Bath Time Fun

The kids love taking baths at Grandma Cindy's after Sunday dinner. Here are some pics she sent me!!!


You have to look at the reactions on the boys faces to Liv's silliness! Its almost like they were thinking who let her in here?!?!?!?

Alivia's 1st Horse Ride

For fathers day we went to Blackfoot to visit my grandpa's! It was a lot of fun. We bbq'd and just enjoyed being around all of our family. On our way home we stopped at papa mike's and Alivia ended up going on her first horse ride. She was grinning from ear to ear, she was so excited. She was a little hesitant at first, she walked out to pet the horse and Mike lifted her up, neither of us expected a ride. Luckily I had a camera in the car to capture the moment.

Here is Alivia with Midnight.

Here she is getting to know the horse a little

Alivia and Papa Mike

So I can't get the stupid video to post. So I will do it seperate later. Mitch says its to big to do through the blog so I put it on you tube. But now what????

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t39-WAqgVC0

Ross Park

Mitch's sisters and I decided to take the kids to the pool since it was supposed to be 80's and mostly sunny all day. Not sure why we thought the weather man knew what he was talking about. After being there for a couple hours, the lightening set in and it rained us out, so we went home and bbq'd then tried again and went for evening at the pool.

Austin and Grayson -- Spent most there time in the kiddy pool and enjoyed it ... all though you can't really tell by the look on Grayson's face

I love this picture of Grayson and Austin. It looks like Austin is tell Grayson a good story! Wish I knew what they were saying!

Kristina, the girls and I decided to get slide passes, right after we bought them the lightening alarm sounded and they closed the pool. We went back at 5 that evening when they reopened it so it worked out ok.

Hailey, Abby and Kristina waiting in line for the slide!

Connor enjoying the water!
The good thing about going back later is Connor and Alivia decided to brave it and go down the slide too. There was a video but it was taking way to long to load!

All in all it was a pretty fun day and we are hoping we will get more sunshine as this summer continues!!!

mice mice and mice

Well we have had some little friends visiting in our house. They were not invited nor are they welcome.

Doesn't this picture make your skin crawl ---

I first saw the furry little creature last week after a yard sale. It ran across Liv and Austin's room. I HATE HATE MICE! I closed down the whole basement and locked the cat down there it took me a while before I would even open the door. Well no luck!

Then the on Monday I was watching my DVR episodes after the kids went to bed it was about 11 pm. Well here comes the furry little creature and it ran across the living room. My stomach curled, i broke out in a cold sweat and was so scared. YES THAT SCARED! I DO NOT LIKE MICE! So I got the mouse to stay back by our door to the garge and set up this baracade:

Then I pushed forward the front of my original baricade and propped the door open with the laundry basket:

It took him a minute to run out. He played peek a boo with me a few times. I am pretty sure my heart was racing -- I kept praying over and over again and sure enough he finally ran out.

Ahhh -- finally and guess what it was now 1 AM and I still haven't watched my shows. I called Mitch who was out of town to tell him about my adventures and he thought that was pretty ambitious. Well I wasn't going to sleep knowing he was crawling around and it was wasn't like Giz was going to be any help:

Just in case after I went down to my bed I blocked the door. I had to get some sleep.

Well two mornings later Mitch was doing Liv's hair for Gym and I had just laid down to get a couple of hours in before Austin was up. Then I hear Liv shreik that she saw a mouse. Not really shriek with fear more with excitement. Here is a picture with the real mice catchers. I cannot believe Mitch got them to sit for this picture. They are not my kids. I would have been a mile a way had I been there -- ugh!

Happy Birthday Mitchell

Happy Birthday to my Stud of a man! I am so happy I found the love of my life to spend eternity with. He really is such an amazing guy! I am so lucky to have him! He works so hard to make sure we have what we need. He is always willing to help with a smile (even if he doesn't always want to) and I bet if you asked he is one of the best Uncles there is!

He is such a good dad to the kids! They look up to so much. I couldn't ask for a better partner in raising them. He helps out a lot on entertaining them while I sleep or while I am at work. The kids had so much fun watching Mitch race at his last race. Alivia tells everyone her dads race number and Austin begs to watch his vroom vroom movies whenever he see's Mitch pull out the computer! They love him so much!

Hope you have a great birthday I know you have a lot of people who love and appreciate you almost just as much as we do!!!

Happy Late Birthday Buddy

Wow I am so late on doing Austin's Birthday post! He turned 2 last month. I didn't really get excited. I am not ready for him to be two, but he is and he is changing so much. He is finally talking and he is so smart. He loves to mimic his sister. He is her little guinea pig she will instruct him on what to do and he listens. It amazing to watch him take direction. He doesn't say much but he sure does understand. He loves to dance. He has got some amazing moves. He is always makeing us laugh. I love every minute with him. He can drive me crazy but I am cherrishing all the moments good and bad. They just go to quickly. He greets me the same whether it has been 3 hours or 2 minutes. He acts as if I have been gone for an eternity nothing melts my heart like hearing him say Mommy with the cheesiest grin. He is very polite always quick to say Thank you. He loves his big sister and they have become best friends over the past two years. It has been so fun to watch their relationship grow. Here are some of my favorite pictures from the past two years.

The Many Faces of Alivia

(My personal Fave Above)

Need I say more....

(she took these herself)