End of May Picnic Day

My girls just love to play in the water no matter where we go! We seem to always find it even if we go up in the mountains a bit!

I so can't get enough of our Sunday drives that usually take us up Timber Creek which is practically in our back yard. There are so many places to go that we never go to the same place twice! We loaded up the truck with everything for a hot dog/smore roast and headed for the hills! The girls hadn't been out for a while and they had a great time chasing squirrels, playing with sticks in the water, and of course eating! I can't get enough of being outside with my family just enjoying the nature. I love being so close to the mountains for our little getaways

Below: Our faithful boy scout getting water to put out the fire much to the girls' dismay

Below: Lexi trying to sneak into the chips, she was tired of waiting for her hot dog

Below: Sadie showing us her skills at floating things down the creek

Below: Cory said he needed a picture of his three favorite girls, even if one needed

a log to hide her belly!

Eight Years and Still Counting

I cannot believe that time goes by in years soooo FAST! We had our eight year anniversary and it is amazing what can happen in that amount of time. I am so lucky to have such a patient and loving husband. Cory brightens my day with his humor and can make my life less stressful by calming me down. He is a wonderful father to our two and 1/2 girls. He never complains when he gets home form a long day of work if I ask him to entertain the girls or help them with something. I am very blessed to have found such a wonderful mate for forever.

So Cory was working outside all day for our anniversary and was leaving the next night to go back to finish a job in Challis. Sadie wanted to help me "decorate" the house for him so we made signs, hearts and all kinds of things to hang up around the house for Cory when he came in. I made steak and shrimp for dinner and we got out the candles. Lexi loved coloring pictures to hang up while Sadie colored and cut out about 25 hearts for us. It was cool to involve the kids for our anniversary. On the coat closet door I found a bunch of pre-marital and engagement pictures to hang up along with some wedding photos. It was s trip down memory lane and the kids liked it as much as we did. One of these years we will get away for our anniversary, but being pregnant for a vacation didn't sound like that much fun so it will wait for the next time.

Below: May 26, 2001-Wedding Day for Cory Kurt Bird and Jessica Lynne King

Fun in the House

My kids have discovered the beauty of playing indoors (wrong time of year) in more ways than one. I was doing the dishes and folding laundry when I found these scenes. Sadie and Lexi are both very creative in occupying their time.

Below: My girls made a pretty good tent until it fell over after trying to place their entire bedroom it seems inside the tent with them!

Below: Lexi got inside this chocolate chip box and thought it was great. She even wanted me to push her across the kitchen floor; which ended in disaster as she fell over because she couldn't get her balance. I got this cute picture before the tears though!

"Clip, Clip"

My youngest daughter has an obsession with fingernail clippers. However, I cannot get her to let me clip her nails, she wants to do it herself. She loves to take a few minutes to "clip, clip" and then smiles at me with that I did it myself smile. How do you refuse that? As long as she can't figure out how to get the clippers acutually open I guess it works!

Moisture is great but . . . . .

Okay I am glad for the moisture and all but this is getting ridiculous!!! This is what we saw out our windows today around 2:30 p.m. . . . . . .

Who Invented Nail Polish?

I admit that I have been in some kind of unenthusiastic mood about basically everything. I'm not getting my housework done like I should and my kids are watching more TV lately than they should. but yesterday I had decided enough was enough and I needed to get into gear no matter what. So I asked Sadie what fun thing she wanted to do that day and she named a few things along with painting her nails. I agreed to them and didn't quite clarify that would happen later, so Sadie got the nail polish out of the closet and set it on the table unknown to me. A little bit later I was in my bathroom listening to the kids playing in their bedroom and so I wasn't in any hurry to go check on them. Maybe six minutes later, I decided to go see what was going on and found Sadie in the room but no Lexi. I looked in the other rooms and didn't find her so I proceeded out to the kitchen to find my charming daughter on TOP of my beautiful wooden table with an EMPTY bottle of fingernail polish around her on the table and everywhere else. I was so shocked I just froze. Eventually I got Lexi down and noticing the polish had dried on my table I forgot about the table for the time being and concentrated on cleaning my daughter who had somehow gotten fingernail polish on her hair, tummy, legs, hands, elbows and feet. I put her in the tub and because the polish was so thick in layers on her, it peeled off alright and the rest I had to scrub off her as she was screaming at me to stop. My table, now that was another story. I tried every cleaner in my house that was safe to try on it and nothing was working. finally I tried my Sol-U-Mel (from Melaleuca) and scrubbing with a Dobie pad I got some of it off. I will have to continue scrubbing for the next month, but I think eventually it will in fact come off (I hope). If anyone has any secrets to getting fingernail polish out of clothes or off a wooden table, I am all ears! After cleaning and scrubbing and a few tears as well, my youngest daughter came to me and lifted her foot off the ground showing me the polish that had stayed on her toenails and said "Pretty pretty mommy". How do you resist an innocent comment like that?

Below: This is the table after I have about one-third of the polish scrubbed off. . . . . .