I have a new TALENT!!!!

Thanks to my sweet cousin Ashlee...











I can now:
-Click my tonge
-Pop my lips
-Rub my belly
-Pat my head
-Hum a fun tune


...ALL AT THE SAME TIME!


I know! Really, I have never felt smarter! And I know what you're thinking but, no, you cannot be me.

Does anyone fully understand the brainpower that this requires?


Probably Ashlee does.


Thanks Ash, I wouldn't be this smart without you.

Whew! What a weekend! Yes, I know, it was over two days ago! But for those of you who know me know that I'm doing friggin awesome to be blogging about it this quickly!!! Go me! Go me! I'm Awesome! Uh-huh!! Oh-yeah!! (Say that with the "It's your Birthday" tune.)

Neee-ways.... K-Rock was in the Riverdale Parade on Saturday! It was for his dance group. So fun! Well anyone that knows him, knows that he's a little bit of crazy. (Ok, he's like a lotta bit of crazy!) So we were thinking that he was gonna luv being in this parade and go....well, crazy. Well....he sat there....staring..... ..the....whole...time.....? What the...???? (He's to the right of the pic. It's ok Kess, we still luv you!




His uncle Mike taking a pic of him...sitting there.





Funny side note: Masta B works for a local credit union. So when a truck with this credit unions logo on it drives by in the parade, the boys went friggin buck-wild. Hootin and hollerin, jumping up and down....Everyone around us was just sitting there, because, well, who cheers for a bank??? They weren't even throwing candy! I'm sure that they were all like, "Why are those small children getting so hyped up about a bank for? Hm, maybe they have a CD or a 504 there with a great interest rate!" Good times.

Coletty and Bo-Myster enjoying the parade.

Here is the man of the hour. ---Oh and K-Rock.

(Sure NOW he's smiling!)

Next day we had a little get together at our place. I love my family so much. We had a great time eating yummy food and playing Pom-Pom-Poley in our backyard. Though I won't be surprised if I see a 'for sale' sign in our neighbors yard soon. (We are not exactly the...quietest group of crazies!)


Our neighbors were doing some fireworks and the kids took it upon themselves to achieve a height necessary for them to easily partake of them also. (Yeah, we don't really worry about privacy or social etiquette's either... Again, 'for sale' sign might be going up.) Poor Bo-Bo, he could not achieve the necessary height.

My Gramma, Mommy, Colette and Mike, and the back of some weird guy's head. (kyle)

(My gramma is so friggin cute- I want to be like her when I grow up!)

Kyle, Dad, Masta B. They all ate WAY too many hot dogs, and hamburgers.

Sweet Bo-Myster. He's cool as long as he has something to push....

Boys with their sweet cousins Breqy and Hazy-babe.

Cute pic! We didn't even pose them or anything. They were ALL playing on this at the same time. Aarrrgghh!! So cute!!!

Papa with Wy-Wy and K-Rock.

Be careful guys, he's freeeking OLD!!

Finally, we ended the night with some fireworks. I take this very seriously. You have to intermingle the good ones with the boring ones. Throw a good one in sporadically, so as to not lose your audience! But you still have to use the boring ones, we don't want to be wasteful. They're more like fillers; they simply get you from one good one to the next. It's a science.

Happy Fourth All!! BTW- We live in a great country and I am grateful to those who have spilt their blood so that we can have the freedoms that we do. Freedom like we have can only be bought with blood. I can't say that I would have the courage to die so that OTHERS may be free.
Thank You!

Summer is flying by!! And with these four kiddos at home all day, it can literally feel like I live in a friggin tornado half the time! I swear that neighbors can probably see our house pulsating from the outside at times. And if there IS such a thing as having too much fun...we are on the border!




Anyways, here's some updates on each of us. K-Rock is in a hip-hop dance class and LOVES it. He definitely has a knack for it too! He will be in two parades this summer, the Riverdale and Roy ones. (and yes, he's still crazy!)






Next here is The Bo-Myster. He is signing really good now (he is saying 'please' in this pic because he wants my camera!) and definitely preferes that over actually talking...which he can do, just won't! He got tubes in his ears about a month ago and everything is going fine with that. He is soooo happy and sweet! I just want to hug him till his head pops off!



Here they are at the Zoo with their cousins. Kessler in his rightful spot.













A-Man is just finishing off T-ball. They have two games left. He is a hard-core competitor. Here he is playing an intense game of Rock-Paper-Scissor while he anxiously awaits his turn to bat. Whew! Sometimes we have to say, "Calm down Aidan, It's just a game!"

K-Rock is OBSESSED with Rob Thomas! If we ever want him to wear something, all we have to say is "Rob Thomas has these shorts", and discussion is over. He is asking me here if he looks like Rob Thomas with that necklace-thing. Of course you do babe!!!

We just got back from Bear Lake where we had tons of fun. (So much that it took a whole day for me to recover!) Here is C-Dawg and Tyson (cousin) on a paddle boat. They were really good at it.

Bo-Bo-Myster---aaaaawwwwwww! So cute!!!! (growl when you say cute, for emphasis.)

A-Man at Bear Lake. We put 85 power sunblock on him every 45 min. And guess what!!!? We did it! Our first time taking him to Bear Lake and him not coming home with blisters!!!! Yay Us!!! I pretty much glued that had to his head and made him wear either a T-shirt or life jacket the whole time. Poor kiddo.

Well, I guess that's good for now. But I just want to get serious on your @$$ for just a minute. I recently have seen and heard some disheartening things about the joys of parenting and motherhood. It seems like nowdays it is so much easier to just opt out. I'm not gonna lie, it is super hard being a mom! In fact, at times it down right sucks! But nothing in life worth doing is easy. Being a mom is the most fulfilling and rewarding thing that exists. The joy it brings is impossible to articulate and unequalled by anything else. It may not be fancy, eloquent, or even popular; but it's real. It's how you leave your imprint on the future.

One day this season in my life will be over, and that will be a sad day. But until then, we will play!