Well I realized my blogging skills have been sort of lacking lately so I thought I would do a catch up blog. Make sure to look through the whole thing as a lot of different topics will be covered. Lets start with...
My garden. Bugs basically ate everything in my garden but the zucchini survived. I would check the garden on Saturday and pick anything that there was. Then I would go camping for work and come back to find monster zucchini! It grows so fast. I have gotten about 15 zucchinis from two plants and enjoyed sharing them with friends and the ward.
Also did I show you my grill yet?
We grilled steaks for my birthday and have grilled hamburgers so far, but that is it. I got it to smoke stuff, but I havent gotten around to that yet.
So on my birthday my big toenail finally fell off! I lost 5 toenails from the marathon- and sure, you pro marathon runners are thinking "thats rediculous! She must have had horrible shoes!" But rest assured I had great shoes. I just didn't really train all that well...but it kind of is my pride and joy. I always wanted to lose a toenail growing up since my siblings lost them a lot in soccer. but my toenails held fast. I am happy to say that I have lost toenails now. I know what it is like.
It has been growing in weird, but hopefully it is fine in a few weeks or so.
On my birthday I also got lots of fun presents from Eric.
He made me delicious green blueberry waffles and gave me wonderful presents.
My favorite was the map he drew me. I have been wanting a map for a really long time, so he drew one!
Later that day we had a party at our house. It was a lot of fun and we had lots of cake and ice cream and some other goodies. I shared some produce too.
Then on the following Tuesday we went to Thanksgiving point for $2 Tuesday. We chose to go to the dinosaur museum and had a lot of fun.
Saturday started out big road trip. We first went down to Vegas to see our friends Tiffany, Robbie and Daxton Hale. We went to Circus Circus and played some carnival games. Eric won me a cute stuffed animal. A horse! And Robbie gave us the fish he won.And I won one too.
On Monday morning we went to the Ethel M Chocolate factory. The factory wasn't the greatest, but the chocolate sample was great! The cactus garden was also really neat.
And Daxton was really cute. Super smiley and chunky.
We then headed up to St. George to see "The Little Mermaid" at the Tuacahn. It was a really amazing show and very impressive.
(sorry it is fuzzy)
We also saw the St. George Temple and took some artistic photos at 25 Main, the restaurant that Cara recommended to us. We had paninis that were very delicious and a cupcake each.
It was a very fun trip that we will always remember probably.
Then to top it all off we went up to Layton. We had a hang out with Kathy and went to lunch and saw "The Help". Then Mike let me take some veggies home. I brought home a whole trunk full and gave most of it away to about 9 different people.
The selection is very impressive. Im excited to go back for another picking!
Do you see all that variety?
Lets see if I can list it all. Asian eggplant, the egg shaped eggplant, Armenian cucumbers, Asian cucumbers, regular cucumbers, lemon cucumbers, cantaloupe, corn, spaghetti squash, acorn squash, butternut squash, several kinds of tomatoes, zucchini, yellow straight neck and crooked neck squash, bell, banana, jalapeno, habanera, and some other really spicy peppers, onions, and green beans. Im sure I missed something and there were some things that weren't even ready yet, but Im so excited to have it all. Next time I go up Ill take orders if anyone would like me to bring you back some.
Oh and something else, I finally got the published version of my book I wrote. It is about 180 pages and is all the emails that I wrote as a missionary. It's called Vampire Emails. It turned out wonderful. And as a plus, I found a coupon code that made it free!
That's about it for the update. We had a wonderful summer and the last few weeks have been jam packed. Tomorrow is our last adventure. Paragliding. We'll tell you how it goes.
Bonus picture:
We didn't want to wait in line to get our pictures with Ariel and Prince Eric
Paragliding? That is awesome! Where at? I think I remember you saying it was a groupon or something?
ReplyDeleteThanks for letting me be one of the friends you have been sharing the produce with... we LOVE it! Keep it coming!
You went to 25 Main? I love it! I used to go all the time when I lived in St. George. Also, I am jealous you got to see The Little Mermaid! Chad was going to take me when we last went down to St. George but the tickets were already sold out for when we were there! Bummer!
Let's hang out soon ok?