Soccer mom!

Well it's official, the only thing missing is a mini van. I know Reese would love to do dance, but I couldn't help but think about how much cheaper soccer is.  And it doesn't go as long. Plus I think it will be really good for her.

 For weeks, she was so worried about what color her jersey would be. (She wanted it to be pink so bad.) She was so happy when she saw that it was.

 Here's her first game. Her team won, although she didn't score. For the most part they just ran around. But she had two girls on her team that seemed to know what they were doing.

 It's kind of fun, and crazy that  she is old enough. (although apparently she could have played last year.

I love watching her try to run around. Now I just need to teach her to be more aggressive. Hopefully this will help give her a good start to liking sports and excersice. I definitely could have used something like that when I was little. Go Pink Flamingos!

Campfire, and Farewell to Leah

You know how it goes, all summer you say you're going to have a campfire, but then when it comes down to it, the girls are tired, or the weather isn't that great, etc. etc.

 Well, we finally had one, and the girls were so excited. There's Jeremy with his s'more, that Rylee and I made for him.

 The girls like to roast marshmallows, and make s'mores. But they do not like to eat them.

 Then after the fire, we did one of our favorite things. We laid out a blanket, and looked at the stars.

 On a completely different note. My sister was here for the summer, I actually have only a couple of pictures,( I must be getting lazy). Anyway we had one final farewell party, before her and her two babies, make the long, long, long flights home to Aussie land. It has been such a fun summer, and while she was here we did lots of fun stuff.

 Of course you can't invite me to a party without me bringing some kind of cake, or cupcakes. These were some cute Koalas I made in honor of our little Aussie.

Well, she made it home safe, and with no mental breakdowns, (through a 27 hour trip with a one year old, and two year old.) Pretty impressive. Love you and hope to see you soon.

Wood Family Fun!

My sister Leah was here visiting from Australia, so we are doing more family activities than usual. So a couple of weeks ago we decided to go take a little hike up to a little cave.

 The kids were surprisingly pretty big chickens about the cave. It took me a long time to get Reese to go in. Finally we had to carry her through it. But then she did walk back, as long as my mom would hold her hand. And my usually brave nephew Mason didn't even venture in at all.

 It was fun! Clearly we need to do things like this way more often, toughen up the little kiddies.

 Then afterward we went to the Huntsville park. If you haven't been up there. Give it a try, it is a really good park. I wish we had one like that closer to our house. That's my sister Leah, and in the background her little baby Reid.

 Rylee loves to hang on things lately.

 This took awhile, so I was proud of her for climbing up this. It's not that high, but she is kind of nervous about heights.

 Even Rylee climbed up. The thing that I really liked is that I used to climb on this very jungle gym when I was little. Even though they added a lot to the park, they still kept a few of these old things.

 Like this tree, we always climbed and played in this tree. I don't know why I care, but I think it's cool that they are in the tree I used to play in.

 And on these tires.

 Anyway we had a fun day. Here's to more, fun activities with my family.

Dirty worker's Garden

Ever since Reese was old enough to help Jeremy in the garden she has always liked to. But now she is old enough to really help, so they do it together. Reese one day told Jeremy that they were the dirty workers. 

 So Jeremy bought the girls their own little garden.

 There's the dirty workers, working on their garden. They love it because it's something special they can do with their daddy.

 And they did get plenty dirty too.

Reesie's Haircut

 Well, I clearly didn't document this as well as I should have. I didn't take a before and after, and I should have taken one with her holding her hair. Anyway, her hair has gotten so damaged from the chlorine, at swim lessons. I've been trying to talk her into it. But she has always wanted her hair to be long like Rapunzel.

So, she finally changed her mind. I hate to say it was because she saw Katie Perry commercials, and loved her hair. But I'll take what I can get, so I told her, yes we can cut it like Katie Perry's. (And yes, I'm aware that it isn't exactly like Katie Perry's but she isn't.)

Anyway, it is so cute, and the ends aren't all gross. And it's been easy, not like that is hugely important to me, but I think it will be cute for school.

I have to say, I was so nervous that she was going to hate it, and regret it. But so far she seems to have loved it. Just look at the smile, that's someone who likes her hair.

Forth of July

Sorry I have been avoiding posting for awhile, but I thought I better squeak this in before July was over. My family usually has my mom's side, and my dad's side of the family come over on the third of July for a cookout, and fireworks. Following that some sleep over and then continue with the festivities the next day.Well this year fireworks were banned in the Valley, so we offered to have it at our house. 

And if you know me, I had to have it decorated.

Jeremy got these big rolls of plastic from Zurchers, and we draped it along the fence, it turned out pretty cute I thought.

I saw this idea on pinterest, using regular streamers, you layer the colors together, and sew them to gather them into a cute ruffled, multicolored streamer. I  thought it turned out so cute. I had a ton of these. I also had flags set around the perimeter of the lawn, but I guess I didn't get a pic of that.

All together we had around 65 ish people. We never got the exact count, but that's a lot for my little house. Luckily we were just outside.

I always like to do a patriotic treat or two. I thought these were cute, plus super easy, and super yummy. They did not last long.

And these cupcakes, I divided the batter and frosting into red, white, and blue, making for one good looking patriotic cupcake.

On top of everything  Reese was really, really sick. I had taken her in, and at first they didn't know what was wrong, but it turned out she had a UTI and E Coli. She was so sad, and actually stayed in the house the entire time, till the very end. I was able to talk her into coming out for the fireworks, where she actually fell asleep on my grandma Tutu.

I meant to have a sparkler in this picture, that always makes it cuter. Jeremy was the best, he really put a lot of work into helping me get ready for this party.

The next day, which was the forth, we were so exhausted that we slept in till ten, that's when the girls got up. I was too worried about Reese to take her to any parades or anything, so we played it low key. Reese was pretty bummed out when she realized a week later that she had missed riding her bike in the parade.

We finally got with Jeremy's family later that evening. Jeremy has kind of started a tradition of lighting a parachute firework, that sends about 30 parachuters into the sky, while the kids run like crazy to get them. They love it.

Reese didn't do much but sit around. But at least she was out of the house, and not crying.

I love this picture, I got a every kid in this one, even little grey in the background. (By then the anti biotics were starting to kick in)

On top of everything else this week I needed to make a birthday cake for my brother in law Chris. His birthday was on the 4th. He left the next day for his new job being a dentist, (which explains the mouth cake.) It was certainly a big couple of days.

 We finished it all off with one more firework show put on by my amazing husband. But mid-show, we  were interrupted by the North Ogden fireworks that had been move to a park quite close to our house. It was great, we had a perfect view, so we turned around and watch those instead.

It was a crazy, and exhausting couple of days. Thanks to my husband for all his help, the holiday went off without a hitch. And by the way Reese is doing much better.

Gateway

So last month Jeremy's computer had died, so we had an apt at the Apple store to get it fixed. So we all headed down to the Gateway. Little did I know that we would be there all day.

Also I was unaware that so much would be going on that day, but lucky for us there was a street fair going on that day, with a chalk festival. 

 So I turned out good, because even though we were there all day, the girls had lots to do.

 I feel like every time we go anywhere that has face painting, Reese always wants it done, but we usually aren't willing to wait in line. But since Jeremy was in the Apple store and I clearly had time to waste, they got their faces painted.

 I took the girls around and bought them a few things, it was fun. I really don't take them shopping very often. I was mostly trying to entertain them so they picked out a new hat for Reese, new glasses for Rylee, and a few cheap necklaces from forever 21.

It's fun to be outside, we had a fun day.