Too Cute!

Yea more playing with my camera, Black and white this time! Fern was eating and being quite the model! Then I tried to take some pictures of the boys and they ran away! :( I think they are not quite as enamored with my new fun! :)

So tired!

Related to Aunt Mary!

Second wind!

I Love these last two!

Fun in the Sun!

Here is a picture of the wet crew, Robbie, Riley, Jake, & Liana. Baby Fern & Baby Shaun are lounging with the mom's in the shade, they didn't make it into any of the pictures. :(
So this is what you do when it is over 100 degrees (F) with no air conditioning! After a took a few photos I pulled out the hose and sat in my chair and squirted kids as they ran by squealing. Lot of Fun! I highly recommend it!!

I was actually taking a picture of Jake's FANTASTIC hair do, but he was showing off his rocks too. I had to force him to keep his swim suit on, he is my "all natural" guy. He tried to sneak them off a couple times!

3 Little Loves!

You all are in for a lot of pictures, this new camera takes such nice pictures!!
Here is Sunday, Fern had her first artichoke for dinner! Don't worry I didn't just give her the leaves, that was just for the picture! But she really liked the "meat" off the leaves, yummy! Dan took this picture saying, "Grandma Jenson needs to see this"! :)




And if we are taking pictures of one, they all want to have their picture taken! This camera really made both of the boy's eyes POP! This is Jake's silly face, he has not quite gotten the concept down! He He!





And our one eyed Riley! He is the definition of silly, right up there with his Dad, and Grandpa Myers. Do I just have my silly magnetic on? I seem to have a lot of silly boys! :)

More Birthday Fun!

Playing with my camera! You can't really see it, but they both have capes on. They are my Super Riley & Super Jake! I love that they are loving each other for at least that second! :)










Yea, we are weird! Those are candles (1 & 5) on our apple rolls (like egg rolls) We had Chinese tonight, it was great, I didn't have to cook, and there are not a lot of dishes! What more could a gal ask for!

I'll post some great fun pictures from today, (non-birthday) tomorrow!

Oh and I am nether 15 or 51! But hey at least there were candles! I did have a regular birthday cake on Saturday that Mary made from SCRATCH!! And it did have all the candles! YUMMMM! Mary takes off to Hawaii tomorrow for work :(, Aloha!!

Happy Birthday to Me!!

So.. I was playing with one of my gifts (camera) and took some pictures of my other gifts!!







So Mom got me a cool wok, Riley got me a new toaster, that he picked out! And Mary got me the cool old Pyrex dishes. Daddy and Dan went in together on the camera, Fern got me a memory stick for the camera and Jake got me a cool camera case. I am really fancy!!

I'll put up some new VERY clear photos later, off to play in the kiddy pool!

I'm not the only photographer who...

Thinks Fern is a good subject! :)
So I got a new camera for my birthday and then Dan let Riley play with our camera before last, and look at these too cute photos he took!Fern loves both of her brothers so much, you can see by how easy it was for him to get this big smile!




I love the sequence of these, she pulls in her bottom lip a lot!









Dan put this one on my desktop, soooo sweet!!









Dan and I were talking about her pretty profile, such a sweet little girl!


Thanks Riley!!

Pretty in Pink!

Here is Fern today, isn't she too sweet! I could not help myself! I went in to get her up to eat, but then I had to go hunt down the camera (it was in Dan's computer bag)!! So you all get to see our cute angel (no not Angel the FAT cat, that will be another day)! :)


She really dose not even have that much pink, it just happened to be all in the picture today, she looks gorgeous in Lavender!




Funny hu, but you all needed to see her cute wool cover, it is a Pickle Pants pair. They are different shades of pink. I bought these while I was still pregnant with her, and thought they would fit earlier than now, but girls are definitely built different than boys! The wool for her pants were donated by Clyde!
I know a lot of you think I am off my rocker for cloth diapering, but I have to tell you before diving into this I would have never used the word "satisfying" to describe diapering my children. But I do now! That dose not mean I enjoy washing out the yuckies, but hey I don't melt. It's great knowing I am doing the best for my children, the environment, and our budget! I use "flat" diapers for Fern and they cost me a woppen $1.00 a piece, I have used them from the day one and am still very happy with them. Although I am thinking of tie dyeing the white ones, liven up Fern's bum a bit!
Love ya all!

The end of the 4th!

Ok a couple more!

Here are my boys doing what boys do best!








And Fern and I, you can see her amazement in this picture. She also got to hold her first sparkler! She was so very tired though!!

The Begining of the 4th!

So I have the first half of our 4th here! :) The rest will come, but now I can not find the camera! Maybe it is with my keys!

