Just Playing

Once again, I was just playing with my new toy. I got a few motion pictures. Aub and Syd were more the willing to cooperate when they saw how goofy their hair was while jumping. Just a few more "action" shots. Oh, and yes my girls were still in their pj's. That's what happens when the mom gets a new toy she can't wait to play with.

New Lens

So I bought a new lens for my camera. I think I'm turning into a camera nerd because I was so pumped I could hardly wait. Anyway, this is all I could get my girls to do when I wanted so badly to take their pictures. The only time they want their picture taken is when I'm trying to take someone else's picture.

Syd's trying to hide but cant help a little peek at me.

Home Grown Strawberries

All I can say is YUM! There aren't too many things better than strawberries from your own garden. Aubree and Sydney have been watching for our strawberries to ripen. Then Aub couldn't wait for me to take a few pictures before she was taking off all the stems so she could eat them.

Aubree is just "smelling" the strawberries here. She was dying to eat them all up.

Any guesses??

This is for my post tomorrow. It's much easier to see what it is small like this than huge maximized on my screen. Can you tell what it is?

Singin' in the Rain

I can't believe how wet it has been this June. It seems like every day we were getting some kind of moisture. It hasn't been that bad because it's kept the temperatures down. We did have one little overnight trip cancelled because of rain. We've had our sprinklers turned off and we haven't even cranked the ac yet. I keep thinking I'm going to turn it on but maybe I can make it until July. That has got to be some kind of record.

Out with the old and in with the new

Our 1995 Pontiac Bonneville died a few weeks ago. It was a great car for us. Very comfy and got us where we needed for 150,000 miles. We were pretty pumped when we bought it. It replaced my black Pontiac Sunbird (I can't really remember the name) back in Afton. We then didn't have to use the Neon as our travel car. It made it to Washington several trips as well as all over Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and a few other places. It was going to end up costing more to fix than it was worth.

After being a one car family for a week we realized that wasn't going to work for us so we started some serious car shopping. We ended up with a 2008 Hyundai Sonata. Scott is loving it.

To the swing set

I LOVE IT! Almost daily I have commented on being glad we made this purchase. My girls love it and love to be outside playing on it with friends or each other. Aubree can even pump herself now. It's so much nicer to hear, "Can we go outside and play?" instead of "Can we watch a show?"

One a day...

Okay, my goal for the next few days is to catch up on my blog. Summer is so fun and busy that I am really far behind so, I'm going to try and do one or 2 posts a day until I get caught up.

In may we decided to head out and take the girls on a little hike. We went up Taylors Canyon. It wasn't a long hike, but what can you expect with a 4 year old and a 2 year old. It was fun anyway.

There is a beautiful view of Ogden up there and you can see it raining in parts of the valley.

Here's Syd checking out "the goods" in her "pack-pack". Both her and Aubree had backpacks with snacks and water bottles. Sydney only wore hers about half the trip but that's why Scott had a bigger backpack.Sydney and Aubree were being the king of the hill but while Syd was on the top of the rock this fly wouldn't leave her alone. If you look on her forehead you can see the fly. I think it was because she was sweating. Anyway, I love her expression here.Here's everyone (but me) loving all the big rocks once again.

Aubree found this rock and had to climb to the top. We were waiting for Scott and Sydney to catch up so Aubree was "posing" for me.

One last of Aubree with the beautiful mountain behind her. All in all it was a fun little hike. I wish we could have gone farther but the girls just weren't making it and Scott's comment was something like, "Well, that'll do me for the year."