Do I scrap?

I don't think I can truthfully answer yes. But I have owned digital scrapbooking software for probably about a year. I haven't done much with it, but I did try printing some of the pictures at Walmart today. I will admit I was dissatisfied, but I think it was mostly my fault. I didn't save the images of the pages at the highest resolution. I need to find a better location to print to. Maybe I'll have to try Walgreens. Not too many choices up here in the land of the desert.

So here's a glimpse at some of Emma's pages. I actually put a book together for Benjamin and she loves to look at it. I hope to someday have at least her first year and and Mo's.

Cock-a-doodle- WHAT!?!?!

Well the 4th of July has come and gone and so have my thoughts of getting a restful night sleep! Ok, so the 2 don't really go hand in hand, but there was something with the timing of the holiday and my sudden decline in better sleep. Is it my whinny terribly sleeping 7 month old- well he does actually play a large part in this issue. But actually the more annoying part of this problem are the chickens, yes I did type chickens.

It seems that sometime this past week, the neighbor we share a back fence with acquired a couple of chickens. This includes a rooster! I have not seen them with mine own eyes, but Nate has sneaked a peek through the fence and has lifted the kids up over the fence to check them out. This morning the cock-doodle-doing started at 4:23am! Yesterday N8 ended up sleeping the wee hours of the morning on the guest bed since it is farther away from the darn chickens!

I don't know what we're going to do to remedy this problem, but we need to figure something out quick. I am rapidly going more crazy than I already am!! We're trying to convince our neighbor to invest in a be-be gun. That or we might toss their dog over our fence!

Thanks for Kathryn for having us over on the 4th and passing on some cute pictures!

This is Mo's 2nd time in the pool. He's figured out how to chill!

I also found some cute matching shirts at Walmart so we could be festive on the 4th!

So, here's to a good nights sleep and a great week!

We made cheese!!

No really we did! Well, ok I photographed Ricky and Kim making cheese. But it was in my kitchen with my stove and utensils, doesn't that count! Last night Ricky and Kim and the Calls came over and we made mozzarella cheese, pizza and breadsticks. What an interesting and amazing process that cheese making. http://www.cheesemaking.com/store/p/169-30-Minute-Mozzarella-Ricotta-Kit.html
That's a link to the kit that Ricky and Kim have and used last night. The pizza was good and it was a fun experience.

I was also able to snap a cute picture of Mo playing ball!


On another note, on Sunday a letter was read in sacrament meeting about the upcoming ballot issue for the California Marriage Amendment. We were not residents of California during Prop 22 but plan on fully supporting this upcoming measure. Here's a website with more info: http://www.protectmarriage.com/

WE, THE FIRST PRESIDENCY and the Council of
the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints, solemnly proclaim that marriage
between a man and a woman is ordained of God
and that the family is central to the Creator’s plan
for the eternal destiny of His children.

http://www.lds.org/languages/proclamations/family/start_here_0.pdf

6 month well-baby, well sick-baby check!

This morning I took Matthew in for his 6 month check-up. They call these well-baby checks, but he was kind of a sick baby today. I took him in last week because I suspected an ear infection (I was right btw). But yesterday his fever came back and man was he a fuss-bucket! So, it turns out his ear is still infected and so is his other ear. He's now on a new antibiotic, plus he got 3 shots and one oral vaccine today! That's a lot for a little guy to take! But he's taking it pretty well:

Here are his stats:
He is 19lbs 5oz, 27.5 inches long and his head is 19.3 inches around. He is in the 75% on everything, so he is pretty evenly proportioned!

Here are a couple of more photos from the last couple of weeks!
Bud had a friend over and they put together a puzzle:

Here is N8 and the kids on Father's day:

Daddy!!

Thanks for being a great daddy! You're the best!

They don't make sense!!!

We live in the desert. It gets HOT here! So, when it's actually somewhat nice out I want my kiddos to go outside and enjoy it. This morning it's in the mid 80's. I had to force (I was going to say practically force, but I really did have to force) them to go play outside. Bud was even in tears! I don't get it? We have a super fun jungle gym to climb on, sandbox, sidewalk chalk- I'll even let them use water and water the plants. I finally had to give them I time that they could come back inside. So, Bud keeps checking the clock every couple of minutes to see! I just wanted to sweep the kitchen without little feet walking through all of the pop tart crumbs! What weirdos!!

They need to enjoy it while it lasts because in a few short weeks we won't even be seeing 80's!!

Welcome to Summer!!

I have friends that blog that do a weekly review. I love this idea of weekly reviewing what has gone on in my life I'm just not on top of my blogging enough to do it every week. But, this past week had some significant events. So, I'm going to do a little review.

• On Tuesday I got to go an Bud's last field trip to McDonald's. It was fun, they got to play at the play land, eat and go on a little tour. Who knew McDonald's has a basement!

• On Wednesday Bud graduated from Kindergarten. He loved school this year and had an awesome teacher.

• On Thursday (the last day of school) Bud's class went to the park and played water games and had ate lunch. I of course forgot my camera that day! It was loads of fun and Emma, Matthew and I got to join them.
• On Friday a friend of ours had a group over to play on their new water slide!! Now Emma will tell you she had a great time, but she only went down twice and had to have someone go with her.

Bud on the other hand went down a ton and loved it!!

• On Saturday we had an open house for my cousin and his wife. It was a lot of fun and it gave me the excuse I needed to clean my house.

During my week I was looking for a couple of quotes and came across this on by President Thomas S Monson and really enjoyed it. It's taken from a wonderful talk called "An Attitude of Gratitude"

“The past is behind, learn from it.
The future is ahead, prepare for it.
The present is here, live it.”

All in all a pretty decent week. We'll see how this next one turns out and maybe you'll get to read another weekly review!!