Camelot

Lemon Petunia's

Remember my hot pink petunias (I only mention the color because they look red in the picture)?  We were at Home Depot a couple of weeks ago and they had petunias out.  I REALLY wanted the red ones, but there was no way to tell if they were trailing petunias or not.  They had about 4-5 of these lemon ones that were obviously trailing, so I thought I would try them.  I was pleasantly surprised at how pretty they were when they started to bloom.  Just thought I'd share.

Families are Forever

Houston Temple

Whistling Ducks

This is from last April.  Every year we get a pair of whistling ducks that stay for a couple of days at our place.  Last year they stayed for almost a month.  You can see one on top of the chicken run and one on top of the old trampoline that we have now moved.  We were using the trampoline as added protection for the geese, but now we have Amy :)  I took this picture from my back porch.

2011 Missionaries

Justin, Vickie, AJ, Stephen

This was taken on Christmas Eve.  We are so proud that by the end of this year we will have 4 missionaries in the field from our little farm.  They are all cousins.

Alex's Eagle Project

Alex has been ready to do his Eagle Project since before Justin finished his. He had to wait until Justin and Stephen finished theirs since we live in a Branch and man power is pretty limited. Long story short, this past Friday and Saturday they started work on a cat house for a local animal rescue.


Friday they prepped the site by removing the tree and setting up the foundation. Saturday it was in the 40's and raining, but they persevered and set up the flooring and built the frame for two sides.



You'll notice Alex's hair was wet and various other clothing in the last two pictures. The mud was unreal.

I am proud to say that nobody really complained. They just made fun of the fact that they worked in the rain and mud all day. He still has a ways to go before the cat house is finished, but they made a good start.

Game Room

Remember the cereal problem? Well we fixed it by building shelves in the Game Room. Then we decided to add a dvd/cd shelf. Then we decided to paint it. AND we decided to do all of this a week before Thanksgiving. I'm not sure the carpets were even dry that day :) The kids explained what the "hawt mess" meant, but I can't remember. Justin did quite a bit of the painting, but we all pitched in.

We put a long table and a desk under the shelves for the kids computers. To the left of the window is where the tv goes with the Wii.

This is usually where we find Alex sitting at his computer.


And the dvd/cd shelf that holds all the games, movies and cds that we own. Believe it or not, I'm the happiest with this because we had things every where. We didn't have anything big enough to hold it all. Kind of amazing how things build up over the years.