June! I love it so! It's when our yard looks the absolute best - so green and thick and beautiful (even though it's solidly weeds). The mountains are green and yellow (I know it's mostly dyer's woad, but a lot of it is arrow leaf balsam root, and I love those!) and we start to see some spectacular sunsets again (I'm sure they're there in winter, too, but I just don't wander through my backyard in the evenings at that time of year, so I don't get as many photos of that). It's also when our allergies kick in big time and our eyes and noses are itchy and runny and stuffy and sometimes it's downright miserable! Bitter with the sweet, though, right? We also have all the birthday fun at the beginning of the month. Those photos will be in their own places, though. The hiking, too. And anything else that I deem is worth its own separate post. Here is everything else! (And be sure to stop back each week or so for updates as the month moves on.)
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| 6.1.19 (see what I mean by lush and green?!) |
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| 6.1.19 (and sunsets?!) |
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| 6.2.19 (I just missed the colorful part, I think. But these moody blues are lovely, too.) |
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| 6.4.19 (I went out to get the mail after we got home from our Providence time, and looking southeast, this is what I saw) |
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| 6.5.19 (we stopped by Lorin Farr park after our tyke hike for free lunch and arts in the parks) |
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| 6.5.19 (I love that they do this! breaks up the monotony of summer lunchtime for sure!) |
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| 6.5.19 (wednesdays are Feel It: African drumming with Deja Mitchell and the kids got to make dancing streamers and tamborines) |
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bonus video!
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| 6.5.19 (my friend Erin and I have been worried that the poppies by the park wouldn't be back because there was construction along that side of the road for a few weeks earlier this year. I snapped this to show her that they are coming!) |
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| 6.6.19 (a little flashback to high school with this CD my friend Jessie made me of our faves - I popped it in while doing some baking this morning and the kids were in awe that I knew all the words to every song!) |
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| 6.6.19 (it was the best for boosting my baking mood this morn) |
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| 6.6.19 (and what was I baking? why a giant pile of flatbread, of course! preppin' for my turn to serve dinner in South Dakota) |
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| 6.6.19 (another day, another lunch in the park) |
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| 6.6.19 (his favorite thing is the chocolate milk) |
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| 6.6.19 (listening to the storyteller, Rachel Hedman, was so fun for all of us. She told us three Native American stories; one about the sun, one about fire and one about water, and all about animals) |
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| 6.6.19 (he was soaking it up!) |
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| 6.6.19 (then the kids got to write and draw their own comic strips at one station and create a story map at another station) |
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| 6.6.19 (we've been listening to and LOVING this sort of memoir-ish series by Tomie dePaola about his childhood and the best part is that he narrates them! A must listen!) |
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| 6.6.19 (he was zonked! I had to wake him up a few minutes before 4:00 so we could go play at a friends' house who had invited us and were waiting patiently for us to show up) |
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| 6.6.19 (Braylin decorated Cal's hair with all the nature they could find in her backyard) |
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| 6.6.19 (dad was gone, so we decided to dine at Mad Moose as a little treat) |
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| 6.7.19 (friday night pizza and a movie - can you guess what we watched?) |
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| 6.7.19 (here's another hint) |
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| 6.7.19 (if you guessed Space Jam, then you would be correct - classic!) |
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| 6.8.19 (last night while I was washing some dishes around 9 pm, a big gust of wind knocked a huge limb from this pine tree while I watched out the window. when we checked it in the morning, we found it was actually the whole top of the tree!) |
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| 6.8.19 (boom! this is post limb removal by Gregg) |
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| 6.8.19 (I've been enjoying these sassy summer sunsets once again) |
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| 6.8.19 (so pink!) |
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| 6.17.19 (first day of soccer camp - she was ready!) |
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| 6.18.19 (library faves it's time to return. Sam especially loved that IDinosaur one since Gregg downloaded the app that made it look like the dinos were crawling on the table and roaring at you.) |
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| 6.18.19 (monkey bar master isn't afraid of these taller ones at the Huntsville park anymore!) |
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| 6.18.19 (and this guy got all the way to the top of the jungle gym (and back down again!) by himself!) |
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| 6.18.19 (haul for a six year old. probably will only take her a week!) |
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| 6.18.19 (it isn't often when the sunset views to the east are better than looking west, but this was one of those nights) |
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| 6.18.19 (western views weren't bad, necessarily, but just different) |
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| 6.19.19 (driveway biking time) |
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| 6.20.19 (on the last day of soccer camp they gave the kids their soccer camp picture (taken on the second day of soccer camp)) |
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| 6.20.19 (love!) |
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| 6.20.19 (they're a bit late this year, but they're as lovely as ever) |
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| 6.20.19 (Amen!) |
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| 6.21.19 (lunch in the park at a new (to us) park) |
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| 6.21.19 (these are interesting. their serving of fruit with their free lunch. kids weren't a fan. |
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| 6.22.19 (played some disc golf at the environmental center) |
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| 6.22.19 (the teepee is up again this year - always makes for a fun stop) |
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| 6.23.19 (we had to stop and take advantage of the beauitful poppies and the spruced up kids for a mini photo shoot on the walk to church on Sunday) |
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| 6.23.19 (we had a belated father's day dinner with my family in Logan and afterward went to the quad on campus to listen to the first alumni band concert of the season. I love these things!) |
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| 6.23.19 (these cousins make me chuckle) |
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| 6.24.19 (this was a particularly good stack this week) |
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| 6.24.19 (also excellent) |
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| 6.24.19 (the clouds were spectacular on our walk by the reservoir with Charlie and Erin (and Logan!) before we went to the library) |
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| 6.25.19 (I loved the shadows on the mountains from the clouds) |
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| 6.25.19 (the reservoir is still full to the max) |
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| 6.24.19 (we had rocky road ice cream cones for an FHE treat, can you tell?) |
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| 6.24.19 (oh this face!) |
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| 6.25.19 (we were running errands in Ogden but had a little extra time for a stop at the dino park - they're doing some updates to the brachiosaurus!) |
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| 6.25.19 (world's most dangerous creatures) |
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| 6.25.19 (peek-a-boo!) |
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| 6.25.19 (we happened to be there right in time for a little "science on the go" activity where the kids tried to be "archaeologists" and put together a wooden skeleton using comparative anatomy. it was tricky!) |
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| 6.25.19 (cal was on the right track with this spine assembly) |
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| 6.25.19 (he was helping me cut olives for dinner - all by himself!) |
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| 6.25.19 (oops! a little late-night trailer painting mishap) |
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| 6.26.19 (this week's faves before returning) |
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| 6.26.19 (and a few more that I forgot to get in the first pic) |
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