My Wonderful Garden

I absolutely LOVE my garden. It's not the best looking and the fence seriously needs to be fixed but I think it's the best garden in the world...because it's my very own! The top picture is the sunflower plant I planted back in the spring. It was GIGANTIC! Everyone who passed my garden would tell me how amazing that flower looked. I have to give a shout out to my mom because she was the one that sent me a packet of Sunflower Seeds in the mail so I dedicate this gorgeous looking flower to her!
The sunflower died last week and was so heavy (this thing was SERIOUSLY the biggest sunflower I have EVER seen in my entire life...period) that it snapped the plant. I cut it off and took it home to research how to save the seeds. I left it on my back porch and got on the computer. A little while later I saw the baby over at the window of the door pointing to the sunflower and saying "Oooooohhh, Ooooooooooh" I went over to see what he was looking at and there were squirrels and birds all over it eating all the sunflower seeds! I ended up getting rid of my plan to save the seeds and let the animals have their fill while John and I watched and pointed from the window!!

Another wonderful thing about my garden this year has been my corn and watermelon. This picture was taken before the watermelon plants hit a growth spirt and grew all over the place. I have 6 big watermelon growing right now and there's almost nowhere to walk inside my plot because of how big the watermelon plants got. This shows the corn pretty good though. We grew A LOT of corn. For some reason it didn't register in my head when I planted it that every seed became one ginormous corn stock so I planted a bunch of seeds in one little area. I ended up having to move them around and take some other plants out in order keep them. I got a lot of corn this year all at the same time! We had to go around and give some corn to our neighbors which was so much fun.
The baby absolutely LOVES going to the garden with me. He especially likes to eat the dirt and pull out everything he can get his hands on. I found him once making disgusted faces sucking on an onion he pulled out of the ground!! He's mommy's little gardener! :)


(John looks like he has a bottom tooth in this picture but in all reality he is STILL not teething in the slightest!)
And finally this is a picture of the corn I grew. It tasted really good :)

Happy Birthday Eli!

The little boy I babysit all the time had his very first birthday a couple of weeks ago. They had a pool party down at the beach with cake and ice cream. It was a lot of fun. John and Eli are BFF's!! I love watching those boys play together. They are so much fun! . John was a little nervous about the little kiddie pool at first but after splashing around from the outside for a little bit he finally got in and had a blast.

4th of July Balloons

Every year in Provo at 5:30 am they blow up a ton of these really awesome hot air balloons and at 6:00 am they lift off and the games begin! They have to catch wind currents to "chase" the main balloon over, down, then back to the field where a big circle with an X in the middle is. They throw a bean bag out of their baskets and try to get as close as possible to the X. They have other games as well. It's been a tradition in my family since I was little to go and see the balloons. It was Daniel and John's first year and I think they really enjoyed themselves.

Happy Birthday Misty!

We kidnapped Misty for her 22nd Birthday and took her to Olive Garden for Lunch.


Mmmmm... all you can eat soup, salad, and breadsticks!


Later on we were in a parade (which I don't have pictures of right now) then cake and ice cream. It was a lot of fun!

Cali Ann

While I was at camp my sister Brittanny had her little baby girl Cali Ann. She is ADORABLE! She's the sweetest little thing in world and I LOVE her to death.

Mendocino Folklore Camp

Daniel has gone to the "Mendocino Folklore Camp" just about every year for the past 12 years (he only missed when he was on his mission and when he graduated high school-the ceremony landed on the same weekend and he couldn't swing both). Last year I was huge pregnant and had absolutely NO intentions of sitting in a car for 15 hours just to rough it in the woods for a week. Needless to say I ended up not going. So this year was a historic event for the Tuutau family in that it was John and I's first year at camp and Daniel's first year not sharing a cabin with his best friend Sean.

I really enjoyed myself at the camp. I love the outdoors and grew up camping with my family so I had no problems with the bugs, dirt, and lack of showers! The drive was no fun, but the rest was a blast.
The picture above is from the Vojvodina Night. Each night they have a different themed costume/dance party.
This is from the Roaring 20's Night.


And this is from the Transilvanian Night.

Can't wait till next year. I'm really glad I went. :)

Here's a clip of Daniel's Graduation. Along with him singing the national anthem.