Finally we picked one of each and opened them up. They were pink!! The insides are full and ripe and ready, but they are pale pink! Does anyone know a reason for this??
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Pink fruits!
Our watermelons grew! Only 4 of them, but they looked great! We also have pomegranates, red and picked from our tree.
Finally we picked one of each and opened them up. They were pink!! The insides are full and ripe and ready, but they are pale pink! Does anyone know a reason for this??
Finally we picked one of each and opened them up. They were pink!! The insides are full and ripe and ready, but they are pale pink! Does anyone know a reason for this??
Thank you Pinterest: the Kid Table
I found on the St. George Yard Sale site an old kidlet table for $5. It was dirty, grungy, sun faded, but otherwise sturdy...
I should have, but did not, get a before picture - but it was something like this, only green, red and tan - faded and scratched:
After some washing, and spray painting, about a yard and half of fabric and vinyl from Wal-Mart and a staple gun it looked like this!!
CUTENESS! Thanks Pinterest and thanks to Shane for pushing all the staple ends down and helping me screw it all back together!
I should have, but did not, get a before picture - but it was something like this, only green, red and tan - faded and scratched:
After some washing, and spray painting, about a yard and half of fabric and vinyl from Wal-Mart and a staple gun it looked like this!!
CUTENESS! Thanks Pinterest and thanks to Shane for pushing all the staple ends down and helping me screw it all back together!
Halloween!
Happy Halloween!
The Petty crew had a fun few days gearing up for the Holiday. We painted pumpkins, decorated up the house, had a school party and parade and a neighborhood dinner party and a good old fashioned time trick or treating door to door.
With Shane's back out (we are currently awaiting workers comp to approve surgery) I did the busy travel work while Shane encouraged, tasted and supervised.
At Nathans School there was a parade - I think there must be 1,000 students!! (I'm honestly going to check on the number) It went on and on and on. There were kids all the way around the track, and still some waiting to go, and some even finished lining up on the grass watching before they got through them all!!
The neighborhood puts on a party every year in one of the cul-de-sacs. One family furnished the meat (pulled pork) and the rest of us bring something to share. It was fun, many of parents get into Halloween, and it's a fun time to showcase the costumes!
Ashton has been watching some Halloween Dora and was very excited to go "Treating!!" He RAN from door to door and with MUCH exuberance shouted "TRICK OR TREAT!" long before the door ever opened. After we got half way around the block, he was getting pooped out, and dragged on home. I was quite sure Ashton would insist on wearing his super hero cape, but consented to be a pirate with a sword. (The sword was later replaced by a glow stick which he admired greatly much of the evening.)
Nathan, being 'much older' was enjoying the decorations, and other costumes, music and spooks. He very concernedly looked over each candy bowl, and picked out only his favorites. We went to a few more houses after taking Ashton home.
The Petty crew had a fun few days gearing up for the Holiday. We painted pumpkins, decorated up the house, had a school party and parade and a neighborhood dinner party and a good old fashioned time trick or treating door to door.
With Shane's back out (we are currently awaiting workers comp to approve surgery) I did the busy travel work while Shane encouraged, tasted and supervised.
At Nathans School there was a parade - I think there must be 1,000 students!! (I'm honestly going to check on the number) It went on and on and on. There were kids all the way around the track, and still some waiting to go, and some even finished lining up on the grass watching before they got through them all!!
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| cupcakes for the carry in party |
The neighborhood puts on a party every year in one of the cul-de-sacs. One family furnished the meat (pulled pork) and the rest of us bring something to share. It was fun, many of parents get into Halloween, and it's a fun time to showcase the costumes!
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| Little Pirate and Darth Vader |
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| Gypsy Mom and Small Sith |
Ashton has been watching some Halloween Dora and was very excited to go "Treating!!" He RAN from door to door and with MUCH exuberance shouted "TRICK OR TREAT!" long before the door ever opened. After we got half way around the block, he was getting pooped out, and dragged on home. I was quite sure Ashton would insist on wearing his super hero cape, but consented to be a pirate with a sword. (The sword was later replaced by a glow stick which he admired greatly much of the evening.)
