Sunday, May 17, 2009

Catching up...because I never seem to get around to posting...

Yeah I'm really behind. I blame it on the garden. It has sucked up all my time lately. I seem to spend every spare minute caring for it or reading to improve it or shopping for it (sorry Mike...I suppose this is where all the money is gone to.) But it is making me so happy. I have just fallen in love with gardening this year more intensely then ever before.

But, I wanted to go back and post some pictures and talk about some of the things I have missed writing about. First I do have one Easter pic to post. This is the kids in their Easter outfits (courtesy of Grammy Humphrey). She makes Kaylinn and her little cousin Ezri matching Easter dresses each year. We go and get the girls picture taken together at a professional photographer's. Then she bought a new shirt and tie for Logan. My favorite part? Kaylinn's cute dress gloves. I found them at the consignment sale and absolutely love them.


Next we went on our first camping trip this season, two weekends ago. We stayed in Green River and spent one day at Goblin Valley and one day at Arches National Park. We went with some good friends of ours. They had never been any further south than Provo and they were just amazed at Southern Utah's beauty. I cooked dutch oven dinner and then breakfast. We had some interesting weather the second day (including an amazingly powerful cloudburst complete with hail), but there were some breaks in the storm and we got to see Arches. The kids had a blast. I think the highlight for them was climbing around Goblin Valley. I was out there with my camera, just soaking it all in. So maybe the weather wasn't perfect and I forgot to pack a few fairly important things (pancakes stick pretty badly without some type of grease on the skillet). But all in all I think it was a fabulous weekend.