Showing posts with label Labor Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Labor Day. Show all posts

Sep 7, 2010

Post Labor Day

Day 311

I thought Labor Day was supposed to be a day off?

Yesterday morning I received a call from a guy in our neighborhood who asked if I would help another guy move some stuff. I respect both of them and said I would be happy to help and I am glad I did. The man moving back into our ward was someone that I looked up to and it was great to see him again and help him out. He didn't have that much stuff (which was great considering the Summer of '10 will go down as one of the worst moving seasons ever!) and we were done is just an hour or so.

But my work was not done yet. I came home and ate a quick breakfast before heading out into our garden to harvest some carrots. Good golly Miss Molly we got a ton load of carrots! It took an hour just to get all of them out, then we had to scrub/wash them and then we needed to peel them so we could can them.

Logan and I took our chairs outside in our backyard. We left the backdoor open so we could hear some tunes and we sat in the warm sun and peeled carrots for another hour or so. It was fun listening to him chat away but what really got me was when a song would come on that he would recognize. He would turn to me and say "I love this song!" There are a couple of Alice Cooper tunes that he really likes. But what really made me smile was when some new music needed to be chosen. We couldn't decide so Kristy went to the computer to choose something, I yelled to just put on some Queen (which Logan agreed on) and when the music hit Logan turned to me and said, "Mom must not have heard us. That is not Queen." He knows his stuff!

After we were done we treated ourselves to some ice cream and watched the first half of The Sandlot.

One carrot down, another billion to go!

Logan's hat is awesome. I had one just like it! That is a five gallon barrel of carrots! And that was not all of them.

Our carrots this year were huge!

We bottled half of the carrots. Looking forward to Thanksgiving already!

Sep 6, 2010

Happy Labor Day!

Day 310

Can you really wish someone a Happy Labor Day?

Aren't you really asking someone to smile and be happy while they work and sweat?

Well today is a little special. Not only is it Labor Day (I am sure I can make a ton of jokes about Aunt Julie being in labor) but it is also my fellow blogger and cousin Jaimee's birthday!

Sadly, Jaimee is a girl and growing up I wanted to play with the boy cousins and I had Jeremy and Josh to play with instead. (Jordan coming into the scene a bit later) But what was great (and still is great about Jamiee) is that being a girl didn't matter. She played just as hard as the rest of us. She was no different at all, she was one of us.

Unfortunately I don't have any embarrassing pictures of her to use.

I remember one occasion when it was just Jaimee and I. Aunt Julie came out to Utah with just Jaimee and my mom and Julie went down to Salt Lake to go shopping leaving Jaimee and I by ourselves. Now you would think that we had a boring time but that was not the case (no pun intended). I remember having a blast with her (at least I had fun, hmmmm, wonder what she thought). We walked down to Jed's (the local burger bar) and ate some lunch and then came home and we watched MTV and sang along with the artists. We watched some movies and played games. It was nice spending some time with just her and getting to know her. Now with her blog, it has been awesome to get to know her even more and getting to know her sweet family.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAIMEE!

Thanks for being a good example and a great cousin. One day we will have to run a 5K together.