June Wrap Up

Okay so the blog has gotten very neglected lately, just like my house! I think I only got one June post in and now it is time to post about the 4th and the fireworks, that will come later. I thought I would just do a June wrap up and call it good.

I honestly can't believe June is gone already we were so busy, but seriously where did it go! We finished up with swim lessons weeks ago and I am relieved. The girls did awesome and both of them passed off their levels. Ash is now a level 6 and Kaite a 4. They learned so much during their last two weeks of lessons. Kaite is diving now and Ash has become quite the swimmer. Ash spent the two weeks swimming laps and working on technique. Her last lesson was spent racing the level 6 class. She did awesome and I wish I would have gotten her crawl stroking she even beat the boy she was racing. We all enjoyed cheering for her! Their instructors said they will miss both of them so much, we love their swim program!

We have also been using our bowling and movie summer passes. We have had so much fun with this and even had Mar join us one afternoon. Kami loves to bowl and usually breaks 100. Kaite is awesome at it and always breaks a 110. Me and Ash always round off the bottom 2 but we have fun doing it! Here are a few pics.

We have been riding the carousel. This is Kami's favorite horse.

Kaite got her hair cut. She has wanted a pixie cut for a long time and I finally gave in, but we did do a compromise and got a "party pixie".

She loves it and we think she looks so cute!

We also went to a ward party and Kaite enjoyed scaring the other kids with a dead snake..... oh Kaite. We got to see our new nephew and I got some of my baby fix holding him! He is so cute! Congrats Missy and Briant! We went to the drive in and saw Cars 2, the girls loved it! We clebrated Father's day. I think Ky is the best dad ever!

The girls have loved playing with the dogs. Daisy is such a good dog.

I can finally tell Kaite yes when she asks "is it summer yet?" We are loving the warmer weather. The garden is looking great and I hope we can have the peppers and tomatoes in the ground this week!
Ash spent her allowance money and bought Just Dance 2 last week. We have ALL been enjoying it and staying up late playing it. Mar and George even got in on the fun this weekend. I had the cutest video of the girls dancing to Barbie but it was too big to load, bummer.
I forgot to mention before that when we received Kaite's report card her teacher had included a reading sheet that showed Kaite has passed off all the kindergarten and 1st grade words. She knows all the 2nd grade words but 4, and all the 3rd grade words but 6. Way to go Kaite, she is such an awesome reader!
I think that about wraps up June now hopefully I can keep up with July!

A Graduation, A Birthday, And Extras

I seem to be getting worse when it comes to keeping up with the blog. Since it is late I think I will go through all this quickly, I don't have any time to blog in the next few days! So here is how we have spent our time lately.

Missy had her baby shower a couple of weeks ago and the girls got to spend some time with their cousins.

Ash is the only one who can hold Chelsea for more than a minute without her crying!

We went to two ballet performances. This was Lily's performance which also happens to be the class Ash is signed up for in the fall.

Kaite graduated from Kindergarten.

Eli, Shae, and Kaite (these are her best friends).

Getting her "diploma"

Mrs. Nash and Mrs. Goebel with Kaite, they are wonderful teachers!

We inherited some plants after our neighbor passed away, our house looked like a jungle for a few days.

Ash's picture she took for her accelerated class at school. I think we are going to enter it into the fair this year, the colors are amazing!

We have been swimming and swimming some more. Kaite's first dive ever.

Both the girls got put in upper level classes Kaite is in the level 3 class. She has now learned how to swim at the bottom of the pool and spends tons of time down there, this makes me so nervous! Ash got bumped up to level 5, all they do is laps back and forth across the pool. She really picked up the breast stroke and is doing very well at it.

Ky had his birthday last week and we had some fun. He had some trolls decorate his car and fill it with balloons while he was in class!

I don't know who could have possibly done that! We had a fun evening, we went to Craigo's and ate. Kami ate a whole plate of olives, yuk!

They made Ky a monster cookie dessert. I creamed him! Mar wanted me to shove the whole thing in his face, but I was nicer than that.

Then we went and played mini-golf. The girls loved it. Kami never quite caught on but she loved to hit the ball and pick up any that were near her! That white blob is Kami.

Ash silly stringed Ky!

Kami helped him open presents.

