The Lawson Family

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Random-ness:

Just a few random pics from around here:

Socks is still the coolest cat ever. He is such a funny boy and is growing like a weed. He loves just hangin' with his girls.

My garden. Left to Right: Cucumbers, green beans, grape tomatoes, behind the grape, regular tomatoes and carrots.

YUM
We have been feasting upon our tomatoes and beans everyday, and it's been wonderful!
The carrots are awesome, too!

Yesterday Chloe and her BFF, Nicole were bored and decided to do some exciting chalk art on our driveway.

Can you guess who this guy is?

Any guesses?

Is it George Washington?.... or Joseph Smith? (that's who our dryer repair guy thought it was!)

Give up?!

It's Beethoven!

Yep, the girls got on the computer and printed out a picture of this famous composer, and sketched him on our driveway.

How random is that?

Have a very

Random

Day.

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Sunflower Garden

It's amazing how those tiny sunflower seeds turn into these massive, beautiful flowers!

It's been fun watching them grow into these massive flowers!

http://www.coldplay.com/vivavideo1.php

I love this band.
My brother was just telling me how he got cool tickets for his daughter and her mother at the show in San Jose. They said it was the greatest show. So envious am I.
Check out this video... I love this song, it's my favorite.

Friday, August 1, 2008

There's a huge fire in our canyon!

A fire started this afternoon in the Payson Canyon, 2-3 miles south of our neighborhood. So far it has burned 150 acres? I think? There was a boy scout camp going on in a camp site in this canyon and they were all evacuated and had to leave their gear behind... our neighbor's son was one of those scouts. We drove over to Gene's brother's house (Paul) and took these pictures. Everyone is out looking at the fire, there were even a few softball games going on... it was crazy, police everywhere, fire engines... and then this fire. It's huge and there were these massive flare ups every time the wind picked up.

Paul needs to be ready to evacuate if the wind shifts... then we are in danger if the wind picks up and the flames keep heading this way.

Scary stuff....

These are the flames that are heading our way....

but it would have to burn through a ton before it got to us.

These next few are taken from Gene's brother's house.

Every time the wind picked up, there would be these 200+ foot flare ups.

Getting close to the neighborhood.

For you Paysonites... this is the neighborhood past the high school.

'Spring Lake'

Very scary, and very close.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Piano Lessons!

Little Lindsay Lu-Lu has had her first piano lesson today! She was very excited. She chose a green notebook for her piano book and just couldn't wait to get to her teacher's house today. She did great! At one point her teacher told her that next week when she comes back and shows her how well she can play her first two songs, then she'll get to pick out a sticker! Then her teacher added that she has PRINCESS stickers! Well, that's pretty exciting for most 5 year old little girls, but my child said this:

"Um, I don't like princesses. I like bugs and dinosaurs."

Luckily the teacher has those kinds of stickers, too!

Linds did great, it was fun watching her today. This is the age that all the girls started piano. Nat is the only one who didn't continue playing... she is the one girl who rides horses instead of playing piano, which is just fine!

My piano notebook! Cool!

Here we go!

Focusing on her teacher.
Only once did she lose her focus.. that's when she asked the teacher..
"Um, what's your dog's name?"

Her first 2 songs!

Lindsay and her teacher.

Awesome!

We had a cool party here last night!

We had a fun BBQ in our backyard last night with 10 families (or more??). It was a farewell to our great friends, the Luke family. They are headed to Indiana tomorrow and we're really going to miss them. We wanted to have a special night for them before they left. It was a great night, everyone brought their own meat to grill and then a side to share! YUM!

I meant to post this picture last! This is one pooped out little guy... he represented all of us by the end of the evening! We were all partied out!

The gal standing and taking a picture is Mandee. She and her husband and 3 adorable babies are moving tomorrow! Waaaaa! Mandee and I have served in YW's together these past 2 years and have gotten so close. I'm going to miss her tons.