Our New Calling

We have been given a calling! We're so excited we can't hardly contain ourselves! We're nursery leaders. I didn't even see it coming. I was totally expecting primary, but not nursery. It makes sense we are one of the youngest families in the ward. They might as well stick us in nursery. One of the other leaders in pregnant and also due in October. That ought to be interesting.

Scwubbly and Cotton

I have decided to raise chickens for eggs and meat. (The thought was, we're feeding enough dang birds it's time for them to feed us!) Anyway, we happened to find a guy in Payson selling the exact kind of chick I wanted. Plymouth Rock. (that's a dual purpose breed of chicken, good layers and broilers) We went and bought 10, he threw in 2 extra, so we've got 12 chickens growing nice and fat. Cougar fell in love with the smallest one and named her Scwubbly. (I'm guessing at the spelling) It's the first name he's ever come up with without any help. By the way, this is the face he makes now whenever he says cheese so be prepared to see it a lot more.

Mark helped a bird guy friend of his build something and the friend gave him some geese and ducks. Just what we need, more birds! One of the geese is just a fuzzy baby and we named it Cotton.

Look at my garden grow!

I realized it's been a while since you heard about my garden. It's doing very well! Here's Cougar with my corn! My peas are also doing
great Mark got supports for them in last night is going to be doing some fine tuning tonight. I have two very sad broccoli plants trying to make it. My watermelon though there are only two are also doing their best. Carrots never did decide to show their faces and the pumpkin plants are doing great! We are fencing in my garden in order to put a couple of chickens in to help with weeds and bugs.

Itty Bitty Ball

Cougar dribbling

Getting ready to make a goal.

See him covering the points of the ball? He destined for Bronco!

Cougar has been involved in Pleasant Grove Rec's Itty Bitty Ball. Basically, they take a bunch of 3 and 4 year olds and run drills for different sports each day. He loves it! So far they've done basketball, soccer, and football. The last session is going to be baseball. Cougar's pretty good at listening to instructions, but sometimes they don't move fast enough for him and he gets a little bored. He's always telling me he needs to practice. He's very dedicated.

Strawberry Days Rodeo

We went to the Strawberry Days Rodeo last night and had a wonderful time. It was a little hard for Cougar to sit still, but luckily we got there and were able to find seats where we could get down and go for walks without having to climb over anybody. Mark and Cougar went outside the rodeo grounds on one of these little walks and in order to get back in they were given a green cowboy stamp on their hands. Cougar thinks it's a picture of him. Goofy kid. Right before mutton bustin' started I told Cougar about how some kids were going to ride some sheep. "Me! " he said. "I wanna ride a sheep" After the first kid came out and promptly fell off he was content to watch. He did say "I can do that." Multiple times during bareback riding. We did discover that Cougar really doesn't like strawberries, but that was just fine with me because I got to eat his helping of strawberries 'n' cream. YUM! For the half time show (or pre bull riding entertainment) they had a couple guys come out and do freestyle motocross. Cougar has fallen in love with yet another sport. Having not had a nap all day and it being around 9:00 he was a tired little cowboy, but when those motorcycles started jumping he perked up and was clapping and screaming. He went absolutely nuts when they did backflips. Shortly after that he ate a cheeseburger and fell asleep.

Wilson Arch

On the way home from Arizona we stopped outside of Moab and hiked up to Wilson Arch, which is that arch right of the highway. We got up to the top and you could see for a long way. Cougar was nervous and would let go of one of us because it was so high. He said as I was climbing up "Mommy, Jesus lives up here." He must have thought he was in heaven. Sweet boy.

The Navajo Nation Zoo

After going to flea markets and up on the Mesa (where people live on a cliff and somehow have children, too) on Friday. We went to another flea market and then the Window Rock zoo on Saturday. Cougar loves it. It's the only free zoo I've ever heard of and just has animals native to the area, but you get a lot closer than you do at the Hogle Zoo. They have bobcats, cougar, wolves, deer, bear and lots of other animals. They also have a few hogans and a wagon to see as well.