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| The little man of plunder |
Nathan, being 'much older' was enjoying the decorations, and other costumes, music and spooks. He very concernedly looked over each candy bowl, and picked out only his favorites. We went to a few more houses after taking Ashton home.
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| The force is with him, Always. |
Monday, October 15, 2012
A Sweet Post!
My kitchen has been in use lately doing some fun projects! So I shall put all of the sweetness in one spot so as to cause you, the viewer a super sugar overdose!
In September My Cousin had his mission farewell, so I make these little 'message cupcakes' to take to the super tasty fiesta that commenced after the sacrament meeting.
Wyatt is the boy on the left, he had quite the gathering! Ashton enjoyed his cupcake with obvious zeal! (Notice his tiny light saber and mini flash action figure - I love this age!)
Then, thanks to face book and my "Cake by Cami Jo" page, a cute gal contacted me to make this Scarface Cake for her boyfriends birthday. Lyda's first language was not English, I have some of the cutest emails and text messages (over 50!) from her explaining how she wanted the cake design to look. She was pleased with the result!
Our neighborhood does a "Phantom Ghost" treat swap. The lucky families of our phantom ghost got these adorable cupcakes left at their doorstep!
And I signed up for a funeral assignment. I've always wanted to make one of these cakes, so when better to try it out? I hope that I put the fun in funeral :) At least I hope the people enjoyed the inside of the cake, which was lemon with a whipped raspberry cream filling - YUM!
In September My Cousin had his mission farewell, so I make these little 'message cupcakes' to take to the super tasty fiesta that commenced after the sacrament meeting.
Wyatt is the boy on the left, he had quite the gathering! Ashton enjoyed his cupcake with obvious zeal! (Notice his tiny light saber and mini flash action figure - I love this age!)
Then, thanks to face book and my "Cake by Cami Jo" page, a cute gal contacted me to make this Scarface Cake for her boyfriends birthday. Lyda's first language was not English, I have some of the cutest emails and text messages (over 50!) from her explaining how she wanted the cake design to look. She was pleased with the result!
Our neighborhood does a "Phantom Ghost" treat swap. The lucky families of our phantom ghost got these adorable cupcakes left at their doorstep!
Friday, September 14, 2012
Fall Garden and Ashtons Ham Pics
Mom and Ashton are the biggest workers in the yard/garden. We're learning as we go. We do most of the mowing, weeding, weed eating, and watering. Shane is a great poisoner. But given his working hours, he's priorities are not in the yard so much - though he did recently cut down and take apart two dead trees in our front yard. Thanks Shane!
Here's how the apple trees and the apricot tree are coming along. The all bore fruit this year, which was nice of them, but not expected! I just want them to grow, and not die! I've been working on bug poison and watering. Doing what I can to improve their growing conditions!
The pomegranate trees are doing amazing! I don't feel like I've done too much for them, they've just wanted to grow and be green and beautiful. I appreciate their stick-to-itiveness. Right now we have a variety of growth stages, from buds to flowers, and different sizes of fruits. I'm excited to see how they'll end up!!
The grape vines all grew. We had nice little bunches of red grapes. I think they must be just a nice table grape. They tasted sweet, but with the lack of attention i gave them, something else ate them all up!! Birds, or lizards, or bunnies, or something ate them from the vine! I have high hopes for getting them growing correctly next year!
These are just cute little pictures of Ashton one day when we were playing together. He drove that little pirate in that car for hours! It was adorable.
He's getting all 'Hammy' for the camera.
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Coral Pink Sand Dunes and Cave Day
"Adventure Day! Adventure Day! We're going on Adventure Daa-aaay!" was heard for miles and miles of travel - I sometimes sing about everything when I'm happy.
Monday's are Shane's Day off. And before NQ started Kindergarten, we took advantage of one of our Monday's off for an ADVENTURE DAY!
Cool and cloudy - little spots of rain here and there throughout the whole day - that was the forecast.
We left in the morning headed towards Kanab, UT in search of Caves and Sand Dunes. We traveled by way of Apple Valley and Colorado City - I think I've only ever driven by Colorado City once, in college, out of morbid curiosity of the polygamist colony there. Pretty sure Rob dragged me along.
