BYU-I or BUST!

This girl is going to COLLEGE! How exciting, I wish I was going with her! Good Luck Danielle! We will miss you!!

Flying kites in Idaho

Kite flying has never worked very good for us, you would think with all of the wind we have it would be perfect, but it is a very inconsistent wind, I have noticed especially when we are trying hard to make kites fly. When the wind finally did pick up it came with a BIG rain storm and we got soaked trying to get the kites back down! Oh how fun!

Would YOU trust US?

We are pet sitting for the weekend, this is a picture of the kids with ALL of their hands IN the fish bowl, the poor things were/still are scared to death....almost, not really death! Fortunately all of the little fishies are still alive, I am positive that we have over-fed, over-stimulated, over-changed their water, etc! They are pretty hearty little fish, I hope they can survive us til Monday when our cousin owners get back!

Justin the Hairstylist!

I found Justin fixing Claire's hair the other night, I am not sure who did a better job, Justin doing hair, or Claire doing makeup! I am pretty sure I had a post kind of like this last year after Ash and Emma went to school, they are my little baby watchers and must have already gone to bed for the night when this one happened. At least they were being nice! I was glad it wasn't my "good lipstick" until I realized it WAS my good lipstick, RRRRR!

Last summery haircut

This will probably be the last hair cut we do outside this year, sob, sob! It is so much easier to clean up outside! We just let the wind take care of it!! It was a perfect night for a haircut too. Here is the handsome boy!

Swather Operator For Hire

I am headed out to swath again this morning, I don't know if I can handle another 9 hour day in the tractor, I only have Claire which will help a lot. Justin went with Ryan, he wanted to wear some pliers this morning, I will have to take a picture of him with his pliers and plier case on his belt, he is turning into quite the little farmer. I don't think I am such a good farmer, I keep thinking I will get fired after my crazy driving and swervey rows, but no such luck, Columbia View Farms would have fired me by now, but not Telford Farms, we must be DESPERATE!! We are off!

Claire lately

Lately Claire has been getting into everything! I didn't think my little princess was going to turn into a terrible two year old.....but she is. She LOVES to color, on everything, including her face and body, the pantry door, the walls, etc, etc.



I'm not sure where she found a binky, but she sucked it most of Sunday afternoon, I didn't ask questions, she was happy!

She is also dressing herself. She is such a girl, well, such my girl. She loves clothes! She dresses herself, her babies and even barbies, she is really good at it most of the time.

Jammies on top of her play clothes, she never wants pants on, she is constantly taking them off and then will find something else to wear around for a while, she is into all of the kids dressers, she even was putting on Jaci's clothes last time we were at their house. I am pretty sure Justin just BARELY figured out how to dress himself, must be a girl thing, a clothes horse at such a young age.......

Claire is also counting to ten, and on, but not in any right order, she is talking a lot, but is very quiet. She is at a really fun stage, I wish she would quit growing!! I am not ready to have my baby be so big!

Workin!

We have been WORKING this week. My poor little kids are SICK of the swather. This one time thing has turned into an all week thing. I think Ryan is wearing out his resources! I am tired! I do enjoy getting to swath by myself, now that is totally different, but my poor kids cant stand to be in the tractor ALL DAY! Here are a few happy moments, there are only a few!!! One cool thing; we get to eat lots of junk food!

Claire's favorite spot, it only lasted one round, but she keeps trying to get up in front of me and then she laughs because she knows she is in my way!

Big brother taking care of little sister.

Now there is a happy moment! Both sound asleep, and at the same time no less!

Sunday: Uncle Bobby's Birthday!

Uncle Bobby's birthday was yesterday, we enjoyed Sunday dinner and Cake and ice cream at their house! We are so fortunate to have them living so close!
Check out all those kids!



Trying to get their fingers in that yummy chocolate frosting!

Emma and Uncle Bob are matching! (Bob is having a tooth implanted and normally wears a retainer) But we made him take it out for one picture with Emma's missing tooth!

This is how she looked later that night:

Justin knocked out the other front tooth, Emma came running to tell me that Justin "slammed" her down and her tooth just popped out! She was laughing, not even ONE tear fell! I think we will have Justin do the tooth pulling from now on! Only one more loose one too go!

I LOVE this toothless smile, I can remember having that toothless smile and I did NOT like it at all, but these girls have both looked so cute with no teeth, (I probably did too at that age, I just didn't think so...) SO glad to be done with that for a little while!

Claire and Uncle Cody

Cody came over yesterday and had to have his picture taken with this cute little girl, She is a doll, He is SOOO handsome! We love our Uncle Cody!!