Thursday, July 12, 2007

Independance Day

For breakfast we went down the street to eat with the Neighbors...and the fire department. I helped flip a few pancakes, harassed Michael Sanders then sat down to eat with Morgan and Mike. As much as I would have liked to sleep in on this day off I walked with Jen at 6:30, cleaned up and headed for the breakfast.

I could be wrong but I think more neighbors show up every year. My theory is that they're figuring out that we're not staging a mass missionary lesson for all the non LDS in the neighborhood...WE JUST WANT TO EAT WITH YOU!





We just hung out at home afterward. I weeded while Mike played with the camera and got a bunch of pictures of the front yard.







That night we got some dinner with the Hammonds at Red Robin. I don't think they were happy to see us. I guess Red Robin employees like to see fireworks too and were trying to close early. Whoda thunk it.
After we ate and I got my white shirt released from the sticky stuff on the chair (yea gross) we went to the Taylor's and watched fireworks.

Ya know, with all the places we could go to see BIG Fireworks sometimes it's just nice to sit with your neighbors and watch it the way we did when we were kids.

Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Pink Can Revisited

Does anyone remember the pink trash can incident?
(Click the word pink for a refresher, 'cause it never gets old baby!)
Cyndee Child and Steffie Williams do vinyl lettering, so when the Hammonds asked for a no soliciting sign for their door they got so much more then they asked for...and oddly enough, they totally loved it!
And the legend lives on...

Sunday, July 01, 2007

Another one of my favorite things about spring that happened in the summer this year.

You may recall that last year one of my favorite things about spring was the motorcycles.
This year I'll show you another one of my favorite things.

Quail Families! Usually the chicks hatch in late spring but I didn't see any babies till the beginning of Summer. The mother protects her babies by hiding them under her wings. One time I saw what I thought was a HUGE female up against the curb
(kind of like the picture of her above)

Thinking it was hurt I walked up to it and it ran away! Leaving behind 10 or more babies! it was so cute and pitiful watching them running after their mother screaming, "Wait mommy wwwaaaiiit!" like this picture.
I see them when I walk in the morning with Jen and I see this cute family when I come to work.
Nature, creation...one of my favorite spring things!