Food, glorious FOOD!!

Its harvest time!! LaVerl's garden and green house are producing lots of FOOD! His broccoli plants have been the best he's ever grown! We've been enjoying beets and beet greens, lettuce, cucumbers, yellow squash, green beens, tomatoes, snow peas, cabbage, cilantro, dill, and rhubarb!

The proud gardener! Now those are some nice heads of broccoli!

Somehow it just tastes so much better than store bought!

The heads are getting smaller now, but very plentiful!

 LaVerl got a picture of the ribs I cooked for the kids when they came for the 4th of July. This was after I grilled them, but before they cooked all day!  That's lots of ribs!!  YUMMY!

From this to ......this!!!

The only fruit we got this year was pie cherries and it was only half the tree. The other side froze I guess! We picked about 8 buckets full and I made 5 pies for the freezer and then about 24 pints of jelly!!  

 Just waiting for the bacon and lettuce!!

Its just too much food for the two of us, so we've been giving lots           away!  Wish you kids were closer!!

Chad & Luann go GREEN!

Chad & Luann decided it was time to do something about their yard! They had a sprinkler system already installed when she bought the house, but no grass, just a lot of weeds. We came over to help pull weeds and rototill! It was a big job, lots of work!

 The big field grass growing against the side walk was tough to dig out!

 LaVerl went over it two times with his rototiller, once one direction, then the other. 

 Chad hauled lots of wheel barrows full of rocks and weeds away!

 Luann and I dug around trying to find all the sprinkler heads

 They worked hard, leveling, removing rocks and continually pulling the weeds that kept growing back! They are going to extend the sidewalk to make it bigger, and put in another one down the middle that leads to the front door!

 Dad did a lot of weed eating around the rest of their yard.

 Then the fun part, laying the sod!!

 Lots of people came to help!  A couple of their neighbors, other friends from the Ward and the missionaries!

 It went down FAST with all the help, they were done in less than an hour!!

 WOW!! So cool, instant lawn!!!

 They had quite a bit of sod left over, and wanted to give it to their neighbor who has helped them out so much and has offered to pour the sidewalk for only the cost of the cement!

 The happy couple, at last they have green grass!!

The missionaries were great help, I thought it was funny, the littlest one pushing the heavy roller and the other one with the hose!!

Afterward, they fed us hot dogs and we had a wonderful visit with Luann's parents, Jim and Kathie Maner! Such great people!

Now Chad will have to learn to mow a lawn and take care of it!

More pictures of Mom's party!! Yeah!

Thank goodness more pictures were taken so now I can add them! Thank you Holly for taking all of them and Lisa for sharing them on Facebook! We set up a photo booth room with fun little props to make it more fun! These are pictures of Sonja & Randy's boys and their families!

 Shane & Jennifer Lee family! Shane is the oldest grandson and they came all the way from Utah to be there for the big event!

 Justin & Carli Lee family- this is a 4 generation picture!

 Boyd & Jeniffer Lee family

 Curt & Anjie Lee family- 4 generations!

 My cousin Vicky & her husband Paul Trampush and her Mom, my Aunt Hilda, Mom's sister. They came all the way from Oregon and Washington!

 My cousin Kathy and her Mom & Dad, my Aunt Nita and Uncle Darold, with my Aunt Hilda! So very sweet and wonderful they all came so far to share this special day with Mom!

 Another cute picture of my folks!

 This picture was so cute of my twin sis, Sherry,

I had to put it in again!!

One final picture of my wonderful parents, whom I love dearly and could never thank enough for all they have done for me and ALL of us who know them!

Tami just put all these pictures on her blog, so I am added them too! She went around and took pictures of everyone at the tables, so they show about everyone who was there!!  Yeah for Tami!!

 I didn't have a picture of LaVerl's sister J'net and her husband Bryan Isaacson that were so good to come!

 Reed sat at this table with all my relatives and they fell in LOVE with him! 

 Well there's nothing much good to say about this picture except I loved visiting with my cousin and sister!

 Sonja's family had their own family reunion the day before and are sporting their reunion t-shirts! They spent the day at the lake!

 The Enlows gave Mom a beautiful family genealogy chart!

 This is the only picture I've seen with Holly and Barry who also shares the same birthday as my Mom! Too bad he's making a cheesy face! Sorry Barry! Its funny of Mark too!

 Anjie made these wonderful cupcakes too!!

Now a few pictures of my grandkids and I will be done!!

This one cracked me up!! Blake with the little hat prop, using it as a pirate patch!! and London wondering what he is doing??

The kids all loved Reed, he never tired of playing with him!!  Best Uncle ever!!