Lake Tahoe

We went to Lake Tahoe this past weekend with Kevin's family and had a lot of fun. It was very pretty and Isak loved playing on the beach and running all over the house. We spent some time with some good friends of kevin's family that were generous enough to let us stay with them and put up with crying babies. Below, Isak and Kevin while our on little "nature" hike we took down a trail. We were supposed to be able to look through this glass partition into the lake but it was closed. We saw some beatiful blue jays though and tons of chipmunks that Isak had fun chasing.

Along the trail, found this great bridge that overlooked a stream. Luckily we kept Isak from jumping in.

Lucy and Conner posing. They had lots of fun pulling at each other and staring at each other.

Lucy and Conner in their bumbo chairs, enjoying some delicious pears and bananas. At one point Lucy finished all of her food and started trying to eat Conner's.
Kevin and I also got a chance to go out one evening with everyone and do some quick touristy browsing at all the little shops.

Lucy also loved the sunshine and spent most of her time under the umbrella and being held. Or trying to attack her cousin Conner.

All of us minus Vicki, who we missed very much!

Isak also loved playing in the water and was demanding Kevin take him to these rocks that were a ways down the shore. He kept finding chipmunks there and was very fascinated by them. He started yelling "stop!" whenever they would run away.

Videos of Isak driving the boat above and Lucy and Conner eating in their bumbo chairs. I'm guessing unless you're family or completely adore my children, they won't be too interesting.

Happy Anniversary

Well this is very late and for some reason blogspot is not letting me upload pictures so this one will have to do. Happy belated anniversary to us! We celebrated 4 years on the 11th..I say "celebrated" loosely..really we saw each for 15 minutes and exchanged cards before I went to work. Very romantic. The above picture was the spring before we got married when I was visiting Kevin in Hawaii. He once mentioned to me that I married "Hawaii" kevin and am now married to "accountant" kevin. I can relate to this and blame most of it on the two little rugrats that we have acquired in the past 4 years. Good thing they are so cute. Perhaps one day we will be young, thin, tan and attractive again and can visit white sandy beaches in the sun. Without the sounds of screaming underslept children in the background. Sigh...I have lots of catching up to with our trip to tahoe this past weekend and if blogspot ever starts working again, I will upload all of my pictures!

Lost Camera

I have no pictures for this post because I believe my camera has passed away. Sadly, I think it may have fallen off the hood of our jeep and has gone missing. You see, I have been painting Lucy's dresser for the past week in the garage and was taking some "before" shots of it and placed it on the car so it wouldn't get run over. I think I may have taken off in the car without realizing it was still there. I really can't remember if I took it off or not and there are no signs or remnants of it around the neighborhood and none of my neighbors have seen the thing. It was old but it still worked fine and unfortunately still had some pictures on it. So we are going shopping this week for a new camera as we have some family trips coming up and it is a complete necessity. I also need new running shoes but decided a camera was a more immediate need and I can't take pictures of my adorable children with new shoes. So this is a quick update as to what we've been up to the past few weeks with pictures to follow:

-Lucy's room is close to being finished. I repainted a ghastly green dresser that I found for $10 at a garage sale that was covered in paisley contact paper. I did her name in cute letters, my mom sewed her some cute pink sparkly curtains with a matching pillow, and bought her a cute floor lamp from Target. I just need to hang her birth announcement and some pictures and I'll be done.
-Isak is fearless with the water. Like, super scary fearless. He thinks its fun to dunk his head and run to the deep end and jump in. He really doesn't care if we're there to catch him or not. Its a great workout trying to sprint swim to where he is so he doesn't drown. Luckily he has a life jacket and he's pretty good about putting his head back and kicking his legs. I think its because we go swimming to much that he's very comfortable. I'm pretty sure he'll be ready for swim lessons next summer.
-Lucy loves to sit in her bumbo chair that I found at a garage sale for cheap. I was anti bumbo chair because I think $40 for a baby chair is ridiculous but $14 is okay and she loves it. She has 2 teeth that have broken through on the bottom and she loves to chew on everything. She's a great eater and loves baby food. Her 6 month appt is on Monday and I'm excited to see how much she's grown.
-Isak randomly decided to sit on the toilet on Friday and strained some pee out. I'm sure we are no where close to being ready for potty training but it was exciting all the same. Wow, you can tell I'm a mom when that was the highlight of my Friday..
-Kevin and I are completely uninteresting so there is nothing new with us. We're getting ready to go to Lake Tahoe next week with Kevin's family and I'm visiting my sister in Wisconsin shortly after. I'm also attempting a race of sorts that hopefully doesn't kill me while in Wisconsin so we will see how that goes.
I'll post some pictures as soon as I find a camera!

