Truman Lake

Rands Uncle recently bought a boat and invited us to go to Truman lake with their family in August.  We couldn't have picked a better day to go, it was beautiful!  No wind and all sun! Avery loved every second of it.  She spent as much time as possible in the lake.  I didn't think Beckett was going to like it much, but he loved splashing with me.

 Rand and I did some wake boarding.  It had been about seven years since we had done it.

 This is the first time I actually got up for more than a few seconds!  Don't laugh at my form, I look pretty awkward! The last picture is me eating it...eating it hard!  I had the worst headache after that!  haha! and almost lost my bottoms!

Rand took Avery out on the wave runner.

 Beckett did a lot of sweaty sleeping

 ...and crawling around

 Avery fell asleep on our way back to the dock.  She played hard all day and crashed until dinner.

 I had to wake her up to change her clothes before going to the restaurant...this is what her face looked like!  Poor girl! 

It was a super fun day!

June 23-July 10

So, I have decided that I am not going to do weekly posts during the summer.  I honestly don't have enough to post about!  I am sure you are all sick of hearing about the pool and story time... am I right??  Please keep reading, just don't expect an update every week for the next few moths :)

 Lets talk about Beckett for a moment...

Beckett has accomplished a lot over the past few weeks.  He is a super fast army crawler.  Still has no desire to crawl on his knees, although he gets up on them constantly.

 He loves to crawl back and forth through his bouncer toy.

 He has mastered pulling up on furniture and will slowly walk around them.

 He loves popsicles.  Probably feels really good on his sore gums.

He has four teeth total.  Two lower and two upper.  Only the upper are his laterals, not the centrals!  Looks really funny!  Lets hope those front teeth come through really soon!

 I decided to stop nursing.  I was starting to slow down naturally, so I figured it was a good time.  I still nurse about once a day, but will completely stop by the end of the week :)  I am loving my freedom!  Now that he is getting mostly formula, he has been sleeping much better. He was waking up 1-2 times! He even slept through the night for the first time ever last night!! Makes me think I should have done this sooner!

Avery is really into music lately.  She loves singing in the car and dancing around the living room.  Her current favorite is a remake of the "kiss the girl" song from The Little Mermaid movie by Ashley Tisdale.

We started celebrating Independence Day on the 3rd.   We headed up to Concordia where Rand works to hang out with family and have our own firework show!  We ate hot dogs and s'mores while we watched the fireworks.  It was abnormally cool that day and the kids and I were cold once the sun went down.  Good thing I found one small blanket in the car.  Everyone else was prepared and shared jackets!  I hardly took any pictures, probably because Beckett was crying for half of it :)

On the 4th, We went to a BBQ at a friends house.  It is always fun to get together with friends, let the kids run wild, and eat lots of yummy food!  

 I made patriotic muddy buddies and flag cake pops

 We played baseball

 

 We watched fireworks.  Beckett wasn't so sure about all the noise, but he did good

 

 More sparklers for Avery

 Rand decided to take Friday off work and he was able to come to the pool with us!  Avery loves when dad comes because she can jump in the deep pool and sit in the lazy river.  Normally Beckett doesn't do very good at the pool, but he was loving it that day!  Of course he is good the one time Dad is around!  Go figure...

We took some fun videos

I hope everyone had a great holiday!

June 22 Dirty Girl 5K Mud Run!

Get ready for picture overload!

Let me just start by saying that I am SO happy I did this!  It was seriously one of the funnest things I have ever done.  No Joke.  I have awesome friends...and we were laughing the entire time!

The Mighty Momma's group shots...

 

 

 Getting pumped up before the race...we are not immature at all!

 

 

 

 We were scheduled to race at 10:30.   We ended up sneaking into the 10:00 wave cause we were bored...rebels!

Our husbands and kids were able to follow along the route and take pictures which was fun.  Rand was only able to take pictures of the first few obstacles and the last few.  I wish we had more pictures of the funny obstacles.   My favorite was the massive blow up slide.  We all held hands and went down together landing in a mud bath!

This is the first mud pit we had to go through.  Totally smelt like poop!

talk about slippery!

Best part about being covered in mud...looking like we are all short-less!

 worst part about being covered in mud...not being able to touch/wipe off your face!

 This is what my kids did while I was getting down and dirty...

 Almost done!  Sara hurt her arm a few days before the race, and had to wear a sling...but she was a champ and did it anyway!  She had to bypass most of the obstacles, but we made sure to share the love and get her muddy.

 Finished!  Woot Woot!

 Victory dance

 We all piled into a tent to "hose" off the best we could before changing back into clean clothes.  We all headed to Dave and Busters for lunch after.

We arrived home with just enough time to get showered and get together again to play bunco!  I have to give a shout out to our awesome husbands that took care of the kids all day so we could play!  Seriously!  You are all awesome!  Bunco was a blast as usual.  Those of us that ran decided to wear our souvenir shirts and necklaces.  Again, we felt it necessary to act like teenagers :)

Thanks girls for such a fun day that I will never forget!

Jun 17-21

We had another average week.  Which means lots of pool time!  Avery loves playing with her little friends in the water...they like to pretend that they are mermaids.  I love that she is independent enough for me to just focus on my cry baby :)

 When B isn't crying, he is hanging out in the stroller like this...

 This week at story time Avery made a paper plate bird...

 I taught Avery how to do thumbs up.  Cracks me up.  She does it all the time if there is something that she likes :)

 

I meant to add this picture to the last post...

This is the aspen tree that we brought with us when we moved here.  Probably the only aspen in Missouri!  It is finally getting big!  I wasn't sure it would grow well here, but it is doing just fine.  Love our little piece of Utah :)

That is really all that we did during the week!  Rough I know :)  Then on Saturday I did my mud run- it was a  blast!