Last weekend I went to Lyman for Cami's Baby Shower. I had made her this adorable Diaper cake, it had 210 diapers on it. It had itty bitty crocs, a wipe holder, a burp rag, a toy phone, and cute little animals. I also made her the blanket that the cake was sitting on.

A couple weeks ago Jared surprised me with the China Hutch that matches my table set.( my gift for Mothers day, my birthday & anniversary...probably for a few years)m I was so excited. I have a ton of China; while we lived in Gresham, I started taking care of this little old lady that lived next door. She would come over everyday to hold Izzy, she was a baby then. I cleaned her house, took her to run errands, and took her dinner & lunch everyday. One day she got pneumonia and had to go into the hospital, and she passed away while in the hospital. Her family said that my family meant so much to her that they wanted to me to have her China. It is service for 12, including 4 different sized plates, a bowl, cup, gravy boat, serving bowl, sugar bowl, creamer and a serving platter. I also have crystal glasses that my Grandma gave me, that were her Dad's. Now all this wonderful stuff is all organized and displayed properly. I love it! I never imagined I would ever had wanted a fancy dining room, but I guess I did.

These just show the beautiful detail on it.

4th of July part 2

On the 4th of July, I woke up bright & early at went and ran the annual Fun Run. I had been training for a while. For most people a 5k isn't that big of deal, but I have always hating running, but for some reason and friend of mine & I had decided we wanted to run it. We had two goals, to finish the race & not come in last. Yay I accomplished both!
























Then I came right home & we left for the parade. Bear River Chiropractic had a float. The theme of the parade was "A Community United". So I made the clever sign for the float,(get it?? Back. ha ha we crack ourselves up.) We draped the Excursion in company signs & 400 balloons later, we had us a float!

Here is just a picture of the awesome staff at Bear River Chiropractic (as well as some little helpers in the background).

4th of July Celebration...Soda Springs style

So we found out this year, that 4th of July in Soda Springs is a huge deal! So huge it starts the day before. It started out with Foam in the Park. The fireman came and sprayed everywhere with their foam. It was about 2 feet deep before they were done. Then they get their hoses to rinse everyone down, which makes the foam even deeper & go everywhere. My kids loved it so much they wouldn't leave until the firemen ran out of foam & water!

Half way through Izzy came over & sat down by me and went to sleep. She slept for about 45 minutes, got up and went & played again. It was pretty strange.

Tyler just finished up his baseball season, and he did great! For his age group he was assigned to t-ball. Which last year he didn't need the tee, so I got special permission to bump him up a league. So he was on a team of 8 year olds, and did great! I think he was the best player. Each game he got better and better. One game he got a home run, and he even slid a few times and got players out.












































Here is a video of him up to bat. It wasn't the best hit,(his coach was a horrible pitcher) but I couldn't figure out how to use my camera for most of the game, and this is the only one I got.

Last week the Tooth Fairy visited our house 3 times in 4 days! Tyler just can't seem to keep his teeth from falling out! Well the top 2, he crashed on his bike about a month ago, and one became discolored, so I think it had died. So it just fell out one day. The other soon followed, and then another one on bottom.

As I stated before, for Jared's birthday we went up to Bear Lake & went to Minatonka Caves. When we got up there,m all the tours were full, so we had to walk around for an hour and a half for our tour. Our kids loved it (once they realized there were lights that stayed on). There were a lot of steps in & out. When we got to the very end they shut all the lights off, so we could see what it was like.

Smore time!

We recently added a fire pit in our wonderful back yard. There was a dead tree stump & it was in the perfect spot for a fire pit. We have been having lots of fun roasting smores around the fire. And here when it gets dark, it gets pretty cool, so it is fun! & not too hot.

Backtrack to May

Back Track to May!

Since I am always behind on my blogging, I will have to backtrack to May.

On one of the weekends we went car shopping, we too the kids to the zoo. This was the first time for Izzy since she was a baby. She was more interested in looking at the flowers than the animals, but she still had fun.

Also in May was State Track (Jared was one of the track coaches at the high school) so we went to Boise for several days. Jared would spend his days at the stadium & I took the kids shopping & to PoJo's, its kind of like Chuckie Cheese's.

Right before school got out, Tyler's elementary school had their annual Fun Run. They had to get sponsors & then run as many laps as they could in 20 minutes. Bear River Chiropractic thought he would only run a few, so it donated $10 a lap. Well, he ended up running 16 laps!! Which equalled 2 miles.

Also a trip to Grandma's, Tyler came home with a cap gun. He loved it!!