Mary, Mary quite contrary

How does your garden grow??

You know you are officially old when you love gardening! This year Mike has taken an obsession to gardening! It is awesome. I love eating all of our veggis straight from our backyard. Here's some pics of our yummy plants:

Thai peppers. These are insanely hott! And we have about a million of them. Anyone want some? (warning: when cooking with them wear gloves, and do not touch your face immediately after using them.)



The squash that is taking over my house. Seriously, have you seen a squash plant this size? You can practically sit outside and watch the thing grow. It's alive....



This is just to show how tall our tomato plant is. It's over 6 feet! And the tomatoes are super sweet cherries. They are delicious.



Pretty!



YUM



We all knew I couldn't handle a post without my cutie in it. Here she is holding something she thinks is yummy. She just sucked on it, because she still has NO TEETH! And last night I had a dream she woke up with 12 teeth. It was scarey!



OK I had to post 2 of her.



Last one to show you how easy it is to garden. We had no clue what we were doing and we managed to have quite a successful year! Here's to next year. Maybe our green beans will work next time!

remember?

I work in an office building on the third floor with about 3 other companies who work on my floor. I went into the bathroom and on the back of each stall reads a sign that says "Remember to flush after you are finished". Is it just me, or do you think that's weird?

I am almost tempted to write on the bottom don't forget to wipe either.

sucks

UGH... It's that time again. Renting out our apartment in our basement. I hate doing it! It is nice to help pay our mortgage, but the process sucks. Showing everyone the place, trying to decide what you think of the person based on 5 minutes or so of conversation, waiting for people to show up that said they were coming, having random people show up at your door with no appointment! I will be so glad to get it rented, but it's also scary to commit to a 1 year lease and hope they aren't disgusting, crazy, unreliable, etc.

SO, if anyone knows someone that needs a place & does not fall into any of the above categories let me know. (Even though a total of 2 people read my blog, but hey)

Here are some pictures of the place. It is 870.00 2 bedroom, includes utilities, cable internet & cable t.v. with DVR. It's one block from Liberty Park, 5 minutes from downtown, about 5-10 minutes from the U, and 5 minutes to Westminster.

P.S. CRACK/METH HEADS NEED NOT APPLY. AND YES WE CAN TELL YOU ARE ON CRACK/METH, SO DON'T THINK YOU ARE FOOLING ANYONE. THE TWITCH GIVES IT AWAY.

my current favorites

Normally I wouldn't subject my child to prunes, but nature calls. She actually loves them and they are now one of her favorite foods. YUCK!



She loves her mama!



And this is probably one of my absolute favorites.

sick of the heat??

Lennon's new hat straight from Peru! Our next door neighbors Adam & Brooke just got back and they got her this sweet hat & an alpaca throw just because we watered their lawn! How nice is that?!

Sorry about the lack of blogging, but I think I have never been to good at it! When our computer died it made things even more complicated... so I will attempt to do some new posts.

Thank goodness

we have this blog! Because of it we were able to save a few of Lennon's pictures. That's right, we got the dreaded news that our hard drive would not be able to be recovered! We are bummed, but what can you do. Mike read about it online and Apple was using a hard drive they purchased from China... It has some kind of malfunction where it starts spinning wrong, then proceeds to scratch your entire hard drive, then nothing is readable.

We had done a back up in February so we still have the majority of our pictures. Now we are trying to get all of the pics our friends and family took of her. It is turning out to be quite a few so really we shouldn't be too mad.

Anyway, after this ordeal Mike has been taking tons of pictures every day! Here are my favorites:


*It won't let me upload them for some reason, so I will try again later

a special thanks

to the person that stole the stereo from my car the other night! In case you were wondering.....I am about to put up for sale! Now it has a rip in the dash, is missing a bunch of pieces & looks totally ghetto!!

UGH, I don't want to replace it when I'm just selling it.

The worst part is I bought the stereo about 9 years ago for 300.00. I would guess now it's worth about 20.00.

I hope karma attacks you!

P.S. I think you're an asshole!

Twilight....are you serious

Am I the only person out there that thinks Twilight is LAME?! Seriously, I have given it a chance, but I do not think I can finish it. I am on page 320 and I keep hoping it will get better. Everyone else I know read it all in one night. I have not even wanted to pick it up - I had to force myself to!

So, tell me what happens in the end. PLEASE! It won't ruin it, I will just know if I want to finish it or not. Honestly if I hear once more how beautiful Edward is or his damn cold hands touching her face I will puke. The way she describes things is getting majorly repetetive.....and driving me insane.

OH MY!

Our computer has bit the dust! After sitting at the Apple store for 2 hours with Lennon (that was a blast) it was determined that the hard drive is not spinning properly. BUT.... the worst part WE CAN't GET OUR FREAKING PICTURES OFF IT! All our pics from February until now are GONE! :( All of Lennon's baby pictures. So, we've shipped our hard drive to California to a drive recovery place. There they will take it apart and try to put it into a different hard drive and pull the pictures off. The best part is it's 900 Dollars! Awesome (I am being totally sarcastic-otherwise I might cry).

