I am cathing up on my blogging.

I have gotten a little behind in my blogging, and I have accidentally posted some posts before I am finished them, so today I am fixing that. I am totally blaming summer! We have had such an awsome summer, even though our Dad has had to be in Anchorage training most of the summer. Every minute that he was home he spent doing fun things with us, so yes the yard has suffered a little, but I am loving watching my kids grow, and blossem this summer. (Don't worry Aunt Sandy I haven't killed anything, but my garden will never be in the same leauge as yours.)


For the Fourth of July Jer got to come home for a whole week, we are so lucky. We went to the cabin with my family, and then Jer's Dad came up for a day to ride the four wheelers.

Mom is glaring at Pockets because he is a close talker! Lindsay still loves him, and he is going to be so sad while she is in China! We will all be sad while she is in China!

We even have a little fishing movie with my Dad and Parker.

We took a trip to the cabin in August, and went on some fun four wheeler rides, and some great hikes, Miss Payton thought that we were walking her legs off.

Stories and pictures we drew about the flower we saw.

So Very Blessed!

I am so very blessed to have a great pioneer herritage, my ancestors come from the Hole in the Rock pioneers. But the best is that my wonderful husband has embraced my pioneer roots, and supports our family in our service to the "Hole-in-the-Rock Fondation".

Getting ready to go back to school.

With parker having a cast on his right arm (his writing arm) I have been worried about him going back to school, so we have been working on writing a little something every night.

The first night we wrote about a flower we saw while on a hike, the next day we wrote about horses, but tonight was diffently the best. We were doing something on the internet and found this story. Parker and Payton were so excited about this I had them write in their journals about it.

Click for link to story

Neglected

One word to describe my garden - Neglected. I have watered, weeded and watched over my garden and for what? Nothing, it just wasn't producing. I was sick of reading peoples' facebook status, "We just had a juicy red tomato out of our garden!" I finally made my family eat a not so ripe tomato just to say we had eaten one out of the garden. So I left it, I left it and went to Anchorage, I've left it to go to the cabin, and finally we are seeing results.

Obviously I let the zucchini get way to big, but these aren't even the baseball bat sized ones that we fed to the horses. My peas were eaten by a horse or cow earlier in the year, but are coming back nicely. My beans are now longer than the plants that they are growing on. I am glad my family likes cucumbers because my two plants are out of control! And out of 12 tomato plants I have two tomatoes. My pumpkins are growing like crazy and the kids are so excited, and I do have one that is already turning orange. Is that normal???? It seams a little early to me. So not to shabby for my first real try at growing a garden, and it looks like I have kept the rest of the yard alive too.

My Boys are Back

Nathan invited Jer and Parker to go to the Father and Son Campout with him this weekend. Jer was so excited he forgot that we had previous obligations, so we dropped those plans and the boys headed to Nathan's for some fun (sorry Megan & Andrew).

They played capture the flag until way late, and when they walked in the door Parker went straight to his room to lay down.

Jer didn't take a camera so I made them go back outside so I could get a picture.

I also enjoy annoying my cute husband and got some other nice shots of him.

Jer made me take the other photos off, he was worried people might think he is goofy?

Don't Rear-End a car full of Roughnecks!

Saturday Night we were down town Anchorage with some of Jer's work buddies, we decided to catch a cab home. While we were pulling away from the curb Jer said "Wow that Jeep Cherokee almost hit us!" I ignored him, but we started chatting about how bad Alaska drivers are. I was telling how my cab driver that morning had used both feet while driving me to the temple, when wham! We were rear-ended by the same Jeep Cherokee that had almost hit us moments before. I am so impressed by my husband, Jer made sure that I was okay, and then started to check on his co-workers. His Driller John was in the front seat, after the accident he had to shift the cab into park and then told the driver to put his hazards on. After we were hit a cop flipped around and pulled in beside us. The cop was trying to get the guy out of the car, so John the Driller kicked the passenger window, because it was wet his foot just glanced off. The driver shifted his car into drive and was trying to drive off, and it looked like hit the cop. The Jeep Cherokees driver then turned his wheels trying to get by and rammed a second car. So Jer hit the window his bare hands busting it, and grabbed the guy inside. I couldn't believe how loud my soft spoken husband was yelling at this guy, it was so crazy. The cop tazed the driver of the Jeep and the guy said "Why are you tazing me?", in plain speech. He was that messed up. The guys asked the cop if he needed assistance and the cop said yes. So those roughnecks (crazy drill rig workers) ripped the guy out of the car and got him down on the ground so that the cop, who had broken his hand, could cuff him. We are all okay, but it sucks to know that in a few days we are all going to have whiplash, along with trying to get back into the swing of things after a vacation.

Our cab after being hit by a drunk driver!

The Jeep Cherokee that rear-ended us, this is the window that Jer broke out with his hand, to grab the driver.

Our ride getting towed away! After that I called the motel shuttle to come and get us.

Jer talking to the officer.

Jer and his co-workers after helping the cop cuff the Jeep driver. I was a little slow to take the photo, all the extra cops have just arrived on scene, it was so surreal! This is the guy that hit us, Jer said he was drunk and probably high too.

Please don't drink and drive, and if you do don't rear-end a carload of roughnecks.

I love to see the temple

Anchorage Alaska Temple

I took a cab to go to the temple, don't do this it was very expensive. Even with the expense I had a wonderful time and the temple was beautiful. It is a lot like Monticello so I felt right at home.Here is a lovely picture that my cab driver took for me.