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{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

Nursing Photo Shoot

Leili and I were invited to a photo shoot to take nursing photos to submit to the Nevada Breastfeeding Coalition's annual breastfeeding calendar! It was a great experience, and so much fun. I am so thankful to now have these beautiful pictures to remember this time in our little family's life. One of the moms Brittany, organized the shoot, and Kristin and Yuliya took the photos. Brittney just wrote up a fun post about it on her blog. What a blessing it is to meet mamas at La Leche League!

Of course I had all the kids with me which turned out great (with much bribing), they helped entertain some of the toddlers, tried to catch crawdads, and then I got to have a couple great shots taken of me and the kids! I submitted (from the top) 1, 2, &4! Which is your favorite?

Away Photos!

Well we ran away for a week to Grandma's, we got to travel the "Loneliest Road in America", and we lost the boys to Grampa's house/Cub Scout camp!
We don't just celebrate the 4th, we spread it out a bit...

This is as close as Leili got to fireworks, and I ended up having to take her inside. She enjoyed the big ones the next night, she was just too worried about her boys setting off the "smaller" ones (it's Utah they are not that much smaller...).

I just could not keep my camera off this guy! He even let me love up on him a bit (he's not quite as fast as Leili yet so he can't get away as easily)!

And my whole motley crew! Aren't they cute!!!

Happy 4th!!

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{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

Summer Solstice!

We spent our solstice in the yard! Summer arrived with plenty of heat so we spent the day trying to stay cool! There was bathing suits, hoses, makeshift pools, bikes, fruit, no cooking, fans, and laundry blowing in the breeze! During one part of the day when the heat was just unbearable we retreated to the house that we somehow kept about 10 degrees cooler most of the day (with no air conditioning)! During our time inside I made my version of the Midsummer's wreath from the recent edition of Rhythm of the Home. Our day ended with a late (cool enough), cold picnic dinner out backyard in the grass.

Happy Solstice!

June 20th

Already?

Happy Birthday to my sweet Leili! XO

Girly-Girl Time!

Oh the girly-ness that happened here! The boys were helping someone move and so we had a little fun. :) There was toenail painting, dressing up, new hair flowers, and pictures, pictures, pictures!! What beauties I have!

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{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

Girl Fun!

I made some play-dough the other day for the girls, Leili was not quite sure what to do with it at first. I was afraid she would eat it, her bowels don't need any extra issues. She LOVED it and Fern LOVED being the expert. That does not happen too often with two know-it-all big brothers. The brothers did begin to swarm and I shewed them away. I did not get anything done during their busy fun, I just sat there taking pictures and watching. :)

A Tiger No More!

Jake has had a crazy Tiger year, and now he's a Wolf! This troop had a too cute tradition for "bridging under", Jake thought it was great!

What a cutie patutie his is!!

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Muppets!

In honor of the new Muppet movie coming out, and our love of all things Kermit we were enspired to create this smoothy! Enjoy!

Kermit Smoothy

1/2 honeydue melon, peeled

2 bananas, peeled

1 sm. lemon yougert

1/2 of a 16oz. bag of frozzen peaches

2 handfuls ripped kale

2 dragon flys

2 flys

Blend and enjoy!

Running Away!

Since Dan was not on call yesterday we wanted to run away from town! So we ran away to the hills of the wild west! To Virginia City! We had lots of fun, we did not get to see and do everything we wanted (too early in the season) but we did get see a couple museums including one with the desk Mark Twain worked at as a news reporter, and we got to go into the Ponderosa Mine! While in the mine our guide lit a candle and turned out the electric lights to show us how they worked, then he blew out the candle! I have never seen dark like that! The kids got old fashion candy (a bribe to get my souvenir), I got my souvenir it's up there at the top, I think that picture just proves you should not mess with this family! If only all my boys wore cowboy hats daily...