Brad, Jillian, Ben and I worked in the garden today, and Nathan and Kylie went to the Stake Pioneer Pre-Trek activity this afternoon. About all they have in common for this post is the fact that they both happened today, and I took pictures of both.
Ben went with me to pick out our seeds this morning and we ended up with beans, lettuce, carrots, spinach, beets, and three types of squash. We also had some seed potatoes from our garden last year. Ben is hoping to have an abundant harvest so he can make some "really good vegetable soup." We came home to pouring rain, but plant the garden was on our calendar for today, so we didn't let the rain stop us! While Ben and I were seed shopping, Brad and Jillian went to get a truck load of "Emu-Poo", our favorite compost. So we also had the job of top-dressing our front flower beds and around the fruit trees to complete. Ben and Jillian were great helpers.
While we were digging and planting, we kept coming across these centipede-like bugs. Brad asked the kids, "Would you eat one for five dollars?" Both said, "NO WAY!" Then he asked, "What would you give me if I ate one?" Ben said, "Five doll hairs," really quickly so it sounded like "five dollars" (one of our family jokes). So Brad said, "OK!"
Just when he was about to pop it in his mouth, Ben shouted, "No, Dad! Don't do it! Do you really want Doll Hairs?!" Where was Ryan Reynolds when we needed him? He would have done it!
As promised, a picture of the pioneers:
Don't they look so cute? They're being pretty good sports about the whole thing. Kylie has accepted the wearing of the dress, and Nate said he'd go to the activity if they didn't have to stay for the hoe-down. They got to participate in fun pioneer passtimes like butter churning, taffy pulling, candle making, log sawing, stick pulling, and stilt walking. (I didn't know that stilt walking was a pioneer thing, but what do I know?) The actual trek is in June, which I'm hoping will be a great experience for both of them.
My Nathan had such an amazing time and even stayed for the dance. He was over the moon excited that he got to dance with Sydney. Aw....swoon. Those were the days.
ReplyDeleteSo many things to say about this post!
ReplyDelete1) What kind of son STOPS his dad from eating a bug??
2) Nathan has a GREAT smile!
3) At least you don't have to worry about Kylie being hit by a car while she's treking in the dark. :-) Make sure you hold on to that until it's Adana's turn from Trek. She LOVES the orange outfit!
4) I'm pretty sure pioneer girls didn't cross the plains wearing cross-trainers. :-)
Ha! I love it! Ryan would've eaten the worm...and probably liked it.
ReplyDeleteNathan and Kylie look great!
ok, I am sooo tempted to repost that last picture on my blog!!! they are so cute!! hope they had fun!!
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