Sick baby and tired mommy

Jocelyn got a little virus which meant big work for mommy and daddy, mostly mommy.

She wanted to be loved every half an hour - hence the reason I put a mattress on the floor in the living room and crashed there for the night. She slept for an entire day minus two hours!! Thankfully she got better before we headed to SF to celebrate her first birthday!

Meet our newest addition

This is Annie.

Annie is 3 and shares a birthday with Jocelyn!

Annie is well trained and a great dog, unless she's excited to see you then you might get pawed to death!

We're very excited to have her but not all the dooties that come with her!

Playing in the Rain

We had a semi-good rain storm come through and the kids were so excited to go play outside and dance. They decided to count this as their shower for the night.

Good Time with the Gaede's

We stopped to have snow cones, which Russ had never had - he really enjoyed them - while we wandered around the zoo.

This peacock had a couple of babies with her. I'd never seen a baby peacock, they're kind of cute.

This is what happens when I walk through our backyard weeds and don't take any allergy medicine. This is the after picture. My eyes were basically swollen shut for nearly an hour. Alexis saw my eyes and she was shocked, she went and said a prayer that my eyes would get better soon. It worked - the next day they were better and after I got some medicine in me they were just fine.

We went to Bear Lake on Monday. Since the 4th of July fell on a Sunday everybody had the 5th off too! After we finished swimming at the Lake we went to get some raspberry shakes. They took FOREVER to get them to us and the kids found some entertainment while we waited. Mary decided to stay up there until our order was ready. Little did she know that she was going to have to be up there for almost half an hour! She did it though!

Happy 80th Grandpa

What better way to end the day than to get in a tub with your swim suit and cousins?

At the end of June we had an impromptu Rodney family reunion, at my apartment. There were 30+ people at the height of the reunion. At the end of June we were also moving from the apartment to the house, I had 12 credits of schooling and John still had to go to work. Was it crazy? YES!! 

It was a lot of fun though. My cousin Michelle came from Arizona with her 6 kids, yes, she's crazy too. My cousin Stacy came from California with her mom, daughter and niece, my aunt Melanie came with her family from South Dakota and of course we had my siblings from Utah and my Mom and Grandpa from South Dakota as well.

Grandpa was excited to celebrate his 80th birthday with everyone! We celebrated in our new house that was still completely empty. But the next day all the big kids helped to move from our apartment to the house, in one day! They were amazing - THANK YOU!

Bear Lake

 

Jocelyn LOVED Madison's new birthday baby. The baby doll is bigger than Jocelyn! Jocelyn was also very intrigued with Steph's dog Mister. He was so good to sit there and get poked while she inspected him.

 We all got burnt while at Bear Lake, but no one as badly as poor Grandma Tobi. Grandma was sick for a few days and then she blistered! John had a few blisters and I actually peeled. The kids did not get anything like we did thankfully!

 

Grandpa Rodney came to play with us, he did not like Bear Lake. It was windy, which is normal for Bear Lake, but there was nothing for him to do since he didn't want to get wet. He was such a good sport though!

Canal Fun in the Country

 

The canal by our apartment was filled with water, yes they still water by irrigation here, so the kids went to play. They played until it was too dark and cold to continue doing so. Madison had to go to the bathroom while she was playing so she took off her bottoms and popped a squat right in the canal. I didn't notice until she was coming back up.