My very sweet husband...

Last week after a crazy few days, I came home to find these beauties waiting for me. It was so sweet of Trav. He is truely one of the best guys out there. I love him with all my heart and I am beyond blessed to have him forever!

Willow's Funny faces...

Little Miss Willow is doing great on the potty these days! It is pretty cute to see her run to the bathroom when she has to go and then come out naked after she's done. What is it about cute little bums running down the hall, anyway? She looked pretty cute the other day making funny faces while going potty!

Daisy is all better...

I am happy to announce that Daisy no longer resembles a space alien and she is doing 100 times better than Sunday. It took a good 48 hours of benadryl every 4 hours to get rid of her crazy eye and then another day & 1/2 for the redness to go away. Just in time for school to start on Monday too! (The vain part of me was really hoping she would look normal by school time!)

An amazing evening...

Tuesday night at our church, we held a clothing drive, school supply drive, open house and Ice cream social all at the same time. It turned out to be an amzing night where we were able to help so many people in our community . It felt wonderful to plan & be apart of such a great event. Almost 90 children were given school supplies and countless families shopped for free clothing for their families. (The entire gym as filled, although this picture doesn't show everything!) It was a great way to serve and teach other's about our love for the Savior. It was a wonderful event.

Shane, Chelsea & the twins come for a visit!!!

I was thrilled to see Chelsea, Shane and the twins a few days ago, although incredibly heartbroken for the reason they came to town. Chelsea's amazing Dad passed away a few weeks ago and Chelsea was going to visit her sweet Mama for a few days.I am so blessed to be apart of their lives- and let me tell you- this bunch is loved beyond words- so when they come to town, EVERYONE and their Mom wants to see them, demands to see them and practically clings to them every second they are here.
It makes my time with them even more special knowing there was a list a mile long of "other people" they needed to visit.
It was wonderful to see them. Wonderful to talk, relax and watch those adorable tornado kids move through a room!
I love it! I love that they get to experience it all. It just makes me smile. Sweet Chelsea- I couldn't ache for you more. I love you. Adore you. and am so sorry for your loss. I'm not sure how you've kept it all together, although I am not surprised by it, just reminding you of your incredible strength, my dear.
Thank you so much for coming to visit and leaving a HUGE pop stain on my carpet! (SO KIDDING!! I can't even see it!!!)

When Daisy gets bit by a mosquito...

Daisy has NEVER done well with mosquito bites. She has always swelled up around the bite about the size of a hard ball, and it's been really hard to the touch. We kinda got used to it and knew it would take awhile for the bite and the reaction to it- to settle down a bit- but this time around was pretty freaky! We got home yesterday from our camp out around 12:30, unpacked super fast, threw the girls in the tub, washed off, redid pony tails and then left to Angie's for the party. Daisy was doing well most of the day with zero swelling. We came home, mowed the lawn, unpacked, the kids rode bikes- life was normal and then around 7:30 PM I looked over at daisy and her eye was totally swollen! I was shocked because in little time- her eye had swollen. Trav went out to get Benadryl, but couldn't find any, so he bought the cream form. We put it on, put her in bed and a hour ago she woke up to show us her crazy eye swollen shut. I ran to Walgreens, talked to a pharmist, raced home and got it in her system 30 minutes ago. Hopefully the medicine will start working soon because she it's difficult using only 1 eye. The poor girl...

These were taken last night.

These are from 1 hour ago- crazy huh?

Camping...

More camping pictures...

Yes, we went camping- AGAIN! This weekend was our ward camp out and we just hadn't had enough of the great outdoors so we decided to go up again and play in the dirt, eat a kazillion smores, get eaten by mosquitos and have a wonderful time making memories! It was a lot of fun. The kids played and played and played, and us adults played cards, visited and tried keeping a watchful eye on our little monkeys. We had our own dinner, and then were fed like kings & Queens this morning. I'm really glad we went, again. Even though it takes FOREVER to pack and FOREVER doing laundry afterwards, it's pretty fun (for a few hours!)