Crazy month of June!

We had a crazy week last week! We got home from a great trip in Driggs, Idaho to find out that our house we were renting was foreclosing and they wanted us out in 30 days! :( We spent the week looking for houses online and walking through many of them. We really wanted to stay in our ward and neighborhood and there were a few homes available to rent but not what we are looking for. Jonathan is working from home more and more so we really needed a house with an office. We finally found one in Clearfield about 10 minutes away. While it is not as nice as the house we are in now, it is in a really nice neighborhood and it has plenty of space. So we got out the boxes that we had unpacked 6 months ago and started packing everything up again. Aahh I hate moving but we are trying to stay postive. We have moved 6 times since we have been married and this is the first time I have not been pregnant so that is nice!

Anyway on with the month of June. . .

June was full of visitors and we loved it! Our good friends the Forresters stayed a night at our house on their way to California and the next weekend our other very good friends the Perrys (who we miss like crazy) stayed for the weekend. It was so much fun!

Abigale with her friend London Forrester
This is the only picture I got when the Perrys came to town. We were having too much fun I guess but one night Holly and Jace went to their cousins wedding in Park City so we took all the kids to Arctic Circle for dinner and to play on the toys. They had a lot of fun and it was sad to see them leave but we cant wait to go back to Boise to visit!

This is Ryan just hanging out while the kids played.

A few days after the Perrys left my sister and her little boy Max came to stay with us from Florida. It was so much fun and Abigale and Lydia loved having a little boy to play with and follow around.

Max loved the cars in the backyard and loves pushing anything he can including little baby strollers

Cute guy

Caitlin was going to leave for a cruise the next day and she was going to leave Max with us so my dad came to help out until my mom got back in town (from Paris!) to take over.

We had fun at the Treehouse Musuem in Ogden (one of our favorite places)

We met up with some of our cousins at the Gateway who are in town for the summer from South Africa!

LOVE love this picture! Abigale and Ben are too cute and who knows what Lydia is doing!

My beautiful sister and her sweet little guy who was having a rough night. It was the night before she was going to leave him with us and he was not feeling well so she took him to an instant care and he had pink eye! He was nice enough to share it with me, Jonathan, Lydia, and Ryan but at least the same drops were used for everyone!

Cant forget this happy guy!

I think Max was missing his mom but we did our best to keep him happy. He is such an easy and fun guy. Abigale was sitting on the couch and Max just climbed up on her lap. He loves her!

Eating ice cream with Nana!

Playing in the sprinklers

My mom took Max to Pocatello for a few days and Abigale decided to join them. We missed her but tried to have fun with just two kids. We decided to head into SLC and went to the farmers market and the Gateway where they were having a chalk art competition/family festival.

There was a band playing at the farmers market and Lydia just wanted to watch them the whole time.

Some of the chalk art was amazing.

Cute kids but a dark picture

Abigale helping Ryan in his swing

Abigale worked hard to earn enough points to get a bike so that she could take it to Driggs for the 4th of July. Since she got a new bike Lydia got her old one. She doesnt quite know how to ride it yet but they will have a lot of fun riding together in the future!

The Treehouse Museum had a family fiesta night. It was kind of lame but they had churros which were good. Of course the kids had fun- they love that place!

They gave the kids moroccos (or however you spell that). Ryan grabbed mine out of my hand and he loves holding it but he keeps hitting himself with it.

The next weekend my parents and Caitlin's family came back to SLC because my dad had a conference. They stayed at Little America so we took advantage of the swimming pool and had a Cafe Rio pool party.

Whew! That was a long post full of fun events! Stay tuned for 4 of July pics!

Guess who is 3 months old?!?!

This Adorable Guy!

We love him sooo much! He is seriously the best baby ever!For the last 6 nights he has slept from 9 until 6 or 7 straight and then eats and goes back to sleep from 8 until 11. Such a blessing! He is really good in his carseat and usually sleeps through everything when he is in there which is great when I go to the store or church!If you just look at him he will start smiling. It is sometimes hard to get him to look at you because it seems like he will look around for you and look everywhere but right at you. He has giggled a few times and we try constantly to get him to do it more. He loves his sisters and he smiles the most at Abigale. The only time he cries is when he is tired. When he starts getting fussy we just wrap him up and put him in his swing or in his crib and he goes right to sleep. He is starting to really grab at toys. When we put him in his bouncy chair with the toys hanging down he will just sit and stare at them and focus and then start hitting them and grabbing at them. There is a tag on the side and he will just sit and try and grab at it. His hair is out of control. We really need to cut it but it makes me sad and I am used to having girls where you just let there hair grow so I am not sure how to do it. His hair also has a natural part (just getting ready for his mission early) We really can't get enough of him! I am sad that he is growing so fast but cant wait to see more and more of his personality and how he is going to handle himself with two sisters! We love you Ryan!

The Last Half of May. . .

