Saturday, June 25, 2011

Catching Up

I haven't been very good about blogging lately. Here's what's been going on in our lives.

It finally got hot here, like in the 90's hot. It hasn't been too bad except for the fact that there is still a lot of snow in the mountains, creating some flooding problems. Luckily, we're far enough away from Utah Lake to be safe. We enjoyed spending an evening up in Provo Canyon at Bridal Veil Falls. The river was pretty high in some parts, and it was moving pretty fast. Weird thing--the ski resorts are still open. What a way to cool down on a hot summer day.


The water was cold!!



My job is okay. I'm enjoying stocking up on Nu Skin products. I won't have to buy shampoo, soap, toothpaste, or any kind of skin care products for years. Other than that it's not too exciting.

Our latest acquisition for our home was a kitchen table with six chairs. It was a garage sale deal found by Brian's mom (Thanks!). Apparently Kaysville has much better garage sales than Provo and it has an awesome DI. It matches our kitchen cabinets perfectly, and it's nice to have real chairs to sit on rather than folding chairs.


You know that cell phone commercial about the guy who gets his "monthly mugging" from his cell phone company? That used to be me. I hardly use my phone, and I was paying way too much for it. After some looking around we decided to get a pre-paid phone. I usually Skype with my family more often than I call them, and the only other person who generally calls me is Brian. So far we've been happy with what we got.

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Signs of Life

Our house finally looks inhabited and is showing some signs of life.




And the prophet said to plant a garden, so that's what we'll do. For God has given rich brown soil and rain and sunshine too. And if we plant the seeds just right and tend them carefully, before we know good things will grow to feed our family. Actually, Brian had never heard that primary song, but he knows it now after I sang it about 15 times while we were planting our garden. Growing a garden was one of things I was most excited about when we bought our house. I know ours isn't big, but it should provide plenty for the two of us. We already planted two tomato plants, a zucchini plant, a green pepper plant, yellow onions, green onions, and green beans. We are still hoping to get a few other things planted, but I don't want to go overboard and plant so much that we won't be able to take care of it all.