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These were taken a few weeks ago at my parents' house...




































































Kyrie with a Curious George band-aid on her nose...






































This was a couple of Sundays ago at Isaac & Heather's...

















And this was the same day, at Riverfront Park for the Royal Fireworks concert...

Good grief...

I haven't blogged in so long. Well, between being a hostess and a wife/mother, I really have hardly had time to even get on the computer...and it takes me a bit to actually blog something, either because pictures take a little while to get off the camera and edit before uploading, or I have to think of something to say if I'm not posting pictures.
It's crazy here right now...we have all of Forrest's brothers. I'm not complaining, it's nice to have them over and they do help out with stuff. But it also helps me put my own relatively calm & quiet little family into perspective. I thought that my kids were loud...
So then after our company departs to go back to Nevada, we're going up to Canada for a couple nights with my parents & siblings. I'm looking forward to it...I think it'll be a little bit relaxing and diverting. It's a vacation my family took several times when I was growing up so there's nostalgia in it. It'll be fun to do it now with Forrest and our own kids.
Then, after we get back, a return to "normal life". As if there is such a thing. I'm wanting to can or at least freeze some peaches from Green Bluff, probably stew some tomatoes from our garden, do major cleaning & organizing up here upstairs (it's a complete disaster) and finally finish Noelle's quilt. I also want to get ready to do a little bit of school with Timothy, as he is eager to learn all his letters and is good at counting. The other day he counted up to 39 correctly, without missing a number, and then skipped to 80. "81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 30." he counted, and then was back to the 30's.
The nights are finally getting a little colder, and the days not quite as hot as they were, which I'm enjoying.
Well, we'll try to get some pictures posted some time soon.

Stuff

Well, our camera officially doesn't work. We need to find out whether it's more expensive to fix or to buy a new one. Boo hoo. (BTW, it's not related to my leaving it out in the rain.)
We've been having a lot of fun-filled days lately with our company and other close friends. The other day we picked strawberries at Green Bluff, and everyone enjoyed that a lot. It's also very cool that we got the berries for like half the price you'd normally find strawberries at the grocery store. I have I think three gallon ziplocs full of them in the freezer now. (That's including Rick & Rachel's berries though.)
I got Noelle a doll stroller at the store the other day. She loved playing with the ones at Ryan & Taneisha's, and I figured it would be worth a few dollars to get her something she enjoyed that much. She loves it, although now I'm having more issues training her not to be selfish when her friends want to play with it.
Here are some pictures we took before we started having problems with the camera.

The first two are taken by Timothy.




























































































From Father's Day up at Granite Falls:

Woo hoo!

We have a lot of stuff to do this week. Rick & Rachel and Kyrie are coming in 6 days, and we've been working on the kids' room, getting it all finished. That means we have to have it finished pretty much by the end of this week, because the boys' boy table (along with all their toys, scattered over the room) is in our guest room. We also have a bunch of other stuff in the guest room that doesn't really belong, that I'll have to figure out where to put. Forrest is down working on painting the kids' room (it's lookin' good!) and when that's dry, we can stain the wood trim (and put in stained trim around the base of the walls)...then we can finally move them back into their room! Last Saturday Forrest & Isaac put in the new windows, which is exciting. For the last week we've been sleeping on an air mattress in the living room and letting the boys sleep on our bed. It's cute to have them in there but I'm looking forward to sleeping on a real bed again.
Anyway, that's what's up with us lately and what's going on for the rest of this week. I'm getting excited to see my Louisiana family again--it's been so long!!!

Dum da dum dum...

This is my hair.















Noelle was feeling better today (which is good, 'cause we HAD to go grocery shopping), but still not 100%. We went to Costco and Yoke's...we decided to get the organic macaroni at Costco because it was almost as good a price. We tried it for dinner tonight (with enough fresh veggies, it makes a good meal if your children are still small!) and it was really good. Last time I got celery, the organic was actually a better price (it was on sale) and it turns out that it's more flavorful too! Maybe I'm just going to have to start getting more things organic--'cause the flavor is almost always superior. And you know, the price isn't always that much more than the other stuff.

In other news, I got my first salon haircut today. It was nice. I like the job she did. And I'm gonna donate my hair also.

Okay. The other day, David, after he went to the bathroom, was told to pull up his underwear, and Daddy would get him a chocolate. (This is his reward for #2, and by the way, he's potty-trained!) So he starts singing to himself, "Chocolate - underwear! Chocolate - underwear!"

And then Timothy, when the boys were getting stories for us to read, points at one book on the floor and says, "There's the crappy story." It was A House For Hermit Crab.


Okay...now for some pictures of Noelle wearing a bra. This is when she had put it on herself.






















These are after we helped her put it back on. hehe.









































Okay, okay....my hair.

Hooray

...for not being sick anymore! On Sunday night I got sick...and it lasted until last evening. And no, I'm not pregnant. Noelle and Matthew got it too. Actually, Noelle is still a bit under the weather, which makes me so mad at whatever is making her sick, and so sorry for her. She hasn't been feeling consistently bad but her diapers testify that she's been sick since Monday...and she threw up Monday morning, and then again yesterday afternoon and this morning. What's that all about?? Well, it lasted about three days for me...so hopefully she's on the mend now. At least she's taking a good nap--sleep will help, I'm sure.

In regards to the haircuts I gave, I think I had a harder time letting Forrest & Timothy part with their hair than they did. I really liked Forrest's hair how it was. However, I really like it how it is now too. Pretty much as long as he doesn't get a flat top or a buzz/shaved head, I'll be happy. Timothy's hair was getting too shaggy in my opinion...but I really like his curls. Well, there's always next winter...and he's really cute with his little Caesar cut. By the way, the pile of Timothy's hair was pretty big, but only about half the size of Forrest's hair AFTER the ponytails were cut off. And also, each of those ponytails met the 10" requirement for donation to Locks of Love, and I think two of them would be about the thickness of my hair...and there were four of them! My husband has THICK hair!

Ah. I love feeling normal.

Phew!

On Sunday we were at my parents' house, visiting outside when it started to rain. I accidentally left the camera out there, and fortunately found it before we left, but it was all wet. So I tried turning it on--nothing. Took it home, let it dry out overnight--nothing in the morning. Went online, looking for what to do about a digital camera that gets wet, and really scared I had ruined it. Found some advice, let it dry until this morning, and *phew* it works again! Thank God. BTW, if any of you ever do this, make sure it's fresh water, not salt water, and take the batteries out, and open any place it can regularly open, and let it dry at least 24 hours.

Anyway, in celebration that I don't have to buy us a new camera, here are some pictures!


From Saturday before last, on our hike around the Spokane River:








































































































































From the next day, at Ryan & Taneisha's:


















































































And some pictures of my beautiful little girl: