Self Sufficiency

So my garden produced. Here are the pictures of peas and beans. This is probably the last blog I will do on the garden as I'm sure you will all be happy about that (unless I post some on my potatoes, carrots, and corn that haven't fully come on yet). I'm glad I actually got something out of it aside from a pumpkin this year. However man has it been a lot of work with the weeding and picking. I can't wait until my kid grows up so I can torture her with making her do gardening work (like my parents did to us). Right now all she does is eat the dirt while I work. Extra nutrients for a child right?

Bad Blogger

I'm a horrible blogger. I decided I like reading those blogs of friends and families but don't get too excited about blogging my own. I have tons of pics I need to post and that is what I have been waiting for the most before I blogged but haven't gotten around to getting them downloaded. Anyway I thought I would give an update of what has been going on with us the past month. Basically for me it has been filled with getting ready to go to girls camp, going to girls camp, and recovering from girls camp. For A it has been taking care of our stink and carting her around to babysitters while I was at girls camp and a quick trip to Oakland CA for a work training. That is July in a netshell and it went by quickly! We went and saw Get Smart over the weekend and it was quite entertaining. We just need to get out and see Batman now though I have mixed feelings about seeing it from stuff I have heard about it. I also need to read the next Stephanie Meyers book though I have heard it is not as good as the others. That's about it. Exciting I know!

The Events of the 4th

For the 4th we went to Bear Lake. However before we were able to go to Bear Lake we had to register the boat, fix the boat, insure the boat and basically run around in circles for the boat. My husband whom we will refer to in this post as 'The Procrastinator' left his assigned duties until the last second so on July 3rd we found ourselves at the DMV. For those of you whom have experienced the DMV you can sympathize with me. We were there no less than 2 hours (ok maybe it was just a little over an hour). However there is no shortage of people watching at the DMV so it was not wholly uneventful. Afterwards we missed the boat parts store closure by 6 minutes causing us to visit some major autoparts stores to see if they carried marine products (which by the way they do not). Thanks to Brandi's superior connections we got it all worked out (aside from a few minor fix details 'the procrastinator' did not mention to me) and we were off to the Lake of Bears. The stink did pretty good for her first boating trip. She hated the life jacket as it was a little big for her but didn't mind the rest. We did discover that licorice is a great pacifier (yes she is asleep in the picture above with the licorice).

Addicted

This post is mostly for Sabrina. She has pictures of Logan with a can of Coke on her blog, so to show their betrothal is meant to be, here is the stink with a can of Dr. Pepper (which she is totally addicted to and will down in seconds if we give it to her)

The Passing

This week has been a little busy for us (as it seems like it has been for everyone). My Grandma passed away last Sunday and so we had her viewing and funeral this week. She had basically told my Mom and family that she knew she was going to pass away soon and sure enough she was true to her word. We had a birthday party for her a couple of weeks ago so I made sure I packed my camera along and was able to get some pictures of her with the stink.

Slip and Slide

A couple of weeks ago we had my niece and nephew overnight. Aside from playing their Wii they brought along we busted out the sprinklers a piece of plastic and let them go to town.

Garden Pics

Here is what my garden looks like right now...If you look real close you can see all of the weeds I haven't got out yet (and am contimplating if I ever will after I weeded it for 2 hours last week). My beans are ready to pick which is exciting. I guess the next question is who is going to eat them? The husband won't touch the things so hopefully the stink will like them as I can't eat them all. I guess I will have to try an adventure in canning beans. Good food storage I guess.
Oh...did you notice our dying lawn too? It's not faring so well with the heat apparently.

This is my gardening pal. He is our backyard neighbors dog and his name is Mugsy and he keeps my daughter and I entertained while I am constantly pulling weeds.