Long overdue

Today I am here. I know it has been a long, long time since I last posted. I have put it off and put it off until I could find a REALLY good reason to post here. Today I know I don't have to. I am so happy today. So many wonderful things have happened this month and I am going to share them now.

1. School is OUT!!! That means I have a break from PTA for 2 months! YAY!!
2. The summer hasn't been too hot yet. I have totally loved it.
3. We have had some great friends and family really help us out this month and we were able to make it.
4. We started a new rewards program with the kids and I have never seen kids so happy to do chores in my entire life.
5. We have really stuck to our family scripture study and prayers and have seen such a change in the atmosphere of our home.
6. 3 times I have been able to attend the temple in the last month. Once with my friend Emily (I LOVE YOU EM!) Once with my good friends Travis and Chelsea (LOVE YOU TOO!!) when they received their endowments and then again today when they were sealed. Such a beautiful place to be! I love the temple. I have quite enjoyed the opportunities I have had to go.
7. My inlaws are here visiting and they took the kids for the day while we attended the sealing and they took the kids swimming. We were able to go watch them swim between the wedding and the luncheon. It was fun watching them. I can tell how much they really love our kids.
8. Tonight I am just thankful to be here. I have struggled lately with depression and I am hopefully coming out of a downward slump. Hopefully.

I hope that you all have a wonderful weekend. Thanks for reading (that is if you still do) and HAPPY FATHERS DAY! TO all you wonderful DADS out there!!!

Gardening and Family Pictures

I received a phone call one day from my mom asking me if I wanted money to buy plants for my garden for my birthday. I of course said that would be WONDERFUL! So I got money.

Today, I went to the store and bought all of my plants and then the family went out to our garden spot to plant.

First we had to work hard to dig up all the weeds and get them out of our garden. The kids did really well and they helped take them all to the compost container and then they were getting frustrated so after they finished helping with the weeds we let them play in the sandbox.

This is a community garden area and we were part of it last year as well. It is so much fun to work around so many wonderful people.

Anyway back to the garden. My husband and I continued working and got the garden tilled and planted. Then we watered it and were finished. It looks great! The kids are excited to see the plants grow.

We also planted strawberries on the back porch of our apartment.

My flowers are growing that I planted about a month ago and they are starting to look great. It won't be long until they are so beautiful.

Today was also happy because I finally got our family pictures back. They are so beautiful and I love them all. I think that our photographer was able to capture our personalities and still manage to have some pretty awesome pictures of us!

I am so thankful for the opportunities this life gives us. We are truly blessed to have a place to grow a garden and we are blessed to have such great friends and family.

Today was a Happy day.