Sunday before church!

William is crawling all over, pulling himself up to furniture and walking around the furniture.



He loves his mom and dad, he likes to play with his toys. He has the biggest blue eyes and he is going to be walking before too long.

We went swimming Saturday in Linden. The pool area was really nice and not too expensive. I didn't get any pictures of anyone swimming. They have a lazy river and it was fun. Marcella is enjoying some cherries.
Claire was really tired. She loved the water.

This is the picture that disappeared that I mentioned in the bottom of the other post.

We were going swimming on Saturday afternoon so Nathan was showing Marcella what he was going to swim with.
We went to Nathan's house with bagels for breakfast. We all went in our pj's. Marcella wanted ice cream for breakfast but she had cereal instead.
Claire wondering how she was going to conquer the steps!









On Friday night we went and ate dinner in the canyon. Nathan cooked the chicken and it was really good. It started to rain and so they covered William with the plastic in the stroller but he wanted out. For some reason, just recently, Marcella became afraid of the wind - so when the wind started we packed up and left (plus it was getting dark)
Claire is so close to crawling. She would get up on her hands and knees and move a little bit and then roll. Wherever Chester was at she would roll to him. For some reason the picture of her by Chester disappeared when I published the post.

Marcella - picking cherries and eating them. She really likes them.
Picking peas is one of her favorite things to do too. She has Lilly and Ki hooked on them too. We didn't get a lot of peas but enough for them to enjoy. I didn't get my camera in time to get the picture I wanted. Marcella had the stool she is sitting on over in the garden by the peas and was sitting on it picking the "fat peas" she said. She looked pretty cute hidden by the pea plants eating the peas.

We have had a good crop of strawberries this year - glad I didn't pull them out like I had planned on doing and starting with new ones somewhere else.
The raspberries are really growing this year and filling in the boxes. Dann wanted me to transplant some into the other two boxes that we have for raspberries but I am not touching them. I think if I do it I will kill them. I will leave that for Dann to do. I hope we get enough raspberries to make some jelly this year. We are out and it's our favorite.
Dann was home for a day and did a lot of fixing for me. He fixed the pole green beans so they have something to grow up. They are doing good.
The tomatoes are growing really well. We also have mint growing wild in the tomatoe box. We didn't realize it spreads and it has been taking over the tomato box so we have had to pull some of it out. I transplanted a lot in pot containers. The green, red and yellow peppers don't seem to be growing too well. I pulled some garlic the other day and have it hanging up in the storage shed to dry out. It's suppose to dry out in a dark place from what I read.

A family came over from our ward and picked cherries. They took some home and left me with some. There are still cherries in the tree - they are hard to get to. Cathy, my next door neighbor and I will be making freezer jam and bottled jelly. I think I will freeze some to just eat - I have heard that is good.

I have herbs that I need to cut and dry. Have not ever done it before but thought I would try it and see how it turns out.

Taking care of the yard and the garden is a lot of work for one person. Jason has weeded some and the neighbors have helped some. I miss Dann being here to pick everything - he doesn't seem to mind the picking and I really do not enjoy it. (he is missed for more than that).