August in a Thousand Words

I amaze myself, it's still the same week that August has ended and here comes the monthly collage.

Surprise! Well, maybe to some of you...

These pictures aren't new (done in July), nor are they the first ultrasound (see May collage for that). But, here is Garner #4. Said child is due mid-November. Hopefully, I'll prove a better photographer of the child than the sonographer did. You can probably expect more timely notice of child's actual arrival. We chose not to find out the gender of said child, I like my surprise at the end, when it's even more effective. Apologies to the grandma's for making shopping difficult. Somehow, it's hard to imagine that a baby can be anything but a boy...

Gems from Joshua

Singing the vulture's song in the Jungle Book "when you're lost, in Zion..."

The FP little people are riding in their van listening to "car country 103" (in appropriate jingle tune). Why that station? Our van is usually tuned to KAT country 103.

"Dad, can I help you burn the breakfast?"

In reading about the translation of the Book of Mormon, "Joseph Smith and all of his cows did what?"

Every week at bathtime, when he's ready to get in, he yells "I'm ugly!"

We are making progress!

We wanted to get Daniel's room finished before he started school, so we put most of our efforts into getting it done. It's not done. But, it is close enough that he was able to move in 3 days before school started. We still have some outlets and baseboard to replace, decor to add, and furniture to arrange. Daniel is very pleased with his current no-sharing bedroom, especially after spending the last 2.5 months sharing a room with both of his brothers. So the progress in photos:

July in a Thousand Words

During July we finished up our vacation by spending the 4th of July weekend in Hyrum, then driving back home. At home, we had some fun times sprinkled throughout a month of working on the house.