Georgia on my mind

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My crazy friend, Meagan, and my crazy sis, Leisha

Just a few of my sweet pea

Oh my "Afty Baft"

A day at the park...check out the shades

Reesa did not like the grass...hmmm who does that remind us of?

Trying to cheer her up

Just a goober!

Aww...look at that chubbers...the baby I mean :)

Afton decided to try on Aunt B's makeup and muck-lucks

Showing us her make-up

Looking at the "Mr. Ray's"

These were so cool

Aww...mommy and Lela

She was sooo good and a cutie of course

The "Dory" fish of course

Uncle Jon getting freaked out by the sting rays

Brave little Afton touching all the fish

Aunt B practising her photography skills

What a tall penguin she would be

All the penguins

"I lub the sharts"

I love Reesa's face

The "nemo" fish

Cool jellies

Man he is ugly

This tank was huge and had like 4 sharks with all the other fish

Aunt B and Afton

These are glass jelly fish that this guy makes

Reesa taking a look at the jellies, she kept hitting her head on the tank

These jellies were so cool

Aunt Lela and Uncle Jon

Oh she's so cute, but I'm not partial

The smaller leaf looking this is a seahorse, crazy huh?

This was pretty much Afton all day

Oh Dad, your face isn't that bad

Me and my Daddy-o

Touching more fish

Crazy cool froggy

Blue poisin dart frogs

A couple of gators

One of the biggest turtles

This picture still creeps me out, he was coming straight for us

The cute turtles

A huge stingray

All the girls

Silly turtle

Long neck turtle

This one looked like branches on a tree

Getting ready for the IMAX

Aunt B and Afton in her glasses

Grammy and Afton

Awww...Poppy and Afton

Poppy and Reesa

The girls could only last so long after bedtime

The "Little Man" who is now a taller man

So here is the next part of our summer. The girls and I got to take a trip down to visit my family in Georgia. It was so much fun and definitely worth the traveling hassles. We just had so much fun playing around with each other every day. Jon and Leisha were nice enough to come over A LOT, so I could see as much of them as possible. My mom bought a little swimming pool for Afton and Reesa to play in and we went to the park a few times. I got to play some tennis, which I'm not as good at anymore, but we all had fun playing together. My best friend, Meagan came to visit from Florida for a few days. It was awesome to have her finally meet all the family and I always love spending time with her. She's always so much fun to be around and makes me laugh. We all got to go to the Tennesee Aquarium, which was awesome. They had so many different things and Afton loved it. She still talks about all the animals she saw. She's getting so big now everything she says makes sense and her little memory is great. We loved every minute and wished Daddy could have been there with us but of course he had to work. I guess we'll just have to go live with my family while Tad does his grad school so we can take Daddy with us to the aquarium. I have some cute videos to try and upload and of course the next part of our great summer!

The wedding, the sea, with some Carluccio's and belly blowing!

So here is the next part of our summer...Oregon and Washington. Russell and Trish got married in the Portland Temple and it was beautiful. We took Leo the Uplander on his first road trip. He did well and the girls did pretty good too. It was a very pretty drive and we loved the area. The wedding was beautiful. The first few pictures are from the wedding day. I forgot my camera for the reception but that was fun too! The food was awesome and it was decorated with sea shells and stuff. Super cute! Russell sang a really cute song that he wrote for Trish and had their first dance as husband and wife to "Hey Soul Sister." Goobers! That night we stayed across the street from Trish's fam in a house owned by some friends' of theirs. It was just a couple minutes from the beach, so the next morning while everyone went to clean up the church the girls and I went for a walk on the beach. It was beautiful. Afton made some friends with some dogs and their owners or in other words she chased after a dog saying, "I WANT TO SEE THE DOGGY!"

After that we headed to lunch with all the family and drove on to Washington to visit Tad's cousins, Joe and Leah and thier beautiful daughter, Naomi. We haven't seen them since they left Rexburg and it was soooo much fun. Leah was an amazing host making us all the best dinners, breakfast, lunch and of course desserts ever! We tried to keep our eyes pried open every night to play as many games with each other as possible. We went on long walks through the beautiful neighborhoods and down to the waterfront catching up on everything that we've been missing out on not being near each other anymore. It was so good to see them and I hope that one day we can live next to each other. Leah is such an amazing example and always inspires me to become better. Joe is not only a good cousin to Tad, but a great friend. They are such good people and we are grateful to have them in our lives! We always have something strange and funny happen when we get together and this time was no exception. I'm not saying that Tad blew raspberries on Joe's belly or anything, but it got crazy! *wink, wink*

Anyway, I'll end here and start in tomorrow in the next part of our summer!

Easter bunnies lay eggs? What?

