Just goofing around!

I have always had a passion for photography. Since I got my first camera I have always wanted to take a great picture. I have so many pictures of flowers and inanimate objects from my younger years, it's ridiculous. But growing up in small town USA there really wasn't an opportunity or the funds to take the passion anywhere. Well although I am still in medium town USA, I have the means to do something about that passion now. However, I still don't have a great or even good camera, but, I have sister-in-law that does and she is being very kind to let me play with it. But, I have to wait til Thursday. :( Well I bought an ebook today on how to take a great photo. I was really excited to get practicing so I took out my little point and shoot and took Cait out for a quick session. She was bored out of her mind, but some of the pics turned out alright. On the screen of my camera they all looked really good, but then I got them on the computer and they were way over exposed and mostly grainy. I did get a few that I was able to tweek in Picnik. They aren't amazing photos but I had fun and learned just a little bit about changing the settings on my camera. I can't wait til Thursday.

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She's 4!!!

Our little Miss turned 4 yesterday. At times I can't believe she is already 4 at other times I can't believe she is only 4. She is full of energy and spunk! I can barely keep up with her. But oh how we love our Miss Belle.
Belle's breakfast in bed was a mountain of donuts and OJ, courtesy of her daddy.

She wanted a doll like Cait's, but there was no way I was spending that money on a four year old, so she got a knockoff and only kind of likes her. Oh well, now the girls can play together and I don't have to hear the fighting. Even if they only play once in a while.Aren't they handsome?

Being that July 24th (Pioneer Day) is Sunday, the community did the children's parade on the 23rd. We all dressed up for the occasion. And I wish we would have gotten a family picture, cause I was cute too. :(

I don't have a picture of it, but enter a day at the pool right here.

Of course we had to do some fireworks. Cora had no clue they were actually for the state holiday so we just let her believe they were for her birthday.

And the poor little one was pooped by the end of it all. She even asked to go to bed and then put her self there with out jammies or a clean face. Oh well, that is the sign of a good day I guess.

And I'm back!

Holy Cow it has been a seriously long time since I posted. Ya see, my computers power supply was fried in a power outage (yeah I know, no surge protector, my bad), and Dave's computers power cord was broken. It has been miserable. I rely on computers for so much. I did okay without it, I just didn't have the information I often wanted right at my fingertips. Oh well, life is back to normal and I can post the happenings of late.
The Fourth Of July!
One of my favorite holiday's. For me it's just an excuse to party for two days. We go to my parents and on day one, my home town has an auction, dinner, fireworks, and this year they had a FX stunt show and an Elvis impersonator concert. It was super fun. Then on day two is the most awesome parade in the state. They throw out more than just candy. They chuck shirts, hats, Frisbee's, flashlights, pens, key chains, money even. It is so cool and everyone has so much fun. It's a chance for the adults to get in on the parade and not just the kids. AWESOME!

What parade isn't the coolest if you have Mater driving through?

Well to add to the fun, this year we went camping after the parade with my family. It was so nice and relaxing. We didn't even have to sleep in a tent this year. My mom and dad bought a new trailer so we got to sleep in the old one. We called it the bunk house or aka the ghetto of all ghetto trailers. This thing is 30 years old and broken as broken can be. The stove is literally falling off the wall, the beds are barely hanging on, it is one broken trailer. But it has been a great part of my life and I am happy yet sad to see it go.

Isn't it pretty? Hey it kept the bears out, that's all I care about.

Notice the spray on insulation coming out the window frame in the back. Ha Ha Ha!

Anyway, back to camping. We went fishing, hard not to when you are camped by a pond, we got eaten by mosquito's, hiked, drank from an underground spring, and got stuck in the snow on the Fourth of July. WooHoo!!! I loved every minute of it. Only near death part was when Cora hung herself on the ghetto's screen door. She stuck her head in a hole and then pushed away from the step. If we hadn't been there, well Yikes. It was really scary as an after thought and after the adrenalin wore off, I had to cry for a minute. But, all was fine. She had a little burn from ear to ear, but mostly unscratched.

