4th Of July

CrAzY BusY

This summer has gone by so fast I am still trying to figure out what happened to it. Tessa and I had our dance concert and it was TONS of fun. You can see the scary pictures from Thriller Here. We also went to Art City Days and spent time with my friend Andrea who takes amazing pictures that you can see here. We then found out that we would be having family move here to Escalante. I am Saved!!! What fun. I then flew out to Chicago to go spend time with Scott & Raquel and my new little niece Noelia Sofia. What a little angel she is and I so enjoyed my time with Raquel and Scott. Thanks guys for such a great time. When I got home it was so close to the 4th of July and my car had tire problems and ended up at the shop for a little over a week. Nikki was here to help me get around town and hang out with. Then it was off to Kanab for the 4th and Grandpas birthday. THen back home and a few days later it was time to go to Cedar to get some shopping done. We have been home for almost 2 weeks and in that time I have with my friend Jaci completed our 8 weeks of story time and we are now getting ready to start our end of summer Movie in the Park for the community. Maybe I should run for Mayor (hahahaha!!) Now we are gearing up for the 24th Weekend which is a pretty big deal here in our little town. I will post pictures when I get done with that weekend. Until then enjoy all of the pictures and I will be better at posting when school starts.

Our new puppy scraper. Tessa has a way with talking her dad into lots of things. She talked him into keeping one of the two puppies that got dropped off at our house. She loves to hold him like a baby and put him to sleep. Ahhh to be young again.

Preschool Graduation

Our new swimsuits. Thanks Grandma.

Our Hike

We love taking hikes just for fun. These are some of the benefits of living in the open country.

This is how Lexi spent her birthday!! She loved it!!

Birthday Cake!

Grandma Ina made a barbie cake and this is how they ate it.

Our new puppy!

Easter Dresses

Here's to Scott going Organic

Time to play catch up!!

Easter was not at the ranch this year because of snow and rain. In town. At the ranch is was bright and sun shiny. Should have gone out.

We had a birthday for Lexi!!


She LOVES her cupcakes and Frosting!!

A day out!!

This last weekend Rob & Nikki came over and we took advantage of the fairly nice weather and went for a horse ride. We got a sitter for the kids and had a great time. It isn't very often that I get on a horse but it was worth it.

This is just an afternoon in the life of Lexi. You should see what the restof the day is like. Oh and yes those are princess panites on over her onesie and diaper. She insists on having it that way and yes that is our dog she is helping eat. His name is SHeperd Lucky!

John, Rosanna & Mike.

I usually say that we don't have anything going on and that is why I have not been posting much but that i just the opposite and it is just what I need in this small town. We had some friends from Louisiana and Montana come and stay with us for a few days. Then I took the girls and we went to Kanab and shopping in St. George to get Twilight of course. Jason went with us and we had a blast.

I forgot to mention. When I came home that night of friday the 13th birds flew in my car and then into my house. We has quite a time getting them out.

Friday The 13th

Now I am not superstitious and do not believe in all that bad luck junk but this friday almost had me as a believer. The day started out well with the girls wanting smoothies and not eating them so I finished them after a box full of straws went flying around the kitchen. After doing morningo chores (I have great helpers) Tessa decided that she was hungry and wanted cereal. SO she got it herself, well Lexi does not like to be left out. As I was in my room looking up some information for Russ I hear screaming (no surprise) that I go to see what is the matter. Tessa is upset that Lexi is trying to put more shredded wheat with pink frosting into her bowl. I ask Lexi if she wants some and I will get it and Tessa then says "well she is putting them in the milk" Yep a brand new gallon of milk and it is now full of cereal. Thank goodness for my procrastination in throwing away the empty jug because we had to do a quick transfer to get Lexi her cereal out of the bottom. **SIGH** Now that is out of the way and I am trying to get myself put together to go to town and run errands. As I am working on my hair Tessa runs in and says "Mom we have an emergency!!, Lexi just made a mess on the couch and is jumping in it" I will now leave mess to your own imagination but when I came to grab Lexi she was Naked and parts of her were a different color ;). SO into the bathtub she goes w/ new clothes for the day. The best $100 I ever spent was on a spot carpet steamer/cleaner it says for pets but should also say for small children. I spent the next 45 minutes cleaning up the couch and foot prints off the carpet. Then off to the store. I decide that I have had a long day and it is only noon so we eat at Subway which always includes a Bug Juice. They behaved there and did great at the store so I ran into the post office and feeling like I was comming out of the slump of the day, looked in the back seat and Lexi is pouring her juice all over herself and trying to feed her baby glow worm. The day did get better I think. I did at the end of the day get to go to a Relief Society dinner at the church and see the bishop in a dress and crazy wig. I will spare any picture cause I have a weak stomach too.

We found a new was to keep the girls in line! :) Hahaha. These were a prize from bunco and we finally had to hide them cause the girls were having too much fun.