Create...

In case you missed this one like I did:). Also, thanks for all the blog updates! We may have some eventually...

Create - Elder Uchdorf

Family Memories

Rubbing backs, telling stories, talking about boys, life, school together
Andrew taking apart the vacuum, baffling me with ninento
Joseph looking in the mirror and wandering the house

Watching Anne of Green Gables tying quilts
Boys making fun of the movie but still watching the whole thing
Rachel falling from the stairs stopping my heart

Dad laying on his back playing monster while we run past
Mom reading Cheaper by the Dozen, matching socks during movies
Mom always there in the morning, early making breakfast seeing us off

After school snacks, carrots in our lunches, apples in our lockers
Dad in the yard, the garden, the orchard, reading Narnia to us
Scripture study, sitting on the vents tenting the blanket over to keep warm

Ruth and Mary often sharing a room, bunk bed falling, conspiring together
Yelling for Joseph when I was scared, wrestling, play-fighting a lot
Mary doing her art, flashcards, sewing, playing with dolls

Rachel in her hippo bathing suit, running the home seeing right and wrong
Ruth serving, cleaning, making up songs, drawing pictures, cooking
Andrew studying my science with me, taking our family to the Bean museum

Mom peeling oranges, books read to us, everyone singing a different tune on trips
Yellowstone, Canada, Washington D.C., California, back East
Setting up the tent trailer, Dad pointing out plants, hiking, seeing history

Family home evenings laying under the piano, behind the couch cushions
Gun shooting, exotic food, Bean museum, picnics up the canyon
Words of wisdom, prayers, musical performances, poems and lessons

Visiting grandparents every week, serving in the yard, washing windows
Writing, poetry, hair brushing, waterbed, view of the temple at Grandma V’s
Cousins, Little Bunny Foo Foo, stories and laughs at Grandma and Grandpa D’s

Dinner and lounging on the deck, telescoping the stars, working in the yard
Irrigation turn, waking up early helping the water flow to the plants, picking apples
Stirring, setting the table, vacuuming making things look nice, sharing with others

Christmas time looking forward to our Palestinian dinner, lights at Temple square
Singing German at the tabernacle, gathering and sharing with family and friends
Piles set out for us in the living room, Tree lights and ornaments and grandparents

Memories of happiness, safety, warning, gospel lived and taught
Importance of family togetherness, marriage, children, work and education
Gratitude for siblings, parents, family

Written May 26, 2009 SBDB

This looked like such a cute idea, I'm super excited to make one. I thought it would also be really fun to do with pictures of ancestors.

Two children's sites

Another two sites I've run across for Kid's crafts and a good search tool for projects and themes:). Hope you are well!

Fact Hound
Enchanted Learning and Memorial Day

A few random sites...

Yes, yes! I need to take the plunge, but until then, here are a couple of sites I found interesting and rather than emailing them out I thought I might post them here for any interested...Not intended to stimulate heated debates:)

CPR
Hawk in Hoc
Hillsdale Imprimis - March and April

Garden Edition...

Longue Vue Garden, New Orleans


Many of you may be in the same position...Grandpa/Dadio helped us get some great gardens started and would like us to share the latest news and updates. I would say we could start another Garden Edition blog but perhaps it would be fun to share on the family blog if we dare...the latest pictures and info...or tips would be great, too, since I am an amateur gardener and this is really our first year trying it out on our own since we now have a yard. Anything you've learned about growing a good garden or fun ideas?
Also, our yard has proven to be almost a bigger task to tackle as things down south tend to grow faster than you can keep up with, weeds and bugs in particular, and my husband has little interest or time to help out on such menial tasks:). Not to mention the leaves drop year round and if you cut anything that grows naturally, five sprouts grow back in its place! So, any tips on trees and lawns and weeds, pest control, etc... would be wonderful!

Elle helped Grandpa water a few tomatoes on the trellis, then we planted the rest after he left. Our front yard tomato has done the best and is now 2 feet above the cage shown below.



Joseph and the kids looking for a "palm leaf" from the weeds behind the garden. A small portion of the vines and branches we started cutting back and Joseph hauled away in 5 loads yesterday (pictures to follow). Our three trees sprouting.




Our garden a month ago in April. The squash type and cabbage are doing ok despite a few nibblings. The fruit kept disappearing but after a few re plantings are starting to survive. We also find two inch holes often in the grass around and sometimes in the wells with the plants every week or so and think it might be squirrels or rats.



Some of our garden pests...Elle wanted to keep the caterpillars as pets but around here they are called stinging caterpillars and burn like poison ivy if you touch them.

If nothing else, it was fun to post about our daily garden adventures. We have already had a dozen tomatoes along with the twenty or so green ones Hyrum likes to pick, some may never ripen:). Now the weather is very hot and everything seems to be drying up. We'll post those pictures in the next Garden Edition and could use any suggestions:). Thanks!