We're Adding One More to Our Family!

We'd like you all to meet Chin Chin Tippets, our newest little girl. Chin Chin is a Shih-Poo (Shih-Tzu Poodle mix), is very mellow, and loves to be snuggled. Mommy, and family are all doing well and are thrilled about our newest addition!

Happy 4th of July!!!!

We hope each of you enjoyed your holiday as much as we did.

Ours felt like it started last weekend and continued until yesterday.

We ended up having an unexpected cancellation of plans last week so, our family used the time to plant 7 fruit trees (2 cherry, 2 plum, 2 apple, and a peach), create 3 4x16 ft. garden boxes, and plant a vegetable garden. Despite how much work it was, I felt like I was in heaven! I'm so excited we are finally (literally) planting roots somewhere.

Once the plants were in and watered, we had visitors. Aunt Mechelle (from New York), Aunt Tenele, Uncle Milo (Te-Milo, as Josalyn calls him), and cousins, Camille, Justine (Beans, as Levi says), and Aaron (Derren, as Levi calls him) came to stay over night and see where we are living.

Friday we were all on our way to the BLT Family Reunion - for all you non-tippets BLT stands for Brigham Lewis Tippets, not bacon, lettuce, and tomato - at the YMCA in Winter Park, CO. We spent 2 1/2fun filled days with a lot of Tippets'. We had a talent show (I'm still bummed Mechelle didn't perform a solo!), smores, pictures, church, cafeteria food (that's a big deal to homeschoolers!), canoeing, a few cuts and bruises from cousin rough housing, and lots of time to realize how great our family is. I came back feeling pretty proud that I am part of such a large group of fantastic people. Thank you Tippets family!

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We hope each of you had as much quality family time as we did, and enjoyed your 4th of July!

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.