Fire Hazard Gone

Let it be known that I am currently cooking on 2 big burners at the SAME TIME!!!!  A few weeks ago we got a new stove.  This is very good because the last one was completely missing one big burner and the other was a bit of a fire hazard every time I turned it on.  

This isn't the first time this has happened this month but I smiled to myself when I thought about it and wanted to share. 

Somewhere I have a picture of the old stove and the new stove but I can't find them (they may have been deleted in a panic to capture Christmas fun), so you'll have to just imagine old, terrible, fire hazard stove and new, beautiful, 5 burners on a glass stop stove.  So beautiful in fact that when it was delivered, Henry said "It's beautiful Mama!"  A stove that is beautiful even to a 3 year old little boy.  Now that you've got it all pictured in your head you can imagine how happy I am right now.

Summer Vacation

This summer we got to go Oregon for Rubye's baby blessing and to spend some time with my family before Caleb headed off for his mission.  (He leaves on Tuesday!!)  We did had a lot of fun and I'm glad we got to go!

The pub we ate at on our way.

Fish and chips does not sit as well with me as it used to.  Henry had a blast in the Hotel pool though and lucky for both of us, he has the best Daddy ever that was willing to swim around with him for hours.  

 

 

Henry's pallet at G.G.'s

 

Feeding fish at the Hatchery

We spent a day at Silver Falls.  It is a fun little hike where you start at the top of the falls and end up walking behind them then around the pool at the bottom.  Henry loved the waterfall and all of the caves around it.

We spent a couple of days at the coast.  Henry LOVED the beach!  He's talked about it ever since.  We built sand castles, walked on the beach, flew a kite, went swimming (in an indoor pool), had seafood and lots of fun!

(A picture of Daddy looking out the window at the ocean.  One of many beach condo pictures taken by Henry.)

 

Henry "lub"s Rubye!

 G.G. and Henry

I would really reccomend the condo we found.  It could easily sleep 8, there is an indoor heated pool, pool table, sauna and it is right on the coast.  There is a balcony and picture window overlooking the ocean and it was a good price.  Can't get a better combo than that!  I wold love to go back again!!

The second day at the coast we went walked around a couple different towns.  Henry had fun watching all the boats, seals, fish and crabs.

 

Henry having fun on our way home

 

Henry and his Great Grandpa Dixon

 A month later, I found Henry emptying his closet into his diaper bag.  I asked him what he was doing and he said "Go G.G's house and go beach!!"  Agreed, Henry.  Agreed.

Summer

Dear Future Me: 

When you "publish" this years book, put the summer posts where they should be chronologically. 

Thanks,
Busy and Behind

~

We had a fun summer.  I couldn't even begin to go through all of the things we did, but the whole summer went something like this:

 
A chaotic blur.  (In which Henry spent a lot of time wearing fireman hats and Teddy a leash.)

It was actually a pretty fun summer.  My lack of blogging probably had more to do with my desire to spend all my extra time outside or doing something fun as it did with our being busy.  I love being outside and for the first year since we've been married, I had a decent garden to spend time weeding and admiring.  The first part of the summer I spent figuring out how to get rid of the snails that kept devouring my plants.  Once that was figured out I was able to keep things alive.  

 

Fun with Daddy in the Sprinkler

 

A little cocoon we found living under the protection of our zuchinni

 

 

Brussel Sprouts!

They actually got some creepy bug on them so we just tossed the whole plant, but next year I know how to keep that from happening.

 

One of our pumpkins, an onion and some beets

 

We built logs of blanket forts this summer

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A funny story about a little boy and bedtime

I just went to check on Henry and give him a kiss before I headed to bed.  I walked to find him in his fireman jacket and hugged up to a backhoe. 

Pretty funny! 

I had to record this before I forgot.  Sadly, I did not think to take a picture until the backhoe was moved and the jacket taken off but this is probably a good thing.  Picture with flash plus taking both of those things away probably would have woken him up.  (It was a close call without the flash factor.)  I'll just have to get with it and post Halloween pictures of him in his Fireman outfit.  Then you can pretend like he's covered up and sleeping with an arm wrapped tightly around his favorite mighty machine of the night.

Funny Quote Of The Day

"SOMEtimes supper is REALLY yummy!"

This is what Henry told us during supper tonight.  What delicious specialty were we eating?  RAMEN!  Oriental flavored Ramen!  Makes me so happy that I spend all that time and money making other things that apparently are less delicious. 

Best Day!

Saturday we were relocating a pile of dirt from our patio to the hill behind our house.  (Wildflower hill next spring!!)  As Nate was shoveling dirt from the pile to the wheelbarrow, Dozer was uncovered.  It's probably been there for a couple of months.  When Henry discovered the tiny bulldozer, he exclaimed "Best Day!!".  I like to think our snuggly morning, everyone being home, a few cups of hot chocolate had something to do with it, but either way, I'm glad he had the best day!

Dozer Update:
Since starting this happy post, Dozer has since disappeared again.  Most of Henry's night time prayer was about helping him find Dozer.  And that he was grateful  hot cocoa.  Hopefully we find Dozer again tomorrow.

Growing Watermelon

We have had a garden for two years now.  Both years I've thought how wonderful it would be if we could grow our own watermelon.  Last year we grew a watermelon that fit nicely in the palm of my hand.  You can see how well it went this year.  The one on the bottom could be a baby cantaloupe.  Maybe some other kind of melon.  I can't remember what I planted there.  All of my melon plants took up probably 1/3 of our garden.  And this is what I got.  I think next year we should do something better with that space.