What's new at Lizzie Anne's...

Elisabeth is selling new crafts at her little stand... let me know if your interested.

So this is what happens...

when you let your 14 year old hang out with the older boys in the neighborhood and bottle rockets are involved.  And then your 12 year old daughter thinks they are so funny she takes videos!

Creations...

Elisabeth is in LOVE with jewelry a couple of months ago she rigged this display with stuff she bought at IKEA, it works great, I found the pictures on her iPod and thought I would share.

Weekend highs and lows...

We had a busy weekend, besides visiting the arts festival we swam with the cousins and went to the drive-in movies.  The kids had fun in the sun and played with Adrian but Sam ended up with the a chipped tooth, he hit the side of the pool, which was a bummer.  We'll see tomorrow at the dentist what to do about it.  Saturday Joey tagged along with us to Gateway and then we spent sometime in the backyard relaxing and washing Koda.  We decided to go see "Rock of Ages" and "Dark Shadows" at the drive-in.  The kids were excited to go, they don't remember the one other time they went.  Right before we left Sam was brilliant  and jumped down our stairs and about knocked himself out, ummm your getting taller bud.  We enjoyed the movies, the place was packed but we had a good time and we all stayed awake except Elisabeth fell asleep with 10 minutes left.  Considering we got home at 2am that's pretty good.  So you see ups and downs!

Art...

The boys being the boys...

The boys got in on the lemonade stand action one afternoon, there sales pitch... "the money goes to buying a time machine!"  Sam also is selling some of his original art, he has already sold two of his best ones so we don't have pictures.  We're not really sure what goes on with those little people inside of his head?!

A Date with Daddy...

A while back Elisabeth and Jeremiah went on a daddy daughter date with the Young Women's group of our ward.  They had a great time playing army men.

Lizzie Anne's...

Elisabeth's craft stand is open for the season!  This is our newest creation.

 

Ladybugs...

One Sunday Grandma Rigby had ladybugs for the kids to release.  Chad and I put them all over our hands and on the kids hands.  Adrian like it pretty well until Elisabeth screamed, but she just told him she was being silly and then he was okay again.  The kids had a great time letting them crawl on them and moving them from place to place. What a nice way to spend a Sunday.

Ummm.... that's awkward...

So Sam's friend Josh likes to make him feel all awkward. It started with a comment about how soft his flannel shirt was, you know so soft you could cuddle with it.  Now Josh does things just to get Sam going.  At a youth fireside tonight Elisabeth thought it would be great to take pictures.  Oh yea, those are HBC bottles.

Pink...

Fancy Nancy Pinkalicious Pink Lemonade Cupcakes!

What says summer more then pink lemonade cupcakes?

Temple Thursdays...

 Opps, the sun was bright in their eyes.  

Josie and Kara Harris, Elisabeth, Sam and Hayden Harsh

Elisabeth and the other Young Women in our ward have made a goal to perform 1200 baptisms for the dead before 12-12-12.  It is a big goal, but the girls are dedicated and leave at 5:20am so they can be at school on time twice a month. With summer being here they invited the boys and since Sam had never been and Hayden had just turned twelve we decided to go.  I was able to go to along with President Harsh, Hayden's dad and Linda Harris the YW president.  It was such a nice way to start a morning at the beautiful Qquirh Mountain Temple.

REAL...

Elisabeth had a great time at the REAL game celebrating Hayden's 12th birthday!

Funny girl...

Oh my she is silly, kiddy rides and unisoarus roller coasters!

A Freshy and A Sevie...

In celebration of having an official freshman and seventh grader we went out to dinner with Grandma and Grandpa.  After a busy last day of school the kids were starving but happy.  Wow, they are growing up so fast, how'd that happen?

Last Field Day...

The kids had a great time with their last field day.  I stopped by before leaving for graduation and got just a couple pictures.

Then it was off to Murray High's graduation, which was awesome to be part of.  The best part was during my turn handing out diplomas I was able to give Josilyn Harsh and Josh Nelson theirs.  Their were 5 great kids from our ward graduating, but these two have both been such great examples for my kids and even though they are older then my kids they call them friends.

Friends...

Spending my spring days with T...

 Oh how I love this little man, even if he is crazy busy right now. 
We visited Aunt Becky one day and just like all the kids he loved the swing.    We've been playing outside a bit too, I usually wait until the kids are home to help chase him.  If we wait outside for his mom, he has a total fit about leaving.  One of T's recent words is "baby" so Elisabeth introduced him to Bitty Baby, he carried him around for the day.