So here we are still trying to work out the kinks with our computer and blogger. In the meantime, here are a couple pictures from a long time ago. These are from Easter when we went down to Utah. We met up with Tad's family and had such a good time. It doesn't seem like it was that long ago, but Afton and Reesa both look so young. It was so fun to spend all that time with Tad's parents, Russell and Trish and some long lost cousies that we haven't seen in forever. The night before easter, we sat up talking about different things. We talked about what kind of twisted world we were teaching our children about. That big fluffy bunnies come and lay eggs full of candy (which bunnies in the real world never lay eggs, just in case you were wondering). What weirdo's we are! Anyway, it was much enjoyed even though it didn't make much sense.
The next part in our summer was Russell and Trish's wedding. Hopefully, I'll get that added tomorrow.

Hello, Is It Me You're Looking For

Well, sorry it's been a while. I get frustrated not being able to upload my pictures and never want to blog again. Lately, we haven't been doing much but the next few weeks will be crazy so I better blog now or you guys will think we'll fallen off the face of the earth.

I'll start with Tad-a-lad. He's still working the same old job which is becoming a constant struggle for him. He recently interviewed for an Accounts Payable position within the same company, but they said he was much more valuable where he is. (Plus they would have to pay him the same rate when they could pay a much less qualified person $10/hour.) He was disappointed, but not too upset having prayed about it a lot. We just kept praying that whatever our next step in life be, we would find it out through this somehow. Well, our next step is Grad school...officially. We've been saying that for a little while now, but we know that is what we need to do. Tad recently bought one of those humungo study books for the gmat and will be taking that this fall. We would like to be in school by next fall, so we'll see how that works. Tad is constantly busy and always working hard. He comes home and still manages to have enough energy to lighten my load. He teaches sunday school every other week, and is a district supervisor for home teaching. He usually takes a few nights a week to go play ultimate frisbee or just workout. What a guy! He is very excited to be seeing his family this weekend for Russell and Trish's wedding. We will head out to Oregon tomorrow after work! The last of the Dickerson's will be married!

Then there's me. I have gotten back into doing all my crafty stuff. I have made a few leg warmers for the girls which I think are adorable, but some (Tad) may argue with that. I made Afton a couple dresses, Reesa and myself a couple skirts and there's probably more to come. A sister in the ward bought my nursing cover at an auction so I made that and will be making another one for someone else in a few weeks. I really enjoy making things because I have never done it before. I am definitely not the best seamstress, but I am learning. It makes me feel productive, so if anyone is in need of something, let me know! I have been trying to get back into reading. I miss those days, when I can just sit on the couch and read a good book for an hour or so. Mostly, those days are gone because I now have two children who require much of my time. I may someday miss these days, but for now I miss the quiet reading days. The girls and I will be heading down to Georgia for a visit with my family at the beginning of June. We are so excited to just be able to have the girls get to know the family better. I love our families and wish we could live closer to them, maybe one day we'll get there. I randomly get to work out in the morning before Tad goes to work, but I hate having to wake up, so it doesn't happen very often. Other than cleaning, cooking and thousands of loads of laundry I'm not doing much.

Afton is getting so big!! I love this little girl. Just this morning I was feeding the baby back in the girl's room and Afton decided since I couldn't read her her book, she would read it to herself. She sits in an empty diaper box and reads Toy Story, Remy, and Monsters Inc. It was so cute to listen to how much of those stories that she already knows just by looking at the pictures. Some days she'll quote a page from the Monsters Inc. story to herself over and over. "'Boo,' somting said. It's liddle dirl. 'Ahhh...' Sulley steamed. Monsters thought tids were not safe." She loves to run outside, play with her sidewalk chalk, sing songs, read stories and watch movies. She gets to watch movies about once a week and watch Playhouse Disney on Saturdays, so when those times come around she loves it! She is always making Reesa laugh and is beginning to be such a good helper. Yesterday, she pulled a chair up to the counter while I was cooking dinner, grabbed the sponge and preceded to clean the dishes. She told me she cleaned all the dishes! What a big girl! We love her, even when she tells me that she's swallowed a coin, or is choking on her hair clips, or grabbing poop out of her diaper and many more wonderful things.

Reesa is such a chubby wubbers. I love this sweet little girl. She is so good and so cuddly. She wakes up every morning smiling and just chatting with herself. She loves to be held, loves to pull my hair or Afton's as much as possible. She doesn't really like fruit yet, but she loves veggies. She eats a lot, smiles a ton and loves to watch Afton run and jump around the house. She looks just like Tad minus the bigger lips. She's not rolling over or really making any effort to move in that direction, but she is almost sitting up by herself. She's just my little cutie pie!

I am so grateful for the beautiful daughters and the wonderful man in my life. It's a good life!

Cutest little things!

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