If You're a Dork and You Know it...

This video is from March, but I really wanted to post it because it is super funny. Jojo loves to sing and her nursery leaders taught her "If you're happy and you know it" at church one Sunday. We were bored, so John decided that we should sing a new version...

A Garden, Chickens, and Silly Girls

I haven't posted anything in...well...a long time. I've been meaning to for a while now, but life has been so hectic:

John's mom broke her leg a couple of weeks ago, we've been doing some work with our local community center to benefit the youth of our town, I got a calling as activity days leader in our ward, we're in the middle of remodeling our garage, our raspberries are planted (yippee!), but the water is still not connected to our parcel (not so yippee), and I've been chasing around the two cutest little sqidgets in the world.

Anyway, I am finally posting pictures of some of our summer activities for you to enjoy.

Our garden is planted and growing...except the zucchini, which never did sprout. I can tell you--I sure felt like a total gardening failure since everyone talks about how easy zucchini is to grow. But I guess someone has to be willing to take everyone else's overabundance of zucchini; that's going to be me this year.

Our chickens are laying! We bought eight (supposed) pullets in February and after a couple of months found out one was a rooster. A few weeks ago one chicken flew over our fence and we are pretty sure she got eaten by a raccoon...little Doris now sleeps with the fishes [that is from Disney's Meet the Robinsons, in case you didn't know...I named her Doris posthumously just because of that]. So we now have six laying hens (Gloria, Lulu, Bernice, Gertrude, Hilda, and Mosie), which means we average about 3 eggs per day. They are starting to pile up a little since we don't eat that many eggs.

We have been having very warm weather lately and Jojo is loving it. She loves to play outside, especially in her little pool. The lady who does storytime at the library taught her how to "paint" with water and she has insisted on "painting" our fence every day since. She loves to dress herself, too and she comes up with some pretty imaginative combinations...we're still working on the smile.

Lucy is growing like a weed--and the weeds in our garden seem to grow faster than I can pull them out. She is a little over 20 lbs and, according to the nurse, "well above" the top of the growth charts. She loves to roll around and talk to us...and drool; there is a lot of drooling. She is finally getting interested in solids...sort of. I keep trying because I am ready to stop nursing so much (no surprise--she eats a lot). My patience is improving, at least that's what I tell myself.

John has been busy with work and a variety of projects. Next week hay season will be more active and he will be gone a lot of the time until work slows down again in the fall. Not so fun, but the girls and I will have lots of time to play and do crafty things.

As for me, I've been dabbling in a few of my areas of interest, although I can still only play a few hesitant chords on the guitar and I'm still perfecting my crusting buttercream recipe (I can only make so many cakes before my family gets tired of them).

One of my favorite things lately has been reading the Doctrines of Salvation volumes by Joseph Fielding Smith (compiled by Bruce R. McConkie). They are AMAZING! I have learned a lot and gained a greater testimony of the truth of the gospel. You should read them; they are great.

I will try to post again in a while (notice the vague terms and illusory promise there) :)