Day FIve

Day Five
You can never have to many shoes, purses, friends or band-aids! This was right before we left for church today. Lizzy's new craze is band-aids. Most nights she can't go to bed with out one. This is the third time I've caught her applying at least 6-7 band-aids on one part of her body. This time she had the intension to apply every last one of the band-aids to her finger! I have now hidden the band-aids.

It was the owiest little paper cut there ever was.

I don't think its coming off any time soon.

Day Four, Powering up

Day Four
This day was pretty busy and we weren't home much to really make any messes. I suppose you need one day of rest to power up. Most people drink a shake, a red bull, take a monster. Lizzy just goes for the good stuff. Like a Costco sized bottle of syrup. That'll keep you going!

Day three

Day Three
Here Lizzy has found a hole in her reading pillow. She proceeded to pull the stuffing out and...

throw it over the edge of our balcony out onto the grass. Of course! Where else would you put stuffing that was making a mess on your bedroom floor? There have been a great many things thrown over the edge of the balcony by that girl. When asked if she did that, she is always quick to reply, "Nya did it!"

So, after having a mommy breakdown from moving my cleaning supplies and the vaccuum from room to room trying to keep up with Lizzy's messes and disasters (and trying to keep my sanity) day after day, I decided it would be much more fun to document it for the viewing enjoyment of all. I'm sure I will laugh about it someday... I am so greatful we are renting right now. There is no hope of getting these carpets cleaned or salvaging a good number of our window blinds. The day before this picture, Lizzy decided to see what it would look like if you combined baby powder, diaper paste and ezema lotion in her brothers laundry hamper. Full of clothes. After she dumped half of it on the carpet. Needless to say it wasn't so bad finding just a bunch of baby powder on the floor in the closet. It was when I started looking for the bottles that I sensed some more hanky panky and took a look in the hamper. I should have taken a picture, but I was pretty seething mad and hadn't reached the "oh well, what is one more disaster" phase until the next day. So I hope you get a laugh out of my new mode of blogging and breathe a sigh of relief that at least your child never did that!

Day two
This is after I closed the door to my room and told her to stay out of the craft box for pre-school. It was just too good of a temptation I guess! Inside the craft container is a box a little smaller than a shoe box filled with 12 bottles of beautiful, sparkly glitter. I was like waving a red flag in front of a bull! It took her 6-8 minutes to dig through the container, locate the glitter and dump each and every bottle on the carpet floor on the track of our closet. She knew that the poo had hit the fan when she heard me coming because she had tried to close the closet door to hide. You see, Lizzy being quiet for more than 5 minutes and not watching TV is a bad thing. At least I can prepare myself for the inevitable of the unknown mess now! She didn't get to hide long because half of the glitter was outside the closet door. Poor dad. It was his side of the closet and that manly bag will be be-dazzled for the rest of its existance now. Even when they change the carpet in here, they are going to be finding glitter!

Megan's wedding

Here are the brides maids lined up to recieve the happy couple after the ring ceremony.

She even dyed the shoes to match the dresses! They were such a beautiful bunch of girls. They looked like fairies dancing around in their dresses on the grass.

Each dress was fully lined with a matching belt and belt buckle. They each had a petti coat underlining to make the dress fluffy like the cupcake dress. The dresses fit like a glove and I only had to make one alteration to one of the dresses and most of the ladies were from out of town.

red barn

THis is the old red barn out at Grams and Gramps that I just love. Gramps has collected some cool old wheels and things and has started this gathering on the side here. I love it! It looked so pretty at sunset that I couldn't help getting a picture of them.

This is where I wanted to get our family pictures taken! But I left the clothes I had spent hours hunting for at home and grabbed some pink dresses at Walmart for the girls not thinking they won't go well with a red barn. Hopefully next year instead! The chair Christopher is sitting on is one from when my dad was little! How fun. He looks so handsome in his button up shirt!

Its amazing how much he's grown since this picture! He has 8 teeth and is growing taller now and isn't as chubby. What happy little guy he is. He is our spontanious laugher. He'll just start giggling and laughing out of the blue. Kids are definately the spice of life.

Here's another angle of the barn! The contrast of the fresh new green grass and leaves compared to the rustic oldness of the barn was too good to resist! I love old things. They always seems like they are inviting you to sit and listen as they tell you a thousand stories. Its always fun to wonder were they have been and what they have seen.

4th of July

I wanted to get some cool pictures of the farm so I took Lizzy out with me and let her wander around while I took some pics! Gramps mowed a trail from the barn down to the pond that we were able to walk on. Here we are coming back from the pond.

Lizzy loves all things grass, sticks and flowers. This was on our way down to the pond. In the back ground is the beginning of the apple tree orchard.

I didn't have any pictures of me and Lizzy together and I thought this one was pretty cute. I had to take quite a few just to get this one!

I love this picture of me and Christopher! Matt has it on his touch pad screen saver and it makes me smile when I see it. I'm glad I got a cute picture of Little man and me too! Grams and Gramps have some cool antique farm equipment around the front lawn that you can see behind us. The kids love climbing on it!

Fourth of July

Nyla loved the chickens! She spent a lot of time talking to them and feeding them grass. She loved being out in nature and out on the farm. Lizzy was her little shadow and if I couldn't find the girls right away I'd go around and see if they were over at the chickens.

Our first camping trip at Grams and Gramps! The day was super busy and so much fun. Thank goodness Grams got 3 port-a-pottys for the whole day. Matt was cooking away in the bug tent and everyone was gathered around for breakfast. This was just before the baptism and before everyone started showing up.

Here's another view of the property and our tents. It was just Breanna, us and Matt's brother that camped that night. We got to listen to the bull frogs and the deer that were calling to each other all night which was kind of fun because you could still sleep through it. I heard them when I woke up to feed Christopher. The next morning we got to watch as Gramps called the "wild" deer and turkeys to feed them and we all gathered around to watch. It was fun to see them and the kids and uncle Don got a kick out of gathering the turkey feathers.

Here's Nyla and uncle Don after a hike through the woods. It was so cute so see Nyla wearing his hat. She just adores her uncle!