Tomatoes

We love our tomatoes around here during the Summer.  We have at least 8 plants in our garden.  Kaily loves the Sun Sugar, Conner doesn't like any and Clint and I love them all.  I picked our first softball size tomato a few days ago and placed it on the counter to eat with sandwiches later that day.  I then went to do laundry and some other things downstairs.  Clint was with me and when he went upstairs this is what he found...

Apparently, Corbin likes ALL tomatoes!  The tomato he is eating is the softball size one I had been saving.  

This is a daily scene these days at our house if I don't put the tomatoes out of reach.

My Little Chatterbox

For a long time we couldn't get Conner to talk. Last year we saw lots of specialists to help us out and found out he couldn't hear very well because of water in his ears.  We had tubes put in and immediately he started to sound better.  That was a year ago and now we can't get him to stop talking.  He loves to tell us stories and if you ask him about a movie he has seen he will quote it in its entirety.  He loves to tell us jokes, even if they don't make much sense.  We drove to SLC last week and I think he talked the entire time, all 45 min of the drive.  I don't know what he said, he talks so much I have a hard time paying attention all the time.  What I do know is, that I am VERY grateful he is talking and expressing himself.  It's been a long road to here and I am thankful to have made it.  Every now and then we still have some speech problems, but if I have him slow down I can usually correct him.

The Utah Valley Half

I signed up for the Utah Valley Half marathon back in February thinking it would motivate me to loose weight and train.  I did really good until I got tendinitis in my Achilles tendon.  Then when that was all healed I started running again until I pulled a muscle in my neck.  That set me back a few months.  Oh well, the run was coming and I wasn't going to back out of it.  So my childhood friend Heather joined me on the morning of June 9 at 4 am to run 13.1 miles.  We didn't do as well as I would have liked, but we finished and that's what's important.  We had a great time doing it though!

Riding the bus up the canyon

Waiting in line to pee the sun was coming up over the moutnain

Getting ready to start

Bridal Veil Falls

Such a beautiful run!

Coming down the homestretch

We made it!

Garden Update

Kale, this is remarkable easy to grow.  I don't think I'll plant so much next time.  A little bit of this plant goes along way

Our first broccoli head.

All four broccoli plants

Spinach and strawberries

Our fist signs of tomatoes.  This plant is my Fourth of July, we love these!

May at a glance...  We've been so busy around here having fun that I haven't wanted to blog.  Her are some pics that tell what we've been up to

Kaily was a Zombie for her end of the year Opera

The kids did everything for their opera, it was well done and very cute!

Kaily finished soccer this year.  We won't do it again next year, she wants to try dance.

We went to the zoo with Amy and her kids

Yummy Strawberries!

Kaily learned to ride her bike