June was spent furiously finishing our sprinkler system, plannting bushes and trees, and planting grass before we left on our trip. It was so fun when we came back because volia! Little grass was growing! Now it is thick and green and looks like a real lawn. These pictures were actually taken a couple weeks ago, and it looks better now because most the weeds are dead. That is one thing we are really good at growing--weeds! Anyway, it has been fun to enjoy our yard and continue to work in the garden as the summer progresses. We have already bottled 36 pints and 6 quarts of green beans, 11 pints of homemade salsa, and 15 quarts of pickles. We have been busy bees and it will be good food storage. One thing I still have yet to learn is to bottle fruit and make jam. If it doesn't grow in my garden, I don't bottle it!
Some other fun things we have done this summer include buying a new car (with air-conditioning that works--yay!), going to a few family reunions, and Cameron going on a high-adventure outing with the young men in the ward. They rafted and hiked in Alpine up by Palisades and went to Jackson for the Bar-J Wranglers. The bishopric thought the rafting was so fun that the girls should get to do it too, so this Saturday all the youth are going back up to Palisades (3 hours away) to float the river. Should be fun!
