The Simple Life

the "hide out"...

this is my kids favorite place to run away and play! they call it their "hide out." it's on the property right next to ours, i wish we could by it, or even better have our friends move back home ;) 

they crawl right through the old wooden fence and haul all of their old treasures that they've collected and just play all day! i love that they get to play outside and use their imagination, just like we did as kids.

this is right next to our chicken coop, how i dream of having a miniature farm, with a small horse and a maybe a few pigs! 

sneaking back home...

this past summer, our new neighbors that are renting, had put their cows over there, and so when my kids would go out to play they would go under the electric fence...and they quickly found out that you get shocked when you touch the rope! the kids came home one afternoon and were anxious to tell how much it hurt when they would crawl under. gulianna was saying "sometimes if you don't bend down all the way and if your stomach touches it, it makes your skin all tingly!" and bro jumped right in and said "oh ya the stomach!" as he was rubbing his, that was the funniest story ever!

saying good bye to this crib!

we went to ikea on monday to go buy the toddler bunk bed that i've been wanting forever...and they don't carry it anymore!!! i was so disappointed. i was going to buy it back in september but i decided to wait another month or two. i did get the other little toddler bed that i wanted. and it pulls out to a twin. so anthony and jeremy will share together. someday we will have a house with enough bedrooms! 

halloween 2014

for this years halloween costumes: gulianna was merida from brave, isabella was anna from frozen, anthony was an astronaut, and jeremy was olaf! 

trunk or treat on main street in front of our church and we stopped at a few houses on the way home.

 

halloween treats...

halloween treats from grandma! and some cute masks.

noisy guns...not so much, can't wait til the batteries die, ha ha!

once in a while it's just me and anthony for some quite time. doesn't happen very often, but we'll take it when we can...so we took a selfie to document, and i showered too! ha ha!

work work...

boxes for days! thankful for all these orderes we've been blessed with. and these little rascals to help me carry boxes to the post office!

sadly right after we were done dropping these off anthony and isabella were racing back to the durango, and anthony tripped over his foot, and did a flip in the air and skid his face right on the sidewalk. poor kid. this is the 4th time he's gotten hurt in 2 days. 

outdoors up the canyon...

we live in such a beautiful valley with amazing canyons just minutes from home! every fall we have dinner around the campfire up maple canyon. this year i tried to plan to go up the beginning of september but that didn't work out, and then we were busy every day it seemed like. so we made it happen and went. 

we love the outdoors! and our kids love to explore! and rock climb... we had a great evening and the best tin foil dinner ever, thanks to levi :)

 

can you spot our kids in "the hole?" 

stuck in a bucket...

so a funny story for tonight... i was on my computer going through emails and looking on pinterest, and for about ten minutes straight i kept getting after anthony to go and brush his teeth for the night. and he wouldn't listen. and i wasn't really listening to him because when i finally started to actually hear him (pinterest must have made me tune out everything! ha!) he was singing this made up song to his own tune "i can't brush my teeth because i'm stuck in the treat bucket!" over and over! so i looked underneath my table and sure enough he WAS actually stuck in his treat bucket for preschool!!! it was hilarious! better get off pinterest and tend to my kids. and i actually haven't been on pinterest in ages.

brothers...

after being hyper for 2 straight hours...they finally passed out. 

i do not like bed time. 

and telling my kids to go to sleep, every 5 minutes!

first day of preschool...

anthony's first day of preschool...he's been waiting! he said "mom i love it can i go every day?" he loves his new backpack too. i had to fill out a little questionnaire and asked him what some of his favorites were: favorite food "cereal, oatmeal, peanut butter sammich and pancakes!" favorite color "brown & black." favorite song "on top of the world" by imagine dragons. favorite place to go "my show n tell" translation: hotel. such a funny kid!

summer fun: ward bbq

 

today...

we survived soccer camp last week! it would have been no big deal but i had a rush of orders every day! thankful...not complaining! it was hard to get home, feed kids and fight jeremy's nap time, and try to get everything done so orders could go out by 4pm. i definitely let the house go and i hated every messy disgusting minute of it! but there wasn't anything else i could do. now everything is back to normal. clean house, messy scrapbook room... STILL! but i am getting right on that NOW :)

love these old school lunch trays for meals and camping too!

