What goes on in our Garden...

This has been one of the best summers for taking advantage of every bit of space we have in our garden. Within the garden you can find three types of lettuce, 4 rows of peas, peppers, 20+ tomato plants, 2 cucumber (and 50+ volunteer cucumbers), 4 watermelon plants, 20 pumpkin plants, and 2 rows of corn. There may be more and my numbers may be off since Neil and Teegan are our gardners. In addition to all of this we have a 2 lane dirt bike track that runs around the garden. And a smaller water run for monster trucks.

The kids love the garden and so do we!!

MY Cool Kids (and they are the coolest)!

Mountair Mile 2010

The kids participated in the Mountair Mile again this year. The Mountair Mile is a kids race where all entry fee's and donations are for the Sharing Place. The Sharing Place is a non-profit organization for grieving children who have lost loved ones.

The race is one mile. The first 3/4 of the mile is on bikes and the last 1/4 of the mile is a run. Teegan took second place in his age bracket. He was passing other kids like they were standing still. GREAT RACE TEEGAN!

In past years I have ran with the twins in the jogging stroller. This was the first year that Ryton wanted to ride his bike. I was a little worried about him making it the full mile, but he made it the entire way. He rode his bike the full mile and did not want to run the last 1/4.

And then there is Jaida, who wanted to ride in the stroller with mom.

The entire race pulled in about $3600 for the Sharing Place and it the entire race was organized by a friend and neighbor - Ben Lowry. Neil is also a volunteer and assisted with passing out flyers and also collecting money from companies.

Twins: Summer 2010

Last Day of KINDERGARTEN

Teegan is no longer a Kindergartener.
His last day was June 8th and he is now officially a 1st Grader!

I'm so proud of him and all of the accomplishments and friends he made during the school year.

It is absolutely impressive how much he has learned.

Now here comes Teegan, ready for SUMMER BREAK!
Is dad ready for summer break?

"OUR GARDEN"

As many of you know, our neighbor from across the street who use to garden in our garden pasted away several months ago. When we first moved into our house 5 years ago, we were introduced to Lee and came to find out that he had been gardening in our backyard for 60+ years. His backyard did not provide the space he needed for as much as he wanted to plant and garden. Lee loved to garden and he loved to share his gardening expertise. We woke up many mornings with Lee weeding the garden, watering the garden or with a porch full of garden vegetables. Each summer Neil began to do more and more in the garden (side by side with Lee) -- and know with Lee gone -- this is the first summer on our own. We greatly miss Lee. Teegan has dedicated one of our larger rocks in the front yard as a Lee rock. Teegan will go out and sit on this rock - and if you ask him what he is doing he will tell you that he is thinking about Lee. This garden is for you Lee!

Thomas the Train

The last four years we have spent our Memorial Weekend in Heber City with Grandpa and Grandma Smith (and Antonia). Thomas the Train comes to Heber City for about 4 days. So, we get a hotel room in Heber City and enjoy the weekend. This tradition started when Teegan was almost 2 years old. Teegan was crazy about trains and most definitely crazy about Thomas the Train, so we took him and we have gone every year since. This year we were unsure about going, but thought it was the last year before we have to pay for the twins -- so we better go (and it was the best year yet). The kids had an absolute blast.

Will we see Thomas the Train next year? I'm not sure. But if we go, we will definitely need to start saving our money now.

Teegan and Vanessa

Trip to Ogden UT

In early May (I know I'm late on posting again) my family headed off to Ogden for some fun!!

Our Agenda

Friday Night: Swimming at the hotel
Saturday Morning: Treehouse Musuem
Saturday Afternoon: Dinosaur Park
Sunday Morning: Movie

It was a great time and the kids had a blast.

Here are some pictures of our adventure: