Fourth of July and more!

 

 

Earlier in the week Casey and I decided to dedicate most of our day off

with cleaning out the garage! It was too dang hot 

to be parking outside while our junk from the move got to take cover

in the shade. Plus I was tired of digging through boxes and wondering where everything

was. I needed order!! I didn't care if that meant giving up play time.

My dad took the boys golfing in the morning so while he was doing that

I text my sisters and mom wondering if they wanted to go to Kneaders with me for breakfast.

It was great, until the kids started going bonkers in the restaurant:/

I thought by the time we were done eating Casey would be wrapping up his game of golf

and on his way home. Well, nope.

10am came and went, 11, 11:30...

I was getting worried we wouldn't get to the garage at all!

I gathered up the boys and told them they were going to be my helpers!

We started moving things out on the drive-way and trying to group them in categories.

After an hour and dripping in sweat, it hardly looked like we dented the pile! We scraped the

whole organizing idea and started chucking things out the garage.

 

 

 

 

 

Casey arrived and that made the process go WAY faster.

I don't know why men can cut manual labor time in half, its not fair!

After 3 more hours we were out of the woods, until we looked in the attic.

dun, dun, dun.

It was FULL of the previous owners junk. Flipping-doo-da!!

 I'm talking a heavy vanity sink with mirror, holiday decorations, a Christmas tree.

We filled the garbage cans and the back of Casey's truck.

Finally we could sweep and arrange the garage until we were DONE!!!

AHHHHH, the best feeling ever and so worth the work:)

My de-junking heart was finally happy.

As well as the Landshark (that's my car's name:).

 

 

 

We then loading up the kids to go SWIMMING at my parents house.

I think the best part of the 4th of July was our own personal fireworks show.

Here we are ooing and aweing over Craig's sparklers, roman candle show.

 

 

Shirtless and happy....boys for ya:)

 



 

I love how Lindi is covering Casey's ears from the noise.

 



Working our way up on the fireworks intensity list.

They thought this was pretty great.

 

But, the best was the grand finale.

And GRAND it was!!

 

After the first set were lit and popping in the sky,

I ditched my kids and took cover for myself in the garage:/

All I could see were flames and sparks flying passed me while I ran.

I guess Travis even got hit in the leg with one!

They were going off for a couple of minutes, it was crazy awesome!

  Luckily nobody got hurt from the firework misshape of them shooting

sideways instead of up!!

Next time I think they will take the lids off the tops, oops!

 



 

In the following days we played with our cousins!!



 

Krazy Air was one of the activities we did.

Which was perfect for these 2.

At grandma and grandpa's house they beg to jump on the trampoline.

Most of the time they don't get to because of the older boys hogging it.

They got to jump to their hearts content:)

 

 

One day we spent pretty much the whole day at the complex on Greenfield and Baseline.

We used our pogo passes at Fat Cats and bowled for a couple of hours for FREE!

 

 

The girls loved dancing to the music they had playing.

At one point we were taking selfies.

 

They have a sweet kids meal for cheap with legit pizza.

This girl chowed the whole thing.

 

I had to take Lane somewhere, I cant remember where.
Stephanie stayed with the younger boys and

saw Inside Out while I took the girls home for a nap.

 

 

We met back up at Gecko Grill!

I seriously love that place.

The girls snagged some left over birthday crowns from the table next to us and where hamming it up!

 

 

 

Another night we went to visit grandmother.

She lives with Uncle Dea and Aunt Marcia now.

I hate that I don't make it over to visit her as often.

She is amazing and putting up with these last moments on earth so well.

 Even though she doesn't feel well most of the time.

 

 

We had a Summer birthday celebration Sunday night!

Mmm, mother load cake tradition can stay for good!!

 

 

I blew out the candles too early, oops!

 



 

Had to burn off those chocolate, fudgy, cake calories with

a game of dippity dippity dip!

 



 

Papa and Grammy invited us to dinner at the Cheesecake factory!

These boys were being such goofs.

 



 

Watch out for the dinner bandits!!

 



 

We used our pogo passes at SUNSPASH!!!

It was SO fun.

My mom, Craig and half of their neighbor hood was there so we tagged along.

Casey couldn't take the day off of work so I left Lindi with a sitter.

