the mister was able to take a couple days after the semester ended and go visit his family with the girls.

i had to stay and work.  the first day was nice and quiet - then it was too quiet the next couple days!

 

they've been building a pond (zip line and all!) and so they had to go check it out.

m and cousin j had a blast throwing dirt into the water.

they also got to celebrate a birthday while there.

cousin s turned 5!

i'm not sure if this is a look of guilt or not.

either way, he's a cutie!

i know they enjoyed their time with family.

i enjoyed my time with no little ones to chase after.

but i was sure glad when they came back home!

blog overload

i know i've been on a bit of a blog strike, so i figured i would fix it with a blog overload.

we've been super busy the last few weeks, and i just haven't had time.
we are back in the "promised land" as the mr. calls it, (northern utah, southern idaho, eastern oregon) for hopefully a long time.
so after packing our stuff back up, driving the horribly long drive from houston to idaho, then turning around the next weekend and driving to reno for o's baptism, then driving down to see my parents while the mr. went fishing, we're finally "kinda" settled in.
"kinda" being we're in limbo living in a place that the mr.'s dad rents out while we find a job and a house to rent.
we're not heading anywhere soon....at least not the rest of this week.
next week, my niece gets baptized in rexburg, so we'll be off to that too.

this is the other reason i haven't had time.
see this little mischievous child i get to play with everyday?
during the recent visit to my parents, my mom said that my child is a handful.
for four other grandchildren older than b, my mom has never had to move her magazines.
not only did she have to move her magazines, she had to move the kleenex (which b LOVES to just pull one out after another), hide the remote control, the portable radio and another basket full of things.
yeah....my child gets into everything.
she may look cute and innocent, but she's totally not.

oh yeah, and did i mention this on top of everything else?

catch up.....again

you'd think i'd just remember to update more often, and then i wouldn't have to do any catch up.

we've been busy around here.

last week, we got to go up to oregon to see elder k come home.

yay!

we're so glad he's home.

it didn't take long for b to warm up to him.

she sure loves him.

we're down to just under 3 weeks until we move from reno.

i'm trying to get at least one box packed a day so that i don't have a ton to do the last day.

you'd think after we've moved around so much i'd be a pro at this.

b turned 10 months old a couple weeks ago.

i can't believe i have a 10 month old.

she's walking everywhere.

she learned how to clap her hands and say "bye-bye."

it's so cute.

we're working on "kisses" now.

here's a few pictures from the weekend:

check out where b's finger is in this picture.