The day after Mother's Day I decided to head to Pocatello for a few days because my dad was going to be out of town and because Jonathan had a lot of work to do and then he can work late without feeling too guilty! It was a great trip and very relaxing. I love that we live close enough that we can go anytime and the drive is only the length of the girls' movies!
We took the kids to Ross Park to play on the toys but Abigale became fascinated by the huge boulders they have there. She loved climbing up them and then sliding down. She now claims that she is a rock climber and I will admit I was impressed with how well she was climbing!

We then made our way over to the big rock walls and we had fun finding paths up to the top.

The next day we went to Moreland so that my grandparents could meet one of their newest great-grandchildren. My grandparents are amazing! My grandma just turned 92 and my grandpa will be 92 in September. They still live in the same house since before I was born so I have a lot of great memories every time I go visit! It is fun to see my kids there now and playing with the same toys I played with as a little girl!

My Grandpa kept calling Ryan a bruiser with his boxing gloves on (he scratches himself a lot) it was so cute!

The next day my dad was back in town and he took the girls to his office and courtroom.

They loved sitting where Papa sits and talking into the microphones. My dad showed them the little jail cells where the prisoners come through from the jail and Abigale was obsessed with them and told us that was where they took a time out! My dad said yeah sometimes a verrry long time out!

My dad was responsible for having this replica of the Liberty Bell placed in front of the courthouse and he loves showing it off! Which was fine because the girls loved it! They even got to ring it a few times and it was a lot louder then they were prepared for!

Just a random picture that Abigale took and so that everyone knows I exist since I am always the one taking pictures!

We got back from Pocatello it time for Abigale to start swimming lessons. It was just two weeks everyday for 45 minutes. I am not sure how much she really learned since she spent a lot of time at the wall waiting for her turn but she still loved it and feels more comfortable in the water.

The hardest part was that I had to sit and watch every lesson in case something happened and it was not fun keeping this girl from the water. I brought about 10 books every day and we got a lot of reading in. By the end, she was telling me all of the stories. I love how blue her eyes look!

My parents came into town so that my dad could go to a doctor in Odgen and we went to the Treehouse Childrens Museum and then had lunch at the Pizza Factory and played on the toys at Fat Cats. I think they wore each other out!

This cute guy turned 2 months old and has turned into quite the smiler. Every chance he can get he is smiling and we just love it! Yes he is 2 months old and he is wearing 6 month clothes! At his two month appointment he weighed 14 lbs 11 oz and was 96th percentile for height and weight! He is a chunk!

I had been wanting to get these cars for my girls for a long time but never wanted to pay full price for them. I decided to go to a yard sale by my house and found one but it was still a little higher then I wanted to spend but decided to go for it anyway since I had been wanting one. On the way home from the yard sale I stopped by another one near my house and they had another car for only $5. So I decided to get both and now the girls have a blast driving their own cars around!

We decided to wash all of the cars and Lydia was a big help!

Memorial Weekend we didnt have much going on so we decided once again to take advantage of the short drive to Pocatello to hang out with my parents. The girls love going there and Jonathan was able to get some work done while we were entertained.

It was really neat because we were able to visit the gravesites of my grandparents on my dad's side. The girls had never been to a cemetery before and Abigale was fascinated by it all and asked a lot of very interesting questions. It was a great way to explain to her about what happens after we die and how important it is to be an eternal family.

Cute girl on the drive home!

Mothers Day Weekend

With Fathers Day this weekend I figure it is time that I finally post some pictures of Mothers Day. I was lucky enough to celebrate the whole weekend and it was perfect!
We woke up Saturday morning and Jonathan told me to get ready because we were going to go to Salt Lake for the day. I hurried and got a good workout in and got ready and we decided to head to Temple Square and then the Gateway Mall so that I could pick out some presents! Temple Square was so beautiful! The weather was gorgeous and the flowers were amazing. There were also many brides walking around so my girls were in heaven! We wanted to take a lot of family pictures with the flowers but of course our camera died in the first 30 minutes but we did get a few cute ones.
Walking to the templeShe was so excited Lydia, always dancing

We ended up going to the Church History Museum and the kids loved the children's area. We spent so much time at Temple Square that instead of going to the mall we decided to call it good before the girls got too tired. We headed home, took naps and then went out to dinner. Jonathan dropped me off at some stores to do some shopping and he took the kids to get some food for breakfast and dinner. It was so nice to just walk around and pick up a few things that I wanted.

The next morning I was lucky enough to get breakfast in bed- fruit crepes! Then the girls gave me their cards and some gifts. It was perfect!

Lydia was mad about something and Jonathan took a picture of her grumpy face. She is such a drama queen but check out those lips!

I took this picture of the kids because for some reason it made me really happy. Watching my two girls play games together while Ryan just hung out next to them. It was one of those little moments I wanted to remember forever. I love my kids!

Cant forget about this cute guy with his boxing gloves on! And these beauties!

I am one lucky momma!