Cherries anyone?

We planted a cherry tree when we moved into our house seven years ago. It has never produced more than a handful of cherries, and they were kind of yucky. We decided that our tree was just for decoration, not for produce. Imagine our surprise when we returned from our trip and found a tree COVERED with beautiful red cherries! The birds haven't gotten them, no bug bites, just yummy cherries! The kids climbed up and picked these two buckets full. And that's only about the bottom 1/4 of the tree. We are going to have to get a ladder to get the rest. We have never trimmed this tree because we never expected any produce! I guess all this rain is good for something!

Day 13 - Home Sweet(?) Home

Well, arriving home wasn't quite the sweet experience we were looking for. The kids ran in the house expecting to see a very excited puppy waiting for them only to find an empty house. We looked all over - no Joey. We had been gone two weeks, and on the day we were to arrive back he decided to run away! The night was spent with tears and we were worried that the good memories of our trip would be replaced with sad ones of a lost dog. Thank goodness for happy endings. A trip to the animal shelter this morning found our little dog scared and stressed but ok. And VERY excited to see his family. If we thought we was glued to Lindsie's side before . . .

One last picture. This was taken at breakfast before the last (BORING) leg home. If I thought Day 12 was boring, man yesterday had it beat by a long shot. The beginning parts of our drive were so pretty that they just flew by. But the road home felt like forever. Not sure why Heavenly Father created Nevada. Jarod insisted that I blog this picture, so here you go. End of vacation!! We're sad that it's over, but glad to be home. Now to tackle the laundry . . . .

What do you think Rebecca? Should we have a contest to see who can finish first?

Day 12 - BLAH

Nothing to blog today. I'm sorry, Nevada just isn't pretty. Not much to take pictures of. We just sat in the car and drove and drove and drove and. . . . it was boring. All of our drives have been 5-6 hours each, but this one felt like 12 hours at least. We are sitting here in a dumpy hotel in Winnemucca (we have been spoiled getting great deals on nicer hotels) just waiting for morning so we can get home.

On a brighter note . . . you gotta love dramamine!!! I'll bet you have never had as quiet a drive as we had today! Kids were out almost the whole way. Of course, they will probably be up all night now, but that's ok cuz then they'll sleep all day tomorrow too! : )

Tomorrow . . . .HOME!! YAY!!! Vacations are great, but after two weeks of hotel hopping my bed sounds so heavenly.

Here's a picture from the Oregon coast so you can have something pretty to look at. We sure didn't today ; )

Happy Father's Day!!

Happy Father's Day to some awesome dad's - one on the other side of the world and one on the other side of the veil. We love you both and miss you both. Have a great day!