The Tastes Of Summer

We went over to Grandmothers to pick her blackberries which were in big time abundance. Picking blackberries will always be a special memory for me as a child. It is weird that my kids are picking them with me now! How did I get this old? However, I am so happy my boys will get to have their own memories with their great Grandmother. We scored 2 gallons worth and I was tempted to black market them seeing how at the grocery stores they are $3 for 160z. We also picked some peaches and apples while we were at it.

We had 2 siblings graduate from high school. Congrats David and Valerie! We had our traditional celebration dinner at Texas Roadhouse with my family then Casey took Lane to Mt. View and

me and Rusty went to Mesa High.

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The swimming pool has become our second home. Lane is a mexi already and Rusty,well he is going to be our little white boy.

Awesome Awards Go To:

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FUNNY FACES :}

OUR NEIGHBOR.

We have 3 ladies who are single and all three have houses across the street from us. Casey has become their handy man. Last week one of them had Casey paint her whole house. She is a flight attendant and was gone during the painting process. Apparently Casey missed a "few" spots and wanted him to do some touch up. She had to leave again for work but said he would be able to tell where the touch up spots were when he went over. Ok he said. The next day he went over for what he thought would be an easy fix but came home laughing saying I needed to come see this.

We think she went through a whole roll of tape. Mind you I don't have pictures of the kitchen and the other side of the living room, but you get the point. It looked like the walls had broken out in blue zits! We think she is OCD ...

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WAFFLE COOKIES

Our new favorite thing. Use your favorite cookie recipe, ours is oatmeal chocolate chip. Drop cookie balls in Belgium waffle iron and cook for 1-2 minutes. Best part about these cookies are that it cuts your cooking time in half and you don't have to heat up your kitchen by turning the oven on!

Birds Are Siiick!

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Sick in NOT a "cool" way. You might recall this post I did a while back. This just confirms and reiterates my huge dislike for these creepy, disease ridden creatures.

Here we have exhibit A:

Casey truck had become the victim and target for dumping grounds the past few weeks. Tired of driving around the poop mobile we took matters into our own hands.

Exhibit B:
Termination of the nest

Exhibit C and D:
No Lane, we are not going to put the eggs in our fridge!!!

BYE BYE BIRDIE {S}

This brought to mind one of my favorite episodes and why I can relate...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD5oNvkhI-M


Ditto Ben. Ditto.

Why We ♥ Cousins!

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♥ We get to have spend the nights when parents are out of town and do lots of "boy" stuff.


♥ Have fun running around in our under dudes and playing in the hose.

♥ then remember duh, there is a swimming pool right around the corner!

(can you tell Lane is my child and preferred the warm water:)

Life can be tiring. Oh to be 5 (almost 6) months!

2,190 days ago...

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6 years ago my stud muffin and I got hitched! It was the best day of my life! I knew without a doubt that Casey was meant for me... hopefully he can say the same:) Not once was I ever nervous about the big "plunge" I was about to take in marring the man of my dreams. 2,190 days later life is just as amazing, if not more!
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April 30, 2004 was a magical day so to celebrate our anniversary this year we went to the most magical place on earth, DISNEYLAND!!!!!
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We were excited for this vacation to say the least. The last time we had gone anywhere without kiddos was 3 years ago. Also the last time I had gone to Disneyland was when I was 16 and Casey had only been once and couldn't even remember when that was. You are probably thinking how mean of parents we are for not taking the boys but let me just tell you, it was totally awesome without them! Don't get us wrong we love our kids but it was so liberating passing all the strollers with whinny, tired, cranky kids and just smiling as we walked by and wishing those poor parents all the luck as we ventured onto our next ride!

We had a flight out early Friday morning which was pretty much full of people with our fun idea. Once we landed we hopped into our shuttle that took us to our hotel, which again was full of people with our fun idea:) We checked in then off to the happiest place on earth!!!




Now remind you, we both couldn't really remember what Disneyland was like so we made sure we did everything that there was to do. This picture was on the Matterhorn. Holy bumpiest ride ever! We laughed so hard and poor Casey got a beating with me being in front and having him absorb all my jerking around.



We had to go on the Casey Jr. train ride! My mom still thinks that we need a son named Casey Jr.





Another good laugh was on the Autopia cars. I got to drive my honey around. My foot got tired of pushing down the gas pedal so half way he gassed while I steered. I wasn't the only one having problems with the gas pedal. When we first started out this poor little girl was on her way back and apparently her foot was getting tired too. She was leaned back and slunched down pushing the pedal with both feet as hard as she could with the most exhausted look on her face while the car behind was bumping her home. It was hilarious and we couldn't stop laughing for the longest time.

We took a little break to get a good spot for the dance party parade. I love to people watch...especially with a big crowd like Disneyland so I took the opportunity to feel better about myself. I spotted some pretty good stuff. Tons of hiking sandals with socks offenders, girls with their boyfriend jeans gone terribly wrong, fanny packs, lots of fanny packs. I don't care if its a Gucci ... you NEVER wear a fanny packy pack!

We stayed as late as we could and as long as our feet allowed us that day. We ate dinner in Down Town Disney at Tortilla Jo's. Super yummy mexican food which we were both craving.

