Corn, Corn and More Corn!

As a kid, my family always had a big corn field and late every summer we would take a Saturday (and sometimes several mornings before school as well) and "do corn"--pick, shuck, de-worm, silk, cook, cut off the cob, put in bags and freeze. Those were always long days, but every Sunday we loved enjoying the fruits of our labors with dinner.

Earlier this week one of our ward members offered corn to our ward. I originally only took 10 ears, but after learning that there was still tons left that needed to be taken I decided to "do corn" for our little family (especially since we bought a little deep freeze last week, so now we have the room to freeze it--yea!). Wednesday night after mutual I had a really late night getting it done. The corn had already spent a day out on my back porch after I picked it up Tuesday night, so I needed to get it done before it went bad.

I didn't get a picture of the shucking part, but here it is on a much smaller scale than what my family used to do:

I didn't fill up the quart bags, since our family doesn't need that much for a meal, but all in all I got 29 bags...not too bad!

Happy 4th of July!

We originally planned on spending the 4th of July up in Shumway with David's family, but since David had a school assignment due this weekend (lame), we ended up staying here and he had to work on it most of today. Our complex's pool is finally finished, so we all tested it out on Friday night. Josh was very clingy at first, but he warmed up pretty quickly and even started "swimming" on his own after a bit. A storm was blowing in when we started, so we didn't stay too long, but we had fun! Josh and I even went again this morning.

The kids showing off their stylin' suits. Josh looks so funny in his little floaty suit.



Ahhh...isn't my family cute?

Wheeeeee!

Presenting...Little Miss 4th of July!

Trying to get Josh to sit still and pose for pictures is pretty much impossible these days. Just imagine a picture with Josh holding Mary and both of them wearing the cute star sunglasses...that's what I was aiming for, but these are the best I got of Josh with his glasses. Oh well.

Now that's stylin!

Bass Pro Shops was having a lot of free activities this weekend, so David took a little break from working on his project and we went and hung out there for a bit. We did their laser shooting range and loooked at the fish, which Josh loves to do.

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!!