jeremy getting ready for his nap. he says "peees watch tigee!" he falls asleep to watching his favorite show daniel tiger's neighborhood. but like i said, naptime has been difficult for the past month now, since he can open doors! makes him want to go explore and he could care less about falling asleep, even though he's so tired.

lunch time is over, jeremy is ready for his nap, and now i can focus on my room yay!

saturday night...

after yard and house work today we drove to the drive in to have dinner and to finally test out those cheeseburgers that everyone says are the best! and with high hopes of having them taste like a Gladys burger from the spud...it was just ok. really!! levi even compared them to burger king! oh i was disappointed over a cheeseburger, but at least there was always fries, NOT! say what! seriously no fries or milkshakes? what kind of show are they trying to run here! i did have a cup of chili that was pretty good, however would have given them more points if they had cheese and onions. any way still had fun, and i didn't have to wash dishes after dinner so there!

super happy and tells me "i love you mom!" after a box of peanut m&m's :)

this is how we do young women activities with these little ones, lock them up in the nursery room with toys and check up on them every 5 minutes! the girls had to pass off camp activity stuff today.

memorial day...

hope you all had a wonderful memorial day. may we never forget those that served this great country! i love hanging up my vintage flag.

 

levi brought home some apple soda...i'm suprised anthony kept drinking it, and jeremy couldn't down it any faster!

 

and i worked on painting this bench for a customer.

explore...

sunday up the canyon. my kids love to explore and run wild. and i enjoy watching them play together and just being happy!

 

heritage day...

we met in the morning for food prep. our youth is in charge of the lunch at the park for heritage day every year. we added sandwiches to go, to the usual sanpete bbq turkey. people would freak out if we didn't continue the tradition! i helped with sandwiches and wrapping. i love assembly lines and packaging. must be the repetition and bulk quantity, so fun!

 

balloons, because every day is a party!

 

he just loves this truck.

 

 

 

 

and the lunch fundraiser was a success! 

 

 

super excited to go home and finally play with the balloons! and i envision a new polka dot seat cover on this old truck. i don't think levi would go for it. but can't you see it?! 

and just after this...chaos started. fighting over the white balloon? geez. made some muffins. i think i need to be endorsed by lehi roller mills!

 

finally got to sit down for a minute. tried to take a picture with jeremy and he turned around and punched me in the face! one of these days i'm going to have a broken nose. it was funny that i got a picture of the action...

 

happy home. 

 

 

enjoying popsicles while we watched gulianna at field day...

after school we went to soccer camp practice. not sure if i'll put anthony in, but he sure enjoyed today!

errands...

went to civilization today to pick up tires and a lift kit for levi. lots of driving! i miss having gulianna with me, we left her at school since she's missed too many days. chick fil a, hobby lobby, visited with nancy, in n out and of course a late drive home!

 

jeremy LOVES his new car seat! and i love my new polka dot sunglasses that i picked up in st george!

oreo shakes and chicken sandwiches at chick fil a!

my milkshake brings all the girls to the yard!

have you ever seen a rose as big as this?! and i just noticed that isabella is carrying a bride booklet!

swinging monkeys!

isabella preschool graduation...

the usual: pick up the sibling act!

group hug!

mrs. sue and chelsea

anders and isabella

the preschool graduate!

anthony was curious to what she was even wearing! ha ha!

kindergarten field trip...

isabella had a field trip today...getting ready for kindergarten! oh my! she was excited! anthony and jeremy got to join in too. storytime about butterflies, and then they got to do a little project on butterflies and their chrysalis.

jesse...proud that i was in his class! "hi aunt alicia!" 

strap that kid in the stroller! he was about done at this point.

sunday...

while the girls are still sleeping

the boys are outside playing early this morning.

they were playing on their "rides" better than disneyland, no long lines!

anthony said "this is my airplane!"

