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.