Happy Birthday Day Allie Grace

Time sure does fly, and as I look back over the 4 years that Allie girl has been in our life I have to smile for the joy that she has brought us, and breath a sign of relief that we have made it this far with a healthy, happy little girl.

Allie right after coming into this word. This is the only picture we got of her alone before she was taken into the nursery for her oxygen.

Sick little Allie, with her feeding tube and lights for the jaundice.

At Primary Children's at 5 weeks. For and unexplained fever.

Pictures for Daddy's birthday.

Always bright eyed and full of wonder. This is Allie at 6 months.

Allie's first birthday

Her second birthday

Her third birthday

And finally a couple of pictures of what Allie does best!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALEXANDRA GRACE!

Splash Park with The Richards

We have some really good friends for our Draper ward that we love dearly, and a couple of weeks ago they came our to our house for dinner and fun. We started out at the splash park and had a blast!

Ethan was more interested in eating the watermelon than actually playing in the water.

Cute Aubray and Austen. We love hanging out with them.


Ry-ry. Isn't he so darling. He's my boyfriend!

Azlyn was brave and actually got in the splashing water.

The girls getting it started. Allie and Azy are best friends!

We had a blast and were glad that the Richards could come and play with us!

Garden

So the Hoskins' house sure has been busy this summer, but I am finally getting around to posting pictures of the garden... these are about 2 weeks old so things are bigger, but it gives you the idea at least.

The yummy peas. We have picked all of these since this picture. I think we did a great job for our first attempt at peas.

Starting from the left we have carrots, green onions, red onion, and white onions. Next to that are the cucumbers, but you can't really see them in the picture.

Tomatoes, 26 plants in all. They have all grown up and over their cages now.

The zucchini.

First row of corn, we have 10 total. We planted 2 rows from starts and at the same time planted 3 rows of seed. When the seed grew to about 3 inches tall we planted the rest of them.

Along with all of these we have, pumpkin, spaghetti squash, crock neck squash, cantaloupe, honeydew, watermelon, crenshaw melon, Anaheim peppers, jalapeno, Serrano peppers, banana pepper and finally a red potato and a russet.

It has been a lot of work, but it sure has been fun!