Celebrating our anniversary and fathers day!

This year for our anniversary I told Blake I would like to go to a show up on the strip. He said, really, I'd rather go to San Diego. So we did. We took the kids and had a great weekend in San Diego.

San Diego Zoo


The kids favorite thing-smashed pennies!


Sea World

Moving up!

Kierstyn made it through Kindergarten and is on her way to 1st grade!! Her class had a moving up ceremony and the whole class sang a song to Start Spreading the News. . . It was really cute but I didn't get it all on video. She was so ready to be done with school and is really looking forward to a long summer vacation. She had a great year at Silver Sands and we have been very happy with the decision to go there. Next year she's going to the new elementary school just across the street and we're hoping that decision works out just as well.



Congratulations Kierstyn and enjoy the summer!!!

Dance Recital

Its that time of year again. The annual dance recital. This was Kierstyn's 3rd year participating in it. I have to say her custome wasn't one of my favorites but it was still alot of fun to watch her develop her talents. Kiertyn was most excited because she had all her grandparents there watching. She especially looked forward to going swimming when the recital was finished. I tried uploading the entire video but it wasn't working so for now here are just the pictures.

Kierstyn woke bright and early Memorial Day and wanted Blake to take her bike riding. She has been asking for a while for dad to take off her training wheels. We weren't so anxious to do this as we have tried it 3 times before with no success.



This time something just clicked! Success!!!

Memorial Day weekend

We didn't have big plans for Memorial Day so I spent the weekend making jam! Not all that exciting I know, but the exciting part for me was that all the peaches came right from my tree!

Backyard Camping!

My kids have been asking to camp out with their dad for quite a while. So they ended up having a back yard campout!! A little different than the great outdoors but they thought it was great- roasting marshmallows on the grill and sleeping in the tent. I'm not sure Blake was as excited as they were.








This last weekend was the fathers and sons campout. Ben was so excited about it, he wouldn't stop talking about it all day Friday. I think they had fun although with the windy weather I think they were a little cold!

Boys will be Boys!

It always seems like Ben is the one who gets hurt. So I was trying to clean up my house this week and Ben comes in the house screaming. It sounded like a hurt cry so I hurried over to him and gave him a quick look over. He seemed okay so I just gave him a big hug to try and get him to calm down. But as I released him I felt blood on my cheek and quickly found the back of his head bleeding. It wasn't bad but because it was the head it was bleeding a lot. Once I got him to calm down he told me he was playing in the front yard and fell off the cinder block wall that separates our house from the neighbors. He landed on his shoulder and his head. Oh Boy!!