Visit to the farm

We have spent a couple of weekends at my parents this summer. One of them the guys took down a huge tree in the back yard. If you need firewood this winter talk to my dad.



Grandma got some fancy lawn chairs for her birthday, we fight over who gets to sit in them. Here is Grandma and Lane.
4th of July we had a bon fire before we lit fireworks. We roasted hot dogs and marshmallows.

Silly Lane Pictures

Nate likes to take silly pictures of his brothers. This morning while I was finishing up lunch he had Lane on his back because he was fussy. Ryan wanted up to, so Nate picked him up. (only long enough for the picture mind you, and I do it often..lol)

Lane fell asleep in a funny position in the swing one day so I captured him. He was really tired that day.
Nate posed him with the Dr Pepper one day and took this.

Young Wedding

The end of June Josh and I left the three older boys with my parents and we headed for Rawlins Wyoming. Steven and Nancy had a beautiful wedding there. Steve stood up with Josh at our wedding and braved a blizzard to do it, so it was the least we could do to go in good weather. ;-) Steve's family has always claimed Josh as one of their own, so they opened up their arms and included us as their own for the weekend. Lane got lots of snuggles from "Grandpa Steve and Grandma Karen".
The get away vehicle was this truck.
Aunt Shanny with Lane and Grandma Karen in the back ground.
My hansom men in their wedding garb!
It was so nice to get away for a couple of days! We needed some time without kids (except baby) to just be together. I hope we can make it more of a habit! We had a great time with the Young's and hope to get back to visit again some time soon with the kids.

Catching up

Wow! A lot has happened since I posted last on April 30. I will try to get you caught up.

The first thing is that Lane has grown and grown! Look at all of his little rolls, aren't they cute?!?

Josh and Ryan mowed the lawn. More than once, but I took a picture this time and thought it was cute.
We also had Lane dedicated on Memorial weekend, but the pictures were terrible! They were either fuzzy or dark and you really can't see anything in them.

Ron and Dena had the grand opening for their restaurant on Memorial weekend as well. I have been waiting tables there this summer a couple of evenings a week, or all day on Saturdays. That has taken a big chunk out of my free time. Tomorrow night is my last night on the schedule at the restaurant. I will be able to fill in as needed, but not be tied down so much as I have been all summer.

The screen printing shop has been very busy this summer also. We finally got all of the shirts moved around and put away for the most part. Most of them are in the shop on shelves. But, I have one hanging rack downstairs. We moved my office downstairs and got a new computer and printer. That has been fantastic!

We had a yard sale the first weekend in June and my sister-in-law came down with a lot of her stuff also. It went really well, and we made enough money to pay for some expenses that were pressing on us.

We sold my little Nissan Altima and used the money to tag my new car, a Ford Freestyle. We traded in our suburban when we decided that I would work at the restaurant. We really like it and the twins say that they have as much leg room as they had in the suburban. It gets much better fuel economy.

I will follow up with some posts with pictures of some of the highlights of our summer.

7 week pictures

I wanted to add some pictures of Lane real quick before I forgot! He got a beautiful blanket from my best friend Rachel, so we decided to take a few pictures with it.

He hung out in the screen printing shop with me one day. He slept all morning, but in the afternoon he was sucking his thumb. I didn't quite catch it, but it was close.

Online Bible Study

I know I don't have that many "loyal blog readers," but I found something that some of you may be interested in. I am really excited about it. Hallie the Homemaker is hosting an online Bible Study. Read about it here. The Power of a Praying wife is the book she is going through.

Pop free

I have been working really hard to cook and eat healthier since I have been home. I am making almost everything from scratch; bread, crackers, graham crackers, potato chips and more. However I have continued to drink several cans of pop a day. Sometimes I drink Diet Dr Pepper but my ultimate favorite is Pepsi. Knowing that all of my healthy foods would be more beneficial if I quit drinking pop, I made the decision to stop when I ran out of Diet Dr Pepper. There was a Blue Mountain Cola in the fridge also, so I drank that on Sunday, but since then, no Soda.

It is the hardest first thing in the morning when I used to have my morning pop instead of coffee. I am drinking a glass of Kombucha tea at that time, water and milk the rest. So far so good. I love it and I miss it, but it is not worth the health problems that it causes, so I will stick to it.