Donnelly

Our friend, Brandon, invited us to his cabin in Donnelly. We usually go at least once a summer and hadn't gone yet. We had a great time as always!

The water was so nice in the morning that we couldn't resist going out. We set Evie up in this little station and took turns going out on the paddle boards. She loved it out there.

The paddle boards were really fun. It took me a little bit to get my balance, but once you have it, they're super easy.

Easy that is, unless you're not trying to do tricks on them! We decided it would be fun to try to jump from board to board, do 360's, or battle it out. Here are some of my favorite shots!

Brandon did really well jumping from one board to the other. I love the whole sequence. Scroll down fast!

Here is Adam doing a two footed jump! I love it!

We put Evie in the life jacket and let her have her turn.

She didn't love the jacket, so we took it off and stayed in shallow water. She loved sitting on the board and playing in the water.

My little cuties!

It was a great weekend, minus the fact that I didn't win one game we played. Something weird must've been in the air!

More Projects

My sister in law gave us this rocking chair. I love it. It has been so nice with Evie. Most of the furniture in Evie's room is black, so I thought I would try my hand and painting and reupholstering the chair. I was very intimidated, but I had fun working on it. April had some leftover fabric from her couch that she gave me. Here are the before and after shots. I feel good about it!

Before

After

My next project was inspired by my friend Brianne. She was wearing an adorable skirt and I asked her about it. She said that is was just a polo shirt that she converted into a skirt. I thought it was a clever idea. I searched on line and found instructions here... I went to Goodwill and found this shirt and voila...I have a new skirt. It is pretty comfy and it was remarkably easy!

Summer Fun

It's been a fun and busy summer. Adam got a summer job in Plummer working for the Coeur d'Alene tribe. He has liked it okay...minus the fact that its an hour commute both ways.

My family was able to come out in June. I liked this twin picture!

We took my family out to Robinson Park for a bbq. It is so pretty out there.

Justin Clifford, from my hometown, got called to this mission and then transfered to Moscow! It was so fun seeing him. Unfortunately, he tore his ACL and had to go home for surgery. I hope he gets to come back to Moscow!

Adam and Evie playing! I sure like those two.

My parents left, but Alona stayed. We took her out to Little Boulder Creek for some hiking.

We let Alona carry Evie to prep her for her Havasupi hike.

April, Katie, and I took our little munchkins to the aquatic center. It was my first time...and I liked it!

The Strawn's had a 4th of July BBQ. We couldn't pass it up! There was some great grillin'.

Evie and Maia playing...(i.e. Evie trying to roll over Maia)!

Evie has upgraded to the bath tub. She likes it and has only pooped in there once!

Alona stopped by again for one last visit. We sure like her!

Adam went fishing so us girls went out to lunch. Good food and good company. Evie was entertaining the other customers with her stares and talking!

She's a sweetheart. Don't worry...I sanitized the table!

The day Alona headed out we had smoothies and blueberry muffins for breakfast. Our downstairs neighbors always have the smell of blueberry muffins coming from their apartment and we were smelling it all weekend. It made me want some real bad!

We were sad to see Alona have to go, but we'll get to see her soon. This summer has gone by fast. I'm sad that it's almost over, but glad that this will be Adam's last semester!!

Evie Eating...

After we got back from Lake Powell I thought I'd start giving Evie some baby food. She loved the rice cereal, so I thought she'd love this too. Well, I was wrong...

I made the mistake of trying mixed veggies first. I've learned my lesson.

Poor thing, I kinda feel bad for her. It was pretty funny though.

She got pretty mad at me. She just started staring out the window. She refused to eat anything else for a couple of weeks.

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Here is the torture...

Trying rice cereal to get the bad taste out. It didn't work.

Here we are on another occasion. She was doing much better!

She later made up for me torturing her by kicking the baby food out of my hand and getting it everywhere. It was pretty funny!

It even got all over the wall under the table. Oh the fun!

She is doing so much better eating these days. She even seems to prefer the veggies over fruits!

Lake Powell

I know this post is really late in coming, but better late than never, right?! About a month and a half ago we went to Lake Powell with all of the Warr's. It was a great trip. I will spare you the hundred of pictures that we took. The pictures are not in order...not that anyone really cares! Here are some of the highlights.

On Sunday we went to church in Page and then looks around Glen Canyon Dam. It is pretty impressive. We got picked up in the boat and then headed to the house boat.

The moon was incredible. Almost every night, the sun would set and a huge beautiful moon would rise. It was my favorite time of the day!

Evie was a big hit on the boat (of course). One of the favorite games was "spin Evie on the lazy susan". Actually, the game was spin whoever wants to on the lazy susan. There is a little video at the very bottom (I don't know why it got out of order) of Whitney and Evie spinning away!

Alona and I took the kayak out one day. It was hard to get that thing to go where you wanted it too. We didn't stay in there very long!

One night I was trying to take a picture of the moon and my shutter stayed open too long. I decided to take advantage of it and draw pictures with the moon. This is my interpretation of Adam!

Adam spent most of the week fishing, if you can imagine that! He caught quite a few!

He caught this catfish off the back of the house boat with some leftover sausage!

Here is Alona and Evie getting ready to hit the water!

I was impressed that she liked the water. It was pretty cold.

Here is capt'n Evie and Pops driving the boat.

Erika, Whitney, and Chris came up with an obstacle course off the water slide. I got a perfect 10!

Evie and I needed to cool off!

Here is our home for the week!

Adam hitting the wakes!

Of course...

This little canyon was really fun to jet ski in. It was really pretty back there.

Here are us kids, enjoying the cool mornings!

On the way home we decided to make a few stops. We went to St. George to visit my 95 year old Grandma. I was really happy that her and Evie got to meet.

We stayed with my cousins Daylen & Scarlet and their cute kids. They loved Evie too!

We also stopped in Albion to visit Adam's grandparents. It was really good to see everybody. (If you look close, you can see the gingersnap that Grandma Bell gave Evie!)

It really was a great trip. Evie was a trooper on the 15 hour car ride. I'm not ready to drive that far again, but at least I know she can do it!