Wide awake...

Can't sleep.
Love Annette's blog. Love the beautiful pictures of Utah. She's lucky to be able to take a reprieve from the hustle and bustle!
Things weigh heavy on my mind and it interrupts a very important thing... SLEEP!
I wish I was open Nettie, like you are.
I wish I was adventurous.
I watched a movie tonight called "Remember Me", it was odd, kinda pointless.
Maybe I'm still waiting to find out the point of that movie. Maybe that's why I'm awake.
I'm not going to be very happy about this tomorrow. Nope...

Progress

In the beginning we had some healthy weeds. Now usually, we don't get enough rain to make green weeds, let alone this many, and grass too! But this year was so different, we had a super wet month or so. Soooooo, we began with crazy yuck grass and lots of weeds.

We had fun making something out of nothing... doesn't that look like fun? For me it does because there are 4 boys out there! :) Don't you worry, I worked too!!

The finished product! Turned out pretty cool I think. We had some starts we planted that our friend Nikki grew and we had a few we bought from the store. The rest was seed.

Last night this is what the garden looked like. You can't see each thing very good, but it's growing pretty well. I love each little plant! I love to watch them grow from day to day! I get sad when something goes wrong with them, like BUGS! We have a few spots that we still haven't planted, but we are saving those for PUMPKINS! :) We also have a bunch that just aren't growing. Mostly because they are earlier plants and should of been planted way before we started. So we may end up giving up on those and planting some other late summer thing or waiting till fall and planting. But all in all it's pretty good.

Here's a cool little thing. We have lots of little volunteer watermelon that came from the last garden we had. I was tired at the end of the season and I just stopped going out to the garden! So stuff just laid on the ground and rotted... Sad I know, but it created come super cute watermelon plants!! They are all throughout the west side of the garden. (So through the tomatoes and the corn.) I love all the little watermelon plants! They make me happy! Here's a cute picture of it.

Music, music, music, and cute kids!

Piano recital today as well as a Shenanigans show.
In fact, it may well be Kendahl's last Shenanigans show because she is trying to prioritize all her many activities! I'm not sure about Baillie and Brodric. We can't decided if they really want to do it bad enough for the effort... We'll see.
Regardless, they are great kids, every one of them!!

This amazing kid turns 7 in a few hours!
The things that make him amazing are many. First off, he is sweet and loving. He loves people, he's a good companion, a great friend. He thinks he doesn't have any friends, but just to give you an example, his big sister Baillie was saying her prayers tonight and in her prayer she shared how thankful she was for her little brother. Thankful that he is there to play with her and that he is so sweet to her. He is easy to like. He really does have friends, no matter what he says!

He is smart just like all his other siblings. He reads 4 grades above his actual grade right now. He wants to learn and will find ways to challenge himself. He teaches himself math and does math problems all the time.

He is very active. Running, jumping, flipping, climbing. You name it, he does it. While on the father and sons outing a few weeks ago he went out with a group of big boys and men to climb in caves. The adult that was watching him is a emergency room doctor and he stopped Brodric from climbing some of the rocks because he was nervous about it. Brodric told him that it was alright, when his dad takes him he will let him climb it... And do you know what happened? Sure enough, his dad let him. (But to dad's credit, he tied him off and was right near at all times!)

Brodric doesn't have much fear. He loves big roller coasters and can't wait till he is big enough to ride the only ride at California Adventure that he is too small for.

Well, I love him so much and I enjoy being his mother! I can't believe he is seven already! But he can't wait to be 8 because he wants to be a cub scout! Patience young man, patience!

Prom As Promised

As promised, a few pictures of the Prom Kendahl attended this past weekend. Isn't she beautiful? I know!


These are a few of her friends.


And this is the group she basically went with. I won't tell you she has a crush on one of these boys, cause she would kill me if I did! :)
This isn't the greatest pictures of her because she's talking, but it was the only one of the group. So sorry about that...

Middle of the night...

The middle of the night seems to be when I feel like writing.

Just a few tid bits about us before May is over. Well, I guess I missed it by an hour or so... May is over. But I'll share just a few things before I lay me down to sleep. ;)

The garden this year is both soothing and frusterating. We planted it big and a friend is helping me out a bit by watering it in the afternoon and she started some plants for it. It is so soothing for me to go out in the morning and spend an hour watering and pulling little weeds and grass. I LOVE to watch the plants grow. I am impatient though. I want them to grow up and do something. I was thinking I should keep a garden journal because then I could remember from year to year how long it takes and I wouldn't be so impatient. It's fun to watch the corn. It's fun to come out in the morning and a whole new leaf has been added to a plant. Some of them seem like if you sat there you could watch it stretch and grow, and others seem to never grow, or actually grow smaller.

Speaking of growing smaller, we have had a pest in the garden this year that is just so frusterating for me. I think it is earwigs!!! They just chomp on those dang plants and have killed tons of them! It makes me want to pull my hair out. I havn't done anything about them because I'm not sure exactly what to do, but I'm gonna have to deal with it sooner or later. It makes me want to cry when I see those beautiful bean plants come out and then be eaten up every day by some dang bug.

So, I cut the boys hair... I like boys with long hair. Of not too long, I don't like it covering their eyes, but when it is just over their ears and kinda cute, I hate to cut it... but cut I did! Brodric got his first buzz ever!! I don't think I have ever done what I did this time. It still shocks me whenever I see him. When he saw it in the mirror he said, "I haaaaate it! You ruined my life!" But he soon got over it and now he says he is ok with it. But everytime anyone mentiones it he sneaks away. I love that cute kid! Carter asked for a missionary hair cut. I didn't know what he meant by that, but he kept saying, "shorter, shorter". So I went shorter. It doesn't look bad, but again I like it a bit longer. So I guess it's just ho hum for me. But dang that kid has thick heavy hair!! And I also cut the girls hair. Put bangs back in and took quite a lot off the back of Kendahl's. I put the hair cut thing off as long as possible. I would go pay for someone else to do it, but I'm cheap and I couldn't get an appointment with someone in time for the prom for Kendahl. It turned out nice though, so all was well.

Speaking of Kendahl's prom... She went to the prom this year with a group of 2 boys and 3 girls. I think they just all wanted to go and because of the friendship they just hung out together. I don't think it was all that planned. But nonetheless, Kendahl had a wonderful time. She has a crush on one of the boys and that made it even better for her. We were pretty getto with the dress, it was used and I made repairs and tucks to it and basically made it work, but it worked! Amazing! She looked beautiful! I'll try to add pictures. That's one of the reasons I havn't posted lately, pictures are difficult.

Our Memorial day was a bust this year. The pool is not working and is giving us so many headaches and so many hits to our pocket book that I wish I could just start over with it... So no pool, no BBQ, no friends. A bit of family, but with nothing to entertain, that didn't last long. It just wasn't a party kind of year for that sort of thing I guess.

Carter got into the spirit and went with the band to a cemetary to play for the memorial there. He is loving playing instruments and loving the band opportunities.

Well, enough for now, the world keeps on turning and I am stunned at how fast the months are moving by! I wish I would all slow down!!