Garden Time

Hailey is the funniest girl in the world! Look at all that mud/dirt on her, plus she's wearing a tutu!

I waited a bit long to thin out the carrots in our garden but that's okay because the kids had a blast picking the mini carrots out. They put grocery bags on their backs (thought of that idea themselves)

Hailey kept showing me carrots saying, "Look mom! It's so cute"

Deer in headlights picture

Ari is officially sitting up all by herself!

Oh and in case you don't believe a 5 1/2 month old can already LOVE food...see for yourself!

She can't even wait for the spoon to get to her-she literally jumps out of her seat for it (if you are wondering-she's too small for our highchair so we use the bouncer :)

Other than that, we've been enjoying the weather and the $10 pool I bought the kids. I can't believe it's already the end of July!

Blaser Family Reunion in Idaho

What a busy summer! My Dad's family does a family reunion every other year, and since this year was my Dad's turn to plan it-he chose to do it at their house in Buhl.

I love this picture! I can't believe how big our family has gotten!

Here's our attempt at a family picture...

Arianna with her Great Grandma Rosie

My Grandma and Grandpa Blaser

 Brooke and our cousin Colt with their wild sunglasses...these two have been buds since they were in diapers

My sister Bre and Laith- what a hot mama right!?

Arianna playing with Grandpa (can you tell I've kept her out of the sun?)

My parents borrowed this razor for everyone to cruise around in. The best part was when my Mom took Grandma Rosie for a ride. She just kept waving at everyone like she was in a parade-it was so cute

Cousins Laith and Ari. We should have gotten a pic of all the babies. There were 5 babies between 4 and 5 months, plus lots of toddlers running around.

Look at this cute smile!

Cousins Hailey and Mia going for a bike ride with Grandma

This shot was taken after Scott's first ride on the razor with Grandpa

Check out that du! How fast were you going Grandpa!?

Hailey talking to Laith

My cousin Kim had the grand idea of letting the kids "finger" paint. I told her it wasn't a good idea for Hailey and be sure she took off her shirt. This is what happened in a matter of 2 minutes

Look at little artist Mia on the right with her perfect painting and not one drop of paint on herself

Scott and Hailey had the idea to turn the slide into a water slide and get into their skivies. How fun to be a kid!

We had a softball field set up in the pasture and a volleyball net set up in the yard and that's what consumed most of the guys' time. Here's Rick tagging Chris out.

Scott watching the game with Aunt Brooke

We had such a great time! Thanks Mom and Dad for planning the whole thing for the 50 plus people that came. Everybody told me they had a great time!

Bean Sprout

Look at this little bean sprout!

Arianna can sit up now for at least a minute or so, but if something is sitting behind her she'll sit and play forever

Ari is loving her new adventure into real food. She can't get enough and gets pretty ticked off if you try to stop

She is such a sweetie!

Melins Come to Visit

We got a fun little visit this week from Kevin's sister Kelli. She drove from Florida with her 4 kids and her final destination is Colorado!

TJay, Matthew, Lexi, Scott, Hailey and Summer (Ari was napping)

TJay loves his role as the oldest cousin

All of the cousins squished in the playhouse

Pushing the truck back home after riding the battery dead

Look at these handsome boys!

Kevin's dad also came up for a day to spend with the grandkids. I thought this was a neat picture of the kids out on the dock fishing with Grandpa.

Yeah! Caught one!

Feeding the ducks

We had so much fun! My kids are going to be so bored this week without their 4 sidekicks!

4th of July in Buhl Idaho

Happy 4th of July!

Kevin had Monday off work, so we used my parents Idaho house and had a little family get away. We had the best time together fishing, canoeing, barbecuing, going to a parade, rodeo, watching fireworks and just spending time together.

Buhl Idaho has the real deal parade- tractors and all!

I love this picture with Hailey sitting on the tackle box while the boys fish. So cute

How funny is this picture!? I didn't even tell them to pose the same-haha

The last day Scott caught 3 fish on his little fishing pole (after Kevin finally gave up the lucky lure from his pole)

Look at Hailey's tiny little hand waving

she sat like this the entire time- stiff as a board

Taking Kevin's new gun out for some rounds...

Scott is such a collector, he likes to just roam around putting old shells into piles

Arianna had her first bite of food while we were there! She's loving it too- she opens her mouth and leans in for more. 5 months old already!

Smiley little thing!

Hailey taking a little ride

and of course- my hot fisherman!

It really was fun to be away from all our normal responsibilities, duties, phone calls, etc. etc. and spend some great quality time together as a family.