September and Chad's Wedding on the 1st

This is a random picture before we left the house. I thought Ella was pretty cute in her outfit even though it took me atleast 30 minutes to convince her that she would like those pink shorts that I got for half off at once upon a child. The were Gap too so they'll wear nicely. Not bad for 2.50. She accessorized with the sunglasses herself. Wyatt received these duck feet from the neighbor for his birthday. He loves that he leaves behind giant duck foot prints.

 My brother Jesse brought the kids up after the sealing to be there for pictures. This is Wyatt in his new suit. It didn't take a ton of coersion to get him to put it on. His favorite part was the tie, because it has helicopters and airplanes and he can put it on himself because is it one of the zipper ones. We let him pick it out. It was totally worth it. I thought this was a great picture.

Chad and Carrie outside the temple. She wore boots with her dress (very cute ones).

The best picture I could get of them together.

A family picture, I guess I shouldn't have hidden my belly then you could actually tell that I'm 8.5 months pregnant :) instead of the alternative. 

 One where he isn't frowning because he is tired of his suit and his pictures.

Ella in her dress to match her sparkly shoes, like dorothy. She saw this dress in the store and said. "Look at this fableeous dress." Pretty funny.

The kids with my grandma Bernice.

With Grandpa Kelly. I took it when both of them weren't watching or I wouldn't have gotten such and natural smile from either of them. Wyatt had had enough pictures even though we bribed him with ice cream.

The Latest

Well we haven't been doing much. I've been trying to potty train Ella. She is doing good, but she is very stubborn and hard to bribe. It seems to work better to take something away than to promise her something if she goes potty. I'm having a hard time finding motivation to get out of the house. It seems like the kids are more cranky, or maybe I'm just less tolerant, I don't know. But we did meet Josh at a fun park on his lunch hour. The kids fed the fish and watched the turtles.

I threw out some cosmos and painted sunflower seeds, and they kind of got away from me. I wanted to post some pictures of my overgrown front yard.  You can't see the tallest one, but I  was expecting most of these plants to stay somewhat short, like under 36", but I have one that is going to top out taller than me. Okay that isn't that tall, but it looks pretty big next to the deck. One of my sunflowers finally bloomed, I thought it was really pretty.

The best $22 I ever spent. We finally got around to putting in the sand box. Since we moved our garden out side of the fence we decided to move the garden dirt and put in sand for the kids. The rocks we already had and I bought the ground cover for other things so, It cost us for the sand. Wyatt would spend almost all day out there if I would let him. Ella isn't quite as enthusiastic, but I can say that it is well worth the investment. Now we just have to decide what to do with the big pile of dirt we had to pay for because we live in an old river bed. I think we'll have to move it and put a patio and fire pit back there. Eventually.

Enjoy the rest of the Summer. I'm doing good coming up on 7.5 months. Hasn't been too bad, still playing volleyball.

Wyatt's Birthday

Wyatt is now officially 4 years old. Getting very big. We bought him a water rocket for his birthday. A little about his age limit but he loves it, so does Josh for that matter. He wanted a rocket cake, or a swather cake he couldn't decide, I pushed for the rocket, so much simpler.

We had a kite flying party and the wind was perfect so Ella got to fly her own kite. She was very pleased.

It was a lot of fun, even though we got several kites stuck on the roof. We have a dog now. My in-law's rat terrier is a chicken killer so she now lives with us. We got rid of the chickens and got a dog. The kids like her, but I'm not so sure she is pretty needy. Anyway we'll see what happens. Summer is going very quickly. Oh speaking of which, I am haveing a BOY on the 12 or so of November. He looks healthy and everything so now I have 4 months left mas or menos. Hope your summer is going good.

Heritage Makers

Hey everyone,

I just became a Heritage Makers Consultant. It is a digital scrapbooking company. I am mostly doing it to save money on their awesome products, but I wouldn't mind spreading the news either. I did calendars for my mother and mother-in-law and they turned out great. Anyway, you can check them out at Heritagemakers.com. They have an online catalog. The company is kind of pricy, but the quality is very good, as is the service. Oh and I only buy things when they are on sale. They are having awesome card sales in their Christmas in July sale so if you like to send Christmas cards then you can get them for a great rate. See flier here. They drop ship too, so you don't have to pay double postage. Check it out.

by the way..

For those of you who are very observant. I only removed the baby counter because it seemed inaccurate and that annoyed me, as if I want something adding weeks to go. I find out on the 25th what we are having.