"and this is jeremy's tractor."

gulianna's reading spot, so jeremy can't grab her book.

back at it...

i unpacked, got a few loads of laundry done thursday. etsy orders out, ran to moroni for some ballet tights, grocery store. and then friday morning we went straight to work in the yard. lot's of raking, picking up branches, pulling weeds and my favorite: cutting the grass! 

the older three got to haul off the big branches to the big hole, where are root cellar is going in. 

and they all had to fill up ten wagon loads, each! except for jeremy he got to pull them :)

daily visitors...

every evening at dusk we have lots of visitors. we really enjoy them. except in the spring time they tend to be more like pesky town rodents...when they eat the barely blossomed trees and plants! my kids love to sneak up on them. anthony whispered to me, "mom, i'm going outside to run with the deer!" a common expression around here. so he went outside and then they all ran off, and he tried to sneak up on one by the rocks, but then got spooked from a huge, fluffy cat that looked like a skunk...which is why he got scared! (never seen that cat before, i watched it as it tried to sneak up on a baby deer as well.) then anthony came by my scrapbook room window and said he was "working on the house" with a piece that goes to a curtain rod. funny kid. 

ice cream sundaes...

we LOVE ice cream! but we've been pretty good and haven't had any for a good while. so we decided to have a little ice cream party after conference on saturday. and sunday too!

it's all about the toppings!

my favorite is always oreo. i don't like to eat them plain. i can handle about 2 before i start to get sick to my stomach! but crushed up on some french vanilla ice cream is perfect ♥

 

weekend memories...

rainy carefree day...

 

we were suprised when we woke up to rain yesterday morning, i rarely check the weather. always seems so unpredictable close to the mountains any way. spring break does not always mean warm sunny weather! i did some prep work on my easter banners. the kids put together puzzles and played with toys. watched a few movies. played outside in the rain, jumping on the trampoline. that was one of my favorite things to do when we were growing up...as soon as it would downpour or hail we would run out to the trampoline! it's like jumping in huge puddles but even better because your on a trampoline. we went for a snow creme run, well the kids had ice cream cones. 

(old photo...i didn't take pictures.)

read some books...

had tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches...our dinner actually matched what was on the chalkboard. that's been on there for a year!

and last baked some banana bread. one of our favorites! 

today we woke up to snow...do you want to build a snowman?! 

hmmmm...no. not with slushy wet, heavy snow. 

my little sneak...

 

 

always up to something with him!

caught him in action on the counter.

i love him...he has such a tender heart. what a good boy.

our not so quick trip...

i had planned a "quick" trip to civilization...meaning we left early and we were going to be back by 3pm. did all my errands and then we had lunch at panda express...a bit chaotic and several tantrums from jeremy. he spilled a lot of rice on the floor.

 

and then went to our final destination: hobby lobby. and in the first 5 minutes we were there, this happened...

let me back it up.

before we even got there, i was already annoyed in my head that hobby lobby has the smallest shopping carts ever. they might as well be toddler sized. this is the only thing i dislike about their store...otherwise i love hobby lobby! so yes...me thinking, great...anthony will barely fit in the basket, and i can't have him running around the store breaking things. so i let him take his little fire truck in, because he promised me he would stay by my side. WRONG. well i tried.

so i grab a cart, buckle jeremy in. specifically told isabella and anthony that they can't ride on this cart because it was too small and it will tip over. then went straight for the bead aisle for cherrie. jeremy weasled his way out of the tight buckle, and stood up. i unbuckle him just so i can get him to sit down, then re-buckled him up. i can't make it any tighter or his face would turn blue. i then proceed to grab a couple items on the list, tell anthony and isabella to stay OFF the cart. so anthony starts to run down the aisle racing his fire truck on the ground. isabella is being loud and rambunctous as usual. i tell both of them to quiet down. jeremy got out of the buckle again for a second time and i scolded him, and unbuckled...re-buckled... then i got my phone out to text cherrie and before i knew it jeremy got out for a third time...and just as he stood up, isa and anthony hopped on the cart, he went flying head first for the floor! took out two glass shelves with his head and before i could pick him up it was a murder scene on aisle seven. blood and shattered glass every where... i didn't have wipes, he was screaming. i think mostly because he was freaked out that blood was gushing down his face and into his eyes. literally crying blood tears. that and isa and anthony were freaking out that they "cracked jeremy's head and he was dying!" they made the scene much worse. poor kid! a few swear words and no one to stop and help i was feeling annoyed. yes customers passed by the aisle and never stopped! finally an employee noticed and quickly ran for some paper towels. we made it to the classroom to use their craft sink and i got jeremy all wiped up and calmed down. had to fill out an incident report...then went to the nearest hospital...to just make sure he didn't need stitches.

