Lovin Summer

This summer has been soo much fun for us. Rhett is just about to get real busy with work(and hunting), so I have a feeling I am really going to miss summer and all the fun things we have been able to do together. Here are A TON of pics from the last couple weeks.

Jaxyn and Kiyoshi (my brother and sister) were able to come spend a week with us and we had sooo much fun. We did lots and lots of playing outside and cooking. I miss them so much now that they are gone. But I do have to say that the moment they left Tacey, Brylee, and I all crashed and pretty much slept the day away. Having four kids in the house certainly kept me on my toes...and I loved it.

This is the kids swimming in a monsterous tote. So cute.

Here is Tacey lounging in her kiddie pool.

Brylee is so funny. For some reason she LOVES swimming pools or lakes but the second I stick her in the bath tub she just flips out.

This last wee we were able to go to Burley for the fair. I absolutely love my hometown fair. I look forward to it every summer! We also manage to do a little shopping while we are there.

This is Tacey in the Buckle. She tried on probably 10 different outfits, accessories and all. I kept waiting for the people at the Buckle to get mad, but they all thought she was so funny and cute.

The girls in the back of grandpa's jeep. It is always such a treat for them when they get to ride in grandpa's jeep.

Tacey grew out of her naps quite a few months ago, but we have been on the go so much she just randomly crashes sometimes.

She is hanging half off the couch in all these pics. Wish I could just fall asleep like that.

We were also able to go to Logan and visit my mom and sisters. We had so much fun with them, they have the best pool there! But I didn't get a single picture of that entire trip so hopefully one of my sisters or mom did.

I am loving our new house. It feels so good to have some extra space. Tacey is so proud, anytime the house gets mentions she says "you want to come see my new house!" She is mostly loving all the little kids that live by us, she has made lots of new friends. Still don't have pics though cause guess what, I haven't completely finished unpacking yet. Horrible I know, but I swear I have great excuses.

Great News!

Rhett and I are offically homeowners, and it feels GREAT! We put an offer on a townhouse 3 MONTHS AGO and just got the keys a week ago. The house was a short sale, and if you know anything about short sales, they are anything but "short." With that being said, I am SOO HAPPY right now! I love, love, love my new house! I promise to post pictures when we are all unpacked.

And I wanted to do a shout out to my little sister SACIA! Love You Sister. Thanks for coming and visiting me, and for cleaning.

Look what Brylee can do!

If you know me I am sure you know that I am NOT a morning person, never have been. But these last few weeks I have totally started loving mornings.....thanks to Brylee(:  She gets up at 7 every morning and so lately just the two of us have been able to hang out for a couple hours before Tacey wakes up. I LOVE IT! Brylee is so happy and chipper in the morning. She just talks and coos and plays with my face. I normally bring her into bed with me for a few minutes after she wakes up and this is what she ended up doing this morning. Pulling herself up! Didn't even occur to me that she could do that.

 sorry the picture is blurry and grabbed my phone to take a picture as fast as I could, haha, u can totally tell.

(btw check out those cute, chubby legs, Love Them!)

Just an Update

So our summer so far has been super fun, but super crazy. This is basically Rhett's slow season in work and so he is all about doing as many fun things as possible this summer as we can, and he is not kidding when he says that. I have loved all the time we have been able to spend together.

Every year they do a memorial ride for Rhett's cousin who died a few years ago, he was a professional bike racer. So at the last minute we decided to throw Tacey into one of the races they did that day. I should add that she has never been on a bike or skooter a day in her life. We didn't have a bike for her so we borrowed one of the cousins skooters. She had soo much fun and absolutely loved being around all the other kids.

This is Rhett and Tacey crossing the finish line. Next year we will put her on a bike for sure, a skooter is no way to win a bike race.

This is Brybry in her "big girl carseat." I had no idea that children could dislike their carseats or the car so much. But this new carseat has done wonders. Her and Tacey just sit there and hold hands constantly, it's the cutest thing I have honestly Ever Seen.

