For you sister

My sister is in Peru for a couple more days and I got to play with her cute kids today. I thought you'd love to see them playing in the pool and you're probably missing them a lot. La La was hilarious and this was after she got the hang of it a little better, but we were seriously crying because we were laughing so hard. She kept bending over and putting her leg up to get in the pool at least a couple feet away and when she didn't get in the water she had the funniest confused faces. Anyway - they're ready for you to come home - they miss you too!

Another year goes by...

Officer and I have been married six years, today is our Anniversary. I recounted most of the story last year if you want to read all about it. A little detail I didn't share was that after our reception we were starving and stopped at the Wendy's drive thru on the way to our hotel. When we arrived at our hotel, Officer was trying to be such a gentleman and carry our luggage to our room as well as a fun little basket that his sister put together for us - that we topped off with our Wendy's food and frosties. As he took everything past the threshold of the door - he tripped... and frosty went all over the room - no joke! His pride was just a little hurt or maybe a lot, but when he recovered we sat and ate our soggy frosty burgers and fries and will forever have a good laugh about it. We've kind of made it a tradition that every once in a while on the 28th - not necessary just June, one of us will surprise the other and pick up a frosty on the way home. Since our Anniversary fell on a Sunday this year and Officer works, we didn't plan to celebrate this weekend, but I picked up a frosty on my way home from running errands last night for us to share. Thanks Officer for six great years! Happy Anniversary Love!

Honey Do...

We seem, well I guess I seem, to have a big honey do list lately. I'm sure officer thinks I'm a drill sargaent or something, but we've gotten a lot of things done around the house and I'm so grateful! I just can't do as much as I think I can these days. Of course inside is never-ending with cleaning and little things here and there that I try to keep up with, but we've had so much to do in the yard this year and we finally got some of the big things done that we've been talking about for years!

The biggest project has been in our backyard! Our backyard is west facing so in the evening we get huge amounts of sun into the back of the house and it makes it pretty stinkin' hot and the A/C runs like crazy, but just doesn't make it any better. So...last fall Officer and his dad poured an extra concrete pad out back so we have more patio space. And this past month - in between huge rainstorms - we had a very talented man in our ward add on a patio cover/overhang to the roof in the back and painted the house(of course he does this for a living - so it's probably no big deal to him, but HUGE deal to us!). The patio cover has made a world of difference! It stays cold in my house now! Amazing work - here is the before and after. The paint color isn't all that different, but we didn't know what else to do without being totally drastic becasue we have such dark brick around the garage. Officer wired the patio for lights and he and my dad even put in a new front door! Thanks for all your hard work, honey. Someday - patio furniture.

Before:

After:

Eat your Veggies!

Miss Peanut loves her veggies; I don't know many her age that will chew on a piece of celery, but she does. She loves peas, carrots, corn, beans, zucchini, squash, pretty much everything she's tried and just recently grandma offered her raw broccoli and she loved it! This was yesterday as I was cooking dinner - I just laugh at the way she says broccoli - too funny!

Sorry for my lack of blogs - I've just been busy doing to many other little projects trying to get things done while I'm motivated. I'll fill you in on a few things soon.

Miss Peanut has something to share...

We went to the Dr. today and everything is looking great with Squirt. Fingers, toes, heart, kidneys, and a a few other details, it all looks great. I'm always amazed at the detail you can see in an ultrasound. Peanut was hilarious and this took us a little while, we had to cut out quite a few things - but hopefully you get the right idea. We're really excited - we just have no clue what we're going to do for a name?! Throw some at me - I'll take any ideas.

Who's her daddy?

My sister took this adorable picture of my Peanut yesterday. It just makes me smile!

This is a picture of Officer at a fairly close age to Miss Peanut - Who's her daddy? What do you think?