Chloe had so much fun helping mommy and daddy harvest vegetables from the garden this evening. Poor Phoebe missed out on account of being too grumpy and being put to bed early. Chloe was so excited about each thing we took out of the dirt, and the smaller carrots she called little baby carrots and she held them gently cradled in her hands, before depositing them in the basket. Jared got down and dirty with a shovel and dug us up some potatoes. We had an onion and some zucchini too. Everything we need for making some potato soup for dinner tomorrow. This is our first year having a garden and it feels quite satisfactory to grow something all summer then finally reap the very yummy benefits of it.

July is a scorching hot month, so we have just the cure for that.  Chloe is enrolled in a swim class at the Veterans memorial outdoor pool.  She gets to splash around with the other kids and have a great time cooling off.  Her class only last for two weeks, but we go every morning and it really wakes her up.  Phoebe gets to go swimming too, we are in the Mommy and Me class, so she gets to bop around with all the other babies in swimmy diapers.  

Poor Chloe had a rough few days this week with her little left hand swelling up like a balloon.  We took her to the doctor and they figured she was having an allergic reaction to having been bitten/or stung by something.  They gave her some medication and when we gave it to her it started to work almost right away and the swelling started to come down.  Her hand is doing much better now and she can use it again normally, thank goodness.  

I signed Chloe up for a ballet class with Academy of Ballet in Orem. She is in a group of about 8 other girls ages 3 and 4. She has gone twice now and loves her class so much. She was not shy at all, the first day she just jumped right in and tried her best to keep up with the other kids. She has a long way to go on the technical end to become a real ballerina, but in her mind she is the most beautiful dancer ever, and that's exactly what we want her to think.

We had so much fun last night celebrating mine and Phoebe's birthdays. Thanks to everyone that came and had cake with us. It is so surreal to be 28, I'm getting to close to 30, its scary.
But it is very nice to have Phoebe be 1 now, she is just a delightful girl. I will have to admit this birthday was much more fun then last years, where I spent my day in a hospital bed trying to recover childbirth. Time goes by so fast it seems, so I'm sure next years birthday will be here before we know it.

So when we talk about holiday weight gain your mind instantly thinks, Christmas and Thanksgiving, ooooh yummy turkey. But what about Easter. Seriously, just look at the photo documentation of this chocolate mother load. I'm not going to even tally up the chocolate that did not make it home with us to get in the picture. The sad part is Jared and I totally said we were going to cut back this Easter on all the sweets, so much for that plan.

On Saturday night all my friends got together at my house for our annual "priesthood session" reunion.  It was so great to see everyone, Steph, Erin, Nicole, Janarae, and myself of course.  We decided to stay in and order delivery instead of trying to drag our group of babies and children to our usual spot Brick Oven.  Thank goodness Brick Oven does take out, so we had our favorite things delivered and it was so nice.  It was great to catch up with all my friends and hear their latest news.  The evening turned out to be the ultimate playdate, with seven children in total.  It was loud, crazy, toys everywhere, but so much fun.  When Jared finally showed up he told me that the house smelled like several flavors of baby poop.  Well, there was quite a bit of that going on, so we cracked a few windows and all was well.  At the end of the night our babies were cranky and ready for bed, and we all vowed to get together more often.