so we went through the side entrance of the hospital, and a nurse that was just leaving suggested to just go "next door" to the clinic. which i didn't see when i pulled in the parking lot. so we got back in the durango...drove around the building to the clinic just for a snotty receptionist to tell me that if i didn't have a doctor here to just go to the instacare. grrrrrrr. jeremy was asleep when we finally got there. then we had to wait a good 45 minutes. as i signed in, i snapped a picture of this:

by this time i was clearly frustrated and was ready to go back to hobby lobby for some super glue! no joke! long wait...errand to run! ha ha!! yes.

so when we finally get called, the nurse cleaned up his head more...crusted over blood. and his cut was only a centimeter. i can tell you it was much bigger before. must have been those angels stitching him up already! geeez. obviously with head wounds...they bleed soo much! but i really just wanted to double check and make sure there wasn't any glass stuck. because there were shards every where. my poor little jeremy. what a day. 

sunday happenings...

happily going to church on sunday.

 

the primary room had the cutest little kid size pews. so i had to get a picture after church was over. i envisioned a cute photo with all four sitting in order. well...you know that's nearly impossible. 

 

so this is what we got. 

gulianna...always ready.

isabella covering her face with her paper. (she wanted it in the picture.)

anthony ready to leave. (he's getting hangry)

jeremy just wanted to be set free and make a run for it.

then of course isa starts pouting and getting dramatic. levi intervenes. and this is what i get. typical photo.

after church we had lunch and then the kids played outside for the rest of the afternoon. jeremy took a nap, levi and i snuck away to urban renewal just to look. then later we had a dutch oven dinner at lana's uncle's house. it was super good! chicken and potatoes. that's all i need. 

jett also got the legos out. anthony was in heaven!

then all of a sudden he was playing with this little truck and i asked him who built it. "i did, it was me, mom!" he even had a little chain for towing. that's our boy! he was so proud.

gulianna begs all the time for a teeter totter! i thought this was pretty smart to put the lounge chair underneath. i almost got down and sat in it. didn't want to put my back out though. they had a blast playing with alea.

so there was a fence next to the slide that alea would climb up, and gulianna tried but couldn't quite get up, and then isabella jumped in and said "i can do it gulianna, WATCH AND LEARN!" and of course she just climbed right up. little stinker.

 

 

emry showed me their fort that they built in the backyard. it was pretty cool. i loved to build forts! they did a good job with the floor too, i was impressed!

we went swimming as soon as we got to st george, with aros and lana. actually...first rock climbing. because that's all that matters when we are in st george. being outside and rock climbing. 

{this was in the parking lot}

later that night, after we put jeremy to bed, and the kids were somewhat settled in their cousins awesome teepee...we snuck out to get some ice cream at cold stone! i can't believe jett is old enough to babysit now. 

so i guess you can count that as a date night? no kids right?

for the love...

another round of valentine's this year!

what the february!

gulianna was excited to go thru all her valentine's. she weeded out all the sugar crap and just kept the chocolate. levi got home this evening from his trip.

 

 

 

 

 

these girls love to pick up jeremy like this into some cheerleader pose, it's so funny!

