Katie & Abbie isms Day 1

Since our blog is called the "Patrickisims" I thought I would start a new blog idea. My children are growing up very very fast and they say the cutest things. So for the next few months I will be posting the Katie and Abbie isms.

Katie Isim 1

When I grow up I want to be as big as you daddy, while placing her finger on my stomach. Innocent yes, but very very funny.









AbbieIsim 1

Abbie shakes her head for everything, especially when she doesn't want to eat something. Last night I, her father, thought I would be sneaky and hide some food she didn't want to eat inside of the pudding she did. OF course without thought as to taste
Abbie Shook her head, stuck out her tongue, and gave me the look of "DAD THAT WAS DUMB!"

Katie & Abba

I finally arranged for our good friend and hairdresser to take the girls yearly pictures. Here is a preview.

Lake Powell

Just a few pictures of our trip to Lake Powell. My uncle Matt won a trip on a 70 foot house boat and so generously he invited some of our family. Our family was able to come and Jed and the girls experienced their first time sleeping under the stars on the top of the house boat. Kate liked the water, except for when she actually went under. Abbie liked it in very short stints. But Katie absolutely loved riding on the kayaks and would sit there while anyone would paddle her around. She also liked playing in Abbie's ladybug floaty because it kept her out of the water a little more. We had a lot of fun watching everyone else ski and wake board but the hit was the slide and almost EVERYONE on the trip went down it. The last night we made fruit pina coladas and margaritas and danced, the girls taking center stage a lot of the time.

Owwie

While we were at the Staley Family reunion at Bear Lake (which was fabulous) Abbie tumbled out of the 5th Wheel and managed to cut her head open. Thank goodness Grandma was prepared, as always, and was able to suture tape her head closed.

Paragonah

Jed and I went down to Tuchan to see Tarzan and while we did that my family watched the girls. I don't think they felt left out of anything as they helped on the farm and played.

Rodeo Champ

On July 22nd the girls and I went to the Days of 47 Rodeo with my family, while Jed was performing in The Music Man. Unbeknown to us that it was "Fiesta Night" so the whole "Intermission entertainment" was some people dancing, poorly to Spanish music. Not exactly up to the jumping motorcycles of previous years. Besides that it was one of the best rodeos we have ever been to. The stock was amazing, we have never seen horses buck so well, and they stayed on!
Us sitting in our seats. Which were pretty amazing, right close to the chutes.

















Figured I better put in a picture of the actual rodeo.








Uncle Travis and the girls.






Katie quite enjoyed the rodeo, it just needed to be about an hour shorter for her. She has a book about a rodeo and spent the whole time talking about the "Rodeo Champ".

Abbie's favorite part was the food and she made friends all around us and begged them for food too. This is her "cheese" for the camera, there were random people taking pictures of her, guess that is a compliment.

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!

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!

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".