New Apartment

Sorry for the long delay in posts. We only just recently got internet installed at our new apartment. :) So we moved in at the beginning of July and felt very overwhelmed with all the boxes we needed to unpack. But luckily we had a small vacation to take our minds off of it.
Washington D.C. over the 4th of July was awesome! We watched the fireworks at the National Mall (which is a large green area in between the Smithsonians and most all the major monuments.) I've never seen such a spectacle. It was brilliant. We hope to take my in-laws sometime to relive the experience. (A few years down the road.) We went to several of the museums and also attended the wedding of one of my mission companions. It was a lot of fun. Though the mosquitos in the area are not nice. I still have remnants of the bruises they gave me.
We came home wishing for a longer vacation and went back to work. The garden is growing nicely. We've had a lot of tomatoes and zucchini already. The watermelons are about 6 inches long. We're excited for those! Green River watermelons!
Ian and I also made our first batch of freezer jam, thanks to mom Allred, it turned out really good. We need to make our apricot puree into jam sometime too. (apricot pineapple) We have some black caps too. I'm not sure if I'll turn them into jam or what. Maybe I'll try to make syrup? That would be good.
School starts in a little less than a month. I'm not sure how it's going to go. It makes me a little nervous transferring to a new school.