She's 4 Months

Look how stinkin cute she is!  I can't believe she's 4 months already.  She is full of smiles everyday and thanks to Keegan's help today I was able to snap a couple pictures that included smiles!

1st grade and so excited!

Keegan was so excited to start school.  He'd had his 1st day outfit picked out for 2 days and then he woke up an hour early!  I wasn't ready to be awake yet so I told him to go back to bed.  This year he has Mr. Edwards.  I've been told by many parents that he is the teacher to have.  I guess it was good to have an 'in' with his Kindergarten teacher since she was the one who placed each student.  This is a good thing since at our school you have the same teacher for 2 years at a time so Mr. Edwards will also be his 2nd grade teacher.  

I can't believe how much he's grown, he looks so big.  

He came home at the end of the day happy and excited to go back.  

It bloomed!!

Three and a little bit

We're a little late getting this one in, we were busy camping and exploring Yellowstone with this little one.

8 Feet Tall

I truly didn't think this thing would get any taller than it was when we left for our trip.  However, we had a heatwave here and with that and our friend making sure it got all the water it needed it shot up at least 2 feet more.  I measured and it is 8 feet 8inches!  Should be blooming soon!

Island Park 2012

After missing out last year because of our move we decided that we had to make it to Island Park this year.  We chose to go in August when Josh's grandparents were going even though his sister and her family and his parents were going in July.  Instead, my mom and aunt came to camp for the first 1/2 of the trip and then because Tari can't resist my cute babies she and Paul came for the last 1/2.  

 USUALLY the weather is a bit cooler and there are less mosquitoes in Aug.  Well.....this year August had a mind of it's own.  It was not cooler, it was WARM and DRY. Anyway, on to the pictures. 

Here's Carleigh at Old Faithful (back in the distance)  those of us from Washington where it isn't usually sunny or hot were hiding in the shade.  

There are fires all over Idaho and the smoke was blowing right to us.  This was Monday night when it was at it's worst.  I honestly considered packing up and going home because it was SO bad.  The fires were far away but there was so much smoke and ash in the air that it was falling on us and our tent. 

 Here's our cute Carleigh Girl taking her 1st camping bath....in a bucket.  She didn't care, it was warm and she loved it. 

Here's Keegan goofing off in the stroller, sure he can't see but he's still light enough that I could technically still use it for him. 

Another picture of the sun one night, sooo red.

We drove into Herriman State Park one night to look for moose, here's Keegan at Millionaire Pools

all in all it was a good trip

Keegan and the beanstalk

We've had a good week, nothing to terribly exciting but a nice relaxing week.  The weather here is great, not too hot, not too cool.  

 Here's Carleigh in an outfit from Aunt Jacey, it's really a lot cuter than this picture makes it look and she was happy just would rather stare at the camera than smile when I tell her to.  ;)

 We picked our first tomato of the season, it was tiny but very tasty

Today was the start of the Mushroom Festival!  They have all sorts of fun things for kids, this was a life size version of angry birds. 

 Keegan's favorite part....the bouncy slide.

And now the weekly sunflower pictures, this thing is huge!  I can't wait to see how tall it ends up.  

Carleigh at 2 months

Ok so first here's one of Keegan on his school playground, we walked up there one evening.  

Here's Carleigh Girl happy to just be outside.  

So here are her 2 month pics.  One of my friends sent the fun stickers for each month.  I can't believe it's already been 2 months!!

This week....

In the last week his sunflower went from being shorter than Keegan to more than a foot taller than him!

July so far...

So far this month we've had a visit from Mimi, celebrated the 4th (kinda lamely)  Carleigh turned 2 months, I got a year older and we're watching our garden grow.  We are also very excitedly counting down the days till Island Park.  

Pirate Keegan, while Mimi was here we went to the  Farmers Market and she paid for Keegan to get his face painted.   It lasted until we got home.  He hated that it was itchy and he couldn't touch his face.  But he looks mighty fine with a beard.  

For Mothers Day Keegan's class planted sunflower seeds in little starter cups.  Here's his so far, I'm going to take weekly pictures so that we can see how fast this sucker grows, I swear you  can tell a difference daily.




Carleigh had her 2 month appt on the 12th she now weighs 10 lbs 2 oz and is 22 inches long, right in the 30th percentile.  I'm not sure that Keegan ever got to the 30th percentile.

Our 4th of July was fairly un-eventful.  We found out we live in a city that doesn't allow fireworks to be sold so the "fireworks" we bought were actually party poppers.  And we thought the local firework show was on the 4th....nope it was on the 3rd.  However, we do live by a lake that all the houses on the lake buy the big "illegal" fireworks so we did still get to see a show.  Oh well, now we'll know for next year.  :)

I turned another year older, now making me 33!  I got to spend the day shopping, eating at our favorite Korean restaurant and then hanging out with my cute little family.  Perfect!

Now only 26 more days till Island Park!!

Last Day of School

Here he is on his last day of Kindergarten!  I can't believe the year has gone by so fast.   He's loved every minute of it, made great friends, learned to read, and how to be a good student. 

Keegan and Carleigh 

Keegan and Mrs. Moore, what a great Kindergarten teacher!

On his last day of school he got to meet his teacher for next year and go see the classroom.  He'll be in Mr. Edwards class for the next 2 years since they do a 2 year rotation here at this school.  He seems excited and is actually sad summer is "so long" and that he has to wait "forever" to be a real 1st grader.  

Random Carleigh pictures.

So I've found that the bad thing about cell phones (one of them anyway) is that I take way more pics with my phone than my actual camera.  So then the pictures suffer, I have to make a better effort.  Here are the random photos I had on the camera

Her cute little feet and tushy

2 wks old

With Pa, she looks so tiny

1 month in her cute cloth diapers

I decided to put her in a pair of Keegan's jammies that I had saved  (scroll down to the next post to see the comparison )

Just propped up on the couch 

I had gotten a tree decal for her room but didn't have the energy or desire to climb on a chair while pregnant so I put it up yesterday.  

Keegan or Carleigh?

So can you tell who is who?  I put Carleigh in my favorite jammies of Keegans (yes I put baby girl in blue clothes) and took some pictures.  It's obvious that neither of them liked the hat at first.  

What do you think?