Kyle, Misty, Taytum and Kylee: 14

Happy 36th Birthday

Dad blowing out his candles on his cheesecake. Birthdays are a lot different once we get older. It's usually a dinner out on the town and a movie if we're lucky but we sure love this guy and love to celebrate his life.

The three loves of my life!

Splash Pad

This will only be the first of many outings to the splash pad in Highland. Even though it is always insanely crowded, the girls have fun and it gets us out doing something different.

Two cute girls.

Getting ready to go but had to catch a few smiles before we could depart.

Taytum love walking up and down the river and jumping off the rocks. She gets into a pattern and that is what she will do the whole time we are there.

She doesn't usually care to much for the fountain area where the water shoots up from the ground but here she was finally brave enough to play in it for a little bit.

Stomping on the sprayers. Kylee is also enjoying the fun but I'm always holding her or helping her walk so it's hard to snap pictures of her.

Sprinklers!

Over the summer we used Grandpa's sprinklers a lot to stay cool.

Playing in the spray.

Kylee didn't join in today and chose to nap outside while we played.

Just having a bunch of fun.

Cheese!

Random June Pictures

Notice I was able to get a little pony tail in today.

Just a funny picture of my kylee.

Mother's day

I don't know what I would do without these two greatest joys that have come into my life. They keep me on my toes and am certainly blessed that they call me "mom." I love their smiles and their morning cuddles. They are growing up way to fast, I wish they could stay this age forever.

Every May, around Mother's Day I am able to get together with my mom and sisters and we have an outing. We take turns being the host. This is year was mom's turn and she had planned on taking us to Lagoon. However it was raining hard that day so she took us to the crafty store in town and let us pick a project that we could paint and take home. We spent hours there and I have to say we are all pretty talented and took home some great decor to add to the house.

Katie and I working on our master pieces.

The finished products.

Mom did this fancy USA sign.

Angela did this cute hanger thingy and had an object for each season.

Katie did the "Home" sign where the "o" is interchangeable for each holiday.

I also did the Home sign.

Sneak Preview:

Our home will be completed in September and I've decided to dedicate a whole post to the building of our new home instead of month by month pictures. This picture is when they broke ground in May. So exciting to finally get our dream home started and here's to the many decisions we will be making this point forward.

Memorial Day Weekend

We headed off to the Boulder for a weekend of fun. Here's the moon that was full and bright coming up over the mountain.

Just chilling, while we get the tent set up.

Taytum and Dad getting the stakes dug into the ground.

Katie and family graced us with their presence and the cousins sure had a lot of fun playing together. Katie also had a fancy new trailer that they had to test out. Kylee (10 months) and Tate (5 months) hanging out in the trailer.

Just playing.

My little Tayter-bugs.

Two best buddies. These two play really well together.

Campfire hot dogs.

Gotta love the dirty faces and multiple day's worth of dirt on faces and hands when you go camping.

Kylee-bugs

Kennedy

Jacey - warrior princess.

A cutie patutie playing outdoors.

Going for a walk.

We love camping!

10 Years!

I just completed my tenth year of Kindergarten and it will be my last. It was a lot tougher than I thought it would be to say good bye. I will miss Kindergarten. I will miss my co-workers and the associations I had in the school system. I will miss seeing those cute faces telling me hello in the hallways. I will miss it but I am also excited to be accomplishing a life long dream to have a preschool in my home for that is the plan for the upcoming school year. And of course we will miss Megan! She started tending Taytum when she was only 6 weeks old and then took on Kylee and we really became great friends and she really loved my kids and took real good care of them. We will miss Abby and Aydree as well. They were in my Kindergarten class and now in the 5th grade. Thanks Megan for everything you have done for me and my family.