover)
• I can't go to church (love this book too!)
• Green eggs & Ham (thanks to my kids)
• Santa's first flight
• Seriously, do I have time to read anything else besides kids books?

8 words/phrases I say often

• SWEET!
• Crap!
• No way
• Are you serious?
• What the Heck!
• Whatever
• So!
• I don't get it.

8 things I want to do before I die

• See my boys serve honorable missions
• Go on a mission with my Husband
• Pay my house off & have no debt
• See all my kids graduate from college
• Go parasailing again
• come up with a million dollar idea
• see Tim & Faith in concert
• conquer any fears

8 things I've learned over the past

• The grass is really always greener on the other side
• life is precious and goes by too quickly
• spending time with my kids is more important than a spotless clean house
• Children grow up before you know it
• I will never be caught up on my laundry
• Everyone has weeknesses
• too much fuss makes more of a mess
• sanity is priceless

8 places I want to see.

• Prince Edward Island
• Australia (for Jon)
• The Sacred Grove
• Hawaii
• New York
• Lake Mead again sometime
• Disney World in Florida
• Still thinking....

• New pair of jeans
• Color & Cut
• More time/longer weekends
• more laughs
• a vacation w/ my hubby
• someone to mow my lawn
• a clean house
• more storage

I TAG:

• Tanji
• Jana
• Monica K.
• Kelly G.
• Jenn L.

I can't believe it! Logan went to his first day of pre-school this morning. It is a hard thing knowing that our kids are growing up faster than we can keep up. He was really excited and a little nervous, but I know he will have so much fun. His teacher is Mrs. Mitchell and she is so awesome! He looks so cute with his backpack.

Hey Monica, I
read your comment and decided to show you what my Salon looks like. I love Norman Rockwell art; this picture Jon gave to me and it hangs in my salon.







I love being a mom and that always comes first, but I love doing hair too and keep pretty busy.
The beautiful granite countertop came from some awesome close friends of ours. My chair is a bit outdated, but "they just don't make them like they used to" so I hope this chair will last awhile longer because it's great.
I haven't painted the walls yet because I'm still undecided on how I want it to look...I'm not the type of person who likes to change things up very often, so whatever I decide will probably stay forever and I want it to be perfect.
Anyway, I love my salon
and love that I can do this
out of my home.

The sink is located across from my salon chair which also is the access to the rest of the house. The "shampoo chair" stores back beside the shampoo bowl when I'm not using it. It's great!