It's Monarch Season!
Enjoying a rainstorm Apparently it was cold.
The chickies are getting bigger! One of mine and Amy's favorite past time is just hanging out with the chickens. We are true country people now.
Teaching the boys how to use power tools
It was Amy's best friend, Kate's, birthday. This was their birthday picture in seminary. It made me laugh.
Will deciding he's willing to eat sandwiches, but only if there isn't any bread on it. He's by far our strangest eater!
Granny came to visit! We took a day trip to Columbia and then she taught Will how to make her deviled eggs.
I asked the kids to do a Summer Book of Mormon reading challenge. Tyler was the only one who did it.
Buying wood for who knows what.
More monarch caterpillars!
The many sleeping positions of Tyler
This is my Master Gardener friend Gail. She is hilarious and I love being around her.
Riding on the back of a pickup is one of the perks to Master Gardener events. We just take leftover stuff to the big compost pile.
Amy's friends, Summer and Icely, were in a play. We all went to go watch.
More power tool training.
The Master Gardeners tie-dyed tshirts. Since Will comes with me to so many events, we made him one too. He's an Junior honorary Master Gardener.
We had a BBQ goodbye party for a friend. It was fun until Will had a seizure. Apparently he drank like 5 cokes (unbeknownst to me or Lee!) and was really hyped up. We don't know if that's what triggered it or the heat. Or possibly both. But he put a little damper on the celebration event! This picture was pre-seizure.
Tyler won several end of the year awards. He's walking the red carpet.
This is a wild story..... The kids were home and I had gone over to my friend Marisa's house. She doesn't live too far from here. I was about to leave her house when I remember hearing a big clap of thunder. It had been storming so I didn't think much of it, I just remember it was loud.
On my way home I got a call from my neighbor who said, "Ummmm... are you home?" Not yet, I'm on my way. "Well, are your kids home?" Yeah, why? "Well, you house just got hit by lightening. WHAT?!?!?!?! Is it on fire?? "No, if it was I'd be calling the fire department. But yeah, I just saw it hit your house, at your cable box. I'm not sure if your kids have power or anything but thought I'd check...."
I quickly called Amy who said "Is THAT what that bright light was? I was folding laundry and saw this pure whiteness outside the window. I didn't know what happened."
By then I was home and ran over to the side of the house to investigate. Yep, lightening struck our cable box! Actually, after further investigation, lightening burst OUT of the cable box. We have no idea where it went in. It blew the box cover into the neighbors yard and you can see the fried spots.
The cable company came out and that guy said, "Wow!I have never seen this before." A few days later another guy came out and he said the same thing. We like to be original! (insert eye roll)
But everything was ok. I mean, the cable had to be reconnected. But we never lost power. A fire didn't start inside the walls. It was just a crazy event! But we are definitely grateful nothing worse happened!! Actually the guy said that the grounding wire was working because if it hadn't been, the house would have gone in a poof. That was a little terrifying to think of, especially with the kids inside. But we were protected and we said many prayers of thanks that evening!
I made the boys clean out their closet. They weren't happy.
I found out about an Amish community not too far from here. We drove down and found a little fun store, a lot like Sauders in New York, but much smaller. They had delicious sandwiches for lunch!
