Summer Happenings

This is the greenhouse... This place is really amazing. We have tomatoes, pumpkins, cucumbers, jalapenos, Zucchini, Yellow Squash, Green Peppers and Banana Pepper. We have really loved having this. We also have a huge pea garden that is so close to being ready to be eaten and tons of radishes and green beans. . We are so excited to start eating everything we have grown!!! I'm just a little impatient and I'm ready to get to the eating part!

There have been some big changes in our house over the past few weeks... We have moved Sienna to a "big girl bed". I am finally attempting to take the binkey away, she is doing so good with potty trainings and she keeps saying the funniest things ever...

Some of my favorites include:

We were driving home from dropping her baby sitter off and I asked her what she wanted for dinner, she looked at me and said... "I don't know... Something Amazing!" - I'm pretty sure she's seen The Incredible's one to many times....

Speaking of Incredible's. Her daddy did something and she started jumping up and down yelling "that was totally wicked!"

Aunt Tasia had Baby Maddox last week (Which if you haven't see this boy you really need to head over to HERE and see this little munchkin...) but I showed her the picture she had sent me right after he was born and she looked up at me and said "did she buy him at the store? Can we go buy one?" I thought that was the cutest thing ever... But was confused because we have been having deep discussions about babies coming out of mommies bellies and all that good stuff... Too bad it's not as easy as walking into a store and picking one out! :)

She is so dang observant I have to watch myself all the time... Steve got home from fishing last week and was sitting on the steps taking his fishing gear off and she went and sat down next to him and asked "how was the fishin dad?" And when he get's home from work the first thing she asks him is "how was work today?" Also last night Steve was watering the pea garden and she came over and asked "how's your peas doing daddy?" He told her good and she then asked how "her peas were doing" (We let her plant her own in a certain area...)

I find myself constantly amazed at how much she knows. There are times throughout the day that she says something and I literally just bust a gut laughing. I really don't know where she comes up with the stuff she comes up with. I really don't know what I would ever do without her. She is the most entertaining thing I have ever seen. She may drive me absolutely crazy a lot of the time but at least she can make me laugh like nobody else can!

She has been doing so well in her big girl bed. This is something that I have been dreading doing for MONTHS!!! She is such a good sleeper and I thought it would all go down hill when she realized she could get out of bed, but we have had no problems at all... She just goes in, lays down and falls asleep. Not sure how I got so lucky but thank heavens... Now if taking the binkey away could be that easy... She is pretty against the idea and I think she's grown even more attached to the stupid things. We are going to have to go for something drastic to get this kid to give it up!!! Wish me luck!

The picture above caused some serious tears... I can't believe my baby girl is old enough to have two french braids!!!

We went to the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale yesterday. I just have to say this has been a huge family yearly event ever since I can remember. We always did our school shopping at this sale and I haven't really been able to go to it for years and years. We decided we needed to create memories for Sienna and take her along... I'm not sure if she was as excited about the Anniversary Sale as I was, but she sure had fun! The night before we went she came home and proudly told her daddy that she was going to "the Nordi Sale..." he responded with "Oh Hell!!!"
She found these nice purple shades and I didn't think I was going to get out of there without them. Luckily I distracted her with a pair of Ugg crotched boots so I was off the hook... She's a total sucker for shoes~! It was so fun being with my mom and Baby sister shopping for the day. We all came home with cute new clothes and can't wait to wear them. I felt like I was school shopping all over again... But it was so much better this year, cause I don't have to go to school!

Fourth of July

Brooklyn, Sienna & Savana. (Brookie and Sienna are 6 weeks apart.) It's so fun having cousins so close in age... Even though they only get a long for the first 5 minutes they're together.

The 4th Of July is my favorite holiday by far... I'm not really sure why, I just know that I LOVE it... This year we made it to the Parade, Rodeo, and the Annual Winterton fireworks extravaganza... It was quite eventful and I would like to think I have converted my daughter to it also being her favorite holiday.

We have been trying to get Sienna on a horse for the past year... I was afraid that she was taking after her mom and would never ride a horse, UNTIL she saw Brookie, Savy and Porter riding, she up and decided it was time for her to ride. She loves riding Silkie and Colie and now asks Grandpa frequently to ride them. Luckily for Grandpa, her attention span is about 5 minutes so he doesn't have to spend hours walking her around the field, because there is NO way her mama would do it.

We went to the rodeo with Paul, Ruby, Cameron and Alyssa... All day I kept telling Sienna that she was going to the rodeo and she was so excited... (Even though she had no clue what a rodeo actually was.) I put her down for her nap that afternoon hoping she would take a good nap so she wouldn't be tired that night... After and hour and a half of singing I finally gave up on the idea of her sleeping and went to get her out of the crib. When I walked in the first thing she asked me was if it was time to go to the rodeo... She had lots of fun playing with Cam and Alyssa and running all over the rodeo grounds. She wasn't to fond of the rodeo clown jumping his motercycle over the trailer but she snuggled up to dad when she got scared~

This is the new crazy face she makes when I tell her to say cheese... It's been driving me bonkers!

Watching the crazy clown...

Covering her ears for the fireworks.

I love these two girls

At the beginning of the Summer we bought Sienna this pool. When we first got it, the weather wasn't the best and it was pretty cold up where we live. So the first night we filled it up Sienna's daddy decided he would boil 4 pots of water to make the little princesses pool warmer. She loved it and played in it for hours that night. The next time we went to fill it up the weather was a lot warmer so Steve just stuck the hose in it and filled it up with cold water. The minute she stuck her foot in the water she immediately took it out and said " daddy it's too cold, you need to drain it and put warm water in it..." Steve looked at me and gave me this look like, look what you have created, I just laughed and told him that this time he created the little drama queen... BUT being the smart wife that I am, I just told him it would be a lot easier to hook the hose up to the hot water hook up for the washer and fill it that way, instead of boiling a whole bunch of water...
Tthe little princess has never got into a cold pool yet, she can get her daddy to do pretty much anything she wants.

Man, I love that little Roxy bum...

I didn't get any pictures of the Winterton Fireworks Extravaganza... I'm hoping to steal a few of Kathryn's pics if she ever blogs about the 4th of July :) BUT I can tell you this year was bigger and better then ever... There's just something about grown men lighting fireworks that makes me laugh. Every one of them would run away after lighting them with the biggest grin on their faces. I am still shocked at how incredibly stupid they are, with Cody's Gas explosion at the beginning of the show and Steve literally leaning over the fireworks... (Didn't he read the release from the American Optometric Association on firework danger.) It's still fun and nobody was hurt this year so that's a plus... Also, none of the fields started on fire and Steve's BFF the fire Marshall didn't even show up... So all in all- Good times! Can't wait for next year!

Sunday Drive

We decided to take a little Sunday drive today. I have been wanting to take Sienna to Provo Falls for a while and today was the day. SHE LOVED IT! I have pictures, but I have to get them developed. I always forget how pretty it is up there. I have lots of pictures to download but I have to do it at the office. The fourth was great. I'm always so sad when the 4th is over.