Here we are at the Richfield Parade, before it started raining! Mom's new house is close enough that we got to walk!!

Here's Miss Fern in her sun hat turned rain hat!She's in my pouch again! :)

And here is Fern's patriotic side after Dad had stolen her from my pouch! :) Good thing I got that cute white sweater there in Richfield as a garage sale find, I really didn't think we'd need sweaters, and did not pack any for anyone!!

Happy 4th of July! More to come!!

More Utah Fun!!

I am working up to 4th of July, here is our fun on July 3rd.

This is Fern and I right after her attempts at the Diaper Derby crawling race. I say attempt because she sat. In her defense Grandma J. And I had woken her up and run down to the park, I think she was wondering what in the world was going on! But they gave her a certificate just the same!



After cheering Fern on, the boys got to have some of their own fun! This is Riley going down the slide, They only wished Dad had more $$ so they could go again!










Here is Jake, he had a blast! He wouldn't get off! :) The best is that as Jake made it slowly up the stairs, none of the other (older) kids gave him a hard time, they just patently (and nicely) waited. It was a fun day.

We always enjoy Richfield for the 4th, and this year we didn't even fry, between Mom's new insulation on the house, and being rained on, it was very comfortable!

I'll be back soon to post the 4th pictures! I'm still on the laptop, so I'll ask Dan for help! Heaven for bid I mess up "Dan's Flying Machine", (that's what he named his computer)! Have a great day all!

More Vacation...

So here we are in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building, with the Salt Lake Temple behind us. We also saw the new Joseph Smith movie in the Legacy Theater, well I got to see most of it. Yea that is the back of Fern's head on my chest, she is pretty done with this whole vacation not sleeping in her own bed thing! :)

Here is us out side the theater, I thought I'd include this one since you can see Fern, isn't she too cute! We think so! It's hard to see but she is in my new Marsupicool pouch, I love this!

We can all thank Aunt Laura for these great pictures, I forgot and left my fuzzy picture taking camera in the car. :) I'll post 4th of July pictures when I get home, and look for a post about the "fruit of our labor" too. Careful mom don't fall off your chair laughing!

A Very Merry Un-Birthday!

Just a quick post since we are still on vacation, and definitely not the only vacation post! We are having too much fun!!
We had a great "Birthday" party on Sunday, Grandma Jenson never gets to be around for the kids birthdays so we had a summer party for them! They thought that was fantastic!

I am pretty sure this is the first birthday cake Fern has noticed, as you can see from the photo, we had to hold her back, she was going strait for it! She will probably be a riot when we let her dig into her first cake in Oct.!

The boys went wild over this gift! It is a kitchen! Riley has asked for one for years! Lucky for us Grandma's friend is an amazing wood worker and grandma was able to get him to take time away from the beautiful antiques and make this BEAUTIFUL wood kitchen!

Here's a better shot! And yes those are pink walls, the camera is not playing tricks!! They look really neat!

"A very merry un-birthday to you, to you, a very merry un-birthday to you. Now blow the candles out my dear and make your wish come true, A very merry un-birthday toooo you!"

HOT, HUMID, & MUGGY!

I know no kid pictures, our computer is on the fritz so Dan, figuring I might go into withdrawals left his laptop for me! But so I have no clue how to put pictures on here, so I thought I'd share these!

So I have been thinking of Virginia the last few days, not only because I think of it often but because it has been so HOT, HUMID, & MUGGY!!! It was not one of my favorite things about Virginia in the first place, and I don't like it any more here in Calif.!! Gross!
So the top picture is of the blue ridge mountains, aren't they beautiful! I miss the drives Dan and I took up on the parkway when we lived in Buena (B-you-naa)Vista. It was a frequent "date", that or walking up dink mountain, around town, or Walmart. I bet you all didn't know Buena Vista's night life was so exciting! (unless you've been there, then your nodding and smiling now!)
The second picture is why I went to Virginia, Southern Virginia College (now University). Pretty hu! I lived in the very top turret, that was my dorm room! Awesome hu! I miss it. I just thought I'd share. The time we spent there we had a "Great Books" curriculum, we really enjoyed it and I wish they still had it. I never really desired to read Plato etc. but I am grateful to have read it, and I think about reading many of the books again! We are planning to homeschool our kids and I read this great book,(A Thomas Jefferson Education) it reminds me of the Great Books curriculum from SVC, so Riley and I will probably dive into some great classics together! Along with all the fun stuff too, we can't neglect Dr. Seuss!
Hope you all are having a great day and that you are cooler than I, even Riley is working up a sweat playing library! Have fun!

Girly Girl!!

