Good Ol' Summer Time!

There is weekly grilling going on with the family I have up here in Utah. We get together with our friends and family at least once a week sometimes more. They get thrown together at the last minute, but we have a lot of fun. Everyone does different things. Jim is usally the one at the grill, and he does a fabulous job cooking anything and everything we throw on to the grill for him to take care of.
Knoah sits and waits while Uncle Jim finishes cooking dinner for him and everyone else. Oh what am I saying, he is only waiting for himself. He is a hungry boy!
Also we take care of the yard with planting flowers and weeding. This week Carla and Michael did a fabulous job while Aunt Pam stood around and observed to make sure her flowers were being planted right.



We also like to turn on the hose for the little kids to play in and often times the adults end up in a water fight as well. I am usually the most wet because the kids like to side with their parents and attack me. Lilly just likes to show off for the camera any chance she gets. Her and her constantly dirty face just love to smile and cause trouble any chance she gets.


I just love the summer time and all the different get togethers it brings. It is always a blast no matter what.

New Life!

WOW! I got to experience the coolest thing the other night. At least it was the coolest thing to me. I got to see kittens come into this world. It took a long time, but in the end it was cool to have this experience. There were some complications during the birth though. The first kitten was having a hard time coming out, but that makes sense since this was the mothers first time having kittens, so she wasn't even fully aware of what was going on. And its not like she is a person who you can communicate with, but she did seem to understand we were trying to help her and were going to be there to comfort her.

This was the first kitten that had a little bit of trouble. Carla actually had to help pull it out every time the cat would have a contraction. But it turned out fine.

This second black kitten I had to help pull out because it was having troubles like the first. But strangly enough the second and fourth kittens had not trouble coming out at all. It was a late night, but it was such a cool thing to be there for and to help out.

This is all of them the next morning. They are so darling! But there is no way I would let one of them live in my house with me. :) I just don't like cats all that much.