365 Days in our Lives

Friday, June 25, 2010

Ro: Day 117

Connor is ready to jump in on this picture-a-day blog action.

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Ro: Day 116

Relief Society meeting tonight was a food storage potluck. Dessert was bags of ingredients that when you squished them they turned into fudge so here we all are smashing our bags.

Diane Day 116, June 24

Shelley's house in downtown Phoenix. Many wonderful memories are connected to this redbrick cottage. My mom and dad, my sister and my girls shared lots of experiences here.

Lolo has been participating in a summer Drama Camp at Yavapai college the last 2 weeks. Today they put on the 10 minute play they were learning. Lolo was pig #5 in the "12 Angry Pigs" a spoof on the old black and white movie, "12 Angry Men". She was great! The play was cute and funny, just so you know they found that the Big Bad Wolf was guilty
of Destruction of Property.

Bryt: Day 116

Ian was fussing and by the time I got into the other room to help him he was already all smiles. Morgan said, "He likes my music maker Mom! I shared with him!"

K-Day 115 June 23

This is Bailey, she is in one of the other Prescott wards. She is good friends with a couple of my girls, so we saw ALOT of her. On the bus ride home, she would squeeze her face through the seats to meow and hiss at my girls. She sounded like a cat that was stuck somewhere, she was a fireball ALL the time! The night before her cabin literally tied her to a tree, while she hissed and growled like an Avatar, which is another one her faves.

K-Day 114 June 22

Tuesday was our last night there, the girls broke loose! It is completely crazy in Camp on the last night, screaming, laughing, farting, belching contests, (yes I owned that one, put that little first year to shame!), running and just craziness. Three of my girls, Kenzie, Victoria, and Anna started out with these shoes on thier head, then decided they worked better as phones. now these are the shoes they have been walking around ALL week in! EEEEEEEEEWWWWWW! But they would stand in a circle and each would just say one word, "Car", "Bed" "Draperies". It was hysterical!

K-Day 113 June 21

On Monday we did a service project. We walk up the road and do yard clean up for the houses that live along the road to camp. These people put up with dust and busses and loud girls all summer, now yes maybe you shouldn't have bought a house near an active camp, but they did and now they are unhappy. For the last 5 years our leaders have had the girls go up the road. Someone's mother lives out here, so they contact the homeowners and see if they would like anything done and get permission to help. It has become something the neighbors look forward to, and one couple have been buying ALOT of cookies and drinks and then serve us when we are all done. The house we did, used up all the garbage bags and then some, after the leaders drove into town to buy MORE! Here is our pile of bags FULL of pine needles. One of the leaders asked a neighbor if any of the other stakes do this and they said no, we are the only ones and they can't wait every year for us to come!

K-Day 112 June 20

On Sunday the bishop drives up for church. He attends sacrament with us and then we have Bishop time, which would be the equivelent of Sunday School. Bishop Mangum took us on a hike that lead us to the top of a peak, he had a pic of the temple waiting for us, to signify that the hike maybe hard, but the destination is always worth it. This man has a story or analogy for any thing you say. Great day!

K-Day 111 June 19

We have arrived! Kenzie decided she needed to be in the picture with all our bags! Not much else to do while we wait for the leaders to approve the takeover of camp from the last stake!

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Bryt: Day 115

2 minutes before I took this picture she was adamantly swearing she was not tired.

diane Day 115,June 23

This is walking bridge across the canal. Can you see the old faucets on the ends of the railing? Way cool!

Diane Day 114, June 22

This is a dirt irrigation ditch. The new property owner doesn't think it is very pretty or functional for that matter, hopefully we can help him by installing some pipe for him.

Ro: Day 115

This evening Aaron and I went and talked to the mother of our perpetrator. We let her know what we found on our lawn, and we returned all 5 bags of shredded documents to them. She was none too pleased with what her daughter had been up to, and she marched her out to apologize to us. The mother was very nice and I wish we could have met her under different circumstances.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Bryt: Day 114

We brought home a little bit of Disney Magic with us :)

Ro: Day 114

Someone T.P.'d us last night. Now I don't mind some good-natured toilet papering but these yahoos also decided to dump a couple trash-bags worth of shredded documents on our freshly growing lawn. It took Kaylee and myself 4 1/2 hours to clean most of it up as we were desperately trying to preserve our brand new blades of grass, our topsoil, and the seeds that have yet to sprout. As it is, we will still probably need to do some reseeding. Luckily the vandals were not smart and had some personal documents in the shredded mess that let us know exactly who they are. Unfortunately we also know that their little prank was malicious in nature. I doubt their parents will be thrilled to find out that their personal information was spread over our lawn.

Bryt: Day 113

With as much fun as we had, the best part was getting to spend so much time together. I love these guys (minus Minnie Mouse of course) more than anything in the world. It was amazing and I am so glad I got to share it with them.

Bryt: Day 112

JD and I got to go on a little date night to Disneyworld after the kids fell asleep. (His Mom came and slept in our room with them for a bit) It was so much fun to run around that place that just makes you feel like a kid with my husband! Like we was just a couple of college kids again!

