Pictures of the end of June

The cousins came over! My niece and nephew stayed the night and we really enjoyed having them over! They are great kids!

Ian was sleeping and Calista climbed on him to give him a hug, and then Matthew climbed on her. It was so cute I had to take a picture!

Jelly Bean has been taking training classes at PetSmart. She has been doing really well and can do so many things now. She can do all these commands: sit, lay, stand, wait, stay, around, heel, turn in a heel, shake, say hi, roll over, lay on her bed from a distance, come, leave it, and she can do these with distractions! She passed her intermediate class! Kyla is an awesome teacher!

Our graduating class. Carolina, Rocky, and Jelly Bean!

10 years of dating!

On our 10th anniversary of our first date, my husband asked me out and we went mini golfing. He is really romantic. I didn't even remember when our first date was until I looked it up in my journal, but he remembered and made a special day out of it. I had fun. I am glad he asked me out 10 years ago and I am glad he came to his senses and married me! We make a great team... the best! Love you babe!

I thought I was going to whoop him in golf but alas! I failed by 3 points.

I still love him though even though he kicked my butt in mini golf that night!

Summer Days

My little dare devil! Look out on the roads she is about to burn rubber!

Pappou is here and the baby loves to play with him.

Love this picture because it looks like she is doing a "Mighty am I" pose!

She climbs everything including this play slide. It is her favorite thing to do in the back besides play in the dog's water bowl.

Up she goes!

All the way to the top! Little monkey girl.

They are building a shed in the back, well the base for the shed. Jelly Bean is trying so desperately to get their attention.

She will bother them to play until she gets her way. My dad just threw a toy (not hers, by the way, but the boys which they were upset about) for her to catch.

Wedding Pictures

My sister in law got married and these are the pictures from her wedding day at the Los Angeles Temple. Congratulations Melissa and Gary!

Ian is covering his ears because we were screaming for joy when they new married couple came out of the temple!

The Jesperson's minus Lauren.

The Bladh family

Calista kept crying for me and only me. Papa tried to take her away and she reached out from across the grass crying for me so he imitated her pleas.

PUPPY!!!

This is my sister Monica's new puppy. She is only about 8 weeks old now. She will be a big since she is a Great Dane! Her name is Dixie but I think her name should be Eeyore! She was very cute even though she wanted nothing to do with me!

Yay! Auntie came to visit!

We haven't seen my sister in a long time and she stopped by for a visit. The kids were so excited to see her. We hope it won't be a long lapse until the next time we see her!

She loves Clothes

She loves to get dressed and will constantly bring me clothes and shoes to put on her even though she will already have them on. She is so girly! Well, now she tries to dress herself. She will walk around with shirts over her head and bump into everything. Here she is putting on Matthew and Ian's shoes all by herself, or least trying to.

Curse You Digital!

No, Eric is not raising his hands in Hallelujah in praise to the Lord. At least not right now.

He is trying to boost are digital signal so I can scan the digital channels and reclaim channel 11 so I can watch So You Think You Can Dance. Since the switch from analog to digital TV I have had no problems except we are no longer getting channel 11. So Eric tried to boost the signal on our little rabbit ears and the result: we still have no channel 11 and now we are missing channel 9 too! Got to love it!

Calista is a Year Old!!!!

Before church birthday picture. She looks so cute in this green dress!
Specs: weight 16lbs.
height 27 1/2 inches

She has 9 teeth and 1 more about to break through. She walks everywhere and climbs everything she can! We love her so much and love to squeeze her!

"What's Ian doing?"

Picture of Pappou and Calista. Matthew snuck in but he is always welcome. Pappou wants to be in a lot of pictures while he is here so we can see he was having fun with the kids!

Beautiful birthday flowers for the baby girl from Pappou!

She was dying to get the cake during the whole birthday song!

She got it...

...then she got it on her nose and all over her hand...

...but she didn't much care to eat it. This is about all she ate.

She got this baby doll from Ian. She loves it and keeps giving it kisses.

These are the birthday song. One was when we actually sang it, but we didn't know that Eric wasn't ready with the camera and missed the beginning that showed her super excited smile. So we tried it again and she smiles in the second video a little and then tries to sing by opening and closing her mouth. Really cute!