Garden a Growing..

The outdoor happenings.

Buster got to new toy- a tirebiter or something like that. He loves chasing after it!

Green grass- Cody makes it all look so good. We love our home here in Lehi.

Square foot gardening..ON CRACK!! Corn, broccoli, zucchini, cucumbers, tomatoes, tomatillas, herbs, cantaloupe and..

Watermelon!

Buster relaxing in the shade!

Londyn loved playing/working outside with Mom and Dad.

Best Friends! Londyn loves to watch Buster and laughs at his crazy tail.

Mommy had to go on a run and when she got back..

Daddy had washed her car!!

WE LOVE SUMMER!!

Bowling League

Our bowling league come to a close last week and we were so sad! A bunch of our friends and ward members went every week and we all had a great time. It was a fun date night and we would usually grab some food and bowl our 3 games with friends. Londyn has been such a good sport through all the league games and practice games we have played. She sleeps to the sound of the pins crashing. It is great!

My highest score- 188!! Everyone else was gone this time so their scores are all absent computer generated scores.

Cody's high was 214! He is a great bowler!

Smiley little Londyn. You can't keep a smile off her face. Kevin loved to make her laugh! Cheree Caldwell and Meghann and AJ (our teammates) held her a bunch while we were bowling, they were so nice

to help us out so much!

Rose and Cheree 

Schaffers, Wilsons and Alldridges

In our league you got a candy bar if you got a turkey (3 X's in a row). We were so excited for a candy bar! Cody got 6 X's in a row more than once- he's good!

Londyn brought lots of good luck~

Until next summer!!

Outdoor concert- Alex Boye with Kristin & Elijah

My friend Kristin was in town and it was so fun to get together with her and her sweet little guy Elijah. He is 2 and so adorable. We went to an outdoor concert to see Alex Boye and hang out. It had to rain (weird weather when 2 Seattlites get together is has to rain). Londyn loved Kristin and her umbrella!

Elijah wanted to hold the baby! It was pretty dang cute! Londyn has some cute boyfriends already.

Alex Boye- Mo Tab Choir singer and backup singer for Jay-Z and Mary J Blige.

Love you guys! Thanks for visiting!!

Being Cute/Busting Out of Any & All Restraints

So I am going to get caught up- check back for more, but here is a bit of Londyns cuteness! She can sit forward in her swing now and loves all the toys. It is a little worrisome at first to see her leaning forward but the swing won't dump her (I hope).

Londyn loves Peek-a-boo- or just Boo. It is a sure way to get her to flash one of these:

So we are down to weeks with the nasal stent. We have to keep her "restrained" (such a horrible word) so she can't pull at her nose when she sleeps. She is pretty amazing and can "Bust Out" of her arm restaints and her swaddle blanket (that velcros)- She is pretty amazing (amazingly cute that is)!!

Londyns 4 Month Birthday!

I have been a slacker lately- I haven't been too enthused about blogging. I went back to work and on my days off it isn't exactly on the list. I am making the yummiest salad for lunch as I wait for the pics to load- to try it click here

To get you all caught up on how big/cute Londyn is getting I just have to post this cute video. Sorry technical diff. Londyn is 4 months old today! She is the happiest baby! This last month she has changed so much and we love her smiley, active, happy spells. She gets going and doesn't stop. We were trying to put her to bed tonight and she wouldn't stop being cute! Talk about lovestruck parents!

We were excited to give her rice cereal for her 4 month birthday (along with a few last min items from the Nordys sale!!) She didn't exactly get what she was supposed to do with it once it was in her mouth- so we put it in her bottle and hoped it would help our little spit up problem! :o)

Then we made a smoothie for breakfast- since Londyn stares at all our food and this was actually food pureed I decided she could give it a try!

Oh so Yumm-o!  So on her 4 mo. day she got to snuggle with daddy- one of her fav things to do!

And she got a crazy/funny hairdo! I always hated when people did this to their poor kids- but it was so funny I just had to take 1 pic! Londyn is not sure what to think about her crazy parents!

Are these not the cutest things you have ever seen!!! Can't wait for those feets to grow just a little! She'll be styling! Happy 4 months Londyn!!

Snowflake & Funeral, Blue Angels and more (July Adventures)

Cody grew up in a great little town called Snowflake- I know you all know someone from Snowflake! I think I was the only Mormon that had never heard of the place and didn't know anyone from there. I was one like many I meet, who thought AZ was all hot and desert like. There is a place in the eastern mtns that is more like a Utah climate (a little dryer- and yes SNOW) but definately out in the middle of nowhere. When I first went to Snowflake with Cody in '04 for the 24th of July celebration we drove there across the indian reservation. There were drunk cowboys and wild horses in the road (literally swerved around them- yikes!) I wondered why anbody would live there! But after the last 6 years of making many trips across "the Res" as they call it- I have learned to love the small town. Not the drive :o) or enough to live there, but enough to appreciate it. As we went in July for Cody's Grandpa's funeral I learned a little more about the people who call it home- including my own husband and his family. Grandpa Kartchner was a hard working man who loved to work with his grandsons, fish and hunt. It was so fun to hear the stories from his youth and learn more about him. It is really too bad it takes a funeral to do that.
We made a quick trip with Codys parents and Chad, Allison and Samantha! It was fun to be with them and see the good people of Snowflake once more. We kept busy and had a good time even with 2 babies in 1 car on the way back :o) Oh the memories!!

Cody stayed in AZ and Londyn and I headed home. While we were home we had some fun together. I made strawberry jam. Here is a before/after pic:

And my little helper (who also got her first pedicure!)

Just when we thought we could stay home for a minute- we headed up to Idaho to catch the Blue Angels and the Airshow that followed- It was awesome! I have been watching the Blue Angels my whole life and was dying to get Cody to a show. Londyn didn't enjoy the noise of the jets quite like her daddy did!!

See the woman standing on the top of this trick plane?!?

Home for awhile now thanks!