I LOVE this picture of Cora!

I LOVE this picture of these two. Fishing is all Buddy wanted to do for three days.

Snow ball fight on July 4th. Who does that?

K, what you don't see in this picure of my brothers trying to pull the truck out of the snow is the third truck the second truck was hooked to. Ken was stuck, Craig was in the next truck pulling and my dad was in the third. It was hilarious! Ultimately it only took one truck and a chain to pull him out, but it was fun to watch the process.

When we were done camping we were very blessed to have left our kids with grandma for four days. We were kidless! It was awesome! Kind of? I wanted to paint while they were gone. The goal was three rooms. However, I decided to paint the girls room cream. Big deal, right? Well it was cream over sky blue and I had to do four coats of paint plus one of primer just to cover it up. It took me three days just to finish. I was so worn out, I got no rest while I was supposed to be resting. Oh well, their room looks super cute, even with the slight adjustments I had to make.

This is Cait's toy box with new paint and fabric seat. I love it. I am making their quilts out of that material. They will be so cute!

We had to meet my parents in Eureaka to pick the kids up. And if you have never been there, it's pretty neat. It's an old mining town and most, okay all, of the buildings on main street are old and useless. However, there was this cool old ad for Levi jeans painted on a wall. This pic is from my cell phone, but I am definately stopping again and getting a few better pictures. Loved it.

Moving on, last week I had a massive toothache all week so we did nothing except go see Harry Potter while I was happy on meds. Yea for modern medicine!
So now here we are, the third week in July (Holy Cow!). The kids have started swim lesson's, Cora turns four this week and life is moving on like usual. I hope you didn't miss me too much. I have missed you.

Oh P.S. We bought a truck. Isn't it pretty? We love it!

no computer

both computers are down, i have lots to share so stay tuned.

One Year Older and Wii-zer too.

Sorry for the cheesy title, the boy has been playing Wii all day. But, it is his birthday so he deserves it. My buddy turned 6 today. Holy Cow it has only been a day or two since the boy was born. Yikes! Well he is handsome and smart and darn funny. He has learned to be quick on his feet from his father. He is very friendly, shy (do those two go together?), and very loving (Cait says crazy). We adore our boy!
Today we just had some fun playing in the water with friends. I was too consumed with David running the Ragnar, that I barely remembered the boy's birthday Saturday. I called some friends to invite them over so the boy wouldn't be sad and just had some good old fashion fun. We also beat a rag-tag-out-of-the-blue pinata. (I didn't want to spend $20 on a SpongeBob pinata so I made one out of a box and a roll of yellow crepe paper). Huge fun and it lasted a long time. Then of course there was more Wii. All in all a fabulous day. The boy is spoiled, but we love him anyway.

Happy Birthday Love!

My love is another year wiser today!!! I am so fortunate that he chose me to share all his birthday's with. I am still baffled that he chose me? But I am tremendously grateful.

We had a very relaxing day. I got him a porch swing and it came in very handy for a day out in the sun and playing in the water. The kids got him the movie "True Grit". He hasn't seen it yet but the critics loved it so that was good enough for him.

His fabulous sister came out to visit and my fabulous sister came too. It made it fun for us and the kids. We had pizza, of course, and our wonderful friend Morgan brought him a strawberry-rhubarb pie. I opted out of making a cake because the pie was so wonderful and I am glad I did because the cake would of only been eaten by two people. Yikes, I would have been left with a lot of cake. So thank you very much Morgan for the pie.

But now my love is off to work, I know on his birthday, right! But he will have the rest of the week off so he can run the RagNar race this weekend.

I love my Love and I hope he had a great day?

A Hiking We Will Go!

Well graduation was last weekend and unfortunately we didn't make it. Apperently we couldn't get home once we got to Boston, so we had to scrap the whole trip. Instead however, we took the kids to St. George and to Zion National Park and had a GREAT trip.