It's the Little Things...

Monday, July 20, 2009

The pool and the mountains...

are two of our favorite places to go in the summertime. I just wanted to share some pictures…

The Pool:

We have been to the pool a ton this summer which has been so fun. Eden absolutely loves the water, Emily is a little fish, and Justin likes it too. :) For as many times as we’ve been though, I actually don’t have a whole lot of pictures. Mostly because I’m always too nervous to take my new camera with us to our public pool. Kind of defeats the purpose of having a nice, new camera, huh. :) Oh well. I still have a few fun shots to share…

(taken at my parent's pool where I'm not too nervous to take my camera. :) )

The Mountains:

It’s always about 20 degrees cooler (or more!) up in the mountains here. So beautiful too…it feels like a whole other world and it’s only about a 40-minute drive from where we live in Vegas. Here are some pictures from a recent trip I took with my friends and their cute kids…

Justin had just gotten this bug catcher from his Grandma the day before we went. He is obsessed with bugs and had so much fun looking for them in the mountains. It was great.

A swarm of ladybugs flew through our site and the kids caught a ton. They were in heaven. Here's a picture of one little ladybug...

The kids also had fun chasing bubbles through the trees...

For some reason I didn't get very many pictures of Emily. :( Here's one of her with her friend Mindy...

And here is Eden with her little friend Kate...

(they were so good at sharing their rocks with eachother :) )

Speaking of rocks...

all Eden wanted to do while we were there was dig around in the dirt and eat them. It kept me pretty busy trying to keep her from doing so. I finally gave in and let her try just one...

Here she is looking around for the perfect rock...

Daring me to stop her...

It's in...

Her reaction...

Truthfully, Eden-in-the-mountains wore me out. :) But, we still had a blast and we'll be sure to go back at least a couple more times before the summer's over. I'm so thankful that even though we live in Hades we still have these wonderful ways to get out of the heat and have fun together!

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Eden loves the Trampoline

Like the fabulously creative title of this post says ( ;) )...Eden loves the trampoline. Playing on there is one of her very favorite things to do. She just runs around in circles and is as happy as a clam. I thought it would be a great place to do a little photo shoot of her...

I think babies are so cute from behind...

Some sunny pictures...

Eden felt like licking the ball ...I think she thought it tasted weird...(I'm glad.)

Gotta love the crazy trampoline hair...

So that's it. Eden loves the trampoline, and I love taking pictures of Eden loving the trampoline. It's a good combination. :)
The end. (again.)

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

The Joy of Reading

We have all been doing a lot of THIS this summer...

Which makes me very, very happy.

Justin has been learning to read for the past few weeks. He is doing a great job and I am so proud of my little guy. Of course it helps that he has such a wonderful big sister to teach him. :)

(My favorite books for teaching reading at home have been the Bob Books series. They are what I used to teach Emily how to read and how Justin is learning now. They are great.)

One of Emily and Justin's very favorite pretending games to play is Library. Last week we had Emily's friend Brenna over to play and they set up an awesome little library and had so much fun playing in it, and I had so much fun watching them...and taking pictures. :)

The library was organized so nicely with a fiction section,

a non-fiction section, and of course DVD's.

Here is Emily as the very helpful librarian...

Justin just browsing in the fiction section...Emily is more than happy to give him a suggestion. :)

The end.

(I am never sure about how to end my posts...it seems like the words "the end" always seems to wrap things up nicely. So I just keep on using them. :) )