Friday, July 31, 2009

Lazy Days of Summer ?!!!

Oh, I wish!! Summer is already over for Ashley. She went back to school on Monday--the same day we sent Kourtney off to Oakcrest. Something is terribly wrong when one daughter goes to girls' camp and another goes back to school on the SAME day!!
Here are a few things I did photograph in this last month: We went to the Oquirrh Mountain temple openhouse with Kevin's family last week. This is the best shot we could get. It was scorching hot and we were ready to leave. And we were staring into the sun ;)
The whole Knudsen clan at the open house. Notice my niece and nephew, Abbie and Brandon front and center to the left of Ashley. They're brother and sister. Abbie's wearing her long white baptism dress (she wanted to wear it to the temple) and Brandon is wearing a black suit. As we were walking toward our tour, an old man stopped the two of them and jokingly said, "Hey, are you two getting married today?" Brandon didn't even crack a smile. He just said, "Yes. Yes we are" and kept walking. Twas funny!

Veggies from my garden!!! We have tomatoes now too!!! This is the first year we've done more than a salsa garden. It's like magic--put the little seeds in the ground and a few months later, there are veggies out there among the forest of weeds (Once the heat hit, I gave up dilligently weeding and the weeds happily ran rampant))



Cute Grace and Macie at Wheeler Farms.




Ashley's June dance recital.




Girls' getaway to St. George.




There's a super quick recap.
Notice there's nothing in there about Father's Day. Sigh. Not one word about Kevin.
Or how much I appreciate his patience.
Or how I love his humor.
Or his superb! cooking.
Or how I love that he takes the girls shopping.
Or how he never complains about running errands.
Or how he laughs so hard at funny movies that I find him just as humorous as the movie.
Or how he loves me more than anyone I've ever known.
Or how he works so hard at a job he doesn't love to take care of the family he does love.
Maybe next year.








2 comments:

TRICIA said...

looks like you packed in the activities before ashley went back to school! hey, at least kevin made it into one picture! I hear ya on them never being around.

Michaela Stephens said...

I like how that picture of your family at the temple has Christ looking over the top as if he is a part of your group! That's so cool!