Flower Power Update

We were gone for a couple weeks and we left my neighbors flowers with another friend of ours.
The purple ones are struggling and I think it got too hot for them last week. This week has been cooler and we have been nursing them back to full strength. They are doing better each day I think!Here is what they looked like when we left. The purple ones were doing really well!
The sweet pea flowers bloomed a little bit which was exciting! They are the pink and white ones in the middle.
These ones on the end were just starting to bloom! I was sad to leave and miss the action! I could see the pink in the middle, and about four or five other buds that were close behind this one!
When we got back, the purple ones looked like they had a rough time
There was one giant sweet pea this morning, but when I went to take pictures this afternoon, it was missing. I hope we don't have flower snatching neighbors!!! There are three more pea pod looking buds that are about ready to bloom and they better not disappear!
These ones on the end are beautiful!! They are so tall and bright and were such a pleasant surprise to see!! I think that since they were planted so close together they feel like they need to reach out to show how strong and beautiful they are! I love them! I am sure Brett and Emily are so proud of these big guys!
I will see what I can do to doctor the purple guys back to full strength. . . unless their season of blooming is done now and their show is over now. I hope not, but we will just have to wait and see!

It's wedding time again!!!

We have been cleaning windows quite a bit lately and we took a little break from it to go home for my brother, Nick's, wedding!! We stole Nick away to get a good shot of him with his best looking siblings!!!
Christine was gorgeous of course!! Here they are cutting their cake. . . well I guess this was Christine's cake, because Nick was lucky enough to get a German Chocolate cake specially made by Christine! Sheesh! I got some good lookin' parents!!!
I'm pretty sure that we have some work to do to look as good as Mom and Dad!!
Everything went really well . . . except for the weather giving us a little bit of a heart attack the morning of as it was raining and getting everything wet! Luckily the clouds went away and it was a bright sunny afternoon! My mom is just a little bit relieved that there won't be any more weddings for at least 2 years with Matt going on a mission and Abby not even out of high school yet! My mom is Super Woman. . . 5 weddings in the last 3 years! We love you Mom!! And thanks for working so hard Dad so you can pay for all of them!!

Such a fun Summer!!

We went with a bunch of friends from church to our very first DEMOLITION DERBY!
We loved it and thought it was so fun! It was so goofy to me to think that all these "men" got these junk cars and put whatever in them so that they would function, and then they would see how many times they could drive and slide through a mud pit and crash into other cars like these until their car would start smoking and spewing some sort of fluids!! It was so crazy, but we really enjoyed it!!We got some yummy snow cones that changed our mouth's colors!
What a wild date night!!! On the drive home we all had the love of a good crash in us. As people were pulling out of the parking lot, we almost wanted to cheer them on to go crash into another car!! Don't worry, we took good care of our good 'ol grandma car and she made it home very safe!
We went with some friends to an International Dance Festival that comes to Rexburg every year.
This is the German dance group. Sorry I was going to post a video but it doesn't work. There were 10 different groups from Mexico, China, Japan, Russia, South Korea, Lithuania, Romania, USA, and one other one I think I am forgetting. It was fun to watch the different teams and the variety that they brought. They all dressed in some traditional clothes. . . and those dresses from Germany, I am sure Julia is hiding one somewhere and a little bonnet too!! I am sure you love to dance around in it all the time!