Summer Fun

We have been enjoying our Summer so far. We've already gone "cabining", fishing, swimming, hiking and the seasons only just started!

At the end of June we spent a week at my in-laws cabin(s). Jake's sister Cori and her husband Jeff and their crew (Alex, Casey, Joey, Holly, Kate, & Jack) flew in from Michigan Father's Day weekend. We headed up to the cabin(s) on Monday. We had a total of 15 people....it was a lot of fun. The men-folk built a fence around the property enclosing the two cabins. This makes for a nice area for the little ones to run around in. We visited the creek nearby, went to a rocky beach and got sunburnt, visited the Eddy's (my sister-in-law's parents) and went on a hike at their place, and just enjoyed relaxing and visiting with each other. The guys enjoyed fishing, though I think they broke more lines and lost more hooks than anyone would like to admit.

We headed home on Friday and then scrambled to get everything ready for Delia's party later that evening. The next day we celebrated Grandpa and Grandma's 70th wedding anniversary. There were a lot of people there, most of whom I had never met...in fact Jake said the same thing. We are very glad to have been able to be there and celebrate with everyone! Congratulations Grandpa Charlie and Grandma Peggy!!! We love you.

And now you know the drill. Click below to check out some pictures from our Summer so far.

Summer 2009

Happy Birthday Delia!

We celebrated Delia's birthday early because we had lots of family in town to celebrate Grandpa and Grandma Talley's 70th wedding anniversary (more on that later). And we figured it would be nice to celebrate with as much family as we could.

I asked Delia a while ago what kind of party she wanted. It didn't take her long to decide on the theme. And of course I was delighted with her choice....a ballerina party. When the guests arrived each little girl was given a hand-made tutu (Thanks Mom!). They swung on the tree swings, colored on the driveway with chalk, played pin the flower on the ballerina, watched Delia open presents, ate cake and ice-cream and of course twirled around the yard like beautiful ballerinas. Aside from the heat early on it was a wonderful party and the birthday girl enjoyed playing with all of her friends and family.

I'm doing things a little different this time around. I have uploaded pictures to my Picasa site where you can view them and add comments if you wish. I hope you enjoy the pictures from Delia's Ballerina Party!

Delia's Ballerina Birthday Party

So I have this blog....

and I've been neglecting it for a long time now. I plan on changing that right now though. My goal is to post something everyday this week (except for Sunday and maybe Saturday). We've had a very busy couple of months and there is a lot I wanted to post but feel as though it's too late. So I will just be updating the most recent adventures and/or the most important.

First up is pictures from Madeline's Rainbow party.

As mentioned above it was a Rainbow themed party so we had BBQ chicken kabobs with rainbow colored vegetables and fruit. Rainbow fish crackers, M&Ms, Skittles, Rainbow colored licorice, a very colorful salad and fruit filled cups in rainbow layers(sadly :( no picture). I almost thought I'd see a leprechaun there were so many rainbows! haha just kidding! Oh and of course the wonderful rainbow cake that my mom made.

So here is a slideshow of pictures (taken by my brother-in-law Tyler...Thanks Tyler!)

Happy Birthday Madeline Mae!

Can you believe little miss Madeline is a year old already (well tomorrow at 6:25 am to be exact). Here's a little slideshow with a few pictures from her first year. More picture to come..........for now I must continue getting ready for her Rainbow Party.

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Hello? Anybody there?

So it's been awhile since I posted......have you noticed? A lot happened. We kept getting sick and then we found mold....lots of mold..........so we moved.............again. Remember this post? Yeah so we stayed in the last place for a whopping 8.5 months!! Wow that's pretty good for us. I'll post more later when I have a chance and don't have cranky, hungry children screaming at me. You know later.......like next month. :)

And of course a few pictures......

Happy Earth Day!

Check out Fig & Sage for their Earth Day Giveaway. I personally would like to win the makeup brush sets.

Hope you all are well!

Happy Easter!

We enjoyed the Easter holiday at my parents house with family, lots of candy, scrumptious cookies and delicious food. We started off the day at church of course. And after a quick lunch it was time to hunt for the eggs. Delia and Justus were more than ready to hunt for those eggs. Although Justus seemed a bit more interested in playing hockey instead...making his Uncle Jake very proud. They hunted and found all of the hidden eggs. It was fun. I took a ton of pictures and when my one and only memory card was completely full I used my brother-in-law's camera...Thanks Jon!

Here is a link to a bunch of pictures. Enjoy! Stay tuned because these are only the pictures that I took with my camera.....I took a ton more with Jon's!!

Easter 2009