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!



end of the school year!

 

 

I probably should write about the end of the school year before the

new one starts in 2 weeks!!

 

Rusty had his end of the year field trip at DeWitt Stables.

They walked around and saw all the horses, cows,

sheep and such. Then they all went on a hay ride!

It's the same hay ride we went on with my family the day after Christmas.

 

 

Lindi didn't want anything to do with this ride.

She was so distraught and wouldn't stop crying.

So I hopped off and decided to hang back while they were gone.

 

 Which ended up not being so bad!

The mull would not budge when it was time to go.

The man was whipping and whipping that thing.

It would go for a second then stop.

He hopped off and went to get a larger stick to whip him with.

That didn't work either.

Next think I know he pulled out what was like a 2x4 to whack him into gear!

Yikes!

The hay trailer was jolting and rocking, I think everybody was about to bail but that

seemed to do the trick!

 

 

On the very last day of preschool they have a fun water day.

I actually kind of like that they don't do a graduation ceremony.

Makes it not as emotional that they are growing up and moving onto big kid school.

He had the best teachers, Ms. Dana, Lori and Kimball.

 

Rusty also had his last day of play group.

It was so sad! It's like the end of an era!:)

3 years of rotating Thursday mornings so we could have a couple hours

of peace and quiet was GOLDEN!

They are the best of friends and luckily we still see them often:)

 

Left to Right :

Riley Barton, Trey Bosen, Lily Yamamoto, Rusty, Hayden Dixon

 

Misty hosted the last day and of course she went all out!

 

 

Lane had his Spring Sing which he was SO EXCITED ABOUT!

Ok, not so excited about...shocker with that one.

Bribery of ice cream after and saying he didn't have to wear a tie or church pants got him there.

I'm sure Mr. Higgins was thrilled at his attire, OH WELL!

 

 

I, like an idiot, once AGAIN signed up to be in charge of Lanes end of the year party!

I never learn my lesson from the past.

It didn't help that we were finishing up a remodel, moving AND leaving for girls camp 3

days later.

Even though it stresses me out, I do love seeing Lane with his friends and being in his classroom.

This is the only picture I got of the party. It was before it even started.

He doesn't let me get pictures of him with his teacher so I had to be sneaky:)

Mrs. Rathkey is amazing and I am so grateful for teachers who love their

students and their job. I did another beach themed party that had 5 rotations.

The trickiest part was coming up with treats that have to be dairy, egg, wheat, and nut free!!!

Holy allergy problems batman.

I thought about getting a snow cone machine but that was too complicated.

 So Otterpops, Oreos (crazy how those fit the allergy diet), and fruit roll ups were on the menu!

They learned the hula, played hula hoop games outside, played play dough dictionary, and made paper leis. Whoa, sure glad when that hour was over!

 

 

BASEBALL got wrapped up!

Rusty loved every second of his T-ball season.

When he would walk up to bat he would yell at me to make sure I was

watching and cheering him on!

 



 

Lindi had to sit next to Michelle at every game.

It was kind of funny.

 



 

Last team cheer and shaking hands.

 

Right after the last game we gathered real quick to hand out awards.

I was the team mom so I made little goodie bags for them to go along with their

trophy. I ordered cupcakes with baseball rings on top from Sam's Club and called it a party!

 



 

Here are his play group buddies, minus Riley.

They moved to Gilbert and were out of league boundaries:(

Here is Lane on first base with his best friend Griffen playing first.

It was kind of a bummer they get "drafted" on teams now.

 

Lanes team made it to championships and got second place!

I was at girls camp and missed it, I was so sad!

 

It looks like a bum!

 

Lane got his Bobcat award!

The cub master told the boys to choose their mom or dad to come to the front with them.

 

He read some kind of ceremonial while the dads painted symbolism marks on their faces.

 

Its a good thing they chose the dads because the boys got to paint on their noses!

 

For Mothers day Casey treated me to a pedicure!

I love that he enjoys getting one with me.

 

 

This was after dinner on Mothers day Sunday with all us  hawt momma's!:)

 

Some Olive and Lindi pictures.

Her parents went to Hawaii so we spent some time with her.

I love that they both have blankies and suck their thumbs!

 



 

This was on the way home from Ikea.

I was checking out their farm sink.

I forget how big that store is!

They got lugged around so much with me going from tile store, to Home Depot,

to a different tile store, to the countertop store... They were such good sports.

But I guess Ikea wore them out that day.

They probably were more thankful to be done remodeling than I was!