I'm back

Holy Cow! I can't believe it's been so long since my last post. I was very busy at school for a while, but I went off-track last week and have been enjoying cleaning my house and planting flowers and living outside during warm weather.

This cracked me up...Luke was sleeping in his swing (not unusual), but was rather restless. When I peeked around the corner to check on him, he was holding the side to keep from swinging - but still asleep. Yesterday, I came in from outside to check on Luke (again, sleeping in the swing) to find him swinging very high (like a setting 5)...he was making the swing go this high and was sitting cross-legged enjoying a bottle. I lol-ed, promptly stopped the swing, and got Luke down to play.

So, I know Luke loves to play in the water, but I didn't realize just how much until last week. On a nice evening, the neighbor was washing his car (his wife was at my driveway chatting). Luke made his way over to "help"...I don't know how helpful he was, but he sure had a blast!!

That same evening, none of us (three neighbors) wanted to cook dinner, so we had pizza...together...in the driveway...it was great!!
We decided this might be a common occurence as the summer goes on.

Rich and I celebrated our 4th anniversary over the weekend. We spent a couple of days downtown, enjoying the sites and food. It was so nice of my mom and dad to take Luke for the night...being able to just do whatever we wanted was a great break. We ate fabulous food at Fleming's Steakhouse (ohmigosh....melt-in-your-mouth steak), people-watched at the fountain at the Gateway, and saw the movie "21". The next day we enjoyed a great breakfast with my sister-in-law from Idaho (and her friend). Rich and I decided we are boring...we drove through the Avenues looking at houses and yard sales - I loved it! We made our way south to DSW for shoes, then on to Draper for lunch. If you haven't been to "Food for Thought", you must go!! Cute, quaint, simple, yummy. We picked up Luke after lunch and went home for naps. What a great couple of days!!

Sunday, we had dinner with Rich's mom and watched the Jazz game. After, we made Rich's favorite cookies: Toll House Chocolate Chip (semi-sweet). Luke enjoyed a cookie, then we went on a walk around the neighborhood. It was so fun to hand a plate of cookies to a neighbor and say "Happy Sunday!" They just smile and say thanks as if they've never gotten cookies before.

Well, at last we come to yesterday. I spent an hour at Lowe's choosing flowers and stuff for our garden (?). As you can see, the flowers turned out okay.

The garden is a little harder to discern (pots on the sidewalk) because we are not veggie-eaters and it's too cold to grow fruit. I planted tomatoes, green beans, and strawberries!! I guess I'm excited to have something that could be considered the beginning of a garden (we'll expand a little each year).