We brought Randon along with us and it was a full day of fun in the sun!



 

Lunch break is always anticipated.

I always look forward to it:)

Nacho cheese and fries, burgers and dogs, YUM!

 



My mom bought us all tickets to ride the bumper boats!

 



 

Holy moly, I forgot they had water guns attached to the front of each boat.

I was soaked by the end!!

 



And just so you don't think its all fun and games around here,

this was a nice little master piece I woke up to one morning.

I caught her in the act and I don't think I have ever screamed so loud in my life!

I think shock hit me afterward.

I couldn't believe it.

Even though it wasn't a sharpie, mascara is still a *bleep* to get off walls.

After scrubbing you could see the ugly green paint showing through from the previous color.

Luckily our painter was needing to come back anyway.
He needed to touch up paint from the massive hole we had to cut out of our brand new drywall in our master bathroom from a leak they had to fix.

 



But I think she learned her lesson.

No coloring on walls mom, she tells me randomly through out the day.

 

Eesh,

Gotta love her.

That busted, crying face is so cute!

 



Summer time baby!

 

I tried to get Lindi to model her new swim suit.

Deer in headlights look, what?

She is a Cindy Crawford in the making!

 

 

 Swim lessons began.

Which meant I dreaded every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from noon-1.

Not because I had to sit outside in the hot heat.

A certain somebody would whine and cry,  scream during her whole lesson!

She hated pretty much every second of it...the whole season!!

I went to girls camp!

It was a stake year, so that meant real camping.

We went up on the rim down the same road you take to get to Woods

Canyon Lake. It was the last week of May, first part of June.

Let me tell ya, we froze!

It was the year of crazy cold weather in May.

The camp ground attendant said there was snow on the ground the week before we came!

I had hand warmers in my pockets the whole time.

 

 

Lets back up to when we left.

We all met at my friends house that is 2 houses down from our new house (still in remodeling mode).

We had loaded the trailer, beautifully decorated the cars, and were about to pray.

 I decided to run to the house to see the progress because I knew

they were starting to lay the tile in the kitchen and I wouldn't get to see it for a whole week.

When I walked in my heart stopped beating.

They had opened every box of tile (20 something boxes) and were laying

THE WRONG STUFF!! 2 whole rows worth.

 I honestly didn't know what to do.

They workers laying it didn't know a lick of English.

I quickly yelled at them to stop!! They looked at me like I was crazy.

I tried to explain in my best Spanglish ( I was getting good and Mexican/English accents)

that it was NO BUENO!! WRONG COLOR!

You REALLY should have seen the looks on their faces once it registered.

The are you freaking kidding me, I have to pull up, scrape off glue, package up and

start all over kind of look.

I felt so bad for them!

I called Casey in a panic and told him to get here asap!

I had a car full of girls ready to go but couldn't leave the crisis.

Our contractor showed up the same time as Casey and I had no choice

but to have faith everything would be ok and the right stuff would be

installed when I got back. And it all worked out! I came home to beautiful

floors, just as I had envisioned. I guess Home Depot had the wrong skew numbers on

the boxes stating a different color. Dang Home Depot!

 

The theme was Wizard of Oz tied in with the scripture we are focusing on this year, D&C 4:2.

One day I brought up some lollipop trees to decorate and leave at other ward campsites as a

cute "service". It went along with the lollipop guild song.

 



 

 

The leaders chillaxing while the girls were off kayaking and canoeing.

 

The whole shebang!

We have the largest YW in the stake.

They are amazing girls and made camp a delight!

I heart our ward camp shirts.

We were lucky to have bizzysewing as our assistant camp director!

She whipped up these shirts that I wear all of the time.

Check out her website and order the cutest skirts she hand makes!

 

 

Swimming was a big part of summer!

We had fun inviting cousins over to swim and eat dinner on the tramp with.

 

 

 

The girl hates chocolate, NOT!:)

 

We got to have Ryder and Peyton spend the night while their parents

went to girls camp. Pogo passes came in handy and we hit up the IDEA museum.

It offered endless hours of fun and I was proud of myself I didn't loose a kid!

 

We hopped in the pool when Casey got home from work.

It's been a big perk to have this pool.

If the kids get bored I say go swimming, problem solved!

 

 

And with being married to the king of the Queen, you know the night must end with a treat:)

 

 

I guess it had been awhile because I caught Casey making out with his blizzard.

 

"baby carlett"

 

Excitement was high to have Scarlett Figueroa join our family!

Lindi calls her baby carlett whenever she sees her and is referring to her:)

We threw Marcie a baby shower back in May!

It was on a Saturday morning-ish.

Casey was on the fathers and sons campout which meant Lindi was with me.

I was really kind of nervous to bring her to the shower.

She is a wild card.

You never know how clingy or whinny she will get.

Especially around lots of strangers.

I took a risk and brought her.

Thankfully she was an angel and LOVED every minute of the party!

 

Here she is helping grandpa roll in the garbage bins.

 

 

 

Stephanie was taking Marcie's picture and Lindi hopped in with her!

 

 

 She was being such a hoot!

 

 

Stephanie headed up the décor and boy, she went all out!!

It couldn't have turned out cuter.

I mean, that garland and tulle table skirt... adorable!

She even made the diaper cake on the food table.

She is the next Martha Stewart!

 

 

Alison, Stephanie, my mom and I split up the food menu.

Salads, cookies, dips, cupcakes, sandwiches, oh my!!

 

 

Marcie was even nice to help out at her OWN shower!

She made these super cute take home gifts and killer mint brownies.

 

 

Grandmother wasn't up for staying so Marcie ran out to say hi to her.

 

I was inside getting things ready when Lindi walked back in holding a 20 dollar bill!

I guess when Grandmother runs out of candy to pass out you get the next best thing!

 

Marcie mentioned she was nervous that nobody would come.

Ha! I had never seen a more packed house!

This was seriously the cutest thing.

Lindi was helping Alison write down all of the gifts Marcie was getting.

 

And ooing and aweing over all of Scarlett's new outfits!

I swear that girl is my favorite.

I literally didn't see or hear a peep from her the whole time.

She kept herself busy wondering around, grabbing food off of the table,

and hanging out with whoever was sitting next to her.

She is truly a party girl!!

 

 Sunni showed up with a new, short haircut!

We are married to twins and now look somewhat like twins!

 

I think Scarlett needs a few more outfits:)

 

I was surprised to get a text from Marcie saying her water

broke and was on the way to the hospital...2 weeks early!!

 

It was a Tuesday morning.

I was on our way to get breakfast (since we still didn't have a working kitchen)

and then pick up the kids from swim team.

I figured I had time because things usually go slow.

Well, I was wrong!

I got a call from Austin saying the baby would be coming in about 30 minutes

and that Marcie really wanted me at the birth. YIKES!!

I frantically called my friend Joy to see if she could watch the kids.

She wasn't answering.

Tried another friend, same thing.

Panic mode was setting in.

I still needed to pick up swim team carpool, drop them off and still DRIVE

to the hospital which would take 30 minutes in itself.

Joy called me back and said she could watch my kids. Phew!

I hauled it to Brimhall, ran in and literally yanked the kids out of the water and

told them to run to the car!!

I rushed them to Joy's house, sped to the hospital, screeched into a parking spot and ran inside.

My mom was sitting in the foyer saying they wouldn't let her back to see Marcie.

She was starting to get worried when the nurse came out said we could go on back!

 

It was so crazy seeing HER in that hospital bed.

Kind of nice that I wasn't the one getting ready to have a baby:)

I was in charge of taking pictures.

I felt a little nervous, hoping I didn't miss anything important!

 



 

Things went really fast.

About 20 minutes after arriving at the hospital little miss Scarlett was here!

And when I say little, I mean it!

She weighed 5 /lbs and I think around 10 oz.

Such an adorable lil peanut!!

 

I didn't want to give her up!

I had to leave to take the kids to swim lessons.

It was amazing how it worked out that I was able to be there on no notice.

I even had mascara on which is unheard of for me in the summer!

 

 We came back later that night so the kids and Casey could meet her.

I love this picture. Lindi LOVES babies.

 

Only the look on Lindi's face is like she is realizing that Marcie

has a new buddy taking her spot.

 

 

 

Welcome to the world miss Scar Fig!