We stopped in Kanab, and in the spirit of adventure, stopped at Big Al's Burger Barn - or something along those lines. Not so great, but it was food, we didn't get sick. We'll try a different dinning adventure next time.
Shane, after everything, said this was his favorite part of the day. I don't know if it was because all the kids used him as a pool jungle gym, or if it was the being social with some other grown-ups for a few hours, or if it was just cooling off after a sandy day. Ashton tried to drown, once again, by jumping in near no one. Luckily little Ashton Esplin surfaced him.
Overall: Great Petty Adventure Day.
The Harris Family Spotlight
I struggled finding a title for this post, a few of the ideas I had:
Bosom Buddies
Sister Wives
You've Gotta Have Friends
Best Buds
Friends: the Family you Choose
It all boils down to the fact that I'm doing a Harris Family Spotlight, so let's stick with that.
In St. George, we have friends that are as close as family... We dearly, dearly love the Harris Family! They crop up in so many of my blog post's that I thought I should just get the story out there - officially.
NUTSHELL:
Holly (Old), Joe (Older), Ben (6), Kade (4), and Carter (1) - Holly and I knew each other in college, and once in while met up in mutual friend circles. I'd met Joe once or twice, and Holly remembers seeing Shane a time or two. Thanks to the magic of Facebook, we'd friended each other, and I knew Holly was living in St. George when we were looking at our Dish Network transfer. After our first week in St. George, I called her and headed over to her house, on a whim, with the boys. (Shane was back in Wyoming finishing up there.) We reconnected quickly, and ever so simply. It was natural.
REALITY:
The Harris's are the friends that you can drop in on, and don't care if they drop in on you without calling. We don't care if each others house is clean, if the dishes are done, or if the kids are even dressed. We don't stress if the rooms are messy when they come over, and we don't care if their rooms are messy when we go to visit. Life is what is it. And when life happens, we just roll with it, in whatever state it may be. (Because, sometimes, it IS clean and picked up and organized and planned!!) But, it doesn't HAVE to be, and that's part of the beauty!
SISTER WIVES:
Shane started calling Holly my Sister Wife after I'd come home, after SO MANY times, telling him about roaming the city and the parks with the five blond headed boys and us two blond mommas out trying to control the little boy chaos that followed everywhere. Not to forget the fun and joy that came to our day because of it.
FAMILY:
In my last post - I talked about the joys of being in Wyoming, and what a wonderful time the Petty and Barney family had! We REALLY did!! What I didn't mention was how, at times when we were doing fun things, I'd wish the Harris Family was with us doing them too! I knew that Ben, Kade and Carter would have loved doing some of those things! And I'm pretty sure Holly and Joe would've loved seeing the kids do them!
When I talk to Travis on the phone, he asks how we're doing and what fun Holly things we have been up to, and when I talk to Brooke she says, "I want a Holly." And when Shane fixes the 'farty door' in the kitchen, he laughs and says that he hopes Holly and the Boys won't miss it.
And I love that Aunt Nattie and Grandma Johnson are also included.
We have fun together here in Southern Utah doing our day trips and visits about the area! Here are some recent August adventures:
The Washington County Fair: devoid of what I grew up to understand as being a fair: there were no animals - pig pens, sheep shows, beef barns, prize chickens or rabbits, none of it. But there were fun things to do and see. A large commercial barn full of business enterprises. And the visual kinds of fair presentations for those submitting sewing, cooking, or art projects - I do love seeing those!
It was well over 100 degrees at the fair, but what can one expect of St. George in August? Bet you didn't expect Sting Rays and Horseshoe crabs! The boys looked in and marveled at the little sea creatures.
The big boys enjoyed the bubbles and the bumper boats - except for Ashton, who still does not enjoy rides and said to me "Momma, I don't like it, my boat!!" So out he came. He and Carter happily watched the big boys from the sideline with Grandma Johnson.
A few weeks later, at the end of August, it was apple picking time in Springdale next to Zions National Park. I LOVED apple picking day. It was cool, green, serene, delicious and so nice to be out picking apples.
