Meetings, meetings and MORE meetings

Apparently Spencer doesn't think we attend enough meetings on Sundays. I was making dinner when he came upstairs and told Brandon and me that we were going to have a meeting after dinner to pray and learn about the gospel. Thinking about the late hour I said, "Hey Spencer, why don't we have it tomorrow night for Family Home Evening?" He promptly said, "No, we need to have it tonight."

So after dinner we all went downstairs to attend Spencer's meeting. This is what we found:


He made himself a pulpit out of couch cushions and an end table. He made the rest of us seats and told us where we were to sit:






This is Spencer giving us our message:




He sure is a fun kid to have around. We love you Pency-Wency.

Youth Temple trip

This last weekend, Brandon and I had the pleasure of taking the Young Men and Young Women from our church to St. Louis to attend the temple there. We also went to the Arch and took a ride to the top. Can't say I enjoyed that part of it. Not a big fan of heights. Fun was had by most, and overall, it was a decent trip. Can't say I'm looking forward to another overnight trip with this particular group, but when duty calls.....






The best part was the fact that both of us were able to be there for Stephen's first trip to the temple. He had a wonderful time.

This is what happens when you're not patient

We thought it might be ready. Doesn't look like it huh? We figure it needed another week or so. We have more, but none that are this size. We're going to be so disappointed if none of the rest of them make it.

Garden update

It's coming along nicely. We have gotten a ton of zucchini and a few cucumbers. When the tomatoes are ripe we're going to be swimming in them. We actually have a volunteer tomato plant that came up no where near the others. I'm assuming it was a seed in the bean seeds and starting growing. That or it was a seen in the compost we got for the garden. It actually has a tomato on it. And to think I almost picked it thinking it was a weed at one point. I have no idea how to can, but hopefully I can learn and actually can some of the tomatoes we're going to be getting. We have several watermelons and one really big one that we hope we get to eat. I've heard they are hard to grow and they can slit open before you know it. We're going to be very disappointed if that happens. We plan on building another box next year. If for no other reason, to plant all the "vine" plants in it. Between the watermelon and cucumbers, you can't see the other plants. The beans, peppers, onions, and asparagus are all hidden. Which means they probably aren't getting enough sun and will die or something. Oh well, trial and error. I think it's a good garden for a starter garden.

For those of you who wonder what it's like to have five boys:

I was sitting at the computer minding my own business when five insane boys came running in without their shirts on and stopped, posed like ninjas. And then started fighting. The beginning was the funniest part and I didn't get it on video.

Spencer

Yesterday was his birthday. It was a quiet one. We had dinner followed by cake and presents. The older two boys weren't here so it was a small celebration. We've never celebrated a birthday without everyone here, but it happened. Hopefully it won't happen again for a few more years to come.





Apparently Spencer thinks he turned 16 instead of six. Crazy kid.

Our Garden

I tried to post this the other day, but the pictures wouldn't upload and I gave up. Hopefully I'll have better luck today.

Brandon built the box while I was on vacation. I planted it on Memorial Day. It's growing very well. We regret not planting more in it. I'm sure it will be better planned next year. Baby steps. I apologize if the pictures of our garden right now aren't very clear. I didn't feel like going outside to take the pictures so I took them from my bedroom window. The close up one is a picture of the blossom on our zucchini plant. I'm so excited.





It's not ALL grass in the middle. We planted some seeds and they're not doing very well so I didn't want to weed it just yet. I've tried to weed around everything else, but it's just really hard right now. Again, next years garden will be much better.