Joy and Dirt

This past weekend we took our annual fathers day trip up to the Colville national forest. A week late but we had tons of fun. This was our first camping trip with both kids. We started camping with Callie when she was 5 months, but I never figured how hard a 2 1/2 year old and 5 month old at the same time could be. It makes for one big dirty, but joyful, mess. We stayed at Flodel Creek and the boys all got some really good riding in. And as you can see so did Callie. Though here rides were definetly not as long as the boys.

Callie loved playing in the creek. The water was freezing. Everytime I walked through it to get to the gravel my feet would cramp up. It hurt so bad to be in it even for a minute. Callie and her cousin Haylee however could play in it for hours. Callie even "swam" in it once. Technically she laid down on her tummy which she considers swimming. Callie is more and more fun everyday. She challenges us and compels us to be better people and surprises us with her sillyness and amazing pesonality. It is so fun watching her grow into a sweet, tenderhearted little girl.

Here are Callie and Haylee on a hike. Haylee is Ty's sister Lisa's little girl for those that don't know. They had so much fun going on hikes. They found tons of tree stumps and had to sit, stand, squat or jump on as many as they could.

Lucy is crawling now. She was only 5 1/2 months when she started, which seems way too early. But she loves the freedom to roam the rooms of the house. This was when she figured it out for the first time. It seems to me that she is showing us her mischievious face like she is saying to us, "Ha ha ha, I figured it out, what can I get into now." Obnoxious, but incredibly adorable.

Here is another picture of our precious Lula. She is always so smiley. You can pretty much guarantee that if she is awake she is happy. She just finds so much happiness in everything she does and sees. She amazes us everyday and brings so much joy into all of our lives.

Growing Too Fast

The Girls are growing so fast and it has been way too long since I have posted to the blog. Here are a few recent pics. I will try harder to post more often.

Callie is such a little ham. She is so silly. She loves to pose for the camera all the time and then look at all the pictures. She is getting so big. I can't believe she has passed 2 years already. She is such a good big sister too. She loves to play with Lucy and just wants her to do everything with us. She gets a little frustrated sometimes when I tell her that Lucy is too little.

Here is one of little Lula sleeping. She is so precious. I think the picture speaks for itself.

Lucy loves to be naked. It has been in the 80s the past couple of weeks, and we have been outside most of the time. She loves laying on the blanket outside. She is already doing so much. She is rolling over both ways and is sitting up really well. She is trying to get up on to her hands and knees already too. She usually either gets on her hands or her knees, it is pretty funny to watch, but very frustrating for her. She usually ends up going backwards. Every now and then she manages to make it on the both hands and knees and get pretty excited, but then doesn't know what to do. I hope she starts crawling about the same time as Callie. She was just over 6 months old. The way it looks now, it wouldn't surprise me the least. She watches Callie running around, and gets very frustrated that she can't do it too.


Well, it is official, Callie is getting too big. She had her first visit to the dentist and thought it was the greatest thing since juice boxes. She is still talking about the really big chair that moves up and down, and asks everyday if she can go to the nice dentist again. Every morning and evening when we brush her teeth, she has to tell us the story of how she got her new blue and lello (no a mistype that is how she says it) toothbrush and sparkly toothpaste. She shows us how she opened her mouth and tells us all about the mask and gloves the dentist put on so he wouldn't sneeze on her. She was adament that if he hadn't of put the mask on that he would have sneezed on her. I really have no idea where she comes up with this stuff. Needless to say, her next appointment, in 6 months, is not going to come fast enough for her.