There were purple and white morning glories all over the orchard. I loved them so!
The boys played "Mario" on the grass for ages. And ran up and down the rows of apples. They climbed trees, smelled flowers, picked apples, tasted them, and had just as wonderful time as I did. Combined, ther must have been over 100 pounds of Apples Picked!!
I'm so glad that even though Shane works Saturdays that the Harris family chooses to invite us to do things with them! That they think of us when planning an outing!! That the rag tag team of Petty's can be a part of their day!
We enjoy each other's success without envy or jealousy! We cheer each other's progress and we feel each other's sorrows. We share pulling the load of this life full of ups and downs.
It was meant to be!
Thanks you, Harris's, for being You!!
Bosom Buddies
Sister Wives
You've Gotta Have Friends
Best Buds
Friends: the Family you Choose
It all boils down to the fact that I'm doing a Harris Family Spotlight, so let's stick with that.
In St. George, we have friends that are as close as family... We dearly, dearly love the Harris Family! They crop up in so many of my blog post's that I thought I should just get the story out there - officially.
NUTSHELL:
Holly (Old), Joe (Older), Ben (6), Kade (4), and Carter (1) - Holly and I knew each other in college, and once in while met up in mutual friend circles. I'd met Joe once or twice, and Holly remembers seeing Shane a time or two. Thanks to the magic of Facebook, we'd friended each other, and I knew Holly was living in St. George when we were looking at our Dish Network transfer. After our first week in St. George, I called her and headed over to her house, on a whim, with the boys. (Shane was back in Wyoming finishing up there.) We reconnected quickly, and ever so simply. It was natural.
REALITY:
The Harris's are the friends that you can drop in on, and don't care if they drop in on you without calling. We don't care if each others house is clean, if the dishes are done, or if the kids are even dressed. We don't stress if the rooms are messy when they come over, and we don't care if their rooms are messy when we go to visit. Life is what is it. And when life happens, we just roll with it, in whatever state it may be. (Because, sometimes, it IS clean and picked up and organized and planned!!) But, it doesn't HAVE to be, and that's part of the beauty!
Shane started calling Holly my Sister Wife after I'd come home, after SO MANY times, telling him about roaming the city and the parks with the five blond headed boys and us two blond mommas out trying to control the little boy chaos that followed everywhere. Not to forget the fun and joy that came to our day because of it.
FAMILY:
In my last post - I talked about the joys of being in Wyoming, and what a wonderful time the Petty and Barney family had! We REALLY did!! What I didn't mention was how, at times when we were doing fun things, I'd wish the Harris Family was with us doing them too! I knew that Ben, Kade and Carter would have loved doing some of those things! And I'm pretty sure Holly and Joe would've loved seeing the kids do them!
When I talk to Travis on the phone, he asks how we're doing and what fun Holly things we have been up to, and when I talk to Brooke she says, "I want a Holly." And when Shane fixes the 'farty door' in the kitchen, he laughs and says that he hopes Holly and the Boys won't miss it.
And I love that Aunt Nattie and Grandma Johnson are also included.
We have fun together here in Southern Utah doing our day trips and visits about the area! Here are some recent August adventures:
It was well over 100 degrees at the fair, but what can one expect of St. George in August? Bet you didn't expect Sting Rays and Horseshoe crabs! The boys looked in and marveled at the little sea creatures.
There were purple and white morning glories all over the orchard. I loved them so!
The boys played "Mario" on the grass for ages. And ran up and down the rows of apples. They climbed trees, smelled flowers, picked apples, tasted them, and had just as wonderful time as I did. Combined, ther must have been over 100 pounds of Apples Picked!!
I'm so glad that even though Shane works Saturdays that the Harris family chooses to invite us to do things with them! That they think of us when planning an outing!! That the rag tag team of Petty's can be a part of their day!
We enjoy each other's success without envy or jealousy! We cheer each other's progress and we feel each other's sorrows. We share pulling the load of this life full of ups and downs.
It was meant to be!
Thanks you, Harris's, for being You!!
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