June 2010

At the beginning of June we planted out first garden! Our stake was kind enough to divvy a portion of the land just north of our ward building out as garden plots for the families in our stake (since most everyone lives in apartment complexes). Justin and I have absolutely zero gardening experience BUT I am glad to say we are actually growing vegetables! We planted: green beans, peas, tomatoes, potatoes, cucumbers, carrots, onions, green peppers, watermelon, pumpkin, cilantro and basil. Pictures will be coming soon!

In other news, June 11th my sister gave birth to a beautiful, healthy baby girl: Emma Claire. I was there for the process, my sis treated it like a walk in the park! If all births were that easy I'm sure the world would be much more populated! But she is very cute...don't you think??

My parents and niece came out shortly thereafter to help take care of Heather and the babe. It was fun having them out here! We played mini-golf, saw Toy Story 2, attended my softball games, had a fun time eating a lot of food lol... it's always fun to be with family!

Overlapping in time, my sister-in-law, Amanda, had her 4th child, a cute and healthy baby boy, Nathan, on June 28th. My mother-in-law and other sis-in-law, Kristen came out around this time too to help Amanda. So we got to spend some good time at the end of June with the Blackhams!

June was the most hectic month we've had in quite a while! whew!