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I have to write an apologia for my mistake.

I accidentally posted my 4th of July pictures before the Owlz game.

OOPS!!! Sorry!

Owlz Game

Friday July 3rd

we took Marie and the Basua kids to a minor league baseball game. The Orem Owlz.

It was a nice day and the kids had fun!

Ari got a new back pack for her birthday and loved wearing it around! she looked so cute!

The kids wanted to take pictures with Hootz and Holly Owl!

Every few games they have fireworks at the end of the game. That is what the kids were looking forward to the most!
And they were great fireworks!

Independence Day

"4th of July"

was a lot of fun!

We enjoyed the All-American traditions that come with celebrating Independence Day!

First we celebrated at the Basua house with a great, yummy BBQ.

Adam and Melissa always cook the best food!

We had ribs, hot dogs, and hamburgers. We had water balloons, games, and a pool!

And of course we had FIREWORKS, what is 4th of July with out fireworks!

Baby Tori enjoying the great summer day!

The kids helped Marci fill up the water balloons!

The boys played Bocce ball!

The kids played in the pool!

SO MUCH FUN!!

They know how to party!

Second, Jordan and I had tickets to "Stadium of Fire" that evening

BYU hosts it every year!

They get singers and musicians to perform and have a huge patriotic celebration!

It was a blast!

They have military planes and helicopters fly over!

This year they raised this flag up for an important reason. A lady made this flag about 10 years ago for a one time use. After that use they decided that they wanted to use it for all special events at BYU. It was also the flag hung in downtown Provo after 911. Now that it is old and has served its purpose so honorable, it was time to retire the flag. To retire a flag, you have to burn it in a patriotic ceremony.

We got to see the burning of the flag and sing the national anthem for it. Through the ceremony they had stories of armed force men and women that brought tears to many eyes. It was very touching and sentimental!

Before the burning of the flag and fireworks they had SHeDaisy and the Jonas brothers perform. I like both groups which made the night even more special!

Though I have never heard so many screaming teen girls before, when the Jonas Brothers came on. I heard one guy say, " It must have been the largest girl choir singing A Capella."

SHeDaisy

Jonas Brothers

This is a short clip of how close the fireworks were. It was incredible!!

The 18th Day!!

So it has been 18 days since we first planted.

Already we have seen some great

growth and are still waiting for others (if they ever come...?)

First here are our corn growing

I'm excited for the corn!

Next here are the sunflowers!

They are going to look so beautiful!

These are the zucchini squashes.

I think we have some munchers

to take care of!!

The leaves had a few nibble marks on them.

These are our peas!

These are what Jordan is look

forward to the most!

Finally there is carrots growing.

Not much,

but hopefully ongoing.

We are missing the cucumbers and tomatoes :(

But Jordan is optimistic!

Though we might have to try again later :(

Dresser

The same weekend that we planted our garden, Jordan, Marie, and I decided to re-purpose this old dresser.

This is how the dresser looked before we cleaned, sanded, and painted it.

It got dark as we were painting so we had to move the party inside!

Our masterpiece!!!

Our First Garden

Our Garden

This past weekend Jordan and I decided to plant our garden. Our backyard has an old garden plot that has been overgrown with grass and weeds.

Luckily for me Jordan planned ahead and watered the dirt, the night before, to make it easier to weed. Saturday we measured out the space we wanted for gardening and started weeding.

We actually had plans to go larger in our planning, but the trash can couldn't hold more than what we ended up with; an 8' x 7' plot.

We planted squash, sunflower, corn, cucumber, peas, tomatoes, and carrots.
I'm pretty sure that Jordan has some of his dad's green thumb, so I'm excited to see the "fruits and veggies" of our labor!!!

My Proud Dinner!

This week Kenny, Marci, Marie, and Kenny's younger brother Levi came over for our favorite show "24."
One other thing I like to watch is the Food Network; so I decided to make dinner and dessert of recipes that I saw looked really good. One was a roast chicken and vegetables, which I was so proud to accomplish since I am not much of a cook!


This was the chicken as I was putting it in the oven...

This is what it looked like coming right out of the oven! Yum, Yum!



The second recipe was for dessert. Limeade Pie!!! It was a little sour, but also juicy and tangy. Extra Yummy!

The Lime green color is just splattered on food colored water.

Just in case you were curious, here is the recipe....

Frozen Limeade Pie

You'll need to have a 9" gram cracker pie crust

Filling ingredients:

1 (12 ounce) container whipped topping, thawed

1 (14 ounce) sweetened condensed milk, chilled

1 (6 ounce) can frozen limeade concentrate *(or just 1/2 of the normal 12 ounce can)

1 tablespoon lime zest *(optional)

Candied lime peels, for garnish *(this is also optional, you don't need anything, but I just used some leftover frozen blueberries I had)

Directions:

In a medium bowl, add whipped topping and gently (this is crucial!!) fold in condensed milk. Add limeade and zest and gently fold to combine. Do not let the mixture become soupy! Pour mixture into the pie crust and freeze overnight *(I made it in the morning and served it that evening and it turned out great) . Then Garnish to your liking when ready to serve.