The Patrickisims

#1 Never expect things to be easy.

#2 Leaving Katelynn or Abigail alone invites disaster.

#3 Never give up, never surrender.

#4 Even though life is what you make of it,there is only so much you can do with finite resources.

#5 You are only as sick as you let yourself believe.

#6 Just because you can do something, does not mean you should agree to do it. (Jed's new work motto) :-)

Monday, July 19, 2010

We have food


It is official we have picked our first vegetable from our garden! Of course it is a zucchini. Steamed half of it last night and it was great!

Friday, July 16, 2010

Come to my Garden. . .

For one of our summer projects we decided we wanted to plant a garden but of course we couldn't just plant in the space already behind our house. This is the starting space and Katie and Abbie out ready to help us.
So first we pulled all the weeds and then Jed and I lugged the heavy rail road ties and set them in place then filled them with "bought dirt".
Katie wanted to plant carrots and so for quite a while every plant was "carrots". We planted green peppers, tomatoes, green beans, onions, 2 types of squash, zucchini, a pumpkin, potatoes, corn and of course carrots.
This is the boxes today. Looking pretty good-- I can see a green pepper, 3 tomatoes and 4 zucchini. Yea for us!


Thursday, July 15, 2010

The Music Man

I figured I should say something about our musical this year. It has been a little more busy with me being the President-Elect and Jed in the show as Charlie Cowell. But as always it is so much fun to help (Jed even painted set) and see it all come together, well we hope, tonight is opening night.

The show is at Maple Mountain High School, Spanish Fork and it is running July 15-17, 22-23 & 26 at 7:30pm, with a matinee on July 24 at 4:00pm.
Come and see the amazing talent, especially JED!

Crazy summer

So life has been a little crazy lately. Abigail has learned to walk and is getting into EVERYTHING especially if I get out the computer. And it also is time for our yearly Spanish Fork Community Theater production. Which usually keeps us very busy; but this year Jed is also in the show, The Music Man, as Charlie Cowell. This has been fun because Katie absolutely LOVES musicals and will sing a lot of the songs from the show and asks almost every night to "go see Daddy's show".