 

later we made oatmeal cookie bars for our family and a few neighbors. the girls came with me and brenda to go visiting teaching. well actually we secretly dropped off a plate her awesome sugar cookies. the second house was isabella's turn to ring the doorbell. but then she pouted and started crying because she wanted to say hi! we quickly tried to shut her up, so they wouldn't know we were hiding!

then after we went again to do the same thing but with our little family. when we went to jeremy's house, isa was laughing so hard when we were running back to the durango and then i realized it was because her boot was stuck somewhere in the mud! so i had to go back and look for it.

this was at rebecca's house. we left her a dictionary garland too. she wasn't home, and then i remembered that there was a valentine's dance as we passed the church. oops! 

 they had fun! we had planned to do it as a family, but anthony fell asleep waiting for me to go visiting teaching. and levi was tired. so it was just us girls. gulianna said "let's do this for every holiday!" so we just might.

writing valentine's...

isabella writing her name on the back of her valentine's. she did hers right before school, because i kind of forgot the day before. 

gulianna came home and worked on her valentine's after school. when she left in the morning, she said "mom you better have everything ready!" i wanted to have them work on them on monday but i forgot to get them printed. then anthony felt left out because i didn't really print anything for him. dang it. next time bro.

♥ ♥ ♥

dinner time...

since levi is gone...i had to make dinner. (*key word had) obviously not my favorite thing to do. but while i was cleaning up my scrapbook room i put on rachel ray's show on hulu, just so i had something to listen to. she was making a shepherd's pie. so i thought, why not, i have a few ingredients. mine was more basic. i looked up in a cook book that we had to see what they used for their shepherd's pie, and they mix in a can of tomato sauce...which sounded weird to me, and i couldn't imagine if it would actually taste good. so i just seasoned my ground beef with seasoned salt, and taco seasoning. when in doubt, i always just use taco seasoning! and if i have to make anything it's mostly just meat and potatoes. that's all i like! after i threw the casserole in the oven, i went out to get some wood. jeremy likes to escape and go straight for the mini waterfall that is dripping off the roof.

back inside 5 minutes later and he's messing with the lights. 

huh? that looks different!

homemade shepherd's pie in my polka dot casserole! #livingapolkadotlife

gulianna, just eating without a fight. she's a good girl and always listens.

these two on the other hand, are like little parasites that feed off each other. always into mischief. and isabella always has an eye on me, to make sure i know what she's up too! she purposely plans all her drama.

see that look? she snuck anthony some of her play teaspoons under the table, as if i wasn't watching. "here bro, drink your water with this, it tastes much better." she "whispers." 

she doesn't know how to whisper. she was two levels of loud. loud and louder.

 

here's me telling anthony every ten seconds to eat his food. he just wants cereal. no i don't give in. so he either goes to bed hungry. or he'll come back and eat his food.

jeremy...standing on his high chair. 

he has no boundaries and risks every thing. 

the high chair can be 2 feet away from the table and he somehow stretches that little body of his and barely makes it to the table every time. 

and he's back on the table messing with the light fixture again...

is it bedtime yet? i don't like bedtime.

 

my kind of love...

a nice big stack of wood! yes that's right. my kind of love. acts of service. i don't need gifts or mushy cards. just help on stuff we all have to do. levi is always so good at helping with everything. he really is the best, he helps me, and then offers more. he left last night with jeremy for a quick trip to las vegas for work. so he hurried and stacked a bunch of wood for me, plus filled the wheelbarrow too. now that's love! sure i get a load of wood during the day, but it's always nice when i don't have too. we heat our place with the wood stove. no central air. so stacking wood is a daily chore for us. heat is a necessity. now if i can only get him to help me with cleaning up my mess in my scrapbook room...ha ha! that's my main focus today. it's been a disaster these past few weeks. just when i think i have time to clean up between orders, i get slammed with more. which is good! i love being busy. and hear that etsy app cha.ching on my iphone :)

organizing...

my little helpers as i organized and rotated all the cans in the cupboard. we made the trek to costco on monday night, to replenish the short term food storage in our house. food storage is essential. we can't rely on the stores to always keep stock on food. we have to rely on ourselves. we will not be without food for our little ones. food comes first. don't put yourself at risk, just think of it as your personal insurance. and again who needs toys when you have cans to stack and play with!?

family outing...

since i bought a pass for the fitness center at snow college, i got free tickets to one of their home basketball games...so we did this for our family home evening activity.

they played against the team from twin falls and got killed...go idaho! ha!

