A Glimpse into my Life.

We did a Birthday Party for Little Miss on Monday. We kept it low key and just did a dinner with her cousins and grandparents.
While she wouldn't say thank you because she gets shy about talking in front of a lot of people, she was more than happy to applaud her presents!



I think the baby cradle was a big hit! Now hopefully Little Miss will stop tossing her baby into Little Dutch's bed while he's trying to sleep.



Aunt Kelli showing Little Miss her cake while we sang Happy Birthday to her!


She loved having us sing to her.

Since she wouldn't blow out her own candles, we had to recruit Rynie, Cousin B, and Cousin A to help!

I figured since it is a little girl's Birthday today, I should put up some of the pictures from Rynie's Birthday. He had a few buddies over to play in the water during the day, then he had a dinner with his cousins and grandparents!

To start the day off, he and Little Miss had to inspect his presents. They were enthralled with them. In fact, it was almost killed Rynie to have to wait for his dad to get off work to open his presents. Then, to get ready for playing in the water, we filled up the kiddie pool and since there was water in, off came the clothes and they were in the ice cold water!

They stayed out in the water until their lips were blue and they felt like popsicles when you touched them. In fact, we had to fight Little Miss to get her out of the water because she was in seventh heaven!

Then, some buddies and cousins came over and the water fun began! After spending over an hour with Kelli filling water balloons, I think they were all done in about 45 seconds! They also played in a fun, wiggly armed sprinkler and played with the bubble machine!

Little Miss sure loves her cousin B!

This is what Little Dutch did the whole time!

While we were cooking dinner, we had some entertainment courtesy of Little Miss!

Sneaking into the cake! And getting caught.

So, this is going to be a mishmash of everything! It'll be LONG so get a drink, something to eat, and saddle up for the ride!

We just got done having Bumpa visit for the week. He got in around midnight on Monday night, and we had to get up a bit before 4 am for him to leave on time to go home Saturday morning.
We have all been crazy busy and running around like mad. Bump would pass out on the couch and fall asleep until bedtime some days! This is what I found one day:


Ya think he was tired? Falling asleep checking email on his crackberry!


And while we were working in our back yard, look what we found!


This is the third toad we've found this summer! He's a huge, fat toad! Check out that determination to hold the toad!


Success! And immediately afterwards, the toad jumped out of Rynie's hands!


And since Bumpa was in town, we had to celebrate Rynie's birthday with him. It was just Mom, Dad, Pink Princess, Jake and Bumpa. Shannon had to work so she only got some cake afterwards. Well, maybe she did, I don't know if Jake ate it or brought it to her. Rynie got a red helmet and a shiny red bike! What a guy!!! Rynie helped me make his birthday cake, frost it, and shared the little leftover pieces with Pink Princess! He is a huge fan of frosting!








Didn't he do an awesome job on his cake?



Pink Princess is trying to get 4 teeth all at once, she definitely doesn't do anything by halves. I had four days last week when she basically shrieked all day each day. The last couple of days have been much better though. She is making up for lost sleep and food with a vengeance.


That is a slip of mine. It was the only thing that made her happy for a few days. She drug it everywhere, slept with it, and you were in trouble if you took it.

I finally finished Pink Princess's dress that I've been working on forever. Honey helped a lot with the finishing (and she was EVIL and made me do the button holes so I'd learn how) so we got the dress done in time for Jeremy and Amanda's wedding.





I also made Rynie a pair of wool pants, and he had to wear them to the wedding since Pink Princess was going to wear a new dress.


Jeremy and Amanda's wedding was very sweet! It's always fun to gain a new member of the family, and I think Jeremy picked well. :D





Awww, Rynie lucked out and got a hug from the new Mrs. G!



Hubby and I went on a date to Boondock's with Jake and Shannon. It was super hot and lots of fun! We played mini golf, Jake and I reminisced about how we used to be good at baseball/softball, played lazertag, and had some good strawberry shakes.


Speaking of Jake and Shannon, since he let the cat out of the bag so to speak, I can now say something: Jake and Shannon are Engaged!!!!!! Woo Hoo!!!!! They are getting married on October 15 at the Mount Timpanogos Temple!




Well, there are about 25 days until we leave for England and Scotland, my wardrobe for Bath is still incomplete. I have my stays fitted again since I had to redo them since I lost more weight. Hubby is taking the next week off work since he has some vacation time to use up so I am going to try and get them done in the next week. I will post pictures when I have my wardrobe done.

I'm sure I'm forgetting something, but these are the major points and I'll post more, hopefully sooner than this post came about.

Evening All!