Welcome Home

My little sister Diana and her new baby Junu arrived home from India Tuesday afternoon. We are so excited to have them home. My parent's home is now overflowing with love AND...stuff. We are pretty packed with my parent's, all five of us, and now Diana and Junu sleeping in the living room. My parent's home which was just the two of them for years is now full of laughing babies, giggling boys, and plenty of screams! June is so different from my boys. She has beautiful olive skin, tiny ears, and chubby legs. She holds her arms out to the side like the stay puff marshmallow baby. It is adorable. She blows bubbles and is constantly sticking her tongue out. I love seeing her in all her girly outfits and bows! Every time I look at her I think she can't possibly belong to Diana. It is so crazy to think of my little sister as a mommy.

Peaceful Sunday

Church is right in the middle of nap time. Jaxon and Wesley don't let that bother them. They sleep anyway. Luckily my mom doesn't mind sitting with them while Johnny teaches one Sunday School class and I teach another.

Summer activities

This summer has been exciting so far. Besides beach trips, wrestling with daddy, and cleaning up after Wesley's explorations, we have been finger painting...

and holding snakes.
The boys were so excited until one of the snakes licked Jaxon's cheek. He FREAKED! He was screaming and had a death grip on my leg. Once he calmed down he wanted to touch the snake again, but with the head away from him.

We swim every day, sometimes multiple times a day. Daniel is so funny jumping off the diving board. Every dive has a new name. Jaxon and Wesley prefer to stay in the jacuzzi.

Baby Girl

No I am not having a baby girl. Yeah right! But, I did go to a bow making class last week and tried out my bows on Wesley. IF I did have a baby girl she would be so amazingly adorable. Kinda like this, but more girly! No I am not baby hungry, just excited to see my niece June next week and try out my bows on a real baby girl!

Knights

Ever since Jaxon's birthday party at Medieval Times Daniel has insisted he doesn't want to be a Firefighter when he grows up. Now he wants to be a Knight. My dad being the awesome grandpa that he is built them some sturdy shields and cardboard helmets. I provided the 99 cent store swords. Johnny provided the opponent. The living room tournament was hilarious and went on for over an hour! Even Wesley was entertained.

Bash at the Beach

4th of July was spent at Oceanside beach. Johnny's family came from Arizona and Utah for our annual family reunion. We were in charge this year. Johnny spent a lot of time playing football with his brothers. Daniel and Jaxon were only in their swim suites for about 10 minutes. After that the novelty wore off and they were cold. Playing in the sand with their cousins was sufficient after that.

Jaxon can not function without a nap and asked me if he could go to sleep. I out a blanket over him and he stayed there for over two hours! I even went out boogie boarding and caught some awesome waves with my sister-in-laws and nieces. Jaxon was still asleep when I came back.

My super cool nieces are both 10. When Johnny and I met they were both just babies. They are so much fun to hang out with. Emmalee and Jamayka were in the water ALL DAY LONG!

Sun block would have been helpful! They didn't believe their parents when they were told it was a necessity. Let's just say they learned the hard way.

Wesley loves to face plant in the sand. He only screams when we pry the gritty globs out of his mouth. We kept him bundled all day and he took a nice nap on the blanket next to Jaxon.

I finally got a good picture of his ears. I just love the way the light shines through them. It is adorable.

Sunday was low key at the camp ground. We all ate way too much, had a nice testimony meeting together, and saw a few illegal firework shows from all around us. We found out a little too late that Oceanside had cancelled their fireworks show due to budget cuts.

Overall it was an awesome trip and we had a great time with the Hulse family. We found out Tuesday that we were really lucky. A few guys at Johnny's work were called to work a 24 hour shift over the weekend but his foreman knew he was going to a reunion and called someone else. We were so glad he didn't have to leave in the middle of the trip! If they had called he would not have been given the option of turning it down.

10 Year Reunion

Wow! 10 years already. We went to my 10 year high school reunion a few weeks ago. I was glad to go, but overall a little disappointed. I am not sure what I expected. Most of the people I was friends with were not there and everyone else was drunk or smoking. It made it a little difficult to socialize. The same clicks were still intact. For $50 bucks we should have set-up a date night with a few couples and headed to Cheesecake Factory!