Really we don't have much going on this week. My mom is here to visit for the week which has been nice because I get to sleep in an extra hour and its nice to have another adult around to talk to and help entertain my kids.Its been super hot so we've been spending a lot of time at the pool. Yesterday I was walking with Isak to the pool and he insisted on bringing his dog and bunny (aka, hop hop). He kept telling me, "doggie go to da poo, doggie go to da poo" (pool). He was very dissapointed when I told him that his animals couldn't actually get in the water with him.

How I found Isak one morning as I was doing laundry upstairs. Hanging from the chadelier. I swear some days this kid really does belong in a zoo. Below is Isak and his friend Cole who just turned 2. We met their family when we first moved to Boise and became good friends. And apparently they also both love popsicles and running around in diapers.

Okay, so this is why you don't take your husband shopping with you. I had to pick up a few things at target, like baby food, and took them along. Of course kevin found this great nerf gun that was on clearance and wouldn't this be a great gift for Isak at some point? And such a great deal! I relunctanctly agreed, only to have the gun of course out of its package by the time we got home and Isak holding it in his lap. Funny thing, its so big Isak can barely use it and someone else has to pump it up for him. Hmm, almost seems like it would be more for an adult male trying to live out his childhood still through his child.....Although I must say, its works great to tire Isak out. We shoot the dart, he runs and gets it and brings it back. A great way to tire him out before bed.

Last weekend

We went home to Washington last weekend for a quick visit. My brother was visiting from Texas and hasn't seen lucy yet so we thought we would go down and introduce him. It was a lot of fun to see our families. Above is Grandpa Bob holding a sleeping Lucy and below is my dad with Isak and is super awesome hat he stole from them.

Aaron with Lucy, he loves his nieces and nephews. It was fun to see him and we wished he lived closer so we could see him more! Isak especially loved having all his uncles around to play with him. While there, Kevin decided to have Lucy do an impromptu Haka dance. Apparently the moves are not correct but Lucy didn't seem too care..

Hungry Baby

We started rice cereal with Lucy on Saturday. To no one's suprise, she loved it. She's been eyeing our food for a while and is always trying to grab at it. This was on saturday she had her first taste of rice cereal. I gave it to her again on monday and tuesday. Today I thought I would try some pears and see how she did.You know those gerber two packs of baby food you buy? How they are suppose to last a few days, especially with a little baby who is just starting baby food? Well I gave her half of one mixed with rice cereal for lunch. She ate the rest of it for dinner. And when I came home from the gym tonight to my great suprise, Kevin informed she had eaten the other pack. The ENTIRE pack of pears. In one sitting. He told me she was hungry. Obviously. What is with my kids and wanting to eat me out of house and home? Isak has gotten a little pickier so that is starting to balance out I suppose. Seriously. I was so hesitant to start baby food with her because I knew this would happen. She's going to spurt up even faster than she already has. Sigh. Her and that tongue. Its all from the Gilbert side. She has it hanging out most of the day. I think she likes to chew on it.

This sweet picture I took of her today during her nap. I love her little hands and arms. And those chunky cheeks.

4th of July, birthdays, and Old friends

Yes, that handsome man is my husband, about 6 years ago. Kevin turned 28 on the 3rd..so happy birthday! I figured that this is the 7th birthday I have celebrated with him, that's alot of birthdays. Wow, he's getting old. We celebrated by going out to dinner a few nights before and he got some new electronic thing that he wanted that supposedly is suppose to make our lives easier but I still haven't figured the thing out yet. And best of all, our good friends Scott and Crystal Harris came to visit us on his birthday so we got to hang out with them and their girls!

I found this great picture of crystal and I 5 years ago, the summer she got engaged. The picture above it is the day she got married. I have one from when I got married but she is pregnant andwhile I think she looks great, she would probably kill me if I displayed that picture. We figured it out and we've known each other for 17 years! That's a really long time.

THis is us pre baby and pre husband. We were single, cute and didn't have a care in the world. I sometimes miss those days...

Because now we have responsibilities, in the form of toddlers. But they're pretty cute so I think we'll keep them.We had lots of fun with them while they were here. We took them swimming at our little community pool and went out for ice cream. Kevin and Scott went golfing while crystal and I chilled out at home with the kids. It was great to catch up!

Crystal's little girl, Olivia. Isn't she cute?
Aubrey and Isak playing Guitar Hero. t of fun playing together.We set of some fireworks with Isak on Sunday night because I worked the 4th. He loved them.

Here he is playing with the tanks. Luckily, he was still scared enough when they were lit that he didn't want to go any where near them.

Isak and Lucy before church on Sunday. You can't tell in this picture, but she is turning blonde quickly. I think she and Isak will have the same hair color.


V ideo of fireworks with our neighbors. That is Lucy talking in the background.