From Our Garden....

David shook hands with Mitt Romney on Friday. He went down to Hires where he was doing a speech and was on the news for a couple of seconds.

Visiting Cousins

 My sisters kids were in town so we drove down to spend a couple of hours with them. We haven't seen them in a 1 1/2 years so it was great getting to know them again.

 I didn't dress Addie....don't ask

 This one I wanted to sneak in my car and take him home! This is Charity's newest and it was the first time I had ever seen him...it was hard saying good-bye

I took over 200 pictures in 3 hours so these are just a few....

My Peonys

YUM! I planted these last year and I finally get to see them bloom!!! I have 6 bushes and only 3 of them bloomed so I can't wait until next year!

I had a day off from babysitting and the kids didn't have any summer school so we went to the zoo. I thought Austin would really like the zoo since, well of course the zoo wouldn't have dinosaurs...I guessed wrong!! Its their new exhibit and they were EVERYWHERE ROARING AND MOVING!!! So Austin again wanted to leave within the first 30 seconds, but it took me an hour to get there so he just had to pray the dinosaurs weren't going to come after him (or somesome else might!....Like me!!!)

He still refused to put down his hands so Aubree had to feed him his cotton candy!!

He finally snapped out of it for about 15 minutes.

I told Austin that might be him if he doesn't stop crying!!!! (By this point I had listened to him scream, "I want to go home!!" for about 3 hours so I was fed up. I didn't want him to ruin the trip for the girls so I made him stay. I think next week I'm going to try a farm (and call ahead to make sure their aren't any dinosaurs!)

 peony, hydrangea, snow in summer, wildflower

 snow in summer, columbine, pansey

I love making flower arrangements around the house especially when they are free from my garden!

Reeder Reunion

 Its FINALLY warm enough to go swimming (And the high was only about 75!)

Cousin Ava

Aubree and Allie (Out of all the girl cousins, these two always stick together at every reunion)

Same with Kate and Addie

This picture must have been downloaded by mistake!

Another Reeder reunion! They like to get together twice a year and this was the summer one.

Dino Park

 Baby Dax even came along! (I babysit him and his older brother full time)

We had a day off from Summer Camp and I didn't have Carson so we drove up to Ogden to visit the Dinosaur Museum. Austin wanted to leave within 30 seconds (it took me an hour to get there!!) Sometimes the dinosaurs "roar" and that totally freaked him out. He covered his ears and wouldn't put them down. I even had to feed him his sandwich and he ate his frys off of the ground. Finally he realized they weren't real and we were able to have a nice day.

Sunday Treat

We saw this hot air balloon going through our neighborhood. I thought I missed out on the photo opportunity since it landed in a field and deflated, but by chance I decided to pull over and let the kids watch it and it took off again and this time I was ready!
The last picture was taken from my front porch! I love the views out here!!!!

 The horse picture was taken when it was getting dark so I set my camera to a really high ISO and it still turned out great!!! (It was taken at the same time that I took the sunset which was right across the street!)

 I'm thinking about blowing this one up and hanging it in my house. Still haven't decided.