I have been...

on the phone with Bank of America trying to set up our monthly payment for 43 minutes and counting. Yesterday I was riding a cruiser along the beach. Time travel please.

On tap tonight

will be the fruits of our labors. We are planning on making some tomato sauce and soup from what we have pulled off of our EIGHTEEN tomato plants. Sadly it is time for the pesto to come down too. With the much cooler temp's it really isn't going to grow anymore. Kind of sad....until I eat delicious pesto.

24?!

Well I turned 24 yesterday. I still feel like I'm 19, is that weird? I had a great birthday though, thank you everyone for making me feel special :)

Jammin

Last night I made jam for the first time with my sistah's. Hopefully it tastes good! Trevor got a TON of peaches from the tree at his dad's and we got some blackberries from our friend's blackberry bush. All homegrown produces will hopefully lead to yummy jam. We even made a blackberry peach batch and I'm really excited to try that one.

summer goal re-cap

With less than 3 weeks left of "official" summer - The Autumn equinox falls on my bday (the 22nd) this year - I am checking on my progress. I am a perpetual slacker so I better get my rear in gear. Here are/were my goals:

- Read at least 3 books

Shit! Why is it so hard for me to make time for something I enjoy so much? I read Case Histories, so that is 1. I finished the 2nd half of Me Talk Pretty One Day so that is 1 1/2. I am currently reading The Devil in the White City (CREEEEEPY!!) so I know what I am doing tonight! Then I better find another book.

- Knit every week (I have a lot of gifts to make for the future and my skillz need some refreshing and refining)

Um yeah, not even close on this one. But I am signing up for a socks class that takes place October 4th. I think I will change this to a Fall goal (what a cheater!).

- Help Trevor more with our garden

Success! I have also been helping eat stuff from it a lot :)

- Make the back yard pretty and fix the fence

Nope. Grass is dead. Fence is still white trash.

- $Pay off debt$

Hmmm I would say this is a partial success? We paid off our home depot account and I have been making steady payments for the TV we bought but unexpected car problems, vet bills and other costs of homeownership have hindered some of our progress. Such is life!

- Go camping until I have had my fill of it

We did Calf Creek, Topaz Mountain and Strawberry. A fair amount of camping. I will be happy with this because it's 300% more than we did last Summer.

- Ride bikes...a lot

You betcha! Still goin strong. We rode bikes to the Tuesday evening Farmer's Market last night thank you very much.

Going out with a bang!

This last weekend we were supposed to camp at Bear Lake with some friends but I got really sick last Tuesday and Trevor had another obligation on Saturday night. Long story short, we bagged the camping trip (waverunners and all) and decided we would maybe try to go some time in September before the weather turned real chilly. Thursday night rolled around and our friends that we were going to camp with called and said that we had to go ahead not only to stay at their parent's cabin at the lake but we could also take out the BOAT!! This was an unprecedented event...cabin and the boat to ourselves!?!? I'm so glad we got to be part of it! We left on Thursday night after Trev's last regular season hockey game and finally made it up there about 1:30. The drive was only about 2-2.5 hours from our house but we didn't leave till kinda late. We had an absolute BLAST! Friday started out with pancakes followed by a quick 10 min drive to Idaho for a bee double eee double arrr you ennn. Nothing like the outta state fat tire! Mmm. After farting around and grocery shopping and stuff our friend's SWEET little boy Sylas needed a nap and we ended up getting out on the boat around 5. I haven't done a lot of boating in my life but everyone kept talking about how fab the water was and everyone had pretty much cleared off the lake so we really lucked out. Over the next two days we got our fair share tubing, wakeboarding and I even ended up riding the waverunner too.

This is Duke and little Duke OR Dexter and big Dexter. Seriously. Same dog, different size.

Hey! This picture makes it look like I actually stood up on the wakeboard!

Yeah, this happened like 10 times :) Next time! I'm gonna do it next time!

Trevor became Sylas's good buddy (He can play "blue blue's" on his phone) and they hung out while mama drove the boat and dada wakeboarded.

Favorite quotes: "dada down!" "dada boat?" "vrooom"

My FAVORITE picture of trip

Finally got the Strawerry pics up!

Well I am still figuring out how to do this photo adding stuff...don't know why I'm struggling with the concept? HA! Anyway these pictures are about a month old but we had a blast at Strawberry...fishing...beer drinking...mountain biking ...ahhhh summer.

You had to have a white car to be at our camp :)

Lil tired pups