baby master

brennan told us,

"i'm the baby master." 

they did think he was pretty entertaining...

ears!!!

LADIES & GENTLEFOLK,

i'm proud to announce that yours truly has REAL ears of of corn growing in her garden!

can you believe it?!

i can hardly contain my excitement.

HAPPY HAPPY DAY!

kids playing without fighting for 3 hours straight.

chatting about life and a little gossip.

ice cold lemonades.

summer salad stackers.

gorging themselves on garden tomatoes.

"water trampoline slip n' slide swing olympics."

babies that smell like pink baby lotion.
cloudy heat.

just another friday at the gibson home.

summer of fire

this year can certainly be classified as the summer of fires.

and i am NOT talking about the olympic torch.

this one started sunday with a lightening strike.

near camp williams/herriman again.

but it's blazing more today than it has all week.

the fire retardant planes were flying past our house,

the smoke clouds made 100* feel like 75*,

and ashes fell on us while the kids rode bikes in the front yard.

the air smells thick with smoke,

i'm thirstier than a camel in the desert,

and my eyes are burning.

brennan kept asking me if the smoke was going up to jesus.

i told him heaven was a lot further away than up there.

but closer too.

he looked confused.

i told him i know, me too.

and that we'd worry about all of that later.

but that it's there,

jesus is there,

and the smoke is not.

and then he went back to riding his bike.

{it looks close, but it's not.}

 check out those fire retardant planes.

we could see their bellies that open up to drop the red retardant from our driveway.

it made me want to smile and cry all at the same time.

.............

here is another fire that started the day before the 4th of july by sean's parent's house in alpine.

the smoke billowed up over the mountains to where we could see it from our house in sandy.

brooke said it was raining ashes at her house in park city.

it burned the mountainside and a barn thanks to the firefighters working overtime.

amazing to look at when your home is not the one in the fire's way.

{view from our house below}

{view from sean's parent's house in highland next}

alpine is right up through the middle of the canyon.

as the sun started to set we could see the flames illuminate the mountains.

60 foot flames look small from where we were,

but being able to see flames from where we were meant they were pretty big.

the lights on the mountain in the last picture are not lights from houses.

they are the flames from trees burning.

no houses lost.

amazing.

i hope today is the last time i post pictures about fires in utah this summer.

silver lake {hiking moose}

man moose

beetles

ham & cheese sandwiches

hiking buddies

"special missions"

mickey mouse rock

ducks

rocks

rock climbing

squirrels

squirrels trying to eat our lunch

mice

mice trying to eat our lunch

mosquitoes

mosquitoes trying to eat me

and chase

chase napping once

chase napping twice

bless him

dirty faces

dirty bums,

not diapers

trees we wished were redwoods

the most beautiful lake on the planet

mountain air

altitude dizziness

nursing chase and looking into his deep baby blues

collapsing on the couch. 

counting down to next month.

when

the

aspens

start

peaking.

{last year click here.}

i love living in utah.

 

 THE END.

{note to self: max must nap. do not skip. don't forget this.}