Homemade german chocolate cake, it did not look good...but everyone said it tasted good.

We have also enjoyed the last day of school, field day, some shopping, riding the carousel, seeing Pirates 4, eating at Gator Jacks (yum), and a quick trip to Gene and Taylor's to pick up a table (down and back in one day). I picked up this table on KSL for a really good deal. I have been watching for tables for like a year and I have had a heck of a time finding a square table that is not counter height. This table seats 8 comfortably and I love it. I am planning on staining and distressing the chairs next week if the weather cooperates! Yes, those are our tomatoes and peppers still waiting for the weather to warm up so we can plant them outside.

Ky got to go see the bodies exhibit last week, I am so jealous but he promised to take me soon. Also, we both got a new calling. We are now in nursery with Kami for the first hour. I will really miss my Sunday school class. When they first put me in I was not looking forward to teaching 14 and 15 year olds but so far I think it was my favorite calling. I am sure going to miss those kids they were a hoot! I really enjoyed getting to know all of them better and hearing about all the drama in their lives!
I have spent the last couple of weeks with my nose in a book. I have read so many I can't count anymore. I branched out from my medical thriller/suspense themed books. These ones I have been reading have been easy reads but entertaining. I have been finishing one a day, when I have time to read. I think it is driving Ky crazy but then he is always at his drafting table! I caught Ash reading at 12:30 the other night and couldn't scold her because I have been up until 2am reading lately! At least I know where she gets it from!

I think that catches up the last few weeks. We have so much going on this summer I feel like it is mostly gone already. Ky is through his mid-terms and I am looking forward to him being done with this semester. I registered him for classes the other morning and I think next semester his schedule will be a little lighter.

Another two weeks

I started this post at the beginning of the week and here it is Thursday and I still haven't posted. I figured I might as well include everything else we have been doing this week too.

We have stayed super busy and I am excited that school is coming to a close, Kaite only has 2 days left!! With everything going on I think school has just gotten in the way these past few weeks, we have had a hard time sticking to a bedtime routine with all the late nights. Okay so this is what we have been up to.

We finally got our fire pit in and enjoyed a night of smores (one of the only nights it hasn't rained).

Ky always on his phone!

We finished up our first round of swimming lessons last week. Both girls passed off their levels and they move up to levels 3 and 4!

This is Kaite swimming her crawl stroke after going off the board. Kaite swam the width of the pool and back by herself one day. I was so proud! She really is a fish.

Ash learned how to dive this round. She was the best diver in the pool! This is her first time diving off the board. Ky was especially proud of this.

For those of you who don't know the girls use the school swimsuits because this pool has already ruined two of our suits even with lots of rinsing.

I helped Mar with prom. This is her and her then boyfriend Tyler.

When she told me she had an orange dress I was like "what?? really orange" but I think it was so pretty!

We went to the Paul Cardall concert at the school with Mahon and Cindy. I had another video but it was way to big to load.

It was a good concert, but I wish we could have seen more of him just playing the piano. He did bring along an awesome cellist though. We enjoyed some nice frozen custard when we were done.

I also spent some time shopping with Missy, then enjoyed a nice dinner with her and Briant. She is almost there!

We have been filling up the weekends with yard work, even in the rain. I finally got to mow this past weekend and the yard is all cleaned up, minus the dirt piles in the yard. We have been trying to keep up on the weeding but that has been so hard since the weather won't cooperate.

The girls both had their field trips to the dunes. Kaite literally spent her time rolling down them, she was covered in sand! Ash's day wasn't as nice but she had fun.

We had two funerals to attend. Ky spoke and played at one, he did a very nice job. We let Kami play with London for this one, she loved it. The other one we took the girls and we had a Kaite moment. As soon as we got there she says "mom where is he" and I said "who" she said "the dead guy, where is his body"...such Kaite. She cracks me up!
We have been working like crazy but, we got our permit back for the barn! (for now until the county decides to yank it again!)
Mar had her seminary graduation last Sunday.

And yesterday was her graduation, in the new I center. Wow it is big!

The moment of truth!
Doesn't mom look great less than two weeks after her surgery. She is healing very well.
All us kids, James couldn't make it...too bad he is always so entertaining!
We got to spend some time with Aunt Bonnie.

Me and my "lil sis" I just say she is freakishly tall!

