Boring Books

August 9 was Book Lovers Day. It was also Boring and Dull Day. The latter holiday celebrates Boring, Oregon and its sister city, Dull, Scotland. My mom mentioned that day that they sometimes go past Boring, Oregon. My parents happened to be visiting Utah that day and they brought me... BOOKS! I LOVE books! They brought a box of children's books from my childhood- some I had completely forgot about but some brought back memories. Since then Jet has been loving these children's books and having us read to him.

Garden's Bounty

I am thrilled with how our garden has done so far this year.

Jet wanted to pose with our most recent garden picture.

 

I'm also thrilled with what we've done with what our garden has produced. 

I cut a bouquet of basil and made homemade pesto (a couple times). The recipe came from Shelf Cooking 101 by Jordan Page.

Some I froze to be used later. Some I used to make pesto alfredo. Oh, that's yummy.

We've used banana peppers in sandwiches and in salads.

 

We ate one cucumber and have more to use. We're still figuring out cucumbers.

 

We've used jalapenos for various things including mini jalapeno popper egg rolls, which I love so much, but didn't get a picture this time because they didn't last long and got all gobbled up. 

 

We used zucchini to make zucchini bread- LOTS of zucchini bread. 

This year since we actually grew zucchini early enough, I took some of that zucchini and on August 8, I baked zucchini bread. Then I put some bread on a friend's porch and sent her a message saying, "Happy Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Night. Look on your porch." I didn't actually want the zucchini bread to sit there all night and it was fine that she knew it was us. She likes my zucchini bread so I like to give her some when I bake enough.

 

We also harvested enough tomatoes (and basil) to make homemade spaghetti sauce, which we used in more slow cooker beef lasagna (from Six Sisters' Stuff). 

I am so happy with our garden this year. 

BBQ with Friends

We found something new at the library. We were able to check out a projector. So... we invited some friends over, set up the grill, connected the Switch to the projector and enjoyed food, friends, and video games.

That was a fun night. 
At the end of the night, Jr. got artsy with photos of fire again. 

 

It Looks Worse Than It Is

Do you ever see something and you think, "Eeee, that looks pretty bad"?

This picture looks bad. It looks like Jet is screaming, like loudly screaming. How could I handle the sound in order to get a picture? Looks can be deceiving.

He was making absolutely no sound. He got into this pose with his mouth open like that and let me take a picture of him. It was just Jet being a ham. He's adorable. 

Brothers

 

Mommy, Look

I'm wearing a hat.

Reward!

Remember when Jet (with help from family) read "1000 Books Before Kindergarten"?

Since he picked up his final prizes right before school started last year, this year he got to go to a celebration for completing the program at the Provo Library. 

It was very simple since it was for children Jet's age and younger and Jet had a good time.

There were games with prizes, a craft, snacks, and before he left he got to pick another new book.

Way to go, kid.