Little Track Stars

This past month the kids have been training a couple of times a week to run in some races that are held at the university...They love, loved this. Kelty is VERY competitive and wants to win! I think she just loves the satisfaction of accomplishing something. She has a very hard time accepting anything less than first place but i think having her run in these races really helped her understand that participating is still fun even when you don't win. She actually really has a nack for running and she definitely has good endurance. Walker on the other hand is just happy with whatever...he just wants to be like his sister kelty, if she does it, he wants to do it just the same. They both ran the 50 yd dash and kelty ran the 100 yd dash. I think they both came in last for the 50 because they weren't paying attention to the starter and kelty got 5th place in the 100...i was just so proud!

Poolside Luau

We have been playing a lot lately... at the pool mostly, because it has been hot hot! The husbands have been traveling far for work to Chattanooga and so the wives have been finding fun stuff to do as we pass (i mean enjoy) the time we have together. Courtney got caught up at walmart the other day and came home with decorations for a Luau! We drank Lemonade smoothies and the kids made their first attempt at the limbo...Ellie was so cute when she did it. After the party kelty kept telling me that it was the best party she has ever had...thanks to you court:)

little cuties

Downtown

These kids have been having the time of their lives with permanent friends to play with all day, every day this summer. Today we went downtown and checked out the city for a bit...the city is kind of small but it has cool waterfountains for the kids to play in and there are lots of cute shops and restaurants.

Knoxville zoo

I can't get enough of yummy fresh picked strawberries this year, i've been making chocolate covered strawberries, strawberry jam, and i must have strawberries on my frosted mini wheats in the mornin!

Time for Tea!

Kelty loves to have "Tea" parties, so the easter bunny brought her a cute little polka dotted tea set. I had brought the stuff to make the little paper baskets for easter but never got around to it...thus we had to use them for something important like a tea party... And Ellie looks really distraught in the picture because i told her she couldn't have any treats until she tried the egg salad sandwiches, now i feel bad looking at this picture court!

A few things...

We made it to Tennessee!! We did suffer through a major hailstorm with golfball sized hail that ruined the face of our car but I scored this playground for walker's room at a garage sale for 40 bucks!

New lil' chick on the way

I threw a baby shower for my sister Meg...my new camera is hard to adjust the lighting so the pictures look weird!

Crafting

These are the cute neighbor hood kiddies, we will miss them this summer!

I went scrapbooking agian, i didn't get very much done and some of my pages were very simple but at least i'm moving forward.

This is just an invite i made for connor's b-day party. i liked how it turned out so i'm archiving it.

Walker is 3!!

For Walker's Birthday party we went to the new Provo Beach Resort...we had cupcakes (walker's favorite part) and played games and played in the big playhouse.