Whole lot of Nothing!

Sadly, I haven't even taken one picture since I last posted. So, a picture-less update, I guess! We (the kids and I) are going to Salt Lake soon while Steve works down in Atlanta (after the last long trip he had down there I decided there was no way I was staying here alone!) so hopefully we will take some fun pictures on our trip. The thought of flying with Emery is already giving me anxiety. Seriously, she is horrible. I don't think it is possible for her to hold still. She is a happy camper as long as she gets to do whatever she wants:) It's going to be ugly. I need to quit stressing about it because the anticipation will just make it worse.

So we have been doing a lot of swimming (except for the last week has been a little rainy), working out and the kids love playing at the YMCA, and just enjoying our summer. Grandma Larsen came to visit for a couple of weeks so we had lots of time with Grandma and cousins. We loved having her here and when we put her bed away, Davis was adamant that she was coming back and was mad at us for putting her bed away!

I got a new silhouette craft cutter and I have been putting vinyl on everything in our house. I love it! Speaking of crafts (sort of ) I am obsessed with Pinterest. If you haven't seen it, it is a website where you can visually organize things you find online on virtual 'corkboards'. So instead of bookmarking a tutorial for something I find that I want to make, I 'pin' it on Pinterest and put it in an appropriate category that I created and then it puts it on my corkboard for that category. I don't know if that makes sense but if you haven't been on there, you should check it out. You can also follow people and see what they are pinning and get even more ideas. I love it! There are so many fun ideas out there and this in an amazing way to organize them and have them at your fingertips. If you want an invite, let me know.

I really can't think of much else exciting to report...Steve is outside trying to teach Davis to ride a bike (somewhat unsuccessfully, I think :) so I better head out. Happy Sunday and hopefully I will be back soon with a better post!!

Baby Porter's Blessing

My best friend, Carrie just had her first baby, Porter and we were able to make a quick trip up to Chicago Memorial Day weekend for his blessing. We were so glad we could go..so good to see Carrie and her husband, Bob and meet baby Porter for the first time. I could have held him all day. He is the sweetest. They were so nice to let us take over their apartment and stay with them. I think Emery emptied every drawer and cupboard in their house. Just showing them what they have to look forward to before long with Porter!



I loved that we got Emery smiling in this picture...don't let it fool you...the next picture down is a better depiction of her behavior at church lately.

Crabby and naughty. That is what we get at church these days. Nursery can't come soon enough.

Sweet baby Porter

Davis loved Aunt Carrie and Uncle Bob. He jibber jabbered to them non stop. I am sure they loved it.

Our Birthdays

Steve and I celebrated our birthdays at the end of May. We are getting way too old...but I'll save the complaints. I had a surprise little get together the night of Steve's birthday with friends from our ward and then we had a BBQ on my birthday since it was Memorial Day.

We usually go to Utah over Memorial Day and my Mom always makes me rhubarb pie which is my favorite (and really is amazing by the way). Since we weren't home this year, Jenny found a rhubarb pie for me. It was really good and very thoughtful of them.

33. Whew, that sounds old!

We set up Jen and Keith's Bonzai water slide in the back yard and the kids went crazy all afternoon. This is Emery after her first slide down and yes she is buck naked! Who needs swim suits in the back yard?

Steve in all his 34 year old glory. He got new golf clubs for his birthday and lets just say he was a little bit excited about them.

Reading in the Tub

I came into my bathroom a couple of weeks ago to Davis and Emery and about 20 books piled in my bathtub. They both love books and of course Emery wants to do whatever Davis is doing so I guess they thought the bathtub was a good location for a library! They stayed in there for a long time reading and playing. I thought it was pretty cute!

Davis graduates from preschool...the first time!

Davis had his preschool graduation a few weeks ago, but I guess he graduating from the first year of preschool to the second? Anyway...it was fun to see him perform on stage and interact with his classmates. He has loved loved loved school this year. He asked me almost every morning if he could go to school that day and hated it when school was out. It was so fun to see how much he learned this year. He just seems so grown up!

Davis and his teacher, Mrs. Kim. We love her!

Davis and Mom at graduation

Davis was in the same class as his cousin, Josh and a friend from our ward Mallory. Cousin Eva was in another class. I love that they all got to go to school together.

Crazy cousins.

Receiving his memory book and certificate from Mrs. Kim

Performing some songs with the whole school. They were super cute.

Failed Photo Shoot

Emery is chewing on bribery fruit snacks in this one...her face doesn't usually contort like that!

While I was in Texas, Christie and I had this brilliant idea to take cute pictures of the kids and frame one to send to my mom for Mother's Day. Well, it was a good idea but lets just say we didn't have a lot of cooperation from the kids. Grant would not even sit down or stand by Davis and Emery. It was pretty comical. We tried bribery and everything else we could think of. We did get him to sit down one time but he was screaming his head off the whole 5 seconds. Good times. Needless to say, we didn't get any pictures for Grandma. It did make me appreciate the fact that Davis is getting older and actually follows directions once in awhile. He was great! Thought I would show you the not so good pictures! They are still cute, even when they aren't cooperating!