Little Piggy

Me: "What are you guys doing in here?"

Aubrielle: "That's a cage; she's our pig!"

Meltin My Heart

Me (so sick I can barely get off the couch and looking like death): "Benson, how do I look?"
Benson: "Um, bootiful!"

So of course Camron tries this same trick....

Camron: "Benson, how do I look"
Benson (without missing a beat): "Um, Cazy (aka Crazy)!"

Oh how I love my little boy!

The Jaycie says.....

So one of the songs we sing all day long at this house is from the LeapFrog "FridgePhonics" magnet. It is a very basic tune with the words, "The A says ah, the A says ah, every letter makes a sound the A says ah" (Great way to teach your kids the letters by the way, especially when accompanied by the DVD "Letter Factory") Anyway, we have adopted this song to Jaycie's newest sound, a grunt/squeak/yelp. She loves the song (especially making her sound nice and loud) And as you can imagine, her brother and sister love the song as well:

But we might need to add another verse to the song soon....Jaycie has started saying, "bah, bah". This of course translates to "bye, bye". She has been attempting it for a few days, but I just thought it was a fluke until last night when she consistantly waved her hand and said "bah, bah". SO incredibly cute, but also so sad that she is already so big!! Although if this is anything like any of the other tricks she's learned (rolling over, waving, giving kisses, etc.), she'll do it for a few days and then we won't see it again for about a month.....not really sure why she works that way, but she does!

Just lovin my little girl

Jaycie Grace
9 months old

Painting Pottery

The kids had a blast painting bowls for Grandpa and Grandma's house. They each painted and decorated their own bowl (well, Jaycie and Lucy did have some help!). The bowls turned out so cute; we can't wait to go back to their house so we can use them! And many thanks to Uncle Dallan for all his help and these great pics!

Camron's New Love

Well Camron and I were able to successfully build his Father's Day gift (a remote controlled airplane) and with the help of Camron's cousin, Todd, Camron was even able to get it up and in the air and flying.

He was able to take it with him to Spokane for the Grubbs Family reunion and really enjoyed flying it there. There was a total of 4 planes at the reunion and the guys had a great time going out together. (Camron even offered to get up with Jaycie early one morning, I of course was shocked until I realized he pawned Jaycie off on his mom and went out flying with the guys....ah ha, it's all starting to make sense now.....LOL)

Adventures in "fly fishing"

On one of the nightly airplane outings during the Grubbs family reunion, Uncle Mack decided it was time to give some amatuers some time behind the control. Great idea, right? Well it was, until his plane landed here....(if you make the picture bigger you can see a small spot of red in the top of the tree....that's Mack's plane)

Of course it happened right before dusk, so runners were sent to gather the necessary supplies: a spotlight, flashlights, and a fishing pole...

The idea was to cast a weight around the plane and tug it out of the tree. Great in theory, but after 1 1/2 hours of trying it we were on to idea number #2, throwing a tennis ball with fishing line attached to it up over the plane and hoping to tug the plane out of the tree. After several tries, and many, many yards of tangled fishing line, Camron and Brandon successfully rocked the branches enough to knock the plane loose. What an adventure....and great lesson in flying, steer clear and I mean really clear of any and all trees!