Summer Out West~

Elias and Mama enjoying the 4th of July Parade

 Elias and Papa just after Elias rocked it on the zipline~















Ruby and Trev, hanging in Idaho


The happiest baby I know.  I love her so much!

Brandon teaching Bret yoga sitting position at the Portneuf River Fest~ Love my bros

Strawberry Days Rodeo with Grandma Wendy~

Boating on the Snake River with the Panton Family~

Ben and Elias enjoying a late night bowl of cereal at the Southwick's home in Victor

Elias and Grammy Playing Cowboys and indians

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I am having so much fun with Ruby's hair...most of the time she is pretty patient with me.

Funnest Baseball Game Ever

Korean baseball is the best. Everyone, I mean everyone knows all the players names. Every inning the home team is up the entire crowd chants songs, in unison, custom made for that player. By the time that the visiting team comes up to bat you need a break.

June 2010

We have had a wonderful month...busy and swift.  Traveling, weddings, family and friends!
Ruby is growing, and so cute!  I am having way too much fun with her hair.  I will post pictures soon!  She sits up on her own and smiles all the time.  She started eating rice cereal last week...yummy (I seriously like baby cereal its so good).  I have a hard time keeping my lips off her chubby little cheeks.

We have been out west since early June...Elias has had a blast every day. Hiking, playing in the creek with friends, boating on the Snake river, birthday parties, bug camp, swimming pools, and playing in the tree house, zipline in the mountains...seriously everyday has been a party.  He is going to have a hard time coming back to reality.  The library and parks lunch program has kept us a little grounded.  We have reached the 1/2 way mark for our reading goal for the summer.  500 books!  We read every morning and every evening...and sometimes mid day too.

Eric is in Korea and I am excited to join him.  We miss papa...Life just isn't as much fun with out him.
Peace~

Photos from Korea

I have uploaded photos from Korea, click here to see them. Miss you all.

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BWCAW trip pictures

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S. Kawishiwi River

The little man and I went on a four day canoe trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW). We started off with a 1/2 mile portage then a 5 mile paddle to our campsite. He loved every minute of it. We went with some friends, fished, swam, and had a blast. The little man has a few new words, "lake" is now "water mountain" and "fishermen" are called "people sharks". If you listened really hard as we approached in our canoes, poles in hand, you could hear the fish screaming "ahhh hear come the people sharks"



"Time Out Island"

Super Man, bike rides and Go Far Races!

We had a severe weather alert and tornado warning last night, major rain came down, it was almost scary to watch.  After the storm Eric got on the roof to clean the gutters and left the ladder up.

Superman visited our house, and because he had his cape on, he felt comfortable climbing the ladder to fly down.  Luckily Mama spotted him from the kitchen window.  He simply explained that "It's okay, cause me superman, me go up and me come back down".

Well, he was right about going up and coming back down.

Our first family bike ride with Ruby! She did great! And Elias was a good sport about riding with her (rather than taking his own bike). Elias has become quite the cyclist. And loves riding his bike.

Elias LOVES his pillow case.  This afternoon during story time, he took the case off his pillow, crawled in and fell asleep.
We have really enjoyed reading a LOT lately!  Elias loves being read to.  He brings me books and, if I can't read right away,  he reads to him self.  Our goal for the summer June-August is 1000 books.

We had a fun time in Fargo Saturday.  We rode the Ferris Wheel.  I love the fear on Elias's face in this pic.

I ran the 1/2 Marathon.  It was a fun race.  I thought the Kansas City Marathon was huge...The GoFar, Fargo was Enormous.  Over 20,000 participants plus thousands and thousands of spectators.  It is definitely a race to be ran!  I beat my previous time and came in at 2 hours 5 minutes only 6 minutes from my PR.  I was happy..and tired.  Can you see sleep settling in my eyes?  I woke up at 4:45 to drive to Fargo, and retired to bed that night at 6:37pm...no joke.