Porter Park birthday 7.1

For her actual birthday, we spent the day at Porter Park swimming, playing, eating, and riding the carousel with cousins. She loved it so much. She got a mermaid makeover kit and loved being a mermaid every day for weeks.

Georgia knows she's the queen when all the cousins are around. What georgia wants, gerogria gets. haha

Stori had a birthday

shout hurray! she turned 7 and had the best day.

We actually celebrated it twice so that Dan could be there for part of it. The main thing she wanted for her birthday, was her very own meal at Cafe Rio; a sweet pork tostada. So while dan was in town, we went there to eat and have our cake. It was kinda genius because we didn't have to cleanup anything after dinner and dessert. ;)
Then back to my moms to open presents. While I was getting presents ready, Stori colored her very own "pin the tail on the unicorn" game. haha. Part of me felt bad that I didn't think to do any games, but part of me felt so proud that she thought of a game and executed it all without asking for any help. She even got the blindfold and tape ready to play. She's a cutie, and I wish everyone had their very own Astoria Rose.

4 cuteness reading at 11pm. haha.

It's a good life for my girls. 

And this is just a cute picture my mom captured of all the mom's braiding hair before we go swimming. 

a few days in Harrisville

We have spent nearly every day since the last weekend of June, in Idaho. Julydaho. We LOVED our days there so much. It was really nice to come back for a few days while dan worked though. While we were here, we explored downtown 25th street; it's a very famous street where a lot of movies and tv shows were filmed. We also did a lot of play doh (shutter), legos, crafts, art, night-night walks, morning runs, ladder climbing for Georgia (the little stinker can climb up anything), celebrated pioneer day, and spent several days at the new library. This is a pretty great town.

a mermaid in the ocean by Stori

style experts for our walks.

the climbing Georgia Belle

Play doh... my fave ;)

We put the kids to bed at 8:30 on Pioneer day and then felt guilty they didn't stay up for the fireworks, so we got them out of bed to watch the neighborhood light off their fireworks.

on 25th street, they have random painted pianos on the corner blocks. The girls loved to stop and listen to talented people, and then try their hand at it too.

Dan's brother Jon stayed the night at our house, so we put the girls to bed in our room.

And on my birthday, I woke up to a sweet mirror filled with wonderful love notes. We always keep a marker in our bathroom for such notes to be written.

hiking in poky.

On our way to Idaho a few weeks ago, we stopped in Pocatello to do an impromptu hike with dan's brother Jon and his family.
2 lawyers and 2 babies. it was a pretty little hike with such cute company!

Father's Day 2018

Well, i literally have 21 posts waiting to be published, so I'm gonna start right here, with this handsome guy.
Our girls love him so much---on our run the other morning, Georgia said for 3 miles straight, "dadddddyyyyyy, daddddddyyyyy...." in a sweet little voice. And she is always so excited whenever he walks in the room; even if he was just in the bathroom and walked into the room she was in.
They love building legos with him, riding bikes, swimming, getting donuts, coloring, and getting cozy on the couch to watch a family movie with him.

Dan's dad took this photo on fathers day. I actually didn't know he took it, but I kind of like it.

^^ i sure do love how much this man likes to clean. He puts on some music and cleans the house top to bottom.