Our Garden

We have begun our gardening adventure this year! And so far.... it's not going very well... BUT if nothing else I'll tell you what- we're going to have lots of green beans, spearmint, and squash.

I guess I don't garden, I just take photos and document it... ;)

I'm kidding. Kind of, I mean I have to hold Hazel A LOT but when we get a chance Buck and I really enjoy having this as a hobby that we get to do together. And it's fun as a family too. And as a bonus the dirt and sweat give Buck a uni-brow.

Now to keep the weeds at bay until harvest time....!

Lately

It feels like I just did one of these old update blog posts but whatever. Apparently it's that time again. Besides, life is about to get crazy and after that all these events will be forgotten.  Like my cat here in this photo above. Do you know why this is special? This is my cat sitting on the couch by me while the dog is right there. A year and a half of living in a divided house and war zone and now finally we have some understanding between the two beasts! It's a big deal to me people.

Well, lately we've been doing the same surviving kind of things. Still barely keeping my head above water. But hey, I feed my kid breakfast. That counts for something.

My yard gives me flowers sometimes.

We went to the curiosity museum again.

And while others tour Europe and move to Hawaii we made it out to home depot as a family.

We've finally been going back to church since having Hazel. I mean, if for no other reason than she has a cute sheep dress.

June still treats visitors in the same hospitable fashion.

Hazel wears a bonnet sometimes.

We did venture to a splash pad. It went well until towards the end I was thinking about how easy it would be for someone to kidnap children from this place so then I left in a surge of paranoia.

I went to a clean eating, whole foods cooking class. I liked it but it also made me mellow out and realize that I want to keep my family healthy but I also don't want clean eating to be my life, you know? I have other hobbies I care more about. But it was good.

Hazel is still cute. Had her 4 month check up yesterday and she's a whopping 11 pounds!

Oh and she still takes naps on me, in case you were wondering

My friend Adrian had a floral pot luck party. It was creative and a lot of fun! Each person brought some flowers to share and then we made arrangements to take home.

 I still quite enjoy the view from my blanket in our backyard.

 Often times we sit around being classy and lady like.

I got three inches off my hair and felt like it was short until I looked in the mirror like this.

 I found a grove of trees and poppies (and dirtied the new car in the process)

 We still get awesome rainbows on our floors every morning from my front prism window

We did venture to the aquarium again with some cousins. 

Then we went on a family outing to an actual field of poppies and took June's three years photos! You'll have to wait till her birthday next month to see them.  But behold this field!

 Post photo shoot model.

But over all we are happy here. It's crazy and we never really rest, but we are happy.

Boise

Ah Boise. It's always good to go home.

We hadn't been to Boise since my sister's wedding back in September! (haven't really gone anywhere since then actually... babies keep you home!) So we were past due for a little weekend trip, so we went this last weekend of May. We have two older cars. My 1999 Honda and Buck's grandpa's old 1996 Jimmy. I actually drove the Jimmy these days because it fit the two car seats and the Honda gets better gas for buck's work drive. And anyway, we had to take the jimmy to fit us all but it was the longest trip this old truck had ever made in its entire existence. And well, long story short... it didn't last. The trip did it in. And we ended up having to get a new car! Big news for us!

It's all a little crazy since we were NOT planning on that but hey, that's life.

 And because of all of this, instead of being there basically just for one whole day, we got to stay until late Monday night! Exciting times all around.

So aside from looking at cars, we relaxed, swam in the pool, and ate good food.

my mom always leaves fresh flowers in my room when we come.

hahahaha

Hazel went swimming for the first time... normally she loves baths but swimming with the bright sun and slight wind? Not so much.

a whole lot of pink here

She woke up early so I brought her into our bed. Buck was passed out and clueless the whole time

Church time. Wish I could nap too sometimes ;)

Grandma also played Disney songs for June on the piano. June played too and sang and danced.

June also got to paint and make a mess.

One highlight was going to visit my long time friend Jennifer and her horses. This was June's second time riding a "big horse" and she loved it! This girl has no fear around animals and she is gentle and good with them. She even got to trot on the horse while riding bareback. Then she got to lead the horse around by herself and she was in heaven.

Hazel's horse onesie that Jen got for her. :)

Our last day there we went swimming again, and my friend Amber came too.

I'm so jealous of my mom's flowers. Every time I try to plant flowers they never make it.

That evening, after June got to watch TWO Disney movies we got to play outside one last time and roast some marshmallows.

It's always good to go home. And then to have a home to go back to. So many homes! It's strange, every time I go to Boise I don't want to leave but then once I'm back in Utah I am happy too. So conflicted. Or maybe just blessed.

(And I feel bad talking about how we can just drive to Boise for a weekend since Buck's parents live so far away.... but I'm hoping this post will inspire them to move closer, and soon! :) )