Wow I feel like a slacker. I haven't posted since easter. Pretty bad. I don't have a whole lot to post about but I figured I need to post something. I'm so glad it's summer. I just planted a garden thanks to my sweet sister Rose who got Nathan to cooperate for 2 hours to make a garden spot for me. Rose did most of the work planting. It's my first garden. I don't really know what I'm doing. We planted 8 tomato plants, 2 rows of green beans, 2 rows of cucumbers, and 6 pea plants. I also planted an artichoke bush, 2 strawberry plants, some zucchini, summer squash, beets, and carrots. I mainly want the tomatoes, beans, and cucumbers for bottling this summer. Hopefully everything will grow good and the rabbits won't eat anything. We have apricots, cherries, plums, and apples on our fruit trees too so I'm hoping to bottle some jam as well.
My kids are out of school. It's a bittersweet thing for me. I love when they are gone and I get some peaceful time to myself but I hate the schedule. It's nice to stay up late and sleep in since that's what they prefer. Ava does have summer school on Tuesday's and Wednesday's for an hour each day. That is nice because she tends to regress in the summer. I work with her as much as I can but she seems to respond to other people better. She has a little attitude with me. She is getting closer to walking. I hope she'll walk soon because she is getting tall and it's akward for her to scoot everywhere. The other day I was at my friends house who is taking the discussions. The missionaries were there and one of the Elders asked with a smirk and a laugh why she scooted like that. I told him she had cerebral palsy and he felt so bad for laughing at her scooting. He wasn't really making fun of her and I certainly didn't take offense to it but I could tell he was uncomfortable. That made me feel bad. Anyway, she is doing good and will repeat pre-school for one more year.
We are busy renting cabins and ATV's this summer. Memorial weekend was crazy. We had an extended family from Ogden that had 3 RV spots and 2 cabins. They must have had 20 kids between them all. We rented the other cabin out to a family from North Salt Lake. Everyone was really nice. That wasn't the crazy part though. We rented out every ATV/UTV we had. We had to turn down people. It was nice but crazy trying to get them all checked out and in. We are pretty booked up for the rest of June and most of July so that is good. My extended family (my dad and his siblings and their families) are having a family reunion this Labor Day at Fish Lake. I'm really excited because it's only an hour from here. We are usually busy during that time but at least we can get away during the day and come home and sleep here at night. I'm not much of a camper...especially not with kids. I look forward to seeing all of the Bunker's, Nance's, Nelson's, and hopefully Sperry's this fall.
If I don't post again for several months, all of you have a happy, healthy, and safe summer. If you get bored, come visit me in Marysvale. It's the best place in the world to ride ATV's, and there's fishing, biking, rafting, and even horseback riding if you like that kind of thing. Take care...
