It’s Like Pulling Teeth

Esher asked his daddy to pull his front tooth. My Love is actually really good at doing this. It was fast and painless, but a little bloody!

This makes tooth #4.

Tristan and Zoe

The girls had a day of art today in Tristan’s room.

I hope these girls are best friends forever!!!

24th of July

Our princess once again made an awesome cake for our neighborhood BBQ and firework show.

I absolutely love everyone on our street!!!

Janette and Jeff are always so wonderful to have this every year at their house. We all love it!!!

Home Made Cars

I love the creativity of children!!!

They even had races on this awesome ramp-so cute!!!

                                                      I love my kids!!!

Last Cooking Class For Paris

On her last day she made this beautiful cake.

Oh my, it was so so good!!!

My Garden

This is what I have actually grown with my own hands and they are delicious!!! Now, if my tomatoes would only get red I could make Terri yummy yummy salsa!

Christianne’s Birthday

Paris made this adorable cake for Christianne today. It is the first time she is using her stainless steal platter. She is getting so creative –I love it!!!

We finally got to see The Kendall’s new home. It is absolutely gorgeous in the most amazing location. They can see the entire valley on one side and are completely surrounded by mountains on the other 3 sides.

 WE ARE SO HAPPY FOR THEM!!!!

This is there back yard-WOW!!

We had dinner and s’mores around the fire pit.

We sang Happy Birthday to Christianne and Dave shot potatoes out of his potato launcher with glow sticks in them so the kids could find them in the dark. They all loved chasing after them in the dark. Esher was the only one of our kids that found one.

We had such a fun time together-we have to do it again soon!!!

The Mystery

When it’s time for the cake Paris notices that her cake is missing. We asked absolutely everyone to see if they had seen it or moved it. Everyone remembered seeing it on the counter, but not one had any idea where it was. Paris was extremely sad because it was the4 first time she had used her birthday present from us, her silver platter. Russ finally after 20 minutes of looking in the obvious places started opening drawers and cupboards. In the bottom cupboard someone had hidden it way in the back. Paris suspects that it was Maya because she was there when they found it and she gave Paris a worried look and ran out of the room.

7 Peaks with Friends

What a fun day we had today. Everyone had at least one friend at Seven Peaks and it was absolutely the very best day.

I just love how much fun Seven Peaks can actually be, but the thing that made it the best was having daddy there!!!

Esher has wanted to go on the Toilet Bowl ride forever (the blue one on the left), but there is no way I would ever take him so today was his day to do it. When they got to the bottom Esher wasn’t quite big enough but daddy said “Lets just try it and see if they let us anyway.” He knew how long it had been since Esher wanted to do it. When they go to the top the attendant hesitated for a minute and just let them go anyway. HE LOVED IT!!!!

Esher was so excited to tell me all about it he ran right past me. When I called to him he just kept running straight into the pool. I didn't’ think anything of it and kept walking towards My Love to see how it went. when we walked back together to the pool Esher was gone. All the other kids were there except for Esher.  I had just seen him there so I looked at the top where the slides are and he wasn't here. We rounded up the kids and told them they couldn’t leave this area until we got back. My Love and I were just starting to talk about dividing up the park when around the corner Esher came running straight into my arms almost in tears. He was talking a million miles an hour trying to tell us what had happened.

This is what happened:

When he got to the pool he didn’t see any one of us so he ran to our stuff. When he got there no one was there so he started to get a little scared. Next he ran to the wave pool,  as he looked around he started to feel a panic in his heart. At that moment he thought ”I should say a prayer.” (I am so so grateful that this was his thought. Oh, how many bad things I probably could have avoided in my younger life if only I had thought to pray. I was so so proud of my sweet boy for turning to Heavenly Father in his little time of need. They really are listening!!!!) When he was done saying his prayer he thought to go back to the original pool where we all were before he went on the slide with daddy. That’s when he found us telling the kids we would be right back and he ran straight into my arms. With a few tears in his eyes he told us the whole story. My Love and I gave him the biggest hug and explained to him that he had done everything perfectly. We talked about the next step he would  have taken if we had not been there and told him how proud we were of him! We love this boy so so much!!!!

     We all went back to having fun-it really was a fun fun day!!!