Today is Forest and I's 5 year wedding anniversary. Yay us..haha! W got our concrete poured yesterday! What arelief it is to have that done. This evening when forest gets home, we will take off the forms and see how it all looks. We will have a busy weekend building the fence and putting gravel in. We poured a retainign wall along the property line so we can level out the ground with gravel. The fence will be on top of the wall and it will go all the way to the side walk. Before it was just to the end of the garage. The gate will also come out farther. The whole point of this project is so we can park that big ol car trailer behind the gate. The fence will be 6 feet tall until the gate, and then it will be 3 feet tall all the way to the sidewalk. We also added 4 feet to the driver way. It will be nice to have it a bit wider now.

Tonight after we get all that done, we are going to head over to the Cool Desert Nights event. They are haivng a big cruise tonight. We try to go every year. Its alot of fun. Owen really liked it last year, so I am sure he will be super into it this time.

Yay for Thursday! Our fence project is coming along nicely still. We have a concrete truck coming this afternoon to pour the retaining wall. We are almost there! It should be about done by this weekend. My mom is coming up this morning and we are going to go shoppping! Our main thing to get is a baby shower gift for a good friend of ours. Her shower is saturday and I am really looking forward to that. Hopefully the kids arent complete monsters today being that Owen woke up at 6:30, stood in the hall, and screamed, I WANT TO WATCH TV!!! Needless to say, he also woke up Brielle. UGH!

Can you believe how much they look alike??!! This is my cousin Brok.

We had a huge weekend! We went racing friday night, but we wont talk about that. He had a first round loss again. Saturday Forest worked on our fence all day. We are making it so we can park the car trailer behind the gate. Its a huge project, but its coming along nicely.

My cousins from Utah are here, and they got to come up and see us yesterday. That was alot of fun and my kids loved playing with them. I have to make it short for today, we are off to hermiston for hair cuts and teeth cleanings!

Brielle and I had a fun day out yesterday! We hit Kohls first and found some great deals, then we hit the mall for a couple of hours and found some more great deals! I found an outfit, including shoes, to wear to the wine tasting tour we are going on on the 4th of July. I am very excited for that. We are going with some friends of ours that we havent saw in awhile. Forests parents are going to be here that weekend and offered to keep the kids over night at Stephanies, so WOOHOO, party for us!!!!! Forest and I are really looking forward to it.

Owen has been gone since tuesday morning. He went down to Stephanie's with Sheryl. She has been here for the week. They won't be back here until tomorrow morning. She is staying with the kids tomorrow night while we go racing too. So that will be a huge help. Its so tough to take Brielle with us. Owen is easy because he is so into it. But Brielle is a bit young yet. Forest talked to his Dad lastnight, and he is actually coming down tomorrow for the races! He wasnt able to come with Sheryl because of big projects at work. Well they ended up needing a special tool that they have at the office here, so Paul "volunteered" to come and get it. Well, I have a full day of cleaning up after little Miss Tornado today. Stay tuned......

We hit the mall yesterday and I got a new swimsuit. Stephanie and maddie met us (Sheryl, and the kids and I)at the mall. Steph got a swimsuit too. Then we went to Olive Garden for lunch. It was oh so yummo!!!!! I loe that place. We got home and laid the kids down for their nap and when they woke up we played outside in their pool. Its going to be a hot one today too. The high is 90, yuck! Its my day to mow too. Sheryl is heading down to Stephanies this morning, but maybe I will see if I can mow before she leaves. I ususally mow when Brielle takes her morning nap around 10, but its already 66 outside at 7:30 this morning. I am going to be mowing the neighbors lawn too!!!

