oh wow...

okay.... so tons and tons has happened since the last time i blogged. its incredible. [click here to go to kelsey's post about it.] we've been to the been to the cabin. we've gotten sick. we've babysat the most amazing dogs [i wish i could steal their german shephard]. we've babysat 300 boys at a cubscout camp. we've taught those same 300 boys fun leather crafts. we've driven up and down mt. lemmon behind stupid slow drivers wa-hay too many times. we've been swimming. we've hand underwater handstand contests [kelsey won]. we've not yet cleaned and unpacked from all of our adventurs. sigh. and now we get to relax! haha...

here are some fun swimming pictures... because they're awesome. be checking adrian's blog for a cute video of hayley in the pool... it was the very first time she actually liked it. she does this really funny thing were she tries to catch the water. its goofy and it makes me laugh! and can i just say how much i love our pool? its pretty much the best thing ever.

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here is my super duper exciting bit o' news!

the first time i blogged about my newly planted garden it looked like this...

the last time i blogged about the garden it looked like this...

as of this morning, my garden looks like this...

sigh. isn't it just beautiful? i just love my garden! before we left for the cabin i changed the watering system to 3 minutes, 3 times a day... and my plants are absolutely loving it! the whole garden really has exploded! one of the pumpkin plants has grown all the way down to the zucchini! the zucchini are just massive! and still growing! its spectacular really. i planted all of these plants from tiny seeds! incredible!!

anyway.... the really really exciting part is that today i harvested my first zucchini! :) and!! i made zucchini bread! :D is that not the coolest thing ever?! zucchini bread with home-grown zucchinis. fantastic!! [and delicious!!] haha... now i need to go get ready for church, but i just couldn't wait to blog... i'm just so excited!!

can you see the zucchini back there?

hodgepodge of happiness...

ive forgotten to blog a few things... so this is a little ketchup blog. 

be prepared. its gonna be awesome.

:)

so... last night we [a group of 40 of us] went to the gaslight theater. grandpa keith leaves on tuesday... so this was our last hoorah. it was a great time! we love the gaslight more and more every time we go... and this most recent trip was no exception! :)  we couldnt have asked for a better night! we sure are going to miss grandpa when he goes back to washington for the summer...

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also... i forgot to blog about the fair. i haven't been able to go to the fair in YEARS! i've always been busy with school... so this year was especially fun! apparently im not a big ride rider... but i still had fun! we even got to see the freak show at the fair... complete with a 6-legged steer, a 2-headed baby named rob & rob, and the bones of a dwarf that terrorized the southwest back in the day [he even looked up ladies' skirts!] hahah.... good times.

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also... here is my one picture of me & nicole from country thunder. ps... for all of you out there who dont know what that is... country thunder is the largest country music festival in the southwest. its four solid days of amazing country artists. we camped out and had a blast! we saw keith urban [nicole's favorite], willie nelson, jason aldean, and my favorite of the weekend... luke bryan. oh freaking baby. it really was a fantastic week! 

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and the most exciting news of all!! okay, maybe its not the most exciting... but i sure love it! i have a few little tiny baby summer squash starting to grow! woot woot!

the end. 

:)

last week...

so last week was kinda busy... dustin, austin & dad worked in the backyard all day friday [and a good chunk of thursday too]. they rototilled the crap out of it... they got the waterline and the sprinkler system in. apparently we have a quite a bit more we need to do before we can put the actual sod in, but its getting there!

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saturday... there was a giant regional ysa activity [nicole was in charge... so i got to help out a lot.] it turned out great... and it was a whole ton of fun, but im not gonna lie... it was a long day. and then!! that night kelsey got  home from byu! she and a friend drove in from provo. it sure is great to have her back!!

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also... the cacti are all blooming right now. its quite the sight. its a unique beauty, but i sure love it! :)

{oh wow}

so this morning me and kelsey went to deliver a couple framed pictures to dad at work. one is the one we gave him for father's day [the prayer at valley forge] and the other was a newly reframed drawing that i did of the columbia river gorge a couple years ago. it turned out lovely... and now daddy has a beautifully decorated office [with a window... and a view of the mountains! :) ]

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we spent the afternoon in the pool. dustin, adrian and hayley came up. and ashley, our fun cousin, is here for the weekend. anyway.... we were in there for quite awhile [until a storm blew in, and even then we were in until it was raining and thundering right above us! haha]... but dustin did get mighty burned... poor dude. it just looks painful. hahaha. pray for him!

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we've been playing and having fun this evening... until mom came in [not quite yelling, because miss hayley bug is asleep] but telling us that there was a gila monster in the carport! oh wow!! we've only seen one other gila monster our whole 16 years. my mom called rural metro because the gila monster is a protected animal in arizona [rural metro is the fire department place] and they got here in 18 minutes [kelsey won... with a vote of 18 minutes. haha]. so all of us... mom, dad, adrian, dustin, austin, me, kelsey, ashley, and devin and zac... went out to witness the monumentous occasion.... and these are the pictures! enjoy!


it hid behind the pole thingy... so i was a litte bit more brave to get a little closer to it... haha... then when the fire man dude came we had to nudge it out a bit... haha... look how cool this is though... he had these sweet little forcep things then dropped it into this bucket that looks like a camping toilet!! :) and then i really did get nice close pictures!!


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end note:

there were 1o cars here when the fire department came... for the 11 people in this house [the only one without a car was baby hayley. haha... austin cant really drive. nor is he legally allowed to... but we let him "have" the truck. so really it was 10 cars... for the 9 driving adults in this house.] thats kinda embarrassing. and that is what we should have gotten a picture of. but now its raining... and dustin is gone, so... just imagine! :)

auntie kendle!

haha... that really does just sound so weird to me-- "aunt kendle" but thats what its gonna be come february first!

i'm gonna be an aunt!!!

adrian is 12 weeks pregnant... due on february first, and is feeling pretty good (look at her blog for more information, its really cute!) and i know that she and dustin are super super excited!! :)

im so excited! i cant believe now that i actually move away away from home, adrian got pregnant... ive been in thatcher for three years...2 hours away, and now that i move to freaking utah she decides to get pregnant? sheesh. thanks a lot... just kidding. i am so pooping excited!! really really!!! adrian has promised to keep me updated... send me pictures of the sonograms and everything... so i guess its okay. but i am kinda bummed that i don't get to be there to watch her grow... and help paint the nursery... and go shopping for decorations... and go get pedicures with her when her feet are all swollen... haha, but i will get to come home for Peanut's birthday (haha... from her first sonogram the baby kinda just looks like a peanut... haha, hence the name... lol) it is kinda funny though... ive already started looking at little things that i can get for this new little baby and for my cute little pregnant sister!

i was looking online... this is what i found... this i pretty much what it looks like right now... it is about 2.5 inches long... and weighs about half an ounce. the baby's eyes and ears are moving into place and the liver and pancreas begin to function... kinda trippy, eh? (oh and it already has fingernails at this point!)

anyway... yay for babies!!

congratulations adrian and dustin!!