ahhh, summer

a warm summer evening at the fair

(actually, perfect weather for the fair-low humidity, few bugs)

long lines,

funnel cakes & cotton candy

bright lights

fireworks

dizzying rides

music

and

good friends!

*there are no pictures of the boys and dad because for most of the night they wandered off to ride the big rides!-i can't believe my boys have graduated from kiddyland! fun for dad though!

i could never understand the baby bath tub. i tried it with thing 1 but hated it so since then this is how my babies bathe and they love it. they kick and kick and giggle and cry when i take them out!

did you see those chubby little thighs? i could just eat them up!!

my heart is broken

i lost the fight! my boys have been begging for shaved heads for sooo long now. i've always told them no!! saturday night thing 2 asked one more time and i finally said, "if dad wants to do it!" yippee, and off to the bathroom he ran!










his beautiful hair is gone. those adorable little curls that flipped up around the ears are no more!

and

did you expect any differently! one look at thing 2's new doo and he had his head hanging over the sink and was hollaring at his dad to hurry up!



they love their new cuts-they can't keep their hands off. the next day during primary they just kept petting their heads.



as for me, i look forward to their hair growing back.



the next morning the dad asked thing 3 if she wanted her hair cut, she reached up, looked at dad like he was crazy, smoothed her long locks of hair and said...

"no, then my hair won't be beautiful"

with a definite tone of duh!

saturday morning trail walk

looking up at the ceiling of the "summer house"

the dad maneuvering the trail with the stroller-i promise, i won't plan a trail walk until thing 4 can ride in the back pack!

tasty little burger

i've come to really enjoy my burger! we are lucky and able to eat good beef on a regular basis. the dads father and brothers are in the kobe style beef business and we have benefited from their work. his parents always bring us a large supply of our favorite cuts when they come and his brother sent him a large shipment on his birthday. you haven't had a burger till you've had it kobe style! it truly is yummy!

recently i ate at a fudruckers, good burgers, but i decided that the best burger would be a kobe style burger on a fudrucker bun! have you ever had those yummy buns? fresh baked, soft and fluffy! that would be the burger!

i hope you're eating something yummy!

a child's eye

on our flight out west this summer we were sure to give thing 3 the window seat. this was her first time flying since she was a baby and we wanted her to have the full experience. she loved it and was so excited to be flying up in the sky, through the clouds.

going from the east coast to the west coast is quite an experience. the scenery changes dramatically! we left our plush green landscape and landed in the dry desert(beautiful in it's own way). as we flew in, thing 3 was watching out the window and turned to her dad and asked

"why is it so dirty out here?"

we just had to chuckle and kind of nod saying, hmm, yeah it is kind of dirty our here.

nothing like a child's perspective!

we do love it out there and do find the mountains beautiful so no offense to those who call the west home.

music

when my sister posted about this song, viva la vida, i had never heard it before but since then i've heard it a lot and love it. it is one of those songs i think i could listen to all day!

then the kid rock song, all summer long, is one we started hearing while on vacation and we all love it. not the best lyrics but...

maybe i'll add to the playlist but for now these are two songs i'm really enjoying lately.

blessing day

while we were visiting family we had the opportunity to bless our beautiful new baby boy. it was the first time all of the dads immediate family was able to be at one of our babies blessings.

it was a beautiful day full of fun that we took a moment from to welcome our baby with loved ones surrounding us.

this is how he was during the blessing (screaming)

this is how he was before and after (happy as can be)

i love babies dressed in white! i think they look so beautiful!

back to life, back to reality, back to the here and now.

we are back from 2 full weeks of nothing but fun!! we packed up all 6 of us and flew cross country to visit grandparents and cousins!

the kids had a blast, playing with cousins, swimming, boating, motorcycle riding, playing with fire(only on the 4th of course), playing with cousins some more and swimming some more!
unfortunatly my camera was packed away during most of the fun.

the boys got back together with cousins they know and love.

thing 3 was too little last time to remember anyone so she started brand new friendships with cousins she now, absolutely adores.

while visiting we had a big family reunion with the dad's family on his mothers side. we got to catch up with his cousins and meet spouses we hadn't met and their children. it was tons of fun!

it's good to be home, but i could live on vacation!