My little climber....

Every family has one, or at least I've been told. My other girls were not climbers, they were active and into things but not at all like this little one! She climbs on absolutely everything. Our chairs now reside in the garage, on the table or laying down on the floor! The piano bench...it has taken up an undefinite residence in the garage, some day it may return but not while this one is around!

A Belated 4th of July to everyone...

I was in charge of the pancake breakfast at the church this year so we were all up way too early. But it was a huge success and I think my plea to my ward members that I wanted to get to the parade with my little ones got most everyone there on time! Amazing how you can get people to the church at 8 in the morning when food is involved...may be we need to start offering food in the morning on Sundays too! Luckily I have a great couple from the other ward who helped out tremendously and even let us take off before it was all cleaned up so that we could get the girls to the parade. The girls had a great time riding their bikes and did a good job not running into the backs of people walking in front of us. Justin and Lyndie met us towards the end of the parade, they watched most of it and Lyndie picked up candy on the street before they came and met us.

We all just kind of hung around in the afternoon and they about 4 the boys started to put the swingset together. I know that Justin enjoyed having some extra able bodies to help him and I was on Lyndie duty most of the time!

We finished just in time to go drive up on the hill and watch the fireworks, the big girls both crashed as soon as they got in the car and missed the whole show. Malia woke up the next morning and said, "Mom, we didn't see the fireworks!"

We made a quick stop at In-N-Out for some all AMERICAN hamburgers.

Project 4th of July: SWINGSET

I am now thinking that I was a bit crazy for wanting a swingset as we have to keep a 24/7 surveillance on the backyard with Lyndie around!

Malia loved working with Daddy, she got pretty good at putting the screws in!

Lainey seems to believe that clothes are optional...

and most of the time they are if you are under 4 feet tall at our house!

Everyone was ready to swing, even the big BOYS!

A Very Happy Late Anniversary to my husband

There are times I wish I could be like some of you out there who are so amazing about posting happy anniversary's on your "actual" anniversary, or birthdays when they happen (my poor middle child, who has yet to have her birthday photos posted), but alas these days this is not me! I had a few spare minutes today so I made this page of my "sweetheart" and I, I am not sure that he will even see it, as he is always so busy working, taking care of us, and playing with his girls! He is always there for me and quickly does whatever I need him to do...like taking down a swing set in a nearby town so that we could get a "deal"! Hopefully this weekend we will get it put back together in our yard. Last night as we went to bed he said to me, "No more looking for big items on craigslist, ok?" He must have forgotten that the trampoline last year was his idea!

Watch out Nancy...

here we come! My girls have discovered the Fancy Nancy book series and love to get them from the library. The other night they decided all on their own that we needed to have a Fancy Nancy dinner party. They let us all know that we needed to dress up and so we did! What a fun night was had by all...the best was to listen to their comments, my all time favorite was Lainey who said, "It's just like eating at a restroom!" I think she meant restaurant!

Photo a day...

So I was all ready to take my friend Laura's photo a day challenge, these are from the 2nd of June, the girls and I had so much fun exploring the fountains downtown, but my camera took an untimely death the very next day! The next day we went and picked blueberries and I stuck my camera in the cooler, where I had a bag of ice and when I finally went to look for it the next day it was soaked! I was so mad at myself. I never put bags of ice in the cooler, I always use the reusable frozen things, there just happened to be a bag from the night before and so I stuck it in there.


So that's the story of why I can't do the photo a day challenge...but if I were to do it here would be my first set of pictures and the story behind them.

The girls and I were downtown at the thrift stores and they asked if we could go to the fountains before we left. I had decided that I would try to take time to "smell the roses" with my girls and so I said yes. These fountains are really not for wading in but how do you keep little girls away from water? I seem to remember my sisters and I wading in these same photos years ago to take a picture for my parents. It was lunch time when the girls were playing in them and it was fun to watch the expressions of all the business people going to lunch who stopped to smile. I realized I had my camera in the car and I made them go back with me to get it so I could take pictures of them playing, it wasn't too hard to convince them to get in a second time!

Beach Photos

These beautiful photos come courtesy of my amazing photographer sister...how lucky we are to have a truly talented photographer in the family! We took these photos a month or so ago and I just love them! I recently moved furniture around in my house and one of the main reasons was so that I would have a place to hang copies of these photos!


When she was taking these photos we kept joking that Lyndie was probably wondering why her sister's were being so nice to her, as they were so sweet with her and just walked along gently with her...which is not always the case!

I love digital scrapping!

So last night since Justin had taken the girls camping I decided to stay up way too late and catch up on a little scraping...I still need to do a few pages for this month but at least I have started. Remember if you want to read any of the journaling on the page just click on the image and it will appear bigger so that you can read it.