Forest had a three day weekend, which is always nice. He spent friday working on a costumers racecar and then saturday we went down to Hermiston. We went to see my parents for a bit and then I went and took pictures of baby Parker. He is so stinkin cute, I LOVE THAT KID!!! We went to Stephanies for a little bit. Sheryl is in town also. Yesterday, Sheryl came up and we went to church. Forest and I were teaching in Owen's sunday school class this week. It all 3 year olds. Well the teacher for the 4 year old decided to not show up , so we had the 4 year olds also. We had 15 kids between the ages of 3 and 4. YIKES!!! It was too terrible though we made it through. After church we came home and had lunch and naps. After the kids woke up and got around, we headed out to the Country Mercantile. That place is awesome. I love going there. They have the best of EVERYTHING. After we checked out all the neat stuff, we had dinner and icecream out there. It was YUMMO! Sheryl is staying today and tonight with us also. Her and Owen just headed out for their Starbucks. It started out as being called their mojo, but now Owen calls it jo jo, so they went to get their jo jo. Its something they do everytime Sheryls is here. They have been doing it for about a year now. They sneak out in the morning, usually just the two of them. Sheryl gets coffee and Owen either gets chocolate milk, or hot chocolate. Owen really enjoys doing that with Memaw and he calls her. I think after breakfast, baths, and getting dressed, we may head to the mall today, yay!!!!

Slacker

I know I have been slacking the last few days, so I just wanted to say that we have had a very busy weekend and I will be back tomorrow for sure with a better update....and pictures!

Hows are those for some looks!!?!??!!?!I finally was able to get my backdrop and studio lighting set a couple days ago. I can't wait to use it for real. I set up the backdrop yesterday just to see how it was, but it needs ironed badly and I didnt have the lights set up. Brielle was posing for me big time though. She is such a girly girl! owen was sleeping, or else I would have a bunch of him too.

The pictures I took of my friends baby ended up being lost, so this weekend I am going to go back and do them again. It will be much better this time with the backdrop setup. I cant wait!

I just filled up the kids swimming pool. We should have a ton of fun this afternoon. I will make sure to get lots of pictures to share!

After making those pies, the bbq was cancelled. The weather was getting pretty nasty and nobody wantes to risk the chance of getting rained on. So, I decided to go spend the night with my parents. So sunday night I went down there . My mom kept the kids for me for a couple of hours and I went to one of my best friends from high schools house and we did a small photoshoot with her 6 week oild baby boy, Parker. He is ADORABLE!!! When I got back to my parents house, I looked at the pictures of my dads laptop, well when I got home yesterday, I went to look at them and do some editing and they were not on my card AT ALL anymore! I was almost panicking. I called mom adn told her what happend and I am hoping that the program I used on dads computer aoutomatically saved teh pictures to the computer and then deleted them off my card. That is pretty common, I just didnt think of it at the time. Dad had to run into the office for something and his laptop was in his truck, so hopefully today I found out whether or not Dad has the pictures. If not, its not too big of a deal because I recently bought a backdrop and studio lighting set that is supposed to be delivered today. We will be able to get better pictures with all of that. Maybe this weekend I will go down and do it again.

Anyway, on to happier things! FOREST WILL BE HOME TONIGHT......YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I got my pies done lastnight for our bible study group bbq today. I made fresh strawberry pies and they look so yummy! Brielle ended up missing her afternoon nap yesterday becaue I really needed to go to the store and by the time Owen woke up so we could go, it was close to her nap time and then by the time we got back, it was dinner time, and then it was too late for her to have a nap, so she went to bed about 7pm lastnight. I put Owen to bed at 8:30 and finished up my pies and cleaned up a bit. I watched tv for a little while in my bedroom and talked to Forest on the phone for a few minutes. After I talked to him i was getting sleepy. It was 10pm. I only made it 10 m inutes before I went in and got Owen out of his bed and put him in mine. Usually when Forest is gone, I let Owen sleep with me. I thought I would be tough lastnight and try it by myself, but i am a big ol' sissy and only made it 10 minutes. The kids both slept til 7:30 this morning, so that was nice. We are going to go to Church at 10:30 this morning, then home for lunch and naps and then off to our bbq. I need to make a side dish of some kind today too to take with us. Anyhow, thats our day!

