July stuff

These are out of order, but July included these things.  

Jethro and Hazel went to Youth Conference to New York and Palmyra.  They were in the same group.

At the pageant.

Hanging out at the park with the Bauers and the Millers.

Brenda's pool.  A lot.  :)

4th of July!

Navy as a man.  Gotta love filters. haha

Brett helping with a lady's chimney.  It was caved in with stone halfway down, so he got a weight on the end of a rope and smashed it about a bit, then got a long pincher thingee and pulled pieces out and eventually got enough out that the last bits fell down and their chimney was usable again!  What a hero.  Especially since he doesn't like heights.

Hazel's second watercolor lesson masterpiece.  So awesome!!

These pictures are when I did my hair nice and went to the restaurant called Walnut Grill and got hired on the spot to be a dishwasher.  Because I wanted to pay for Jethro to go to OFY and Hazel was home to babysit and I didn't want to sit at home and stew about what we were going to do about our house (buy the house in Cache Valley before we sold the one in Pittsburgh, with a possibility of having double mortgage payments for who knows how long, or wait until we sold our house with the possibility of losing our house in Cache Valley...), and also Brenda went to Hawaii so that was kind of the clincher.  haha.  Anyway, it was terrible.  Soooo hard on your body!  My feet ached so much every shift and people's language is seriously horrible, but I did earn enough for Jethro to go to OFY and pay for his ticket out, and I did get a free meal every shift, so, worth it?

Jethro turned 17!!

Orrin found this tick behind his ear one night.

Playing at the park one Monday night when we had ward FHE in the park.

Sister Courtney Kwasney was a missionary in our ward a couple years ago, and she came back to visit and brought her husband Kyle, who happens to be from Barnwell and knows Derek and Brooke.  I made sure they came and played some sweet volleyball with us, which is why we're red adn sweaty in this picture.

Walnut salmon with spiced orange marmalade.  Suuuuper tasty!  Jethro was mad that I got a free meal from the restaurant where I worked as a dishwasher, and he worked as a dishwasher somewhere else that did not give free meals.

Played in the creek one day.

Talmage found a dead fish and half a snake, so good times.

Saying goodbye to Jethro before he flew out to Utah.  He was supposed to go with Megan and Jared to Flaming Gorge but then plans changed, but he still hung out with them and boated and dirt biked and stuff.  Then he went to OFY.  He ended up loving it, which I am so glad about!

It did not take long for the little kids to move into his room!

End of June

Brett, Jethro, and I loaded up the bunch of scrap we had in our back yard and took it to the recycling place.  It was kind of fun unloading, and just chucking stuff as high as we could up the scrap mountain.  We made about $400.

I played baseball one night with some people in the ward and someone took this picture of me sliding into second.  It was sooo fun!  I had some great hits and I just LOVE hitting!

Hazel turned 15!!  She kept asking if she could have a party and I kept putting her off, and then I told her to come babysit for Brenda at volleyball and we told her to go get something from the YW room, and SURPRISE! All her friends were there to celebrate her birthday.  So that was fun.  :)

They gave her some fun things!

Swimming in Brenda's pool.  :)

I let Talmage out of the van to grab the mail, and then he jogged in front of us so that we couldn't pass him, the rascal.

Brett, Jethro, and I went out for sushi to celebrate Jethro's graduation and his 36 on the ACT. Here's a funny story about Jethro that I don't think I already shared.  We went to an award's ceremony with Jethro and Hazel at their school (I don't know why exactly, that was a bad choice), but anyway, the keynote speaker at the beginning said, "Whoever is the smartest student here, stand up." And everyone looked around, and no one stood up, and he said, "No really.  If you're the smartest student, I want you to stand up."  And of course, no one did, but someone in the crowd yelled, "JethRO!!!" and that made it worthwhile going to the boring awards ceremony.  :)  Also, he just got his AP test scores yesterday, and he got a 5 on his European History, Literature, and Calculus tests, and a 4 on his Physics II test.

This time we loaded up our old dead truck into our trailer.  I was in the truck, and Brett pushed me in with the tractor, and it was so scary!  I was like, "We're not going to fit!!" and Brett was like, "We'll fit."  Also, it was very difficult trying to steer because the power steering was out.  But we made it.  And it fit.  And then I had to crawl out.  Very strange.

This was from a Sunday we went for a walk at McConnell's Mill.  Hazel climbed a tree.

So I had to prove I could do it too.

I ordered a new swimming suit for Navy and it was SOO cute!

My niece, Olivia, saw the below picture and said, "Too bad she has no personality."  haha

Hazel and Ethne went to girl's camp, and I drove a load to camp.  Here's a funny camp story they told me.  They came home saying "How come EVERYONE knows Jethro?!"  Idk.  Anyway, they were playing a MASH-type game, where you put down a few names as your marriage options and then it ends up selecting one.  So someone was doing it for Hazel, and she had selected a couple names but then said, "I can't think of anyone else," and then a random girl from a different ward walked past and said, "Put Jethro."  And Hazel said, "Ummmm... that's my brother."  hahahaha.

While I was driving, Brenda watched a couple of my kids, and she got Navy in the water! Before that, she had dipped her toes in and that was about it.

Navy and Kainoa jumped in to Brenda over and over and over.

And Orrin showed me his new trick of a back-dive.  (Wasn't really a backflip, but still so cool!!)

And here's a different day at the pool. Navy got even more comfortable in the water and will swim all over by herself!

Smoothie mustache!

Another day, another trip to Brenda's pool.  :)  This time Brenda was gone, and this time it rained on us, because Pittsburgh. And Brett came!

 

Then it started really pouring and we went inside and waited for it to subside a little so we could tidy up and go home.

Sunday selfie.

Ethne got a new dress and was looking very grown-up.

And Wyatt made awesome crazy faces, as per his usual.

Then Ethne grew a beard.  Hahaaha!

Lastly, we sang in church.