September 2016

Our Labor Day camping on Mt. Graham- Dad and Kodee left first for the night as a daddy date. I think Kodee was excited. Who should we find but Karen Scott and her family

She was kind enough to let us camp on their spot

Made for some more fun

Playing hard= good nap

Next morning breakfast with our new stove

yummy food!

exploring before we got there

Look at the view behind Jordan!

Kodee loved this area. He found some cool black lizards on the logs

Anybody want lunch?

Lottie trying to peak at dad changing clothes

Jaxon chopping sticks

They love having a fire!

beautiful day for a walk/hike

Here we are! Loving life!

Lottie was good about staying away from the fire. She liked her camping chair

kids sleeping arrangements

Lottie was stoked to be in between me and dad

The kids and their fort

one more hike and run before we cleaned up for home

Time to leave, airing out the air mattress, everybody loves that part

Jaxon wanted to show off his muscles

Here we are starting to see a skinnier face

Mom let us update the front room front dark colors to lighter

from taupe to light gray

We even painted the shelf to white

Good bye dark purple curtains

Woohoo!

we did the back wall in an teal ombre

Here's the shelf all newly redecorated

Love the new color and furniture placement

Mom was gracious enough to get us new slip covers for the sofas and chair

New curtains, new slip covers

silly girls modeling for us

Other side of the room

Old

Jaxon's dentist discovered he had a permanent tooth grow in behind 2 other baby teeth. They pulled the baby teeth and then we called Smith Orthodontics

What a brave boy!

The finishing touches

4 brackets to straighten the teeth and eventually a wire and hook to pull the left side tooth closer to the front teeth

I got to take Lottie out for a special Birthday lunch. She loved it!

Cheers to being 3

She wanted a play date at the park/splashpad so I texted some friends and they all came and with presents. That was so nice!

Case gave her a play dough set

as you can see she loved it

Her birthday morning was church so we let her open a present on the way

She wanted a pink cake so I decided in doing ombre shades. It ended up being really fun and I loved the look

She also wanted pink sprinkles so I frosted the top white and put down a cookie cutter and poured sprinkles around the edge.

Gemma and Lottie at the same age-gah! both so cute!

After church Lottie ready to party!

Gemma was feeling left out and wanted her picture taken too. I mean she did look cute and all.

It was also the Primary Program that day too!

Time to sing to our newly 3 year old!

we hit a milestone-it was the longest mom had gone without being pregnant

Love you Lottie!

mmmm! Yummy!

Great Grandma came and Tevin, Kensey and Carley were able to come celebrate

I love this one of me and Lottie!

Grandma Connie came too of course!

Nice mouthful Ari!

Present time!

Barbie with a dog that you bathe

Play dough!

your current obsession

a play dough set with tools and cookie cutters

Lambie from The Keith's

Box from Grandma and pa Leinbach

Elsa and Anna!

AWE!

More play dough sets! This one is a cupcake making ferris wheel

Gemma is happy too because she knows she will play with it later

Here's the stash, very fun day Lottie!

Beautiful blooms on a bush out front

homework time with Nacho

Sometimes doing homework with kids makes me do this!

One day Lottie came in screaming and she had been bitten by ants. Ouch!

David Palmer generously took a few minutes to take a baptism shot for Kodee's baptism so I could make the invite the next month

What a happy, beautiful boy!

Dad getting happier he is fitting into smaller clothes

Already a big difference dad! Keep up the great work!

Brooklyn Nelson- dad's favorite student at Safford got baptized

It was a special day!

and..the kids look really cute!

Time for new frames for dad! Back to black

He's getting faster every mile

Dad had a huge choreo session one evening and asked me to bring pizza to his kids.

After we ate-our kids started hanging on the ballet bar and whoops! We found out the hard way the bar wasn't screwed into any studs.

Thankfully Jody Judd didn't kill Jordan AND Rob Martindell graciously took a Saturday to fix the wall and remount the bar.

the ever famous Gila Monster on one of dad's runs

Mt. Graham om a rainy day is so beautiful

Dad feeling stronger

The runs are getting longer-2 and a quarter miles

Walmart is a fan of the Safford Bulldogs

Dad and Safford MS Principal Clay Emery both were losing weight at the same time

(Clay was a great Principal!)

ah yeah! Copycat version of Rumbi's Bahama Mama Tortilla Soup-so good!

We see it in your face

Lottie and her weird sleeping positions

Jordan took me on a date to PHX to see the Girls Olympics Gymnastics team show

We got in really bad traffic in PHX and took side streets which took forever so we missed the beginning of the show. Kind of a bummer but what we did see was super fun

Ya know; we saw Laurie Hernandez and Simone Biles and Ali and the others