We spent the nicest day together for our anniversary.  

We got up early and went out to the Ocher Mountain Temple.  The only time I had been there was when we took the young women there to do baptisms a few years ago.  It's a smaller temple so when you go in, they give you a card with the time of the session that you can go to on it.  We were the last two to get into the 10:30 session and the card Kelley got said wheelchair on it.  Ha ha we were wondering about that but found out what it meant when we got into the session.  There were not enough chairs so they set a chair in the isle for Kelley to sit in.  It was fine, just funny cause later, I ended up in the folding chair in the isle.  I'm not sure why they build smaller temples, when there are so many people in the valley that use them!  There were a lot of people waiting to get in! Plus, now the Jordan River temple is closed that makes it even more crowded.

I had a pretty cool experience a few weeks ago when Kelley and I went to the Draper temple.  Kim, Kelley's brother was working at the temple that day but had a different assignment than the session we were going through.  He came by and talked to us for a minute in the chapel then went on his way.  A few minutes later, another officiator came up to us and asked us if we would be the witness couple.  Ha!  Kelley figured Kim had put him up to it.  Anyway, it was a good session, I don't mind being the witness couple because it helps me stay alert and when I say alert, I mean awake.  And when I went through the veil, I had the nicest surprise.  There on the other side was Dan!  It was pretty cool.  We had a big hug, then he had to get back to work.  After the session, he came and found us while we were waiting to get our cards and talked for a while.

Anyway, back at the Ocher mountain temple, we had a good session, and on the way out, ran into Brother Larsen, his wife and sister as they were coming in.  I sure have missed seeing him and getting to do sealings with his group every month. I hope they will start that up again when the temple re-opens.

 We came home and  threw some things in the car and headed up to Strawberry for the evening.  Can't really think of anything I'd rather do than spend the day fishing with my honey.  Kelley might have different feelings about that after our day at the lake because I caught two fish and he caught 0! ha ha! Fishing was way slow though.  A guy on the dock said he had been there all week and had only caught 2.

 When the sun started going down, we headed over to a bank in east portal where we could pull the boat up for the night.  Kelley got out the anchors and got us all secured so we didn't float away.  We made up our bed up on the top of the boat and sat and watched the sun go down.

 And the moon come up.  It was quite romantical...until... the moon rose higher in the sky and it was light as day out there!  Ha!  So we thought ok, we can huddle down into our sleeping bags and block out the light, but then the geese started honking!  I don't mean a honk here and there.  It was like a convention of geese and they were all really excited about something.  They carried on and on and like it was their job and Kelley and I just looked at each other and started laughing.  We decided the geese/moon had won and went down inside the cabin to see if we could fit on the bed in there.  It wasn't quite as long as the bed upstairs and there are walls on both ends so there's no way to stretch out.  We tried curling up and spooning, and I was quite comfortable, but Kelley was falling off the edge and it was killing his knees to be bent up like that. So he threw his sleeping bag down on the floor and spent the rest of the night there. 

 Neither of us slept worth a hoot and it felt like as soon as I started to doze off, the sun started shining in the window. It was sure pretty up there.  We had a good time together and a night I think we'll remember!  

Couldn't be more thankful for this good man and the 38 wonderful years we have spent together.

Had to take a break from my reminiscing to talk about a few things happening now! 

First Camille's new little one...it's definitely a boy!  Ha! She knew it all along!  A mother's intuition goes a long way!

Kelley is eating the first tomato out of the garden. We, (or I) had quite a scare when I went out to pick some tomatoes I could see were ripe.  The first tomato I picked was black all over the bottom.  I thought, okay. it might have that blossom rot on a few.  So I picked another red one.  It was the same.  And another and another!  Everyone I saw had the black bottom.  I was freaking out a little bit and came and told Kelley the tomatoes were a disaster!  He wasn't too concerned and said "Oh some are like that at the first of the season"  I was like bbbbbbbut every one is like that!  Candice and I googled it and they said it was from irregular watering or lack of calcium.  I thought that didn't make sense cause Kelley has a dripper system that waters every other day.  So Kelley talked to Mark and he said it's better to water less often and water deep.  So Kelley unhooked the drippers from the tomatoes and we've been watering for a longer time and only about every week or so.  Now the tomatoes are coming on great!  I picked enough tomatoes and peppers to do a batch of the sweet salsa and got that done last night.  It turned out really good!  There's nothing like a tomato sandwich with a tomato fresh from the garden. 

