Before and After

It's a nice change... we've worked really hard the past few months to get the house ready to repaint. Our poor neighbors must have really hated to see our house go through this process, but we're really excited about the results. 

Chad is such a hard worker and I'm so happy to have such a handy husband!

Summer 2013

Alison loves her swim lessons....and her froggy goggles. 

Caitlyn has become an expert swimmer. she's doing the backstroke here but she's really good at the butterfly stroke.

Nathan had been great sitting with me... as long as he can listen to "Firework" and play games on Caitlyn's IPod

Love.

I'm spite of everything bad we have to go through, I just love this guy. He brings a lot of love and joy into our family.

Happy Father's Day

A fun fathers day. Chad wears my grandpa Vance's tie on Father's day. I had the opportunity to talk in church today so he had the fun job of keeping on the kids reigned during sacrament meeting.

Summer = soaking up the rays

Alison loves preschool

Alison just finished up her first year of preschool at Mrs. Edith's. She absolutely loved going and even though we are a couple of weeks into summer she will still ask in the morning if she gets to go to preschool that day. We had to tell her the Mrs. Edith is taking a break but that she'll go back after the summer. She can't wait - and we can't either. Not because we want her out of the house (quite contrary actually - she's my little buddy) but because she has such a good time and learns so much when she's there.

A lot of joy was brought to this little girl through "nokulars" today.
I love her. I also love that she sings to songs in the cat. She knows all the major his right now and it's adorable.

The theatre

We took all the kids to a puppet show today. This was them as we were waiting for the show to start.

Time away

Chad and I were able to have a night away and it was glorious! We woke up extra early to have a sunrise hike at papago park. We then counterbalanced that by having a huge, amazing breakfast. (Some of the best French toast I've ever had). Then we did one of my preferred activities and hit up Last Chance(we totally scored!). The morning was finished up at the rock gym. It was a lot of fun but it reconfirmed my fear of heights. Chad was fearless and tackled one of the harder tracks. It was amazing and I wish we could do it every weekend.

one of my most favorite things right now is that Alison sings along to every song in the car. And she knows most of the words :-)