Sisterly LOVE

Siblings need to stick together...  And if you try to get away, I guess she will try to put you in the choke hold.

My Baby girl turned 4

Sleeping out on the tramp with Mom.

Wallowa Lake with cousins

Cam, Bek and Matthew chilling out.

                                                                Cam locked himself up.

                                                      Grandma reading to the little man.

                                           Some of the cousins making ice cream cone smores

                                                   Cam didnt want to go to sleep.

                                                      Will and Bek

                                                   James BIG bubble!

                                               Sarah and Ashes playing games.

                                              Three buddies

                                               Love these two!

Jason's visit summer of 2012

MAKING UP FOR LOST TIME!!!

The kids had a great time wrestling and doing what regular siblings do.  Sure makes my heart happy to see my children having so much fun together.

This is one way to read a book.... She loves this book. She has 2-3 books that are her favorite and she has them almost memorized.

MOMMY HELP MEEEE!!!!!!

These photos tell a story. Altough they are funny just when you look at them, they are funnier when you know the whole story.
So this summer we decided it was time to adjust Lindsay's crib into a day bed type bed. So to make a long story short she is able to get in and out of her bed when she wants.... We also moved her so she shares a room with Ashlynn now instead of with Bella. So the night these pictures were taken was her first night in the new bed and new bedroom. We had tried to put her in bed a few times and she just kept getting out and so we put the gate up to keep her in the room at least. We figured she would wear herself out and get bored and then give up and get in bed... Rick went to the gym to work out and I was on the computer and she was being a stinker and yelling my name "Mommy!" over and over and over again, then I heard her saying "Mommy help me!!!" well she is not my first child so I know the "routine" SO I was trying hard to ignore it and teach her that bed time "bed time". I let her crying and pleading go on for about 5-10 min. (And dont get me wrong it was hard not to go get her) but finally I decided I would go and try again to lay her back down again (hoping she had wore herself out a little with her crying.... I got up and walked down the hall towards her room and I saw her little legs sticking out from under the gate... I felt awful! She had wedged herself under the gate (trying to escape) and she was stuck and had been yelling "mommy help me" and me thinking it was just a ploy to get out of the room (which it still was a ploy to get her out of the room) I had ignored it. Of course as soon as she saw me she got a proud smile on her face so I felt I could grab my camera and take a picture so her Dad could see it. Needless to say she hasnt tried escaping that way anymore. Gosh I love that girl!

Happy Birthday Lindsay!!!

We celebrated Lindsay's Birthday the first week of July. She sang happy birthday to herself for weeks. It is so wonderful to hear her sweet little voice singing songs. I love it!
Some of her favorite things are:
*She loves to follow Ashlynn everywhere (if Ashes is in the living room with us and Lindz wants to play she comes and grabs Ashes by the hand and says "come on Ashes" and pulls her)
*She LOVES to be in the kitchen all the time she says "I help you"
*She climbs up on top of the table and says "look I a giant"
*Her favorite songs are The wise man built his house upon the rock, The Chapel doors, I am a child of God, 3 little monkeys swinging in the tree, Popcorn popping, Jesus wants me for a sunbeam. ANd the list goes on and on.... She can hear a song 2-3 times and then I will hear her singing it. She loves singing!
*She tells me all the time she loves Grandpa and Grandma. Mostly while we are driving in the
car. She says "we going to Grandpa and Grandmas house!"
* She loves Dinosaurs and animals.



Some cute things she says:
*The other day Bella stole a french fry off Lindsay's plate and Lindsay said "no no you goober"
*She loves the movie Princess and the Frog and she sometimes says "you a stick in the mud!" (a line from the movie)
* She puts her hands on her Dads cheeks and says either "Poky" or "thats smooth" depending on if he has shaved recently.
* SHe points to my Belly and says Baby brother. This might turn out to be confusing later. :)
*She knows the Verizon logo (her dads work logo) and whenever we are driving down the street and pass a Verizon van or vehicle she says "thats Daddy's Verizon"
* The other day when my sister was here visiting us we were all in the kitchen and Lindsay was standing on a stool and she saw the garlic press in my Kitchen tools and told Tracy "thats Daddys" and then she proceeded to point to an Ice Cream scoop and say "thats Mommys" This kid is way more observant than we can ever realize. Tracy had a good laugh about that.

I cant even think of all the cute things she says. SHe makes me laugh every moment of every day. She keeps me on my toes for sure. But I don't know what I would do without each and every one of my kids.

Huggin cousins