 

 

and this is how we kept jeremy entertained and from running onto the court. the last half was a bit of a struggle. we took turns holding him down!

 

got camo?? just noticed that he had an camo from head to toe! was not planned. poor kid. we grabbed whatever and left. and he never keeps shoes and socks on so we don't bother. 

 

utah county trip...

the last time we went to civilization was end of november and first of december when we met my parents in salt lake! see...we really don't get out much.

first stop: fleaology in payson.

we love antique shopping!

i really wanted to buy this little truck for bro...but we passed, after all we just had christmas and spent a small fortune on their early broncos! it was sure neat and a great price too.

jenn's booth from 3 dotters is always the first one i go to! super cute vintage valentine display. we bought the gas can. (the one right behind the cute typewriter that i passed up!) necessities over wants, that is how you live the simple life. 

 

dthe girls got their faces  painted. isabella went first, she chose a butterfly. the lady did a good job painting!

ggulianna chose a swan, she said "that was the first thing i could think of!"

 

 

second stop: lunch at texas roadhouse!

 

third stop: finally...IKEA! this is actually what the kids were waiting for all day! and anthony's first time getting to play in the play area. he couldn't wait! and one full hour and a half of free babysitting! other than family, i believe ikea is the only other "babysitter" we've had. really.

 

in my shopping cart.

1. black and white striped fabric (that i've been needing forever now) to finish up curtains.

2. down comforter. much needed because i had finally thrown away our old one a few months ago after sewing it up multiple times to keep the feathers in!

3. wok. (i donated our last one, because it was super scratched up.)

4. mini striped bowls. 

5. a fold up box to keep the puzzles in.

6. mint plate set. (got lucky and found it in the clearance section, i already had a set of 2 plates, dessert plates and bowls from the last time i was there that i also found in the clearance!)

7. black and white striped blanket! splurged on this one...because i was frugal and did wait a whole year to buy it.

 

fourth stop: the "ice cream tower" ...at thanksgiving point. we always stop here for ice cream! love this place.

 

bathroom time with everyone!

 

 

and my kids always climb on the tower. 

  

monkey 1 and 2...

 

 

fifth stop...the disney store. because we did promise isa could pick out a disney princess coloring book "just like the one grandma bought for gulianna." 

first we had to eat at chick fil a. we love sitting at the little kids table. 

 

isabella's 5th birthday...

isabella is FIVE! she had a frozen birthday. i had asked her what kind of birthday she wanted and she didn't really know. she just wanted the same things that gulianna had at hers. that's all that she could remember. she did pout for a bit because she said i didn't pick up treat bags for everyone, but we already did that for her preschool. i guess i should have done it again for her "birthday party!" oops!

she was excited to open up the boxes that grandma and chelsey sent, i didn't open them up til we started setting things up otherwise anthony would have had her presents all ripped up in a second! isabella got cute mini princess books, a princess coloring roll/activity sheets and crayons, a polka dot shirt, all from grandma. she also sent 5 balloons with dollar bills inside each one, so i could blow them up and she could pop them! chelsey got her a cool tin robot, and she received bracelets and candy bars from georgia. we got her the princess cash register, and a pink & red dress that she wanted.

 

she wanted to put the candles on herself.

"i'm five!"

 

we went to papa murphy's to get some pizza, and i asked him if he could make a snowman one. here is her "olaf pizza." they gave it to her for free because it was her birthday!

happy new year...

2014! can you believe it?

we did some sparklers to ring in the new year.

and no one got burned!

 

happy 2014!

our newest family photos...

i am going to be better! i always regret not taking family photos. i always said i would yet it never happens. so here is are most recent family photo taken on christmas evening!

this is one of my favorite little buildings...i would love to own it someday, it would make the perfect little shop! i love this wall. the colors, the painting, it's perfect! 

now if this was planned i would have swapped the girls so we would have opposite black and white, and i would be holding jeremy, so the stripes would be separated. but...

isabella was pouty the whole time. even while she was getting ready. she didn't want to wear tights and insisted she would be warmer with no tights. then of course we get outside and she pouts because she's freezing and still says it's because she's wearing tights!

anthony is freezing to death and wouldn't stop shivering.

but we got a few photos! and that is what matters right?

we aren't perfect. nor do i expect our photos to portray that. our family is crazy. we are real. and we love our lil rascals!

photos by the christmas tree...

attempting some more family photos, this time by the tree. 

including the outtakes and blurry shots.

i really need to learn how to use my camera!

our visit to This is The Place

my parents took us to This is The Place Heritage Park in salt lake, we've always wanted to go but never been! i love to see all the old cabins and barns from the pioneers that settled here. 

no more complaining of no room and living in a small house! some raised 11 kids in these one room cabins!

