How does your garden grow?

Last year our garden sucked.  It was such a hot summer...I think the heat had a lot to do with it.  I spent so much money on plants last year I was a little nervous to plant again.

The good news is our plants are actually growing and none of them have died....yet.

We even planted a few rows of corn.

Last year we planted some strawberries plants.

I got to pick my first one and eat it.  I love home grown strawberries.  They are so sweet.

We even has some peaches growing on our tree.  I am so excited for a home grown peach in a couple months and a peach pie...and more smoothies.  

We got a funny surprise this morning.  The girls found a miniature egg in the coop.  The thing is, the baby chickens don't start laying until they are about 6 months old...ours are maybe 4 months at the oldest.  They are too little to be laying.  We don't know who it was but it will be fun to watch and see if we get another.

Look who turned 10

Dacia is now a decade old.  Where has the time gone?  It seems like not too long ago that I was in the hospital just having her (look how young I look)  It's amazing how fast 10 years has gone by.

She is so beautiful and so smart.  We are so lucky to have this amazing girl in our family.

This crazy girl is in love with zebra print right now.  So you can guess that she got a lot of it for her birthday...in the form of clothing, pillow, pens, flip flops, towel and many more zebra print items.  

She even got her first caboodle...actually she got 2 of the same one.  Her Aunt and I think alike on presents (we both bought her the same shirt a few years ago).  So now she can put her earrings in one and her lips gloss and nail stuff in the other.

even the inside of her cake was zebra print.

It was a great day!  

Actually a great two days!  

We celebrated with everyone over for Sunday dinner, the day before her birthday.

On her real birthday we went out to dinner to Coasta Vida and Coldstone ice cream just our family.

Summer of Swimming

I kinda decided last minute to sign the girls up for swim lessons...and when I went in to pay for the session I kinda decided to sign them up for a couple more.  So the girls will have 3 sessions of swim lessons this Summer.  Which means the older two girls will get through three levels and little Miss Brylee will just end up doing three sessions of the Preschool level.

They LOVE swimming!

We have 4 more days this week and we are done with this session.  I couldn't have done it without help from my Mom.  She has been picking the girls up and taking them on the days I work. 

They are having so much fun!

another tooth gone

Sunday morning Brylee woke up as usually, she walked into our room, I told her good morning but what happened next is a bit out of the ordinary.  She stood next to my bed and stuck out her tongue.  Her loose tooth fell out in her sleep and she showed it to me.  She is now missing 3 teeth on the top.  It's funny watching her eat apples.  

What the Hail

We had some crazy wet weather last week.  It was so nice to get more rain and not have to turn on the sprinklers yet.  Funny that those are the things that you think about as you get older.

Erik thought it would be funny to go out and jump on the trampoline in the hail storm.

He was a bit wet and cold when he came in.

Family Fun (lots of photos)

What a great weekend.  Even in between me working on a huge home project we found time to have fun with the girls.  Erik has been wanting to go out shooting again (we went shooting on Easter weekend and had a blast).

We have a cute little pink Daisy BB gun...(our first gun)

We just got another BB gun today.  It takes co2 cartridges and has a lot more power than the Daisy. So fun to see the girls get excited when they hit their targets.

We took a case of soda to use as target practice.

Shake 'em up and fire away.  This was the last pop can left, so glad I was able to capture this shot with the camera.  We also took Erik's 9mm and fired a couple clips.  There is a lot more power with that gun.  It was our first time shooting that one outdoors.  He had only used that one at the indoor shooting range until today.

We started a funny new tradition on Easter.  When we go out shooting we pick up a bucket of chicken to complete our little Redneck adventure.

I love having a nice camera and tripod.  

Love my girls!

It was such a gorgeous day.  So happy to spend it together as a family.

Bring on Summer

Friday was the last day of school.  The girls are so happy to have a break and 

we are looking forward to our Summer adventures.  I love spending time with my girls.  

We want to tag along with Erik to Idaho at least once this Summer(we went twice last Summer, he goes to work and we go to play).  We have Bear Lake with my family. Family Reunion in Heber.  Dacia and I both have a birthday in June.  I have YW Camp in July.  We bought Summer Movie passes and we also love the drive-in on a hot Summer night.  I am sure we will do shopping trips.  We will have lots of fun riding bikes....I am so happy that all three girls have learned how to ride bike now.  

We will have lots of Summer BBQ's in the backyard.

(I got a great deal on a used patio set yesterday, we have a table and chairs big enough for all of us now)

And we will just be silly and enjoy the time we have together when I am not working.  

(Boo...too bad work gets in the way of Summer)

And I will be working on a few projects this Summer.  I just started something in the girls bathroom yesterday.  It's looking really good.  I will post pictures when I am all finished.

Sewing

Last month I had to do some sewing to get ready for our Camp Fundraiser.  We had a spaghetti dinner, so why in the world did I have to do sewing, you ask.  Well , simple...

I made the YW all aprons to wear while they served dinner.  They turned out cute and added to our little restaurant atmosphere we were creating.  I made 16 of these babies.  

I have been busy working on other projects since this one and working on other camp stuff.  I don't get the sewing machine out as much as I would like to.  My friend Bryanna has started sewing clothes and making patterns.  You can find her projects here.  She made a cute cardigan pattern and she was nice enough to share it with me.  Today I finally had time to pull out the serger and sewing machine and do a little sewing.  I just used some fabric I had around the house to test the pattern out.  I haven't sewn with knit before so I wasn't sure how it would turn out.  

I think it turned out pretty good for a first attempt.  I think I need to go get a bunch of cute knit fabrics and make me a bunch more.  One in each of these colors and maybe some chevron print cardigans.  

Stop Growing Up

Sunday after sacrament meeting ended I hugged Brylee before she headed off to Primary then she looked at me and said "stop growing up".  I laughed.  I tell my girls that all the time.  It is so hard to see them getting bigger and not be my little babies anymore.

See, she is getting bigger.  One day she is graduating preschool and the next day she is riding her bike without training wheels.
She was playing around on the bike at the babysitters house and decided she wanted her training wheels off. A few days later I hadn't gotten around to it yet so she took matters into her own hands and found the tools and had Grandma help her while she was there babysitting.  A few days of practicing and this little girl is a pro.  I love her and she really needs to stop growing up.  So despite the fact she won't stay little forever, she will always be my baby.

She's a Big girl now

My baby graduated from Preschool today (wipes away tear).  I can't believe she is getting so big.

They sang lots of songs they have learned this year.

Each kid sang a song all by themselves.  I am so proud of Brylee for singing.  She sang Twinkle Twinkle Little Star perfect.  I didn't think she would do it...she hates getting up in front of people.

Walking down the aisle in her gap and gown.

Getting her candy lei from her teacher.  We love Miss Pateresa!

Off to Kindergarten in the Fall!

She was so proud of her diploma she hung it up on her door when she got home.