Summer Fun

I'd first like to start you off with a little taste of something we've enjoyed in our garden this year.  YUM!  Too bad their season is over.  Now we are enjoying lots of raspberries, beans, and lettuce (and herbs).  Our spinach is done, and so are the peas, which Emma thoroughly enjoyed.

For Memorial Day (I know, I'm a bit behind) we went to an arts festival.  The highlight of going was that we rode our bikes there.  Despite the heat, I LOVED this family activity.

Here are some pictures of that weekend.  I just love these little faces, and had to share our sweet little girls with you.

We made ice cream in a bag for a family home evening treat one Monday.  We all loved it.  Of course, it has been so hot, and the ice cream was mostly soup by the time we finished eating it.  It was still delicious.

We've been taking advantage of the heat and swimming a lot.  The girls have some pretty impressive tan lines, even with all of the sunscreen I put on them.  I, on the other hand, don't look any different.  I wasn't blessed with nice tanning skin. 

San Diego and Cowboys

Randy got to go on a 5 day trip to San Diego for a "school" trip.  He was so pampered.  Gourmet food, sleeping in, etc.  I guess he did go to conferences every day, but he also went to the San Diego zoo, some island, the beach, a big navy ship, I am not quite sure all that he did.  I should have him write about it.  Anyways, I missed him like crazy.  The girls did too.  They asked about him every day.

When he got home it was really late so they didn't see him until the morning, and they were so happy to see him.  They hugged him, and laid on him forever.  It was precious.

The weekend that he got home was WONDERFUL! He had Friday through Monday off, and we did so many fun things.  The National Cowboy Museum had their annual chuck wagon event, and we got to go, finally.  I have wanted to go every year since we've been here.  It was great.  So fun, but so hot.  The girls got to ride on a pony, and the whole time I thought about how my mom and grandma would cringe if they saw me doing that.  They's say, "We don't need to ride on ponies.  We've got horses at home!"  Sorry, Mom and Grandma.  I don't have them here.

It was Emma's first experience in a while.  The first one that she knew what was going on.  She was a little concerned looking.  I don't think she took her eye off the pony once.

Next, Kenadi had to sit on "Oreo" the longhorn.  It seemed like a nice bull, but they still had it cross-tied to the rail by the bull's ring.  It reminded me of when I was a little girl in Montana.  My cousins and I loved to play in this one field of theirs because it had a swamp with cat-tails that we would collect and color.  However, the quickest way to the field was through the bull's pen.  My uncle had mean bulls too. My mom always told me to not go through there, but we would send my older cousin Teresa(she was maybe 7-9 at the time, and Dez and I were in-between 5 and7) in to distract the bull while Dez and I would run to the other side. Sometimes the bull would chase us and step on it's chain. I wonder if my mom actually knew that we did that.  I didn't see the harm too much then, but now I can't believe we did that.  Ok, that was just a little trip down memory lane.  I had lots of memories while at the chuck wagon thing.  It was fun reminiscing.

The girls got to make these cute bandanas.  We also got tons of free chuck-wagon/dutch oven food, lots of kids activities and art projects, and a tractor ride.

Kenadi had a blacksmith make her a nail ring.

Emma had fun watching the stagecoach pulled by horses go by.  We never rode in it because we ran out of time.

It was a good, fun day.  Notice my huge sunglasses?  I can never buy sunglasses because my face is too narrow, so I decided that I'd just go with HUGE and then it wouldn't matter.  Besides, I can fit my other glasses behind them pretty well.  Funny, but I don't mind looking like a fly.