The reason I'm posting this is to tell everyone to DO YOUR BACKUPS! Seriously. We never thought this would happen to us. I will die if they can't get those pictures back. I think we have a good chance to get them back. We will keep you posted. In the mean time...... Back up your computers! And not to worry, we will be backing ours up like twice a day from now on!

6 months already!

We can't believe Lennon is already 6 months olds! I know everyone says that, but it really does go by so fast. Here is some info about her so I can add it to her baby book later.

She is rolling all over the place! She first rolled over on May 20th.

She can sit up by her self for a few seconds. Sometimes she is pretty good at staying up. Last week she did it for a long time.

She loves sweet potatoes, sweet peas, apple sauce, carrots & pears. She does not like bananas, but we are going to try them again soon. That's weird because that is about the only fruit that Mike loves!

I fed her carrots on Friday & she had them all over her face. I went to grab a paper towel to wipe her off & I came back and her face was clean. I thought maybe she had wiped it with the bib, until I realized my doggs licked her face clean! Sick, but funny.

We took her swimming for the first time on Friday and she loves it! Then we took her again Sunday so Papa could be there to see her.

She is a very good baby & not too fussy. She puts her self to sleep as long as she can be right shoved into the corner of her crib & has a silky blankie to cover her face. I have no idea where she got her blankie obsession from!

As always some pics of the cutie. She is so awesome & we can't get enough of her :)









the mandatory Chuck T.'s for babies. I found them small enough that they are soft sole. SOOOO CUTE!



The family in the canyons. Not the best pic but the only one of us three.





Our little fishy

this is free!!!!

To anyone that does not live in Salt Lake, you should for once be jealous! This is our free summer outdoor concert series:


Twilight Concert Series 2008

July 10
The Roots
The Knux

July 17
Andrew Bird
Josh Ritter

July 24
De La Soul
The Cool Kids

July 31
Keller Williams
Yonder Mountain String Band

August 7
Nada Surf
Tim Fite

August 14
CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH!!

August 21
Broken Social Scene
TBD

August 28
Neko Case
Crooked Fingers

How awesome is this?! We will be here for sure.

Introducing.............. Gertie Joe

Gertrude Johanna Smith

She's Mikes parents dogg. So cute!

the Peterson's

It's time to admit that I am terrible at keeping up my blog.

Saturday night we went to our friends Brandon & Cami wedding. They were married at Cactus & Tropicals it was beautiful! Their cake was awesome & Camis ring & dress are gorgeous. She ended up getting the ring from Diamonds, where we got ours. Here they are cutting the cake:




Cami collects Pez, you wouldn't believe her collection. Anyway, she had this cute Pez put on her wedding cake:



How awesome is that?!

Here we are getting all dressed up for their big day:



Mama and baby



I love this little picture of Leni. We were at Francies house & she put this necklace on Leni. Jake saw it and said oh Starr she looks so cute, she should take this home with her! He is the sweetest boy.

(PS I know this is a choking hazard. I would never put this on her when I wasn't right there with her.)

I love this girl

no more Bush

Just kidding. This post isn't about that Bush.


Here's our cute grandma house. Notice those bushes lining the right side....




well, they are gone!! Our next door neighbors saw the guys ripping them out & had them rip out their rose bushes too.




Any recommendations of what we should plant there now? We are thinking 3 small trees/bushes and then some perennials in between. We love our house & neighborhood.

wiiiiii

We bought Mario Kart this weekend & we are hooked. It's so fun!
And even though we just bought that game we managed to spend the entire day doing yard work. Our yard is going to be so cute when we get the flowers planted. I will post some pictures.

The good news is it's warm enough to get a sun burn!

Here's a picture of Leni in her new BUMBO seat! It is hilarious to see her sitting up.



And one more because the girl has a pair of pink uggs.

more pictures of you know who

Last weekend 2 people called Lennon a boy because she was wearing green. Since it was so warm today I was able to put her in a pink dress! Noone could mistake this for a boy:




This because baby sunglasses are hilarious!





Kari & Jordan came into town and we all went to Liberty Park. The earth jam fest was going on and so Kari bought this cute doll for her. She loves it, thanks Kari!

the dogs making a cameo on our blog

The dogs must be so happy we had Lennon (ya right!). Now they have this wonderful Baby Papasan chair they can sleep in. They fight over which one gets it. And if you see dog hair on Leni it's from this:

Beaver

We just got back from our cabin. There was so much snow! Chauncey, Sonya & Livia came with us, and it was a great trip. Here are some pictures from our weekend. I only managed to take 3 pictures the whole time!


Puffer Lake. A few minutes away from the cabin.



Lennon is ready for the snow



Livia



The cutest picture ever!

the first of many remodeling pictures

I'm going to post a series of our remodel pics and maybe it will motivate me to complete the final things! Once Lennon was born all projects stopped!

So here is the bathroom before, love the yellow! That's why it had to go.







Fancy came over to help us complete our projects! She helped a ton. By this point I was 8 months pregnant & definately not in the mood to do remodeling projects. Shannon took all the tiles off the wall for us. And painted a ton of things too.




the floor almost finished



And the final product. Ignore the Mountain Dew, Toilet Paper & Goof Off. I need a better picture!