a beautiful afternoon

To lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summers day,

listening to the murmur of water, 

or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

John Lubbock

This was taken at the orem city park under a big tree on a hot summer day after we left the scera summer movies. emmet was no doubt going down the tallest of twisty slides,

G says...

while rubbing my leg with her hand she says,

"Mommy I love the prickles on your leg."

jasper and izzy are always in my heart

It's been a year since I lost jasper . I am so sad to not have my furry friend next to me tonight. Looking at this picture of Bryan and I with our dogs I cannot believe that they are already gone.  I miss them both constantly,  but I am always so grateful for the time that I had with them.

Good night Jasper.

Good night my Izzy.

goodness gracious, dolly discovers the chickens are laying eggs!!!

 on a sunday afternoon dolly went out back to play with the chickens.

 it was then that she discovered our leghorn is laying eggs!!!

here she is doing a happy dance!!!

we are so excited that we have a chicken laying eggs.

and little did we know that Leghorns are the best egg layers!

Now we areable to enjoy fresh eggs daily.

Elsa joined in on the fun with Strawberry a few days later.

we are a blessed bunch, peeps.