Oh Deer!

We've had this buck visiting our yard a lot lately. Usually it just sticks around the borders of our yard and eats the blackberry bushes. But I think our garden is starting to tempt it. It was making it's way slowly and cautiously to the peas when Danika and I spotted it! I grabbed the camera and took a few pics and then snuck up and scared it. It leaped gracefully away. Danika and I stumbled upon it a week ago as we were walking in the yard. This deer is not small! I was almost looking it eye to eye. I think it's horns make it about as tall as me! That big of a deer could do some major damage to our beautiful garden! So next time I see it that close, that poor little dear is going to have a pellet gun pointed at it (I'm sorry if anyone is offended by that, but it's not going to ruin all our hard work)!

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Garden Beauties!

After 2 years of working on our yard it's starting to look how we want it to look! This picture is of our vegetable garden. The three garden boxes in the front of the pic are what I try to take care of and the big garden section behind them is Ben's garden. Our Strawberries are sooooo yummy this year(they are in the garden box on the right)!

I can't remember what these are called, but the color looks so fake because it is so bright! I love flowers with unusual colors!

These are my Burgundy Sweet Williams!


I really love all the colors that came out of this pack of Snap Dragon seeds!


Again, I don't remember the name of this but it's beautiful!

My first Daylilly bloom of the year, I have 2 more daylilly plants that are different colors that didn't bloom last year, so I'm excited for those buds to open!



This is a Mini Dahlia.

The last blooms on my Peony bushes.

This is a wild flower that grows here. I don't know what its called, but it reminds me of a wedding dress because it is so pure white!


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Happy 4th of July!

For the 4th of July our ward had an "old time 4th of July party". There were old time games and activities for the kids and a whole lot of food! Pete and I won the three-legged race and I won the Cherry pit spitting contest for the women! Quite exciting stuff! But I forgot to bring my camera. So here are some pics from today of the kids on their bikes that we decorated with ribbons for the 4th. They just finished eating ice cream cones so they are a "little" dirty!

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Zach's school had a talent show yesterday and Zach's Kindergarten class learned the sign language to this song.

Cookies and punch after the talent show.

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My siblings!

These are my siblings!



Need I say any more?

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Elora

Elora was running up to Grandma and Grandpa's house and tripped right before she got to the stairs and her face hit the bottom step! I think this is Elora's 3rd black eye in her 4 years of life! In my 29 years of life I've had 1 black eye (high school P.E. Badminton, my partners racket got a little out of control). I don't know how this girl does it, but she does!


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I just had to share with everyone our awesome Snowball Bush! I love this bush, I should say bushes because there are probably over 100 bushes making up this one gigantic bush. I made Elora stand in the pic so you could see how big this bush is. Inside it is a "cave" that is tall enough that I can stand up straight. The kids love it and play all kinds of games and they love climbing to the top and sticking their heads out of the bush. This year everything has been growing like crazy, including this bush. So I trimmed it back and got these two huge vases full of snowballs!


Here's a pic of our lilac bush that has beautiful blooms covering it and our Rhododendron that finally bloomed this year! We planted it 2 years ago! I love flowers!

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