Sunday, May 30, 2010

Jewett Family Findings

Just found out I am related to one of the knights of the first crusade~ Henri (Ohn-ree) de Juatt (serving from 1096-1099)jewett crest

~~ Mary read that our Jewetts originated from France, before settling in England. The first record we have of our Jewetts is in the late 1400's in England. King Henry VII granted to Henry Jewett the office of Forrestor of Windsor Forest and another office.   Cool.

The Family Motto is Toujours le même - “Always the same”

 

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Highlights of Mary’s Day

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Pulled through the dots…..

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Cooking for 15 minutes….

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She thought she looked  like the Albino from “The Princess Bride.

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Nice…

My Peeps in the Garden

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Hollywood picking Sugar Snap Peas

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FINALLY able to get into the garden to till. We’ve had rains close together and with the ground here staying wet for an extended period, we can’t even get into the garden to do anything.  Today we fertilized and tilled.  The early morning sun makes everything look very yellow, I know.

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Master Flamethrower

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A “volunteer” Pumpkin growing in the cornfield….works for me….

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There’s a melon in here..somewhere ….I just know it….

Findings in the Garden

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Time to pick the beans….

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Golden Zucchini coming in….

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This is a Jumbo Pink Banana Squash plant.  Isn’t it pretty?  It’s foliage is like big umbrellas,

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And here is a Jumbo Pink Banana Squash coming in.  It’s not pink yet.  The last time I grew these my dog , Blackberry, thought it was a stick and snapped it right off……LOL…We’ll see what happens this year.

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Tomatoes turning….

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Lemon cucumbers coming in…..My favorite

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Highlights of the Day

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Mom in her favorite Shirt
Support the Wildlife ~ Have a Party

Buddy wanted to go blond, so we settled for a little less drama and went for highlights.

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Looks Great!!
I insisted he shave, too. The unshaven pictures made him look like a thug…  He is really pleased.

Patrick wanted highlights also…
and being the conscientious mom I am,
I got pictures…

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Pulling the hair through the cap…
He didn’t like it when I accidentally poked his scalp occasionally, but I told him that was the price we have to pay for beauty …… 
he laughed.

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Letting it cook a while

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Nice….

Monday, May 24, 2010

Patrick fires up the Flamethrower

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Heading to the garden, flame in hand

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Carefully throwing flames….

Katie and the 1st Poona Keera Cucumber

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yum…. they are sweet and crispy.

Seminary Graduation

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Patrick lettered again this year in Seminary.  He is so proud of his pin,  which is a set of Gold Plates.  He likes how it glows in the pictures.

Friday, May 21, 2010

Firstlings from the Garden

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These little beauties are a Golden Zucchini (foreground) and a Poona Keera cucumber

Not for the Squeamish

Katie, our resident artist, created another masterpiece d’ rock.

A mouse

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 And the underbelly

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Sunday, May 16, 2010

When we play Harry Potter Clue

I realized today why it takes us so long to play a board game….This is our family, playing Harry Potter Clue. Today,  I was Ron, Katie was Ginny, Mary was Neville, Patrick was Harry, and Buddy was Hermione.  Luna Lovegood was taken prisoner by the Death Eaters. 

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Patrick balancing his pencil which reads, Barium Colbalt Einstein Koolaid.

Our task was to find out who took Luna ( was it Draco, Peter Pettigrew, Belitrix, etc),
where they did it (Potions room, or the Great Hall, or the Room of Requirement….etc,) and with what (Vanishing Cabinet, Impedimenta, Mandrake…etc,) 

How are we doing?

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Buddy’s first suspicion was the Butler (aka Peter Pettigrew), in the Bird House (Owlery)with the broken Shoe Phone (the Portkey).  Right about here, I think, Buddy asked about Autism and how I think he and Katie got it.    (he has started to ask questions about it)  Looking back, Buddy is inoculation induced, becoming more so evident as time went on, with the 5-year shots taking him over the edge completely.   Katie was born with it. The older Buddy gets, the more social, and “normal” he becomes.  I am considering this from the perspective of the more he ages beyond his shots,  the more “normal” he becomes.  I talked about a revelation I received about the two of them and their DIFFabilities.harry potter clue 003

Oh, here we are actually playing the game and….

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…Waiting for the cat to finish her turn….

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Patrick considered Lucius Malfoy in the Great Hall with the Mandrake. 

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How we ended up here, I will never know….I think it was my turn on the board.

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Oh, good heavens!

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Katie spent most of the time laughing her head off.

We spent most of the time laughing, telling jokes, talking about the future, Autism, missions, and played a little of the game.  We lost. Luna was toast.

Friday, May 14, 2010

Katie Rocks on, again

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Katie’s latest creation

Thursday, May 13, 2010

The garden as of today, May…something, something

 

The garden is just growing and growing.  Here is just a sampling of what is going on.

Here’s a sampler of the samplings

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Sugar Snap Peas, just before Patrick ate them

 

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The first Poona Keera cucumber

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Tomatoes of some kind. 

 

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Crawl dad holes <ick>

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There will be beans!  <and bean bugs>

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The first of the White Dragon’s Egg  cucumbers developing

 

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The first of the Golden Zucchini

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  16 rows of corn

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The back quarter

Saturday, May 8, 2010

When I think I’m failing miserably…

Sometimes I feel like I’m failing miserably at this widowhood parenting, but then I am shown how my kids are turning out.

All 4 of my kids were with me in the temple for Stake Family Temple day last August. Someone told that that was an amazing thing. I just took it for granted, but I guess it’s not that way for everyone.

Mary is busy being a live in care taker for an elderly couple in my Branch.  She’s done this before, as she helped me with her father when he was an invalid.

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And here is Katie, weeding in the garden without complaining.

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Here are Buddy and Patrick, cutting the grass, without  a fuss or complaining. 

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And here are my…. my boys…um…Patrick is ramming a shovel through Buddy’s head….. Um…

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Actually, I broke it this morning digging a hole.  For a tomato plant, okay?

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What do you do with a broken Pink Shovel?  This one was the first of the Pink garden tools.

Buddy shows us what you do…

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