Must destroy strawbery plants!

So because my strawberry plants are AWESOME (please say awesome in an opera voice) I have been indulging with THIS almost eVeRyDaY!

S'more S'mores?

Sunday the fifth we hung out under our new pergola and roasted some marshmallows and the kids had some s'mores!

Free Binky Leash!!!

Okay so a friend of mine, Emma, had this post that was called something like circle of love, where you hand make something for the first few people that comment on your post, then they turn around and do the same thing, so lots of people get to serve lots of people. Thought it was so cool! So here it goes. I am making Binky Leashes. I LOVE the ones I've already made, Laney never loses a binky, and I have a few colors so we are always able to match with outfits. No more mommy sucking the dirt off the binky, to be honest I've never done that.... so gross. I'd rather pull a new clean one out of my diaper bag! I've decided to make it random instead of first come first served, mainly cuz I don't want to limit the comments, I might just feel like giving away more... so leave a comment with your name and the flair of your choice and what color ribbon you'd like to see with it... thanks, me

Two things...

Istarted strawberry plants in my garden three years ago, and last year I only got about ten actual strawberries good enough to eat. I assumed that this year I might get double that but guess what? Just this past week and a half I have been getting about a small bowlful about every three days!

A few days ago I decided that I was tired of being tired. I was still waking up with Laney to nurse every night at around 2am and then again at 5am, then we were up at 8am. It seemed like about a month or so agao she only woke up once at 2 and then was fine til 7am, but she must be hungry so we started her on rice cereal. We waited til she was good and hungry as you can see from her super sad face... and she loved it! Last nigt she slept from 9pm til 5 this morning! Yay!

Independence Day

We started off the day with the parade which is always cool in a small town!


After the parade we headed over to the lake to enjoy some sun and sand with the Phillips family

We had dinner at our favorite American diner...Applebee's!

Then we waited for the sun to go down and we joined up with most of our neighbors that stayed in town to line our street with chairs and everyone lit off their fireworks they got from all the booths around town! Another cool thing about an small Idaho town!

Block Party

This year we had our block party on Friday July 3rd. It's always so fun to chill with everyone, and because our block is so tight we actually do a lot together! My neighbor and good friend Nikki lost her 3 yr old at the Independence Day parade the next day for thirty minutes and she was telling me how grateful she is that we all do so much as a neighborhood and that they found him because he recognized a neighbor and ran up to him! Yay for fun neighbors!

Proud to be an AMERICAN!

Road Rash

A friend brought his skateboard over to show us and Asher decided to push it along the cement, well once the board hit the grass he face planted and here's what resulted...

He left a token of his appreciation!

My Favorite Place

I have been to Yellowstone at least 6 times, floated the snake river around 5, slid down the sand dunes 4 times, been bridge jumping 3 times, crawled through the ice caves twice, but Egin Lakes is by far my favorite place in Idaho. I think its my favorite because the water is warm (hard to find warm water in i\Idaho) the lake is shallow so everyone can enjoy it, and the sand reminds me of California! Its the closest thing I have to a California beach. (and no sharks)

We miss you, Jense!

The kids had so much fun throwing rocks in the river!

Found a new favorite picture spot...nuf said!

Pics Overdue

These pics are from our trip to California back in April. We headed down to see everyone before my dad headed up tp Alaska nd before Cam was stuck working fulltime with no vacation days! It rained while we were there...alot, but I love the rain! Especially California rain! We don't get snails and worms out on the concrete after the rain here in Idaho. The kids thought that was pretty cool.

And oh the jumping thing. We really have no other name for it. Its jus the "jumping thing."

And of course we had some visit with Gampa Gil...

Bye Bye Birdies!

You can never have too many hairbows!

This is what happens when you have so many hairbows they don't fit in drawers or on hairbow ribbon hanger things!

Standing tall for FHE!

For family home evening we made stilts... it really didn;t amtter what we nmade as long as we worked together as a family since the lesson was about FAMILY! Yay! Even daddy liked trying them out and he was also super glad we finally used the empty cans I had been saving for this very activity!

Ka Chow!!!

It was raining pretty hard the other night but not freezing so we sat out on the porch and watched the lightening and listened to the thunder. Asher thought it was Soooooo cool! Then we watched a little tv together, and Asher was out cold after a few minutes.

I <3 Scrapping!

While the kids were napping today I took a little time to srapbook, and I forgot how much I enjoy scrapping! So I'm sure I'll be doing more in the near future!

Laney Update...

On Friday I did a shoot for a new 2 week old baby named Avery. She was the tiniest baby I think that I have ever seen and soooo adorable! She was so small it made me realize how BIG my Laney is...

Laney is currently 14 pounds and is fitting into all her 6 month clothes... can you believe it? I just had to get some pics of her chunky legs! And she sits up , but as you can see, not really "UP." More over than up...but its so cute! And we are grabbing toes too! Yay!

Baylee's first talk in primary...

Baylee gave her very first talk in primary on Sunday. She did such a good job, we practiced repeating mommy's whispers really loudly and i have to say she did the best out of all three talks. She talked loud and wasn't silly. Good lob, Baylee, I am so proud of you!

Baskets, Blankies & Baby Ducks

This basket has been on my mom's porch for forever, and not really used I might add so I asked if I could take it while I was visiting, and here is my use for it... super cute!

Our ducks get bigger and bigger everyday. They have ther own pool that we fill everyday so they can swim around...they live in a huge box in the garage and when I take one from the garage to the pool the other two follow...it is so fun, we will be sad when we have to let them go...

I know I have mentioned this before, but Laney does this so often that its sort of a trademark when she sleeps. I think its so funny although I make sure to check to see if she is still breathing ALL the time!

I'd say summer is officially here...

Memorial Day Weekend...

First of all, before I get to our three day weekend events, I can't believe my Laney is 4 months old!!!! She's not quite sitting up yet but tries super hard, she is such a good baby and we can't remember what life was like without her!

Friday the 22nd was our 5 yr anniversary and Adam decided to build me a pergola. We spent ALL day Saturday and Monday working on it, and we are pretty much done, but need to put a sealer on it because I accidentally bought "indoor use only" wood stain... oops!

As for more updates, its hot, well warm, but nice for us! And we LLLLOOOOVVVVEEEE it! The kids pretty much live in pjs and swimsuits! Our three little duckies are getting so big and sooo fast. we bought them a pool and they are quick little suckers, when I go to take them out of the pool they swim in circles so fast its hard to catch them in a three foot diameter pool... it's hilarious!

Adam's present from me...

My present from Adam!

Cinco anos!

Happy Anniversary Babe! I love you!

Ducks...

The day before we got home from California Adam bought 4 baby ducks for us at the coop! The kids LOVE these little guys and Laney can't keep her eyes off em... We are sad to say that we only have three now because while we were out playing with the ducks on the grass Mommy went in to check on a sleeping Laney, and when I came back Asher had a lifeless baby duck in hand... I asked what happened and all I really get is "flip"along with drawing a circle in the air hand motion. Super sad. I cried... felt as if I failed that poor little ducky, but we take comfort in the fact that "all duckies go to heaven," or oh wait is that just dogs?

Service Auction

At our Relief Society service auction I put up for bid a one hour infant session. My neighbor Brookie Smith won and had her baby a couple weeks ago... she came over this morning and this is just ONE of the adorable pics we ended up with... isn't he a cutie?

Attitude!

Do I have to tell you that Baylee has that 4 yr old "multi-personality attitude" or can you tell from the pics?

Kites...

Jense v. THE GOOSE