She's Off!

Good Luck Kate!! Have a safe journey and enjoy your trip!! We love you!

Here's a doozie from Audrey today:

This morning she told me she wanted a baby sister and asked me if I was "fixed." She was delighted when I told her that I was not. I didn't have the heart to tell her she is most likely not going to have a baby sister. So later today we were having carpet installed (finally) and I could hear her out in the hall chatting with a couple of the workers (who knows what they know about our family now). One of the guys asked her how many brothers and sisters she had and she replied, "I have 3 brothers, but my mom can have a baby girl because she's not fixed yet."

I'm not sure how the guy responded because I had to go to my room to laugh and be mortified at the same time.

Cameron's Big Day!

Cameron had a great day today. We had crepes for breakfast per his request, then he had a few cookies...and waited and waited for his friends to arrive for the p-a-r-t-y. He had 4 friends over and they had so much fun playing outside and being silly. I didn't feel like going crazy with games or anything and I'm glad I didn't since they were so happy just hanging out together. Cam wanted to have a watermelon eating contest, which was a big hit. Then we did some water balloons and sprinkler/slip n slide fun and came in for presents and cupcakes with sundaes...He had a day full of friends and sugar so he was a happy camper. I think he is ready for school to start, he misses he friends a lot. I am so glad he has found such a good group of boys to be buddies with. They all have the same 'boy' interests. In fact I think the highlight of the day for them may have been when they discovered a dead skunk under the tarp at the pond. I was unaware of this til Cam brought me the skull and a bony arm with little tufts of fur on it. It was simply delightful.

My eight year old! Although he looks like he's about 3 in this picuture.

Water slide time

This was during the water balloon toss-unknown to Cameron at the last minute everyone turned their waterballoons on him. I love his reaction in this picture:

I'm just glad no one puked up watermelon

Aren't they cute. Boys are so easy to please!

Happy Birthday to Cameron!

We love you, and wish you a great day!

Tahoe

Here's a few pics from Tahoe. I miss it already!

Bliss beach is so.....blissful.


Carrie and the scenery at Eagle Lake




Adam and Cameron were inseparable

Up to Eagle Lake!

Just a few things we've been up to...

Okay, definately not my most flattering picture, but wanted to show you my cayenne peppers. This isn't all of them, there's more, but my thread ran out.

Abby is rolling all over the place now, and is learning how to sit up. These two pictures are funny, look at her eyes, as soon as she had one toy, she was eyeing the other- she only wanted what she wasn't holding.

So sweet!

We got Caitlin's stuff for her online charter school this Fall. Whoa. We were a little overwhelmed. Boxes upon boxes of books, science stuff, math stuff, workbooks, blocks, and oh yeah, a computer, monitor, and printer. We have to eventually return most of the stuff at the end of the year, but we had no idea where to put it all or where to set up "school". So out went our washer and dryer into the garage and in went a galvanized-metal tabletop Rod made at work and chairs from craigslist (that I reupholstered). My hubby can do it all!! It looks pretty awesome. There's still some wiring to figure out where to put, and more school-ish things to go up, but you get the picture:

Also, good news: Rod's boss said to expect to go back to 5 days a week after he gets back from vacation! Whoo-oo!

Man vs. Wild

Here are a few pictures from our recent Stake Scout High Adventure. Mt. Darwin was our goal at 13,800 ft elevation. It was very challenging - had to survive by sleeping in this cave.

Dad