Today when I was putting Brylee down for a nap Tacey decided to help me out a bit. She is mopping the kitchen floor. She put a new pad on the swiffer and everything. Such a nice helper I have, I hope this continues as she gets older.

A sure way to get Brylee smiling is to just stick the girl outside. She couldn't be happier with the extra time we have been able to spend outdoors this summer.

Month 5

I was going to wait until brylee turned 6 months to do a post but I feel like she has changed so much this month I decided to do it now. This is the month I realized she is for sure no longer my little newborn. Here are a few fun things that she has accomplished this month.

-started sitting up!! she is so excited about this, she thinks she is so big.

-she wants to crawl soo bad, but since she can't she just rolls over and over until she is where she wants to be.

-as you can tell from her BIG grin in the pic below, tace is still her favorite person Ever!

-she was NOT interested in baby food or rice for the longest time. but just this last week she has gone Crazy for it. i put her bib on and she knows it's coming and just starts freaking out. it's so funny.

-she is soo busy! always reaching and grabbing for stuff. very quick too.

-has such a special smile. she can put me in a better mood so quickly just by smiling at me.

LOVE YOU BRYBRY.

Lovin Life

We have honestly had soo much going on. April and May are always busy, busy months for us. We have Rhett's birthday, then Tacey's, then Mother's Day, then my birthday. Very fun, also very expesive couple of months for us(: Tacey's birthday was so much fun. I had planned on a party but since most of our family lives far away nobody could make it at the same time so everybody just stopped by at random different times which I actually ended up liking even more, cause then Tace got to spend some quality time with everyone. But I have to say she did get SOOO spoiled! Everybody just showered her with love and gifts. She had a blast! We did princess theme which was a total hit.

My birthday was last week along with Mother's Day so I also got way spoiled. Rhett got me some awesome running shoes (asics), I LOVE THEM. Makes such a difference to run in a pair of nice shoes.

Tacey in some clothes that she got for her birthday(:

The girls bonding and laughing during breakfast. They are so fun to just sit and watch.

We went to Dusty and Annie's house this last weekend which was so fun. But sadly I forgot my camera and I only got a picture of rhett and bry bry sleeping. I think it is such a precious picture.

And this picture is my favorite picture of all. This pretty much just sums up Tacey and what a little goof she is. She is wearing Brylee's coat, her undies, and my snow boots. I was doing the dishes one day with the door wide up open in the kitchen letting the nice breeze blow in when I see Tacey outside like this! She has one of the neighbor's ropes and is wrapping it around the tree. Oh the neighbors must think I am such a terrific mother. Tacey's always good for a laugh.

Bry Bry and I. Love this girl!

These were Tacey's cakes for her birthday. Making the castle cake turned out to be a little bit more stressful than fun, but that's okay cause Tacey LOVED it. It sat in the fridge for a day so Tacey would sneak a bit of frosting every now and then off of it. So it was a lot cuter the day I made it.

THE PRINCESS

These last few weeks have been so much fun. I was a little bummed out to be turning 23 though. I have always dreaded turning 23 because of that song that Blink 182 sings "nobody likes you when you're 23." Stupid I know, but kinda funny. Rhett always rolls his eyes at me when I tell him that. But I do have to say that I am in a place in my life where I couldn't be happier. I love waking up everyday! I love my wonderful husband and my girls soo much! Being a mommy and wife is the BEST! What a wonderful blessing it is.

What the Heck??

This is what I woke up to in MY BED at 3am this morning. I kept rolling into it in my sleep and could not figure out what it was. Finally I woke up kind of enough to pick it up and ask Rhett what the heck it was and he said "oh yeah, I just took that off for ya." Then he rolled back over and went to sleep.

Turns out he had gotten up in his sleep and decided to remove our light fixture.  I asked him why this  morning and he said he has no idea. Must have been a funny dream.

Rhett has done some funny things in his sleep since we have been married like take pictures off the wall and hand them to me and lots lots and lots of sleep talking but I think this is by far the funniest.