It's been a few years, but we finally put a garden in this year.

Everything is coming up really well. Jim has three hoses

running out there for us to water with!

Otherwise it would take forever to water. It really helps.

our Very first peppers coming on!

The corn made it out of the ground! Grow little guys! Grow!

Here is the First Squash blossom...we just may have vegetables yet!

It never ceases to amaze me when things I plant grow.

I am the typical un-green thumb.

It really is a good feeling to see things grow so well,

and know your hard work will eventually pay off.

Before when we have grown gardens, our kids have been

a lot younger, and it was a trial for me to get out there

and weed, much less get the watering done.

This time, I am really enjoying just being out there while I water,

the solitude and the therapy that weeding is.

(I finally get what Molly sees in gardening)

I can ignore the telephone, and just love the silence. My boys are self sufficient,

I don't have little ones needing my every attention. That really helps

me be able to devote some time to the things that will make this succeed....But

I really feel Heavenly Father is blessing us, just because we are trying to do this.

Meet Two of our Orphans....

Blackie, one of our cats had babies about the third week of March.

She has always been a very peculiar cat. She would never let us near her,

even though we fed her and had raised her from a kitten. She was pretty much a feral cat that

lived at our house. I had taken Tiger and Snickers in to be fixed, and even though I

had an appointment for Blackie, I never could catch her...the rest is history.

It was really weird, we finally had decided that she WAS indeed

pregnant, and she had them a week later!

Blackie would never let us pet the kittens. She had 4, a grey boy, a black boy,

a black girl and then this striped girl. We kept searching for them, when we would find them,

she would move them again. Eventually, she moved them under this big pile of wood

we have in the back yard, and we could never find them.

She never was a very good mother to them. I would find her sunning on the car port, and

wondered where those little cats were, hoping they were still alive.

The kittens finally started venturing out of the hiding place.

I think they were getting hungry. They had nursed nearly 2.5 months!

We were able to catch the grey and black boys. We tamed them down some,

and the MacDonald kids wanted them. So we got rid of those two.

We finally caught the striped one, but could never get the last black one.

Finally, we were able to catch her, she tamed down the easiest of all of them.

We named the Striped one Bengal, Jim thinks she looks like a Bengal Tiger.

The Black one we named Snowflake. I told Jim and the Kids, I got

to name the last black one, because I never get to name any of our pets.

So I teased them all by saying I wanted to name her something like

"Beautiful Sparkly Princess" or "Fluffy" or "Velvet Glitter Cloud".

They all groaned! I knew they wouldn't like any of those names,

they were to 'Girly'! I do stuff like that because I know the boys

will hate it! I had fun teasing them though. Truth is...I was not

coming up with anything! So Jim came up with Snowflake.

She is Midnight black....but her name is Snowflake.

I tease the boys sometimes and just call her "Diamond Sparkly Snowflake"!

Well, here I am at "Super Blogging Club". Just found out how to do a signature on my posts. This is Kinda close to my signature. One day I will scan in my real handwriting and have the real thing...but for now...I love ya all...
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High School Graduation!

Well, Graduation for the Class of 2009 did arrive.

I really don't like my kids getting older and leaving home.

We are so proud to have Porter graduating this year.

Sis. Merrilee Terry, the band teacher, taught some boys how

to play the Bag Pipes. They played during the ceremony.

They only started playing in January, and boy that was really neat.

I hope they do that every year. I can't believe they learned how to

play that well in just 5 months.

This is Porter being congratulated by the Superintendent, Robert Johnson.

He also happens to be our Stake President.

Finally made it! Has the diploma in his hand!

The "throwing of the hat" tradition.

I should post on here all the 'hotties' that

came up and congratulated Porter.

He thinks girls don't like him....yea right.

Congratulations Porter!

We Knew you Could Do It!

We Love You!

Porter's Graduation Announcements

These are Porter's Graduation announcements I made. I was almost finished and Mellissa & Chuck got here, she helped me make a star for the 'Kanab Cowboys' Logo. I thought these turned out really well, I am so excited. Of course, no one is going to get them until after the fact...but oh well. We just want to brag anyway!

Jim has been doing some work for Page Steel while things are slow.

Down in Arizona, he came across these cement road barriers.

He has been wanting to expand our garden area,

so we have a bigger garden and can grow more things.

(translation: More work for me!)

He rented the backhoe from Page Steel, and in one day

he and the boys, put up these barriers and filled it with

the dirt the Downwards had dug out for their new addition

last summer. This has about doubled our garden area.

I really am quite excited. We really want to put in a garden this year.

This is my main man...In his Element. He loves this, running

Equipment. It's really his true passion. And he really has a

natural talent for it. I am so proud of all my guys for doing this

big project! It took one whole day, but they got it done.

Our Back Yard looks so good now too!

Now, to plant.......

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The other helpers...Can't leave them out!

I love you guys!

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