 

gulianna loved this rock!

 

what the hairy cow?!

 

my mom, taking pictures...

 

oh, that's over a hundred years old? sure we'll climb all over that!

 

gulianna wanted to pose by one of the cabins. she loves watching my favorite show, it's hers too, little house on the prairie.

 

i loved this old mill. i think it was my favorite structure on the whole place! we had fun walking around. i guess they only do the renactments in the spring/summer? so most of it was closed. you can still walk around though. we tripped a few alarms breaking into some of the houses! ok not really breaking in, but they didn't lock the back doors :)

 

isabella soccer...

i finally remembered to bring my camera for some photos! i have not been good about bringing it along. isabella was being a stinker too, because she knew i was trying to get some pictures of her. it's funny to watch this age play soccer, a lot of tripping and tumbling over there own feet. when one falls, they all tumble over! she is getting the hang of it, she is pretty aggressive when she wants to be, gotta put that anger somewhere :)

and this is where my kids are always at during games playing in the dirt right in the middle of the softball diamond!

life happens...

we celebrated twelve years of marriage.

summer birthdays. jeremy is ONE!

school started. preschool and first grade.

ballet, soccer, young women's. 

suddenly we have a full schedule on the calendar! 

i'm tired. we're all tired. and sometimes cranky.

i have sleep problems now. i can't fall asleep! 

i love my family. 

just got back from moab last night. 

we threw our clothes in a suitcase and jumped in the durango. 

followed our neighbors as they were moving to texas. 

we will surely miss them.

someday i will post pictures.

it's so hard to say goodbye...

we had to say goodbye to our awesome neighbors this morning! we stayed in a cabin together, just outside of moab, it was beautiful. 

come back soon josh and mineko...we will miss you guys and your cute kids!

idaho trip...{day eight}

june29th

and finally the evening that the kids were waiting for! fireworks!

our new tradition...fireworks at huntsman springs, this was our second year, we missed the very first one with glenn beck. anyway this is the best fourth of july show ever! very impressive, and of course patriotic. next year we will be more prepared with food. we always think we are just going to eat there...but the lines are crazy long, and our kids are just hungry! and with a million people in town, eating out isn't much of an option. so next year for sure. i did luck out with the jamba juice line. so we loaded up. then anthony threw a tantrum at the top of the hill. that and carrying everyone's jamba juice, and no cell reception...was almost too much! but it's always worth it. we enjoyed the beach boys! days after it was over, gulianna would say "and the rockets red glare! ahem...I SAID and the rockets red glare!" she remembered from the announcer. coolest show ever, we are so lucky to have it in driggs!

idaho trip...{day seven}

june28th

my mom had the day off again so she took us to rexburg. we had lunch at sammy's. such a fun little sandwich shop! they have one in provo too, we just haven't stopped in. i love all the decor, colorful and retro and eclectic! the girls had fun singing and dancing on stage, they're favorite thing to do! afterward we went to the spray park and rode the carousel. i love being in rexburg!

idaho trip...{day six}

june 27th

we stayed another night with cherry, did the park lunch again, came back and let the kids play while we packed up. then we took off to drop a trailer off in firth. stopped at hidden treasures in shelley, and found out that they had a fire. so sad! they had such cool stuff. drove back to meet grandma and grandpa at green canyon. poor jeremy fell out on his face in the gravel when i opened the door. the kids had fun swimming!

jeremy looking so big!

on the road again!

waiting in the durango while levi unhooks the trailer...

too much driving=lot's of fuel!