.June 2017 part 1

Finally summer! June was a fun month for us so I'm gonna have to split this into two posts.

First off, here is Ames with three of his best buddies (Rhys, Jack and Lachlan) at our house for a "play-date". These little guys are so awesome together and they get completely lost in their imaginations together for hours on end. And Alice trying to play with them and just repeatedly telling me she wants some girls to come play with her. lol

Air is the best Daddy and loves to brush Alice's hair while telling her stories to keep her happy.

One of our favorite things to do on those unbearably hot summer days. These two have no shame

We found a lego store in a mall in our city! We all love Lego so much.

sleepy on the way home

We babysat baby Elsie a lot this summer, she is such a cutie//Alice got invited to her first friend's birthday party. They are twins in our ward

Ames gave his second talk in primary

Aaron built us a swingset with some of our old deck boards, endless fun for these two

Alice got her crib converted into a toddler bed and has been loving life as a big girl.

We love baking cookies together

Couple a random shots: Ames in a box// I made some yummy salsa verde chicken pasta

Practicing my french braid and snapchat skills with Alice

The kids and I found a park nearby called Andy's park one day with a big zipline!

Here is our first trip of MANY to Fort Edmonton Park this summer. We had passes so we were there every chance we got! This place is literally the best place to go for a day in our city!

For this visit we just jumped on the steam train at the entrance and went straight to the actual fort part of the park to see where people first settled here in Edmonton a long long time ago…

This place is so amazing and fun to explore. It's fun to think about what it would be like to live here back in the day.

We jumped back on the train just before the park closed for the day. We only explored a tiny portion of the park on this day, but boy was it awesome.

Then we somehow had enough energy to go to a park downtown.

We had hot dogs and s'mores for FHE when we got home. Fun day!

More to come from June…

.May 2017

The month of May is a good one, finally some warmth and outdoors is added to our lives. It lifts my spirits and recharges my batteries.

Poor Alice fell and hit her face on the wall and got a fat lip… it was so sad. But I couldn't get over the way she looked with her fat lip. She seriously looked like a stranger for three days straight and I couldn't stop giggling about it. ↓↓↓

↓↓↓ Back to the parks we go. Couldn't believe Ames was able to climb to the top of this web for the first time//Air got on the roof to clean out some of our eaves troughs (they have so much dirt in them weeds are growing up there) ↓↓↓

↓↓↓ I made cookies on the day before Mother's Day so everyone would notice how much they love me. Genius I know//Robin's nest under our deck ↓↓↓

↓↓↓ First splash park of the year and Alice was so pooped she slept like this for hours afterwards

↓↓↓ baking the perfect loaf of bread//Practice shot for our Young Women's photo shoot ↓↓↓

*News Flash* Air and I have a photography business. I don't think I've ever posted anything about it on here before and I definitely haven't shared any photos we've taken of other people (for their own privacy), but this shoot we did for my Young Women was special, and so I'm deciding to share the photos here for the first time. I love these girls so much! ↓↓↓

Here are our after-church-pics from the month ↓↓↓

And now enjoy a million 15-second long videos from my insta-stories ↓↓↓