Pipen'It

Last Sunday my mom had the idea to go for a hike after church, so we all got together and enjoyed the wonderful outdoors and scenery. The weather and temperature were perfect and we found this awesome park that is right by the temple that has multiple hiking trails to go and explore on. I am so lucky to have family so close by that we are able to enjoy moments like this.

I know, I know the title is a little sack religious but it truly expresses how I feel. After a full month of staining and drying and staining and drying and staining and drying and staining and drying I finally got this monster of a project completed and just before I was about to pull my own hair out. This baby took nothing short of a loong time and a lot of patience from me but I'm glad I went through with it anyways (like I really had a choice after I had torn the whole kitchen apart?)
I think the color adds a whole new charm to the house and really updates the look. Next stop new tile and this time I'm hiring some professionals, yay!

I was so excited to start my vegetable garden this year and was anxiously counting down the days for it to cool off so I could plant the seeds. Here is the garden the day I plated it.

....and here it is about 3 weeks later!

I planted a variety of winter vegetables including tomatoes, lettuce, cucumber, radishes, bell peppers, onion bulbs, string beans, carrots for Sparky, broccoli, and my favorite...snap peas.


Now some of you might think this is silly but I came upon an amazing epiphany when starting my garden. Did you know all you have to do is put a seed in some dirt and food comes out of it?!?! Like seriously, sead + dirt (sun/water) = food. Its fascinating and brings me a new perspective on how we as a society really do lose touch of some of these more basic concepts in life. Well I like basic, and like food, so this is the perfect hobbie/experiment for me to do. I'm crossing my fingers to some yummy vegetables in 2-3 months!

I was looking through my phone and came across this group of pics that I wanted to share from Pat and Lindsays Trip. We had so much fun, starting off with my first ever trip to a Diamondbacks game.







We also got to have a mutli B-day party at Toreys house. 1 for Parker, 1 for Oliver and 1 for Jack who are all born in July.

My pomegranate plant has survived this summer thus far and has about doubled in size. Keep growing little guy!

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While Lindsay and Patrick were in town we all decided to get together at my Mom and Dads house to have a swimming pool party and it was the "firsts" for many people.





And last but not least (I don't have a photo of this one) Parley ventured out into the deep end of the pool (with a swimming tube to assist him) but that was the first time he actually went out, inhibitions set aside, and took on the pool like a bull by the horns. The tube fit him just perfect around his waist and just under his arms so he feels confident to swim around unassisted. I think he has a new found love of swimming.




For some reason I have a feeling this swimming pool is going to be pretty popular this summer.

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So it got super hot this weekend and can I just say I love love love Phoenix! Yep, that's right I love it here! Betcha didn't expect that right? Well I wouldn't have it any other way. Yeah its hot out, but to be quite honest I kinda like feeling the sun on my back/having my own personal sauna feeling outside, and when its forecasted a week in advance then there is no surprises on what to expect. I would take this hot heat any day over freezing my butt off while shoveling mountains and mountains of wet cold snow out of a driveway or spending an extra 1/2 hour to an hour de-tombmifying my car out of a frozen miserable icebox. You don't have to shovel sunshine now do ya?

I was lucky enough to take a trip to the circus this weekend with my wonderful family, nephews sister and brother in law. I didn't know what to expect since I've never been to one before but they certainly are full of action at every turn. No wonder people use the word circus to describe things that are noisy, loud, crazy and out of control because that is exactly what it was!