Summer Fun!!

I thought some of you would like to see the girls' cute dance recital costumes. Katey was a country clogger, Alyssa was a spring flower, and Josy was a summer flower.
Levi is our little biker?

Derren decided it would be fun to have a craw-fish fry using the craw-fish in our pond. So, he contrived a trap, and actually caught some!

The smell of the cooking craw-fish attracted a skunk - whom I found in our garage and later out our back window - trying to get to our craw-fish. Luckily he/she wasn't scared enough to spray. I naively thought our visitors had ceased coming when Derren found a snake in the garage! YUCK!!!!!

Today I decided it was time to work on the landscaping around out house. Since it had been left empty for a year the weeds had become pretty wild. Speaking of wild, wild rose bushes are some of the most vicious plants I have ever encountered! Their thorns kill!!!!



Later on, we played in our pond.

I am SO hot!!!

Literally! Today as I was trying to cook something on our stove, my shirt caught on fire! Alyssa and Josalyn thought it was hilarious, Katey thought it wasn't funny and they shouldn't laugh, Levi wanted me to do it "gain!," and I was bumbed about my shirt (once I stopped laughing.) Now I know what people are talkjing about when they say something smells like burnt hair - it stinks - the fire ended up burning my hair too.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALYSSA!!!!

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Time to catch up (again)....

Well, I've fallen behind on sharing our news again. Sorry, April and May were crazy months.

Here are some of our happenings...Katey had an awesome b-day party,

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we put an offer on a foreclosure house which was accepted,
went to New Orleans to visit my friend, Darlene for 9days, I got food poisoning and through my back out the third day we were in New Orleans-spent the rest of the time in the hotel by myself (bummer!),

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moved to our new house three days after we returned home, and unpacked, cleaned, unpacked, cleaned...you get the point.

Levi's Fashion Statements

I had assumed since Levi is a boy he wouldn't care for dress-up. I was wrong. He doesn't get into all the pretty things the girls like, instead he's found his own style.

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

Our Valentine's Day wasn't romantic. It was better, it was filled with people we love!

The Cadayongs came to visit.


All the kiddos received their traditional box of chocolates in our mail box.





We visited the Russel Stover Chocolate Factory.

...and we ended the evening with a cheese and a chocolate fondue.

Did you know it's a Swiss tradition if a man drops his bread in the cheese fondue he has to buy a beer for all in the room? If a woman drops it she has to give a kiss to all the men in the room. Next year I think we'll adopt that tradition using root beer and Hershey kisses!

Levi and Lanolin...

We thought you might get a kick out of how our morning has been going today.