Catching Up...Again

It seems as though I have been doing a lot of "catch-up" posts lately. I wait too long and then have a really long post to put up - sorry for such a long read ....again.

On the move - Leslie has been crawling for about a month now. She loves to explore and is now pulling herself up to things and figuring out how to move those legs while on her feet.
With that crawling and freedom - comes a little mischief and some more child proofing. :)


Tolman Family Reunion- We went to Meadow Lake in Central Idaho. The lake was right up against the mountain. Very pretty - but we were at quite a high elevation and it was very cold.
Katie and I hiding from the hail in the back of the truck. Coozzyy!

Picnic lunches in a dry tent.

Keeping babies warm in a dry tent.

The sun peeked out enough to get in a few boat rides and some fishing.

A few of us (mostly with the babies) wimped out of the cold and talked everyone else into packing up. We headed to Green Canyon Hot Springs instead and had a great time swimming.


Chubbuck Days - We planned to attend more of Chubbuck Days with Josh's family, but after spending an hour in the rain watching the parade, we called it a day.
East Idaho State Fair - nothing ushers in fall like the fair.

poor girl - this is how she spent her first trip to the fair. She slept almost the whole time - we ended up leaving because she started running a fever - a result from and ear infection.

With fall comes all of the harvesting and canning. We have been doing a lot of canning this year - although I have no pictures except for the corn. WE spent an entire afternoon at my parents house with my sister putting up lots of corn. I think we ended up with around 75 quart bags of corn - that's a lot of corn.

I love fall, but that also means that our sunshine filled days of outdoors and fun like these are soon coming to an end.

Photo Shoot

We had Adam's thre year and Leslie's 6 month pictures taken. They were both very difficult subjects to take pictures of. It only took three tries on three different days to get happy, smiling faces. Thanks Aunt Mel for your time and patience with us. They turned out great. There are lots of pictures - hope you enjoy!

I am so done with this picture taking!!

June/4th of July

June has been a crazy month, and we are already a week into July. Where does the time go? June was full of camping, YW girls camp, weddings, trips to Utah, swimming lessons, birthday parties, the zoo, and visits to grandparents. Sit back and relax - there are a lot of pictures to look at and enjoy!!

June has been such a rainy month here. Adam and Brielle had a great time playing in the rain. They took "showers" underneath the rain that was coming out of the gutter.

They love to help Grandpa in his garden and around his property. You gotta love the irrigation boots - the kiddos love to wear them. These two are quite the duo.

We were out of town for Adam's Birthday. He ended up getting two birthday parties - both a week late. One was a double birthday party with his cousin Brooke and the Tolman family, the other was a birthday party with the Harris side of the family.

Trying out his new T-Ball set.

His great reaction to his new bike - Thanks to Grandmas, Grandpas, and Aunts and Uncles
Birthday Spanking Machine - The wierd kid loved birthday spankins', especially the spanking Machine, he went through it twice.

Leslie got to join me at Girl's Camp. Considering how cold it got at night and hot during the day- she did extremely well. She got quite used to being passed around with the girls and they became very good at holding her just the way she likes to be held - especially to go to sleep.

At the beginning of June, Adam was able to take swimming lessons. Because he was just short of his 3rd Birthday, I got to join him in the pool - lucky me!! He hated going under the water, but LOVED swimming lessons. We're hoping that our schedule allows us to sneak in another session this summer.

Because we were out of town for Adam's birthday, we took him to Hogle Zoo the day before (We were at a wedding the day of). Here are some fun pics of our day at the Zoo.

Congratulations Ben and Christina!! Thanks for letting us be part of the big day.

For the 4th of July we went to Driggs to watch the Hot Air Balloon Rally. It was a ton of fun - although it was very early and a bit cold. Then we went to the Driggs Parade. We went with Uncle Mike and Aunt Jenn, and Grandma and Grandpa. Thanks Justin and Ashley for letting us camp out at your house.

Early morning breakfast before the balloons.

This is just way too early for me, guys.

I can't get enough of those precious baby blue eyes and sweet cheeks. What a cutie!!

Adam giving it a go on his new bike.