Grandpa and Charity

We had lots of fun adventures and moments in June, so hopefully I can share a few of those this week.  We've got tons of good pictures that show a glimpse at all our fun busyness!

One weekend we took a trip over to help grandma paint her house (thanks Amron for getting that part of our checklist done), clean (we did okay, didn't we mom?), and set up her new computer (I was pretty darn good with that dairy program, wasn't I?). 

We also got to go in and visit Grandpa.  The old people loved the girls dancing. 

The funniest though was Grandpa.  He may not remember much but his sense of humor is still there.  I asked Charity to move over next to Grandpa so that I could get a picture of them together.  She wouldn't, so Grandpa scooted next to her and then said,

"That was charitable, wasn't it?"

Isn't that so Grandpa?  =)

Cupcakes and Lemonade

"Cupcakes and Lemonade"

(Remember that song Marci?")

We had a fairy tea party for Charity's birthday!

Sarah planned this fairy village cake for months.

We all had a house to make and we made a mess, but had fun.

As Charity now likes to tell me,

"I not two now.  I three!"

(As she hold up three fingers on each hand.)

She's thinking it'd be more fun to have two days of birthdays instead of one though.

Our baby is a big girl!!

"My Three Sisters"

The other three feel unloved and neglected, so here's a few glimpses of them.  They are not neglected or unloved as evidenced by the hundreds of photos and hours of video that we have over the last few months of dance competitions, dance recitals, spring concerts, gymnastic recitals, and track meets.  They are talented, loved, and usually pretty nice girls!  And we love them just as much as we love Charity . . . well, almost.  =)

Charity's Antics

Charity has been cracking us up lately.  The girls want me to share a few of her funny things of the month.

This morning she was determined to go catch birds in our yard.

"Mommy, it don't work!"

She cracked everyone up at the track meet last week when she ran up to me and asked,
"Mom, what I supposed to do?"

She took pictures of Sarah and ate her crackers.

My favorites are things she has been saying in Sacrament Meeting--although she makes it hard for us to be reverent because we're laughing at her.

Every time she goes to take the bread and water she asks,

"The daddy one or the mommy one?"
She's obsessed with if everything is a mommy or a daddy including the Sacrament bread and water, her snacks, and many other things.  Who has ever tried to decide if a few pieces of bread are mommy or daddy ones?  You didn't know bread and water had genders, did you?

After the opening prayer last week as the sister was leaving the stand, she said,

"Is she nice or mean?"

(It was one of the nicest ladies in Oakley!  Charity has this thing with asking if people are nice or mean.  She decided this week that most of her sisters are mean!)

And she loved her gymnastic recital.  She was so excited to final get to perform like her sisters, but thought it was way too short and asks every day if she can go do it again.

We love Charity!

Front Porch View

This is what we saw from our front porch tonight.  Perfect conditions made for a perfect double rainbow!  Gorgeous!  But too close to us for me to get everything in one shot.  This was my favorite shot but to get it I kept getting rain drops on my lens.  Pretty nice though.  We think it's spring . . . oh, except for the snow we had yesterday that recovered the mountains!  And the snow falls as we count down the days until the pool opens!

Our new house . . . 9 months later

The girls still regularly include in family prayers, "We're thankful for our new house."  And we are thankful for our new house!  We love it.  And here's what we all love most --

Ben

A closet in our bedroom!  And it has a light so he can see what he's putting on in the mornings!

Steph

A dishwasher is heavenly!  Dishes don't sit for days and days now . . . well, except the crock pot!

Sarah

Our map.  But you have to come visit to see why she loves it so much!

Allie

Okay, so she doesn't love it and she still cries on a regular basis including when I asked everyone what their favorite thing was.  She misses the sidewalks to ride bikes on, the fire pit to climb on, the grass to do back handsprings on, sharing a room with her two sisters, and she says she even misses standing by the bathroom door with her legs crossed anxiously waiting for someone to get out of the one and only bathroom.  She struggles big time!   I have found one thing here that she really likes though:

She loves to play on this tractor that's sitting in our backyard (on loan from a neighbor) and sing about someday being in a rodeo.  The girl of many dreams!

Kit

She said she loves having lots of lip gloss in her new bedroom!  And she loved her black and white and red bedroom until recently when she decided she wants bright color polka-dots instead.  Too bad--we are not redecorating every year!

Charity

Charity loves her brown and pink polka-dotted room.  She love to show it off when people come.  She loves to sleep in it.  She loves to play in there with her toys.  She loves to see "our new house" as we drive down the road (thanks to no other houses you can see it a mile away).  "I love our new house!"

Our House

We love our new house and are very very very excited to be able to get a yard put in.  We have lots of ideas and are scared about all the work it's going to take to beautify our two acres, but we are excited.  And I'm excited today because a daffodil bloomed in the pot I bought at WalMart--since I have no other flowers.  It's spring!!!

My grand idea for March!