I'm doing a Boutique! Come on buy oops, by.. no I meant buy.

Hey campers :o) thought I'd let you all know about a boutique I will be selling at this week on Thursday Friday and Saturday called Country Chic Boutique (pronouned Sheek) Look me up under Sweet Pea Designs
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New Garden Blog

After doing a booth on Mittleider gardening this morning at the Stake Community Preparedness Fair and Breakfast, I decided to make a separate gardening blog where I have copied all the gordening posts from this blog as well as posted the planting schedule for Maricopa county (What to plant and when) and all the other information I told you about today!
Visit:
www.ShumwayGardenBlog.blogspot.com

My Big Girl

Megan got her 1st grade school pictures back this week.... I am appalled at how fast children grown up. I remember 1st grade! That means she's gonna remember how crazy I am- I thought I could change before she'd remember. oh well.
Here she is!

Ha ha! She is so funny! They said smile and she smiled with her whole face! :o) I love her- what a cute girl! She's grown up so much in the last year! Here was her kindergarten pic:

And you peeps with little kids who think elementary school is so far off- this next pic seems like just yesterday:

Ok, I'm going to stop adding to this post. it's making me sad. I love my baby girl!

Free Hairbow Class

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Yes, I will be teaching this one- There will be goodies to eat and a Scentsy Table too. I'm teaching very basic bows (the ones pictured) in this installment- different types will be taught in the next few months as well as a bow holder class. fun fun!

Kids Eat Free Through October!

Hey peoples- I thought this was worthy of a post. Kids eat free at Boston Market through the month of October! awesome. I love that it's not one free kids meal but two with an adult entree purchase.

HOLY SHLAMOLY WHERE HAVE I BEEN??

Ok, I know you are all wondering what to do with your lives now that the Shumway Family Blog hasn't been updated SINCE JUNE. wow.. I am so sorry about that. I truly apologize!!

A few things we've been up to:

Great fourth of July at the Kennedy's firework show in Mesa (our tradition) and I have a yummy tart recipe for you- it turned out so good!

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Family Reunion on Mt Hood in Oregon woot woot. we had so much fun.

Megan tubing on trillion lake with mt hood in the background


Meg, Matthew, and cousin Grant (Meg and Grant were like two peas in a pod for the whole reunion)

Aaron and McKell (my brother) going out in one of the canoes (matthew fishing in the foreground)

Rob (another of my brothers) with Meg, Matthew, and Colin (Cousin-he and Matt look a lot alike)

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I joined Toastmasters. I gave my first speech two weeks ago and it was so much fun! If you're interested in going let me know and you can be my guest sometime :o)

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Megan and Matthew have started Ballet at Yen-li Chen's Ballet School

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I have been finishing adding content to the Drs. Goodman & Partridge, OB/GYN Website (It won't be up for a couple months-the web designers are working their magic and it's gonna be an awesome, expansive, and totally helpful site)

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I started a different diet because I was reading about the colon cleanse and supposedly it reduces your ability to absorb medicine and so I stopped taking it after a week. The replacement diet was the HCG diet. I just finished it 2 weeks ago and lost a total of 17 lbs. I had to wait at least a month before starting it again which I will be doing in October. I'm really happy with the results. It makes you crave vegetables and fresh food (at least it does me) and changes your metabolism. It has changed my brain more than anything. I eat smaller portions and healthier foods spread throughout the day. Let see how it holds up!

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Our garden fried with the hot weather, and had I been a true mittleid-er I would've hung my shade cloth before leaving on vacation, but alas, I am a lazy person with an aversion to very hot temperatures and so it did not get done. Once I got back I tried in all futility to water the garden and after a week I gave up and let it die all the way. Horay for fall and second chances. I will be panting my fall garden soon and this one will do WAY better!

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I started teaching at Sunshine Sharing Preschool and love it. The kids are so fun to be around and I tweet a cute quote from them every time I teach. Here is the most recent example of a Preschool quote:

(we focus on a different phonogram every day- this particular day was "d"- we read books, sing songs and eat snacks that start with this phonogram)

T: "K" go back and sit down at the table with the other kids and eat your d-donuts

K: But I'm d-d-d-done

Diet Fad I'm trying

I decided that I am going to try the famed acai berry and colon cleanse combo..... we'll see how it goes! I took my first pills this morning with my free chick-fil-a and jamba juice breakfast :o)

Bath & Body Works freebie

Great deals at Bath and Boday works- buy three, get three free AND here's a great coupon for FREE Anti-Bacterial Foaming hand sanitizer when you spend at least $4 there.

FREE BREAKFAST!!

This week, Chick-fil-A is offering free breakfasts! Here is the schedule:

Monday: Chick-n-minis (3-count)
Tuesday: Sausage Biscuit
Wednesday: Chicken Breakfast Burrito
Thursday: Chicken Biscuit
Friday: Chick-n-minis (3-count)

Rules: You have to be present to get it- you cannot get one for someone who is not there. It cannot be part of a breakfast meal- you can order the hashbrowns and a drink, but it wont be priced as a meal.

We went this morning and just drove through the drivethru and got our three meals and then over to Jamba juice to get a Mango-a-go-go smoothie. yummm. Click HERE to get a buy one get one free jamba smoothie coupon. If you want to try to make one of these at home, here is a recipe:

Mango-A-Go-Go
(Jamba Juice Copycat)

1 Cup passion fruit / mango juice
1 Cup pineapple sherbet
1 1/2 Cups frozen mango
1/2 Cup ice

1. Pour measured amount of liquid into blender.
2. Add frozen ingredients, except ice. Add fresh or frozen fruit. Add ice. Begin blending on low.
3. After about 30 seconds blend on high until you see the whirl at the center of the blender cup.
4. Take the lid off and tap on the side of the blender cup while pouring.
For the proper thickness, your smoothie should form a mound in the cup.

wow, it's been a month!!!

SOOOOO sorry for not posting all this month! It's been a tiny bit insane. We've been so busy and we even forgot about the ballet summer camp that Megan was supposed to attend last week. grr... $60 down to drain!

I went to girls camp at Taylor Ranch in Pinedale and we had a great time-
the weather was great and the girls had a ball. I drove a suburban and hauled a trailor-that was a scary and empowering experience. When we were leaving camp on Saturday one of the men that came to help us, watched me back up and said, "wow, I've never known a woman that could successfully back up a trailor." Yup, that felt good! ha ha.

Megan lost two teeth this month- one while I was at girls camp, the other while I was at mutual... do we see a pattern forming? I was so sad to have missed it, but at least I get to see her cute toothless smile every day!
The garden is growing like crazy and I have videos, it just takes a lot of time to upload them and can't since I'm always on the computer doing some kind of work: Getting ready to be a preschool teacher in August, filling in content on Drs. Goodman & Partridges new under construction website (I'll let you all know when it's done and you can give me some feedback), and getting time sensitive information to different time sensitive people :o) Anyway, here are some pictures I snapped today- sorry it's not video!kids garden
our tallest sunflower- about 6 feet
We are so excited for our annual independence day tradition this Saturday of BBQ & swimming with the Goodmans and "Private" rockin R fireworks at the Kennedy's house with cotton candy, popcorn, and sno-cones. Awesome.
Next week we will be going to our Harward Family Reunion on Mt.Hood in Oregon. We will be staying at my brother's cabin and participating in activities like rapelling, canoeing, swimming, fishing, tubing, hiking, shooting, fun family games, riding down the alpine slides at skibowl and geocaching. We will also have to see about bringing our potato gun/launcher to have another contest like we did in Colorado. I have to say, our family always has a great time when we get together and I'm so excited to go!