Strawberries - I ordered 30 pounds of fresh Oregon Strawberries last month and they were finally ready to harvest last week. I picked up my bucket on Thursday and it took me two days to freeze and vacuum pack the bunch. Mmmmm...there is nothing better than the smell of fresh strawberries. I'm in love.
Smelling the campfire - One of my responsibilities as second counselor in the Primary presidency is to oversee the Cub Scouts and also the 11-year-old Scouting program. Friday night I got to go join our 11-year-old scout campers at their campfire program. They camped at Camp Ireland and I enjoyed walking around the camp and smelling the campfires.
I love that smell! I'm looking forward to the time our boys get to participate in the Scouting program. It sure looks like a lot of fun!
Selling Juice Boxes - Our neighborhood's HOA hosted a big garage sale this weekend. On Friday morning, when I set out with the boys on their bikes to check out all the garage sales in the neighborhood, I gave each boy $2.00 to spend however they liked. It was funny to see how frugal Justin was in deciding how to spend his money and how clueless Tyler was to what was going on. Justin ended up "helping" Tyler spend his money.
Well, after coming home and enjoying their "goods", Justin started making big plans for Saturday at the garage sales. When we woke up Saturday morning, he had already written out a sign for selling Costco Kirkland juice boxes for 25 cents. He moved the wooden kid table over to the door and was ready to go start his business. What could I say? Off we went to open his "store" on our driveway.
I thought he might sell only a few juices, but he sold out in less than an hour. He had big motivation for making some money so he could go buy more treasures at the garage sale. I was secretly hoping we wouldn't come home with junk. Off we went with our little wagon and they boys both found a cute little lion flashlight that opens its mouth when it turns on.
Staining the fence - Travis hired two teenagers from our ward to help him stain the fence in our yard. They were trying to earn money for Scout Camp and Travis was so glad to have their help. They worked hard all day on Saturday and Travis even hired Justin to help for a while so he could earn money to pay Mom back for the $3 he borrowed earlier that day to buy a tiny pool table at the big neighborhood garage sale.
Sharing time - It was my turn to teach sharing time on Sunday. I'm really beginning to enjoy it. The part I like the best is how excited Justin gets to help me with my lesson. I keep it all a secret from him and sometimes the anticipation just about does him in. But he always pays attention and since this time we ran out of time to finish all I had prepared, he begged me to finish it for our Family Home Evening lesson tonight. So, tonight we are going to learn about how we can prepare to go to the temple by being reverent, dressing modestly and speaking kindly.
Sleeping - Sunday afternoons are just the best. We try to trade off naps and it is really funny how much I look forward to it. Now if I could get Justin and Tyler on the bandwagon, too. That would be fantastic!
9 comments:
Man! Busy summer so far! My kids put up a Kool aid stand and made $12! People love to support little business people.
You are so good. For whatever reason Jaxon always wants to have a stand, but he has no love of money, so he gives everything away for free. He may get that from his mom, because I feel fine about it.
So cute. Hey, how did you get that blogger update thing on the right side there? i need to get one. Please share.
I shared a bucket with Kirstin and 15 lbs took a long time. Totally worth it though! Love the picture of the strawberry people!
I live for Sunday afternoon naps as well! They're the best!
I did Sharing Time last week about temples as well, but it was a disaster! The kids were so noisy and I couldn't get a word in edgewise. They should probably release me from primary . . . I don't feel very successful at it. :) I'm glad you love it -- I bet you're so great at it.
What a little entrepreneur you have! So cute.
As always, you impress me. What a great family, and mm... agreed Strawberries are yummy.
This year is very experimental. Out of our 4 squash types that we planted, only 2 are showing promise. I think we just planted our green beans too late... And our pumpkin started to grow, and then it died. Sad day! Yes, we used to have an equally large tree in the middle of the yard and then Provo City cut it down because it was old and threatening to destroy the power lines. They've given us a tree voucher, so Jared and I will go pick a new one.
I you want to add a blog list to your page that updates as everyone publishes a new post, just go into customize at the top of your screen and then to Layout and then add an element. Just pick "Blog List" and enter in your info. If you have a Google Reader account it will just pull the information for you and you don't have to do a thing.
I added it when it was only available in "Blogger In Draft". You can try new things they are testing out before they go public to everyone on the regular blogger site. You can get to the "Blogger In Draft" site through your dashboard. Enjoy!
You have been so busy! How fun! I am feeling very "oregon-sick" (that is the same as homesick.) Miss you a lot today! =)
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