Fern was hamming it up for the camera today! I just love this dress so I wanted to take a picture, and Fern started posing, smiling, just over all being way too cute! And I figured everyone else wanted to see her too!! So here is my sweet! It is fun having a girl, and a mama's girl at that!!




Then I also had to share my latest read! I just finished this last night, it is soooooo good! I highly recommend it! Mr. Campbell did one through study and made some amazing correlations between diet and common "American" diseases. And gives great insight. It is not too medically written, but dose not "dumb" it down ether! I checked this out from the library (and it is over due), but this is a good one for a personal library, I will probably invest in a copy. A hard cover is a little pricey, but a soft cover is a bit less. Nutrition is such an amazing (and logical) way to keep our body's healthy. This was great! If you read it I'd love to discuss it with you! Next I am going to read Fast Food Nation, my SIL Anna highly recommended it. After that I think I'll do some pleasure reading, for Mother's Day I got the sequel to Eve and The Choice Made in Eden, I enjoyed the first and look forward to the second. Riley and I read his first chapter book a few weeks ago, Charlotte's Web. He loved it, so I think we will start another, I was thinking maybe Tom Sawyer! We'll see what is at the library this week!

Too Fast!

Well Fern's second tooth broke through! She is just getting so big! Too fast. So I thought an old (8 mo.) picture would be good! Sorry it is so dark, and the knee in the way, this is the first picture after Fern was born, look how little her head was!
What a wonderful experience having her at home, I could not have asked for more. If any more little spirits come to our family, I hope they will be born at home too.
I think I have decided to get my Child Birth Educator certificate, so then I can share, and help other families find the perfect birth for them. How much more fulfilling it is to have the birth you want.
What a blessing children are (most of the time)!

Fern's first tea party!

Yea, two post today, this was just too cute not to share!!

Fern had taken these two friends to bed for nap time, then when I went to get her up we did not forget them. So we sat down to nurse and I tried to set them down, but nooooo Fern would have none of that!
Our friends had to be right there with us. Dan thought this was so cute he went running for the camera, so there is amazingly a picture of me here! Ha Ha!

What a blessing to be able to nurse Fern, I thank Heavenly Father everyday. And besides now Fern has a very cute picture of her first (B.Y.O.B.M.= bring your own breast milk) tea party.
Have a great day!

Too cute in June!

How cute is this!! Riley and Jake got their new sandals for summer this past weekend, and they were too cute modeling for us. It's nice to see the hugs (and capture them for proof), between the other "brotherly activities"!!









Here is sweet Fern, she is wearing the too cute dress Grandpa Myers got her for Christmas. I realized I had no pictures of her standing yet, so I took quite a few! Dad kept distracting her, so no smiles for the camera, just googly eyes for Dad!!

"What do you do in the summertime..."

Well Jake's hair had gotten so long that he had to tip his head way back to see, and not very well even then! So Mama got out the hair scissors stolen from Grandma J., (sorry mom!) and gave Jake a summer do! You can't really tell, but it is much shorter in the back. And not too bad, even on a moving target! He is of course too cute! Sorry this picture is a little fuzzy, I'm ready to throw this camera out the window!



And another summer activity, reading! I just finished this book last night, very good!! It was written by a San Diegan too. It's a bit "tree huggerish" but not over the top, plus a great one about kids and their needs for nature. Not doom and gloom ether, he gives some great ideas, and spurs all to do more for our children now, and future generations. I highly recommend it. I checked it out from the O.C. library, but I might just invest in a copy, it was that good! Powell's has it for only $9.50 in paperback! Happy reading!

Sunny San Diego!

Well we are back from our vacation, so I thought you all needed to see some great pictures!!

We start with Fern on the beach, she had a great time crawling all over the sand, and playing in the water! This was Thursday, we camped at the Carlsbad State Beach.

Then we were off to the San Diego Zoo, Jake was so excited to see a bear just like his bear. He put his arms out and said, " I get bear"! It was so cute!





Then on Saturday we got to go down to the USS Midway with Grandpa Myers! Here is Riley all ready to bunk in for the night! (In the Jr. Officer's quarters of course!)





Here is our gang! Minus Riley's face, it is under there somewhere! :) We are on the USS Midway, there are a couple active aircraft carriers behind us. We had a great time getting to hear a few of Grandpa's experiences while he served in the Navy. And Dan and Riley had a blast looking at all the military planes they had on board. Tons of fun!! Thanks Grandpa!

On the Hook news front, Fern's 1st tooth popped through yesterday, and the second is just about to come through. It has been a blissful 7 mo. & 23 days of no teeth for mama, we'll see how this new milestone goes! Wish me luck!