Tuesday, July 23, 2013
House Construction
We are installing the new kitchen in our house by ourselves. It wouldn't be so bad if Ty were around so we could work on it more than just a day or two on the weekend. But it is coming along and almost done! Check out some of the pictures. I will post a few more later.
Update: For some reason this album won't upload. I am trying to figure it out, but in the mean time, you can click on any of the other links to our shutterfly page and then find the album.
Thursday, July 11, 2013
The many faces of Liam
Liam is just so photogenic. It's not that Jordan isn't, for some reason, I never seem to have a camera ready whenever Jordan does something though. And Liam loves posing and asks to have his picture taken. He also takes my phone, flips the camera around, and just takes pictures of himself. I think I just deleted 200 pictures of him. I saved some of the cutest ones though. Isn't he such a handsome little man?
World of Wonders Museum and baseball game
Ty got tickets to a Stockton Ports baseball game from work. So we planned a trip up to see him. Again, we hung out with my brother and his family, but I forgot to get pictures this time. We also had time to kill before the game so we found this museum. It is called the World of Wonders museum. It is a total hands on science museum and the kids had a BLAST! They played there for about two hours and could have kept going. I can't even tell you what the best part was because they loved it all. Though, I think Liam had the most fun in the flight simulator and wished it would turn on. Anyway, that night we walked to the game because it was about 100 yards from his hotel. It was '80's night so they had a Delorean drive around the field. Jordan had a good time, and Liam did too, until about the fourth inning. By then, he was done. But it is good for us to know that Jordan likes to go to games now because before she hated them. Well, we left after the 5th inning started because, as I said, Liam was done. Again, since they were free tickets, we had no problem leaving. We had a fun weekend though and enjoyed seeing dad. We sure miss him during the week. We can't wait for this all to be settled.
Trip to see Daddy
So Ty is still living up North. He is currently living in a hotel, but we hopefully will close on a house in a month! Yay. Anyway, we have gone up to visit him a couple times. One time we stayed with my brother and the kids got tons of cousin time. They had a blast! They went to a water/end of school/bring on summer party with their cousins and got their faces painted. They had dinner and a movie a couple times... just had a blast. Here are the pictures from the trip and our trip home. We had to do something to make the 6 hours more bearable so we had to stop a few times.
Fourth of July Program
Growing up, almost every year until I was 12, I participated in a program on the Fourth of July called "Our Country 'Tis of Thee." The program was big around here. The LDS church always put it on, but all kids who have finished kintergarten until they are 12 could participate. It was also open to the public to see. Well, in 2002 they had to stop doing it because there was just a lack of kids. And I mean that. It wasn't just kids who would participate, but back in that time, there weren't a lot of kids in this town. So they had to stop the show. Well, this year, they were able to revive it. I was so excited that we were going to be in town and that Jordan was able to participate. She was one of the 13 orginial colonies, Massachusetts to be exact. I was Massachusetts when I was in the dance in 1990. Her cousin was Virginia and my sister was Virginia also back in 1990. Yes, we did that on purpose. Anyway, it was a lot of fun and Jordan truly did learn a lot. She doesn't know yet what all she learned, but that is the beauty of it. I mean, who else can name all 50 states in alphabetical order? This did end up being a bigger stress than I had anticipated it being because I became co-costume director with my mom. What that means is that we had to go through every costume for every dance they did this year. We cut all the spangles (sort of like a large glitter) off all the costumes and washed them. We then had to pass them all out and check each kid before the performance. Basically, a ton of work that gave us nightmares. But it is over and was a ton of fun for all involved.
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