Bryt: Day 111

After Providenciales (Turks and Caicos), we flew to Orlando for 3 days in Disneyworld. We stayed at Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge where your balcony overlooks a savanna. This was right outside our balcony, maybe 100 feet away. It was awesome!

Bryt: Day 110

Sunset on our last night in Turks and Caicos. Don't let it end!

Bryt: Day 109

*Woo-Woo!* What a hot surfer eh?

Bryt: Day 108

Me and my love in paradise. Absolutely perfect.

Bryt: Day 107

WHOA! That monkey is huge! Good thing it's hanging out below that banana tree so no worries, it won't attack!

Bryt: Day 106

This is the beach. I know. It looks like a pool. If you don't believe me, look at the load of sand in the bottom of Morgan's swimsuit :)

Bryt: Day 105

The branch in Turks and Caicos is tiny and all the members have been baptized less than a year. What a humbling experience to hear people who live in bushes (no joke, they actually live in the bushes) speak on tithing. I will never look at tithing the same way again, that's for sure.

Bryt: Day 104

We flew all night long and got there about noon. Morgan was experiencing some slight jet lag.

Bryt: Day 103

We're on our way!

Monday, June 21, 2010

Ro: Day 113

I think this boy is ready for a vacation.

Diane Day 113, June 21

Sleeping herd of cattle. These guys caught me so unawares! How long have they been their sleeping on the corner by Walmart? No grafitti so perhaps not too long.

Diane Day 112, June 20

Saturday we went to see Jason and Christine and Brody. We were met at the door by the normal two (very old) dogs and this new one, Timbo the boxer. Timbo belongs to the school where Christine works. Long story, but she has such a soft heart and now the dog comes home with her every night and weekend. Jason is so "excited" and loves the idea that his wife likes to adopt those in need of love.

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Ro: Day 112

Laura and I threw together a little somethin' for the dads in the household. The "World's BEST Dad" side was Aaron's half of the cake, and the "#1 Dad" side was for Aaron's dad. It may look like 10-year-olds made it, but it tasted good and got the point across.

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Diane Day 111, June 19

One big splash!! We had a Daddy-Daughter swim for our ward activity girls. They are a great group of girls and they have some really fun dads. It is very interesting to watch the group interact. Girls with girls and dads with dads, and then the dads interacting with all the girls. Oh what a memory these girls will have with these men they call Dad and Grandpa. Not all of the "dads" are members of the church and I love the way they mingle and have fun. It brings me to tears thinking about it.

Ro: Day 111

He put on one shoe, my keys, and my purse and informed me that he was going bye bye.

Friday, June 18, 2010

K-Day 110

This morning we dropped Danielle off for the 4th yr hike. She is a YCL this year and had so much fun last year she opted to go this year, again. Along with Danielle is the only 4th year from our ward, Kendall Peterson. Both are ready and rearing to go.

(By the way I will be going to camp tomorrow morning, so I will be on a 5 day hiatus, be ready for some fun pics on Wed.!)

Diane Day 110, June 18

Honk!! Honk!!! Anyone there? I would like dinner served to me each night and the floors mopped once a week and the dishes put away and all my clutter in a home.....

Ro: Day 110

Connor is sporting the shirt Grandpa got him on his fishing trip. It is a little big for now so it is a nighttime shirt until he grows a little bit bigger.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Ro: Day109

Aaron bought me this game because he loves me. It is called Plants vs. Zombies. You have to plant a garden to keep the zombies from getting to your house and eating your brains. It has provided us both with hours of entertainment and also new household catchphrase: "Not right now, I got a bobsled team coming."

K-Day 109

So I know it's A picture a day, but today needs to be a 2 pic day. The before, then after when Danielle decided today was the day to chop ALL of her hair off for the Locks for Love charity. She is beautiful!

Diane Day 109, June 17

My Dad

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Ro: Day 108

Indeed, he is the cutest ball player anyone has ever seen.

K-Day 108

Grab your partner dosey doe!

Diane Day 108, June 16

I think I could learn to live in a magical secluded house located on a hill overlooking a small lake and wildlife preserve. That is where all the fairies live I am sure of it.

Diane Day 107, June 15

Sure enough, you can't see the forrest for the trees.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Ro: Day 107

I bought this conditioner today as a joke, but also because I am mildly curious about it. Technically it is for horses, buuuuuut, it is boldly written on the back "SAFE FOR HUMAN USE" and it was in the normal shampoo aisle with all the other human products. Not to mention the fact that it boasts the ability to "maintain a silky feel and lustrous appearance." I guess I will keep you posted.

*Addendum: This conditioner lasted forever. All the way into the second week of October. Four whole months just seems like a long time for something I use every day to last.

K-Day 107

Tonight the house was filled with piano music again. Danny enjoyed the song that was sung in Priesthood on Sunday so much he sat down and started to learn it. This is one of the things that I love about him and it was so nice to see/hear him playing again.

"Beautiful bright, millenial day"