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As much as I try to ignore it,

it happens.

The years keep coming and they keep growing.

Liza is such a blessing and we are reminded daily that God's Grace comes in so many ways. Her precious spirit is strait from Him.

A list of the things Liza loves.

It's never a bad time to play w/ friends.

School

Church

Her Sissy (sometimes)

Her stuffed animals

Tickle torcher from Dad

Sewing w/ Grandma

All things fragile

Journaling

Riding her bike

Jumping in the leaves

Swimming (a fish)

Sweets

Keeping her Mommy in Line

And so much more....

She is lovely.

Fish on!!!

Another year of fishing extraordinaire under Ryan's belt. 3rd Annual trip up River to the Salmon proved to be another successful one.
The smoked Steelhead that comes out of this trip is YUM-O!


Yee-haw!

Mr. Dicker's catch



Some awesome cloud formations


Some riff raf they allow to come along.

I will take the glue, tape and a box please.

Lauryn lost her 1st tooth today.....and I'm bawling my eyes out.

Learning our ABC's and our 123"s

It's going to be another great year at Cornerstone Christian School!


Lauryn and 1st grade teacher Mrs. Ridinger


Liza and 2nd grade teacher Mrs. West

Summa Time......

So, I'm going to try and remember the exciting things that have happened in our humble little home since April.

The girls get out of school every year just before Memorial Day weekend. Here in the LC Valley that weekend starts the NAIA World Series at our own Harris Field. This is a lot of fun and we spend the majority of the following 12 days there. We love our Warriors and love baseball.

The girls got to spend a week at Grandma and Papa's in July and that is usually the highlight of their summer. This year they got to ride horses at our family friends, the Michaelis' and if you know Lauryn at all, this is something that she will forever remember. She got to ride and "steer" the horse all by herself. HUGE!!!!

We are blessed to live on a street that is safe and has lots of other kiddoz. This means, that the girls leave to go outside around 10am and then they only return for food and water and bathroom breaks until dark. It's nice for them and of course, cuts down on the sisterly "love". They seem to show that love the more time they spend together. :)

The boat got a remodel this year so Ryan spent much of his time working on it to save the hourly grunt work rate. We figure his work saved us around 25% of the total cost. He is handy to have around. The work was complete just in time for the warm weather so we were blessed to spend LOTS of time up the river on the sandy beaches. We also got the opportunity to watch the Jet Boat Races and boy was that exciting. There were two turbine engine boats that traveled up to 130 miles an hour. You could hear them coming up/down the canyon before you could see them and they sounded just like a jet airline, crazy.....and totally cool.

Here are few pictures of our summer. Enjoy!

After a day on the river. The girls lived in these suites.
G.ma, Papa and their grands. Loved having them with us for the 4th of July.

Lauryn, doing a little trott'in on her favorite of God's creatures.

Liza Jane, doing some chores, Papa's horse appropriate shoes in the back ground.

It was another great summer watching our beauties grow into awesome young ladies.

Life....it's busy anyhow.

The enemy knows my weaknesses....of course he does, I say them out loud. :)

Anyhow, I have always been very bad about doing scrap books and baby books and simply putting the girls lives on paper. I am exactly 7 years 11 months and 30 days behind on Liza's baby book and her one year scrap book........oh how this bothers me.

My purpose of this post is to say, the reason I started a blog in the first place was

#1 have a chronological location of events of our lives, print it every year and vuala, an instant scrap book.

#2 for out of town family and friends to keep an eye on the girlie's as they grow.

Now, the only way this truly works is to actually use the blog on a semi-regular basis. :)

Ahh, okay then.

I'm also doing my best to ignore the rotten enemy because really, my value and reason here is not a blog.....but I'm thankful for it none the less.

Guilt is not from God.

Loves to you all.

Have I mentioned that we LOVE April~!

We just have so much FUN in April.



We have parties.




We wait for Grandma with our American Dolls.

We ride REALLY BIG swings.


We break bread with some of our bff's.



We get to hang out with pretty ladies.


And I get to hold my favorite baby girl......



But the best of all, the most awesome of all. Celebrating the birth and resurrection of our Savior!




April is a good month.

One week ago.....

....our baby turned 6.

6!

Ugh....




And today she asked me (4 times) if I would please have another baby so that she could be a big sister.

:) okay. :)
(must convince daddy)

Loosing square footage....

I have issues, many issues....
this particular issue has to do with my incessant need to nest. I am forever in decorator mode in my house. Along with that issue comes the need to paint, and to most people (husband particularly) I paint way to often.

A friend so kindly said to me,

"With as much as you guys paint, your going to start loosing square footage."

hmmmm....never quite thought of it like that.

A few years ago I painted the master bedroom a dark brown. I thought it would be nice and cozy and warm. Needless to say it was a bit too cozy, almost cave like. So I finally was able to convince my husband that we needed to paint it, again. A light yellow, Morning Sunshine, to be exact. I just couldn't stand it anymore, it was WAY TO DARK! So, may I introduce our new morning sunshine..........





AHHHHH, now that feels so much better.

I am so thankful for my husband who had to spend an entire weekend painting, partly because he is a perfectionist, but mostly because it took 3 coats of paint (w/primer) and could have used a 4th. :)

oops, had no idea it would take that much time.

Guess, I better wait to ask when we can paint the guest bedroom.

Lauryn's Character Award

Lauryn got her Godly Character Award this month for Kindness and Gentleness. The 2verses her teacher attached to her award are;
May the words my mouth and the meditations of my heart be pleasing and acceptable to you, O Lord! Psalm 19:14

and

I have never stopped giving thanks for you and remembering you in my prayers. Eph 1:16

We are so very proud of her.