We went racing lastnight and the kids stayed hom with my nieghbor. It was nie to be there without the kids and worrying about them. Although, we were home early because Forest lost first round. He red-lighted, he left too early so the other car automatically wins. It was a bummer, but you cant win everytime I suppose. I have got a pretty busy next few days ahead of me. Forest left this moring for Lewiston. He will be working there until tuesday night. I am going to make a couple strawberry pies and a potato salad for our bible study group bbq tomorrow. Too bad Forest is going to miss it! Sunday we have church and the bbq, adn then monday I will be spending the day in Hermiston to see my grandparents who will be in town. Monday evening I am going to take some pictures of my friends new baby. He is about 6 weeks old now and way too cute! I am looking forward to our photo shoot.

This is for Grandma Marcine. I want to start collecting more of these. I have one figurine and I have a good start to the nativity set. http://www.willowtree.info/

Owen playing in our trailer at the race track last weekend

Showing off her pigtails. Arent they CUTE?!?!?!??!

The pictures that arent labeled at all are from yesterday evening. Owen has way too much fun on their swingset. He is going to wear that thing out!

So Forest will have tomorrow off! That great because now he doesnthave to miss the race, BUT he has to work saturday through tuesday and he will be out of town! UGH!!! I hate when he is gone. It is so rare that he has to work like this, but when he does, I absolutely hate it. Oh well, what can i do? Monday I am for sure going to hermiston to see my grandma and grandpa and I most likely will stay the night with my mom and dad that night. I have quite a bit to do to keep me busy. Sunday we are going to a bbq qith our bible study group, but it looks like that will just be teh kids and I. I am going to make a potato salad and a couple strawberry pies I think. So saturday will be busy doing that, then church sunday, then naps and then the bbq. Anyway, thats my sob story for the week.

Disappointed

Forest informed me that he most likely has to work out of town all weekend. The found a leak someone near Lewiston that has to be fixed. I am so bummed! Friday night is another points race and being that he is the leader in points, its gonna sick for him to miss this race. It will for sure bump him out of first place. Saturday we were going to go to Hermiston for a carshow, and then sunday we were having a bbq at the park with our bible study group. Looks like it will just be the kids and I doing that one. Oh well, life goes on I suppose.

I went shopping lastnight with my best friend and we were husband and kid-less for the first time in FOREVER!!! I bought a dress to wear on the wine tasting tour we are going on next month. I may return it and find something else though. It shows alot of cleavage and I dont know how comfortable with that I am going to be. We shall see I guess....

I will be posting more pictures of the kids soon. I feel like busting out the camera today!

Not much to report today. The wind is blowing (big surprise, huh?) and today is mowing day. So, it looks like I will be mowing in the wind. Yay, thats just an invitation for my allergies to act up even more. Which by the way, have been aweful!!!! At least the kids havent had too much trouble yet. I have their prescription on hand though for when it does start, because trust me, it will start!

We are going racing again this friday night. It looks like both kids will be going with us since I cant find anyone to keep Brielle. We will see how she does I guess. Its just a little hard on her with her being so young. Owen does awesome. He is totally into it too, so that helps.

Anyway, off I go to play referee between Owen and Brielle. He thinks its great to hurt her as often as he can, so I have to watch them like a hawk. Please Lord, help me through the three's and get onto the four's!!!!

We had another busy weekend. We went racing friday night and Forest made it to the semi finals, but ended up not winning that race because there was something on the track that made him lose traction and the car went a bit sideways, so he had to let off the gas and that cost him the race. It was a bummer, but it was still fun. The next race is this coming friday. Not sure why the track decided to do them back to back. Brielle stayed with Stephanie. If I can find somewhere for her to stay while we go racing, I do. Its hard on her to be out that late and with all the loud cars. I talked to my brother lastnight and him and his girlfriend Kara are most likely going to come to the house to watch her this time and I am thinking I will probably leave Owen here too since he is in absolute LOVE with Kara.

We didnt get him til 1:30 am from the races and then got up early with Owen. We had three graduation parties that we went to that were all outside and it hit 100 degrees that day. Yay, summer is here, but unfortunately so is the heat, yuck!