Our New Addition!

Someone in my ward was giving away this beauty so I snatched it! I am SO excited to fix it up and be able to play again. It's been a while! I like these kinds of additions- my body doesn't try to kill objects :-) 

My Lil' Man & I

Singing Time

 

Painting

We LOVE to paint!

Around the House

With Daniel off for a few weeks we spent some of the time diving into the home improvement phase. For some reason the builder put carpet in all of our bathrooms. Its horrible. So Daniel, all by himself, tiled the upstairs bathrooms! Such a stud. Here is what they look like now...

I just realized that this shows none of the tile and all of the stickers I had fun sticking on...  oops

Heres a peak at our bathroom now. TILE! Love it! Daniel did such a good job!

Our Garden! We planted again this year and its awesome. There is just something so satisfying about going out to your garden and picking the strawberries or tomatoes or carrots or onions. The later two we didn't even plant! They just came back! 

Our out of control tomato plant. This is after he got a little hair cut. LOVE garden tomatoes!

Our strawberries needed to be trimmed as well. They grow like weeds! 

I think I have had a total of one strawberry from over a dozen picked. Why? They are Alex's most favorite and he snatches them up every time we pick them! 

One haul of tomatoes. I think I am going to have to learn how to can this year! We can't eat all of these. 

Visiting Adam

We were able to go back to Manassa this summer and we got to see Adam. 

Daniel and I took dinner to the cemetery the night we got there

We saw these solar lights on other grave sites and really liked them. So we got Adam some little lights so when his headstone is put in place he'll also have lights around it

There he is

This is just the cutest thing ever! We told Alex to say 'bye' to Adam and he kissed the ground to say 'bye' :'-) So sweet

Mom and dad saying goodbye for now...

 Alex with his brother

Bye Adam- we'll be back. We love you. We miss you. 

Evolution

I title this evolution because this is the story of how Alex evolves with almost every situation:

First actual life size horse ride. Very skeptical 

"Alright, daddy's got my back. I think I'm okay"

"THIS IS AWESOME!"

Dads first ride in a while (he didn't get off that horse for probably 3 hours)

Dad and Alex- He's not sure about this saddle thing

Ya... moms not more comforting

I love this evolution of the duck.......

"Alright. I see the duck. I've seen them in books. But now there is one right there..."

"Mom, this is a duck right?"

"Alright. Duck doesn't hate me. How you doin duck?"

"I'll try the more approachable method where I am not ready to bolt at a moments notice." 

"He's TOUCHING the duck?!?!?! Dang it- now I have to show him how I can be a man too...."

"Yeeeeaaaa, touching the duck"

" Ight- bring me another challenge. Please, duck was way too easy!"