I hate spiders!

Not something you want to see right outside your back door (well...not me anyway)



I made Brad take care of it. He felt bad because he says it's supposed to be a good spider. I told him he had to choose between better and best. "Does he want a good spider or daughters that stay alive?" (I know... probably a little over the top)

Family Pictures

My cousin came and took pictures of us while we were at my mom's a few weeks ago.

Here are some of my favorites:

I thought they turned out great.

Thanks KaeDawn!

This is what happened 5 minutes before we left for church on Sunday. Alexa must have wanted to give Brad her own Father's Day surprise.



Luckily, lotion rubs right in, but it still made for a very slippery girl.

Then, this is what she did the same day after church while helping Brad make tortillas.

Not sure why everything has to go all over her face

Brad was excited to help make his Father's Day dinner so he could use his new apron and tortilla warmer.

Good thing he gets awesome presents :)

Random

One week we're wearing our coats...

and the next week we're in our summer clothes.

Alexa loves her "black cookies"...

and I love rainbows that appear outside my front door.

The end.

Going Green

I got some books in Spanish from the library to see what Alexa would think of them. She kept asking to read "Huevos verdes con jamon" by good old Dr. Seuss. Or "Coco-mone" as she calls it.

So, yesterday for lunch we decided to have some.



Alexa was so excited to help me make Coco-mone

Que ricos son, que ricos son los huevos verdes con jamon!

Cailin's Special Day

We finally got to bless Cailin. We decided to do it in our stop in Utah so our families could be there. It was the first time in 4 1/2 years that everyone on my side of the family was together!

Here's our happy little family.

It was a good day.

Our trip home

Here are a few of our memories from the trip home last month.

Sometimes when you promise your two-year-old that if she's good in the car she can go swimming in a pool and when you get to the hotel and find out they only have an outdoor pool, you have to improvise.

This is the Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial. They have a chair for each person who died. The little chairs represent the children. So sad.

If you're ever in that area, you need to stop and see it. You won't regret it.


We got to stop and see some friends in Mississippi and Colorado. I'm not so good at remembering my camera, but I did get a picture with my cousin Staci this time. It was fun to have people to see, and get some breaks from driving.

At a rest stop,

Alexa met this dog and followed him everywhere. He's a show dog named Drake (we got his card).

It was a pretty good trip, but I don't want to do it again anytime soon.