5 August 2012 - Farm Fun & Jessica's Birthday

This week the youth in the ward had a surprise birthday party for one of our young men.  It was totally initiated and organized by the youth.  This was my favorite part -- cutting of the ice cream cake.

We've been doing very well with our Wednesday morning work at the farm this summer.  The recent harvests have been very large, so the girls have had a lot of fun helping count and bag the vegetable shares.

This year we have enjoyed some excellent watermelons.  These tasted sooooo good, and I think were made even better because we helped grow them.

We have a teenager in our house now.  Jessica turned 13 on August 10th.  I came home early from work to have a family birthday party.

Jessica got a bunch of gifts from folks far away (thank you!).  Here she's showing off some new piano books.

Friday evening she had a slumber party with sever friends.  It wasn't even that annoying.

Mommy made her a super yummy multi-layered  birthday cake.

Emily embroidered Jessica a temple pillow.  No one will (except perhaps mommy) will appreciate the amount of work that went into Emily's labor of love.