His Mission Call

This one just got his mission call:




He is going to Washington DC North, French Speaking. He enters the MTC just a couple days after his birthday. I still don't think he looks old enough.

The Overweight Bag and the Cinnamon Bears

Late Wednesday night (8/12) my dad, Sharon and Josh pulled up to our campsite. When Sharon had weighed in her bag at the airport, it weighed in at 53lbs, 3lbs over the limit. With a little finagling from my dad, she didn't have to pay the overweight fee. But imagine our surprise when she exclaimed it was all our fault. We didn't believe her, so she showed us the proof:



Thank you Sharon for bringing us 13 lbs of cinnamon bears! And the chocolate covered ones were such a surprise and luxurious treat.


Background: One of the things that we miss from out west are cinnamon bears. Sure, you can find them at Yummies in Kittery, but I prefer not to pay their price. Especially when at Macey's in Orem they were usually on sale for $1-$1.50 for a 1 lb bag. So when we were asked if there was anything we wanted brought out for us, cinnamon bears it was. We asked both my family and Sharon (Nick's mom). Why? We knew that if my mom forgot (with 8 kids she's apt to) Sharon would pull through. My mom did bring us 2 bags.

Flowers and Peaches and Blueberries...oh my!

So this week when I went to pick up my veggies/fruits we were told if we wanted to we could go pick some flowers. Well, I'm a sucker for free stuff and pretty flowers. So off I trounced to pick some flowers. Along the way I was reminded of a couple of things:

1. Flip Flops may be quick to put on, but they are also quick to fall off in loose dirt.
2. Snap dragons snap, but sunflowers really need to shears to come off the stem.
3. The flowers may be pretty on their own, but it helps to check what is in your hand already. Otherwise you end up with a bright red, bright orange, and pale yellow that announce to everyone just how color inept you really are. Don't believe me? Check the picture.

I'm thankful for beautiful vegetables

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Walk with the 'scitos, you will get bit!

We decided to explore the Lowell-Tyngsboro-Dracut National Forest. We were not smart enough to take bug spray, and thus came home with some pretty pictures, good exercise, and a couple of bite marks.

How many days until vacation?

He is counting them down.



As are we...

Lesson Learned?

I told Stitch it was starting to rain, and time to come in. He decided that he knew better, and ran away from me. So fine. I left him outside.




That's the great thing about him being a dog and not a kid- No Child Services.

I did let him in after I took the pictures.