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It's a good day to just relax Mom

Bo got home from Kindergarten and instead of coming in the house, this is where I found him. "It's a good day to just relax, Mom." he said from his recliner in the tree.

I know better...

...than to leave my daughter alone for more than 2 seconds.

We had just gotten home from visiting teaching this morning and I went downstairs to check my email really quickly. I checked it and then opened my blog page and saw a couple of people had updated so while I blissfully did some blogstocking, I was unaware that my daughter had not followed me downstairs.

After a couple of minutes I decided I'd better go check on her because she was being way too quiet and any mom knows that is a bad sign.

This is what I found upon arriving upstairs.

The pantry door had been left open a crack and instead of closing it, which would have been the norm, she decided to get into the flour. It was tracked all across the kitchen, down the hall, through my bedroom and into my bathroom, where she then got Ryan's deodrant and played with it.

I couldn't help but laugh at the flour mess. I really wasn't that surprised that it happened. I just stripped her down to her shirt and shoes and got the vacuum out. I love the tile attachment. My whole upstairs needed vacuuming anyways. As I was vacuuming, I got to Raegan's room and realized that this must be where she had started her mess making. She had pulled just about all her clothes out of her drawers and dumped her socks all over the floor. Guess I'll get that picked up after she wakes from her nap.

It's harvest time!

Here is a picture of our harvest from our garden. It isn't much, but it certainly could have been worse. Let me tell you the story of our garden and you'll understand why it could have been worse.

Ryan and I have not planted a garden together since we've been married. We've lived next to Grandma and Grandpa and they always planted a garden big enough to feed several families. So we've just never worried about it. In the past year, however, a lot of stuff has changed with Grandma and Grandpa and due to circumstances, they do not plant a garden anymore. Thus, we decided to try our hand at it. We used their garden spot since we didn't have one in our yard yet.

It was a late spring to begin with, but we were even later getting the garden planted. We did 4 rows of corn, 3 rows of carrots, 3 rows of potatoes, and 2 rows of onions. Within the first week or so, Grandpa decided to plant one more row of potatoes. Unfortunately, he dug our newly planted onions up to plant the additional row of potatoes. So we now had onions growing sporatically throughout the row of potatoes, and the growth of them were stunted a little.

A few weeks later, as things were sprouting through the ground, all was looking good. Then about 3/4 of the carrots and the one end of 2 rows of potatoes got sprayed with weed killer, which doesn't discriminate against killing garden plants either. Some of them did pull out of it surprisingly. Although, they were stunted as well.

A couple of weeks later, when everything was growing good again, I went out to check it out, and someone had gone and chopped off the tops of most of the carrots. My poor carrots. How I got any of them to survive, I'm not sure.

Anyways, the corn was progressing nicely and we didn't have any other mishaps the rest of the summer....until about the first week in September. Just when the corn was ready to start eating, mother nature decided to get in a lick or two. We had a nasty wind storm come through and knock all the corn stalks down almost to the ground.

Here we are in mid October. We did get to enjoy some new potatoes and some corn. We got a couple decent onions. The rest were pretty small. We had an abundance of carrots considering a lot of the crop got wiped out. We didn't thin them so we had to dig them with a shovel to get them out of the ground. And we ended up with a decent crop of potatoes that will be perfect for soups this winter. There were only a handful of bakers.

All in all, I'm glad we got what we did out of the garden and hopefully we'll have a little more luck next year!

Am I raising a monkey or a boy???

Little Cinderella

Is it a bad sign when the kids feel the need to scrub the floor??? Maybe I need to mop.

Camping with the Quirls

We went camping yet again, with our good friends, Troy and Christie and their cute girls. We had a great time hiking, swimming, four wheeler riding, throwing rocks into the creek and just plain hanging out.

Thanks for a fun weekend guys!

What my bed says about me

What Your Bed Says About You

Outward appearances are very important to you. You do your best to look good and have an attractive home. You try to be an organized person, but you often fall behind. Certain parts of your life tend to fall into chaos. You are very low maintenance. You tend to go with the flow, and you're easily pleased. In relationships, you tend to be quite dominant. You enjoy taking charge. You tend to be a dreamy, head in the clouds type of person. You think in terms of possibilities. You are a traveler. You are comfortable anywhere, and you rarely feel homesick.

What Does Your Bed Say About You?

Yellowstone Bear World

Yesterday, we took the kids to Yellowstone Bear World for a couple of hours. It was a perfect day for going there because it was a little cooler and it had been raining a little. The animals like that weather and are always out and about.

There are lots of bears, elk, deer, buffalo, wolves, mountain goats to see. Then there is the petting zoo, where you can go in and pet the deer, goats, potbellied pig, and numberous chickens and such. We try to go once a year because it is a pretty cool place to visit.

If you ever get the chance to go, do it, atleast one time because it is pretty cool.

Math Problem

Ok, Here is a math problem for all you math whizzes, although, I really dont' think you'll have to be a whiz to figure this one out.

Story Problem.

Object A is travelling at 100 miles per hour in no particular direction causing a path of distruction, and Object B is travelling the same path at 10 miles per hour following Object A. Object A stops every 4 hours for a 1 1/2 hour period of time, but Object B keeps going constantly, does object B have a chance of catching up to Object A? If so, when will it happen???






Object A - a very cute 18 month old girl named Raegan


Object B - an exhausted mommy named Corey



I don't think Object B has a chance. I told ya it wouldn't take a genius to figure that one out. Holy tornado, it is exhausting trying to keep up with Raegan.