The irrigation cart has never been prettier!  I planted pansies in it in the spring, but they  didn't do good at all.  My marigolds and zinnias  are really struggling this year too.  Anyway, I pulled them all out and planted petunias.  They have been real pretty all summer. ( and the cart is just my favorite thing ever!  So many memories tied to that cart!)

Isn't this an amazing picture? Paul took it when they were on a horse ride this week. 

This was such a sad sad thing!  Yesterday KC went out to mow the lawn and comes back in and says "the peach tree is breaking!"  

I went out there to see and there were two branches almost completely broken off.  

I had thinned the peaches twice and Kelley did it once, but there was still so many on there!  I think it must be the bees making them real happy or something, but I have never seen so many peaches! And they were almost ripe.

Oh man I felt so bad!  We started pulling more peaches off to lighten up the other branches and KC got some boards to prop them up with to take the weight off.  We were probably pretty comical to watch...KC lifted up the branch (it was reeeeeealy heavy) and I was supposed to shove the board under it in the right spot to hold it up.  It took several tries to get it where it needed to be.  

I was so sad to lose all these peaches (we filled up two garbage cans with all we pulled off the tree)  they were so close to being ripe...probably another two weeks.  booo

And can I say what a peach (hehe) this guy right here is.  After working all day, he just goes ahead and mows the lawn.  Never has to be asked.  

While we were trying to get the branches braced up, I couldn't see what I was doing and was moving the board all over the place trying to get it into the right spot and smacked him right in the face.  (This was while he was holding up the 500 pound branch)  He didn't say anything except "lets set it down and try again".  After we finally got it in the right place, he said, "sorry if I sounded impatient."  Really?  He is a pretty special guy, and I feel blessed every single day to get to be his mom.

Hostas are blooming again.  I am so glad I took them and the lily's from mum and daddy's place.  Yesterday Candice drove by the old place on her way up to Bear Lake.  I warned her it wasn't going to be pretty, going on what we had seen the last time we went there on the way to the cemetery on Memorial day.  The next thing I heard from her was a text saying " I did something very illegal"  So I called her and she said"promise you won't be mad"  At this point I had to hear what she had done so I said yes!

She proceeded to tell me how they had tried to pull in the driveway, but about half way up, all the cement was torn out.  She said the whole yard was overgrown and full of weeds.  The rock garden was unrecognizable and there was a tree growing out of the empty fish pond.  It makes me want to cry to think of these things!  She said they walked around the yard and just got madder and madder.  They walked by the dream house and saw the cute sign daddy had made "Dream House" still hanging above the door.  So she took it!  It was pretty obvious they had no regard for anything else in the yard so she didn't think they would even miss it.  I know it's wrong, but I didn't even care.  In fact, I was glad she did it. Those things and memories that mean so much to us, mean nothing to him.  He totally bamboozled us girls, telling us how he was going to make the yard look like it did when mum and daddy were alive and how he loved doing landscaping and yard work.  It's just a shame that one of our family couldn't have bought the place...so many regrets there.

Anyway, I'm glad I got a start of those hostas the lily's, some ferns, the irrigation cart  and a few other things that remind me so much of mum and daddy and bring back all those feelings of home.  

A few more pictures from the 24th of July.

Toby and Michelle are just the funnest neighbors.  We were sure blessed when they moved in next door.  Toby and Kelley are always working on some project or helping lift something heavy, or just standing around shooting the breeze.

Michelle is such a cute little mama, I love that they bring Talon over to play cause they know I'm missing my grand kids like crazy.

Anyway, Toby got this cool blow up thing from his Father in law and the kids had a ball on it  

It was such a hot day we all put on our swimsuits and cooled off in the sprinkler!

Toby had this fun game called corn hole or something.  I want Kelley to make us one of those!

We were all lovin on their new baby (Emily enjoyed the patriotic blue cupcakes they brought over too)

We had a nice barbecue, then  sparklers and fireworks

A few more pictures from the 24th of July.

Toby and Michelle are just the funnest neighbors.  We were sure blessed when they moved in next door.  Toby and Kelley are always working on some project or helping lift something heavy, or just standing around shooting the breeze.

Michelle is such a cute little mama, I love that they bring Talon over to play cause they know I'm missing my grand kids like crazy.

Anyway, Toby got this cool blow up thing from his Father in law and the kids had a ball on it  

It was such a hot day we all put on our swimsuits and cooled off in the sprinkler!

Toby had this fun game called corn hole or something.  I want Kelley to make us one of those!

We were all lovin on their new baby (Emily enjoyed the patriotic blue cupcakes they brought over too)

We had a nice barbecue, then  sparklers and fireworks