I took Ash with me and she had fun, but it was really long. She will be next...

The graduate- such a scary thought!

Mar stole my camera after the ceremony and now I have like 100 pics of her and her friends!

Tuesday night I spent the night making brownies, cheesecake, and strawberry pie! I was up till almost midnight but it was totally worth it. Aunt Bonnie loved my cheesecake! The strawberry pie was all for me! JK Ash took a big chunk last night while I was gone!
We have most of our plants transplanted. We still have a few to go and hope to have them done tonight. The tomatoes and peppers are doing great!
We had one very scary incident this past week. The neighbor heard something very large attack Dasher and throw him against the door. He ran out to see what it was and heard the animal run off his deck. He said it was something really big. We have been very worried we have a wolf or cat around. Domino has been confined to the garage and we have a trap and camera set up to see if we can get a pic. The good news is that Dasher showed back up. His leg was torn up pretty good but we got him cleaned up and now he is in the garage too, the animals aren't very happy about this! Dasher looks great and is almost healed. We still haven't seen any sign of this animal. I am hoping that means it was a wolf and it is long gone, a cat would stick around and wait. The girls haven't been allowed to play outside much and now I feel like I need to pack a gun around my yard! Oh the country life!!
We have a very big weekend planned with Missy's shower and wedding prep stuff. Next week we have some really fun things planned. I am sure it will be another big post when I finally get to it!

The last two weeks

I had no idea that it has been two weeks since I have posted. So much for posting once a week! These two weeks have just flown by. Here is what we have been up to. Me and the girls spent an entire day watching the royal wedding and all the coverage that came with it, so fun! I loved Kate's dress, I think she looked gorgeous! I also loved seeing London in the Spring, everything was so green and pretty! Oh how I wish it would have looked like that when we were there. Kami is so cute every time she saw Big Ben should would run up to the TV and point and say "there is Big Ben". I can't help but wonder what she would say if she saw how big it really is.

We have also been busy around the yard. We have been moving trees, planting trees, moving dirt, and digging numerous holes. If you have drove by our house in the past two weeks you have probably been wondering if we are crazy...maybe.

Ky and Kami on the backhoe

The girls hanging out while we planted trees.Ash's hole for her new window
We now have half the trees planted at the barn, including three that we donated. We have all the holes dug for the egress windows, now we just have to find the time to put them in! We also started the new flower bed in the front, sort of. We won't actually be able to finish until Ash's window is in, but the dirt is there. We got the fire pit dug and in, the raspberry patch is ready for more raspberries, and Saturday we filled and leveled all the holes in the yard. Also, the girls helped me transplant a ton of daffodils last week and they are already blooming!

We also have been coloring.

Making the best strawberry pie EVER! You can find the recipe here or here.

Friday we went to the Mindy Gledhill concert at the college. We took Ash, this was her first concert. She loved it!
Ash and Mar

We went to Twizzleberry after the show. Doesn't Ash look so grown up!

Other things we have been up too. I have a new fun toy and we have enjoyed painting our nails around here. I have spent some time shopping with Marianne and helping her get ready for prom! Kaite enjoyed grandparent's day at school. She has been so excited to take my mom. She was even up before the alarm went off. She didn't even get up that early for Christmas! She had one traumatic event that day though...she lost a tooth at lunch. Apparently, she was distraught with all the blood! That tooth turned out to be a magic tooth. The thing jumped right out of the bowl later that evening and broke in two, I am wondering if it was some sort of heat exchange since it was sitting next to the stove while I was cooking but still... The tooth fairy left Kaite a note saying it was very magical and special. We celebrated Mother's Day yesterday. The girls were so excited and couldn't wait to give me their presents. They are so cute!

I hope everyone had a happy Mother's day!
We have enjoyed the warmer weather we have had, but today I am wrapped in a blanket with the fire going. And we are starting swimming lessons soon!
I do have a funny story about Kami. She loves church and can't wait to put on her dress Sunday mornings. As soon as she is done with breakfast she runs in and puts on her dress. I was really worried at first since we don't have church until the afternoon, but so far she has stayed clean. She is very much a girl!
I think that wraps it up. We have lots of stuff planned for this week including transplanting the tomatoes and peppers, they are getting tall. Hopefully, I will get a post in next week!