Jumbled Family Update

I know, I know...once again I've fallen behind.  Maybe it is time I took a slightly different approach to this: it should be an adventure to see if anyone even checks or reads this anymore since anyone who does will be pleasantly surprised by something I do sometimes?  Maybe? :D

Things have been crazy, as usual.  This summer has been filled mostly with working hard on clearing out as much excess as we can convince ourselves to, as well as re-structuring the business and how I approach getting things done.  The kids have done pretty well for themselves, though they are no doubt convinced that this has been the most boring time of their lives...I mean, we've even neglected to take them to the pool so far, and it is nearly the end of July already! Just kidding...

The boring side of this is that we once again got a double plot at the community garden, which has been even more successfully filled than in previous years...and it looks like we'll get more of a harvest too!  ("And they all cheered...yay...")  The kids have had lots of fun attempting to dig to Tibet in the sand box (not to mention testing how much sand Damon can bring home in his diaper), and Tia is thrilled that she was finally able to get some garden gloves so now she gets to help weed.  Several of the garden plots that surround us have been left empty this year (or allowed to go completely wild), so the kids have fun from time to time in helping clear out the plants that attempt to go to seed.  We are also working on getting all the weeds out of the community strawberry patch...though that made require a slightly buffer army than our little ones, we are going to take a game stab at it!  (Pictures to come, I'm sure...once we get all the weeds cleared! Hahahaha)

John and I have both had new callings given in the last week.  John is now serving as a ward missionary, and I was asked to be part of the Relief Society Enrichment Board.  Neither of us are entirely sure what all is entailed in these callings, but we are looking forward to finding out!  Oh, and two other exciting pieces of news: one: Damon hasn't had any qualms about going to nursery without Mom being there!  and two: Kieran is finally starting to work seriously on getting potty trained!  In truth, I'm most excited about Kieran (considering I've been trying to convince him to take this step for well more than a year now), but both boys are taking such big steps and I'm so excited for them...and us!

Anyway, that is the nutshell as far as my scattered brain can function right now.  I'm sure that the next time I post I'll either be much more coherent...I hope?  Have a lovely holiday weekend!