June 2025: Family photos, Vernon's 55th birthday, our flowers and vegetable garden, and Father's Day

Cute photos of Jacob's family that may not have made it into my earlier blogs. Looks like last fall?

Spring 2025 photos?

Summer 2025 photos of the kids

A few vacation photos of Jacob's family this summer

Jessica's pretty face and grown out hair this year

Love these smiles at my mom's birthday outing with Jack Babbitt

I think he treated her at Red Lobster and Jacquie got them laughing!

Thursday, June 5th: A get-together with the ABQ cousins

Waiting for their lunch at Wendy's

Creating a video movie together

Swimming fun!

Enjoying a cold treat together

Our neighbor's contractor accidentally backed into our east entrance wall and crushed it pretty badly! It took him weeks to get the wall rebuilt and looking decent again.

The completed new wall on the east side of our driveway

Some beautiful photos of Jared's family. Spring 2024?

Milo sporting his blonde hair

Jared's new puppy, Bear, at home in Salt Lake City. He's is so adorable (and so is Jared)! Bear has a lot more energy than Chloe too.

A couple of Sam's summer family photos

May 2025: Sam's weekend stay with Jared's family in SLC Utah

A nice spring haircut for Jared!

Sunday, June 1st: Celebrating Vernon's 55th birthday

I made a chocolate layer cake with cream cheese frosting. The top was decorated with chopped walnuts and fresh sliced strawberries (right before serving). Poor Vernon was cycling and not in a good mood. But his caregivers, Rosy and Nina, made it fun!

Adorable cake that Nina bought from Whole Foods and the cute candles that Jacquie bought. Jacquie also bought Vernon a cake! She kept it for her boys after learning that we already had a cake for him.

Time to cut Vernon's cake. It was huge!

We left my mom a chunk of the cake and took the rest home to share with our kids. It was rich and yummy. I think Mike ate most of it!

Our zucchini, cucumber, and cherry tomato plants are growing

Our green bell pepper, tomato, and basil plants are coming along too

A closeup of the cherry tomato plant


Little zucchinis growing. This one plant ended up producing the largest and most plentiful crop of zucchinis!

The side of our clubhouse plants from last year

The west side of our backyard plants look great

We added a few new plants this spring and moved others around

I love the color of this purple Autumn Sage

A hardy and colorful Lantana

Red flowering Yucca

A cherry Autumn Sage

This spinach and basil came from our garden!

Making pizza dough in our bread maker

I rolled out the dough and baked it halfway

Added a good marinara sauce

Mozzarella cheese

BBQ beef and bacon

Lots of fresh spinach

Red roasted peppers and Italian olives

Fresh mushrooms, sea salt, and Ialian seasonings

And a sprinkle of cheeses before baking

Delicious!

Tuesday, June 3rd: Lunch outing to Lime Vietnamese with Jess and the kids

Movie date with the Dunlap girls

Making pizzas for the Dunlap family dinner

That's MUCH better Hannah!

Front yard plants: Beautiful blooming Rock Rose

Boo!

Thursday, June 5th: Dunlap's and Hobbs' together to eat lunch at Wendy's and play in the swim spa afterwards

Making homemade fries

Fish and chips!

Mike installing our new putting green/mini golf on the bocci ball court

Friday, June 13th: Shauna came over with the kids to make wontons, and I put the kids to work slicing strawberries too

Then Jess and her kids came over for lunch

Jess tries out our mini golf

Jacob was a natural at the game and had great form

We had our sister missionaries over for dinner that night

Sunday, June 15th: Jess made us a wonderful Father's Day meal

This is what I bought Mike for Father's Day