summer 2009 (in a nutshell)...

So....

I'm finally getting around to updating my blog, not too bad, only been about 3 months!!! AHHHHH!!! (warning: really lengthy post follows, continue at your own will)

i'm feeling a little sad since rory seems to be getting too big, too fast. at 8-1/2 months she can sit-up, crawl, has 4 teeth, and she can do this really awesome mean cry when she's not getting what she wants. A little note on the teeth, she has the two on bottom and two on top; however they are not the front two on the top, they are the ones next to the front teeth. also, she only weighs about 17 lbs. which is my smallest baby.

sweet music to my ears

blair asks me almost daily if she can sleep in ellie's bed with her, my answer is usually no...this is how i found them even though the answer was no that night too. i love when they are best friends. i'll take that over worst enemies any day.
she loves to do this super trick. i have pictures of the other girls doing this too.
cousin sleepovers!!

mammoth lakes, ca
olson reunion

lots of bike rides......sweet sleeping girls... ...fun hikes...
...cute family pictures...
...smiley girls...
...brushing up on tennis (don't let his form fool you, he's a pro)...

...more bike rides with a wonderful grandma, whom i might add, caters to their every need... short story for me to remember: while in mammoth lakes, blair was talking to a man who had a cigarette, she told me that it was bad and that he was "cigaretting".

cortney & devin get hitched

almost all the cousinsmy sweet, sweet angels.

blair turns 5!

she picked donuts instead of cake and had it at settler's park in meridian. lots of cousins and fun!

fun in the sunkel did these wonderful pictures

daddy and his babies

sunday after july 4th
r2 family reunion

deadwood reservoir

our hippy family in our sweet tie-dye

the weather and water were perfect so were the children

"in the deep"
fun, fun, fun

need i say more?

ellie turns 3!

she wanted a rainbow cake and that's what she got by dern

getting all dolled up with some birthday make-up

kel also did this...cute pic

trampoline sleep-out with dad

the tramp was a combined b-day gift for the girls (a sweet craig's list find)

father's day

and a wonderful one at that

more of daddy with his girls

rory turns 6 mo.!

she is now 8-1/2 mo.

visited dad while he was in utah working and went to temple square where the girls got exhausted.

super dad!

great job, you made it. now i'll never get that far behind on my blog again (i hope).

i love my sweet little family!