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Saturday was California Adventure day! We both had never been so I was so excited to finally be able to do all the fun rides everybody always talks about. We woke up nice and early; early for being on an anniversary vacation without kids:) The best part about our hotel was that there was the best restaurant next door called Tiffy's. Let's just say we kept Tiffy's in business the three days we were there! I think we might name our first daughter Tiffy:) It reminded me a lot of good old Swenson's restaurant that used to be on Main Street. All their food was homemade and had the best homemade ice cream parlor as well. Each morning we ate breakfast then got a huge waffle cone and ice cream to eat while we walked to the park.

Hands down Tower Of Terror was my favorite ride! On the first drop my necklace flew up and almost chipped my tooth off. It was awesome!

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We did pretty much all of CA Adventure. We ate dinner in Down Town Disney again at a yummy pizza restaurant and stopped into Tiffy's for our chocolate and peanut butter fix on our way to the hotel. Sunday morning we packed up, ate breakfast at...Tiffy's and got our last ice cream cone then off to the airport.

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We had a FULL two days of fun and it was so hard for me to leave not knowing when we will go back. I had so much fun being alone with Casey with no other worries around. It felt like back in the day when we were dating and soaking in all of each other that we could. We promised that every year we would go on a trip together by ourselves even it was just an over nighter to Payson. He seriously is the best hubby a girl could ask for!

JuNk shout out!

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I am having a garage sale in a few weeks. If anybody has a DI pile going

{like i always do} and don't want to make an extra trip down to Broadway and Country Club... I would be more than happy to come pick up your "treasures":) Leave a comment or email me at lobeystuff@juno.com, Spanks!!!

R.I.P. T-Bone Chalupa

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Yee-haw, nothing like a good ol' roundup to make for a fun Saturday activity! My parents invited us over for their wards BBQ this past weekend. What started this whole get together was that the priests had been raising a cow in one of their leaders backyard. Well it got nice and fat so that very same morning it got a nice bonk on the head and needless to say we had a yummy, very organic meal!



I love LaRee! If you ever need someone to laugh with, she is your girl! Also I think ribs should be my middle name. By far my most favorite meat EVER... can you tell?!





They had fun games like catch the greased pig, tug of war, an egg toss. They also had a petting zoo. I really hope that the people who brought their animals for this went home with alive pets or at least survived the night from being mauled by the kiddos. Seriously, the baby chicks that were yellow turned a nice shade of brown! Lane was one who contributed to the near possible deaths. He loves animals but we do not have pets so he gets overly excited... you get the picture. He loved it and for the last 30 minutes all he did was chase around the chickens.















If it weren't for the smell, dirt, waking up early to feed animals, I could have lived on a farm. Ok probably not but it's fun to pretend sometimes:)

Bumbo with me:)

A few weeks ago I bought a bumbo chair for Rusty off of craigslist. Boy did he feel so big in it! The second I put him in he was all smiles. I couldn't choose which picture to post because they were all so stikin cute, so you get the pleasure of viewing them all:) Not only does he like to hang out in the bumbo but what a life savor that thing has been! Why I never got one when Lane was a baby I don't know but who ever invented those things is a pure genius!

He loves hanging out with his best bud. It's nice that I can put him on the floor while I am getting ready or making dinner and just glance over to make sure he is ok. So much nicer than me holding him on my hip all the day long.

I was doing laundry and I could hear Lane talking so a peeked around the corner and found him reading a book to Rusty... MELT MY HEART ALREADY!

Another fun thing that happened these past few weeks was that my brother Christopher who lives in Switzerland came to visit with his wife Jael and her parents Peter and Elizabeth! While they were here my parents hosted their wedding open house since they got married in Switzerland. They had it in my parents backyard March 27th and shame on me I didn't take any pictures. I promise it was beautiful and super yummy...of course! Since they were here my grandparents wanted a BIG family picture so down to the temple we went. I am considering these our family "Easter pictures". I slacked this year and no we are not matching and yes I am wearing winter colors. Now looking at these I really should have slathered some tanning lotion on at least my face. I didn't care, shame on me again.

posted picture twice, too lazy to take it off...oops

My mom played travel agent and planned a weeks worth of fun activities for the Heinegers to enjoy. One (windy) night we went out to the desert and rode quads. Jael's parents were so fun. I found them so interesting to be around. Maybe it was because they are from the other half of the world with a totally different life style then what I have been born and raised from. I loved sitting and chatting with them. Asking them the differences between our 2 very different worlds. Getting a kick out of the fact that they loaded up at Walmart on jello, peanut butter and cool aid because they don't have that where they live. I am pretty sure they think we are obese Americans and eat 24/7 and have major eating problems. I loved that the whole time while we were at the desert Peter, Jaels dad, walked up and down the trails for 2 hrs in search for a rattle snake so he could take a picture of it. Of course the only one he saw was when he was taking a turn on the quad and didn't have his camera with him. I wonder how out of place they must have felt in our loud crazy Mesa life but how sweet and generous they were to my whole family. They came LOADED with swiss chocolate and gifts for each one of us, including Lane and Rusty. I am so grateful for them and to know that they love and are taking good care of my brother since he can't be here with his family. I am humbled to know that there are truly amazing people all over the world.