Peggy and Ruthie

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peggy and ruthie are our bestest friends that we've made here...i don't know what we would do without them, we met when the girls were only 10 month old from a moms meet up web site, where i noticed we both had listed a daughter that was born in oct. ...ruthie and halle absolutely LOVE each other...peggy is one of my tmobile fav. 5 , i dont' know what i would do without unlimited calling to her, so far she has answered about a million of my dumbest questions ranging from what kind of paint to buy, where to get hay, whats a buggy, she's like the idiots guide to being a grown up and the idiot's guide to living in the south all in one

Driving the boat

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peggy let each of the kids take a turn driving the boat...they thought it was really cool!!

The Lake House!

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a few weeks ago Peggy had us and some other friends to over to her lake house....we had the best time!! in this picture halle is in the back....she loved riding on this....another thing that was really fun, was we loaded a few of the kids in a tube (with a bottom) and peggy pulled them with this...me and kiki rode on the back to make sure none of the kids fell out...they bounced around and loved hitting the waves....we rode in the boat, swam at the shore, had lunch...ended up staying from 10am to 5pm...i can't wait to have a few more lake days this summer!!

nice tan lines!

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we've gotten a lot of sun so far this summer!

i feel like i'm a kid on summer vacation so far this summer, we've been having so much fun....its been along time since i've been this carefree....
i worked summers in high school, went to school summers at BYU, and since then i've had babies which was been a lot of work....this summer is just fun, my girls are old enough to have fun and mind me and be sweet, which makes being around them fun...kiera finally sleeps though the night and they both sleep in (alittle bit, 7:30!) since they get so worn out from the swimming!

i actually feel sorry for tom that he has to go to work everyday and our life is just about having good times........but luckily his work scheduale lets him still spend a lot of time with us...

what a fun summer we are having...me and my 2 little girlfreinds...this was last week:

Monday: swimming at peggy's house in the morning (our pool is closed on mondays)...tom off at 2...we all went to monkey joes bounce house place, out to eat, home for bed....

Tue: lounge around in our pjs...read books, played polly pockets, watched halle play starfall, tried to use our new detangler on ponies (didnt' work, still a mess), went swimming at 3 till 6pm (invited friends, lots of fun), dinner, bed

wed: tom off in the morning, he took the girls to the free summer movies, i ran errands, tom work, kiera nap, 3pm had peggy and ruthie and a couple of halle's other friends to swim at pool, 3-4 slide, 4-5 practice swimming, 5-7 slide (total of 3 hours of the slide!!), dinner, bed (halle's legs actually collapsed on the way to bed and she told me she couldn't even walk, totally exhausted!)

Thurs: tom off in morning, hit walmart, alone, yea!, played with moon sand (big mess!), painted pictures (another mess!), emptied the "gutts" out of an old pillow (really big mess!) and pretended it was everything from snow to ice cream, lots of fun...friend's bday party 6-8...bed

friday: peggy's pool from 10-2...kiera naped, halle and me cooked dinner....missionaries for dinner, ice cream , bed

sat: yard sale shopping, had freinds over to swim 10-1....lunch, kiera napped, me and halle relaxed....left for the rock ranch, home at 9, bed

I LOVE summertime!!! i love the ages of my girls and they are so silly and easy going...i wouldn't want to spend my days with anyone else!

Little rednecks!

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Rock Ranch

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Today we went to the rock ranch...we had a blast!! they have a independence day celebration the sat. before the 4th every year, we went last year and had a great time, so i didn't want to miss out this year...its 20 bucks a car and every thing is free after that....we got there about 5pm and it was still REALLY hot, so after a couple pony rides, i thought the girls were going to pass out, we were all dripping in sweat....so we watched a puppet show in the shade and ate snacks and drank and drank and drank tons of water....then the sun started to set and went behind the clouds so we got to enjoy the bounce houses, corn pit, tracter rides, ect....they have fireworks after dark, but we left at 8 since it was an hour drive and the girls were exhausted....what a fun day!!
this morning we swam from 10-1, kiera naped and then we left for the rock ranch....we had a great day, we'll all sleep tonight!!

kiera looking mischievous

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kiera played on this boat forever at the museum....she is such a fun kid, me, tom and halle just get a kick out of the things she comes up with...she loves to walk around pushing her belly out, she has a great giggle, she puts pretzels between her toes and laughs her head off while she eats them out of feet, if you ask for a dog kiss, she licks you all over your face (i'm the only one who thinks its cute, everyone else is grossed out), she loves to dance, she steals your gum, has to eat off our plates, repeats everything halle says and does, likes to crawl around the house meowing, loves to use the potty, if she doesn't see you for a few minutes she'll run into your arms and say, "i missed you, i missed you", tonight i said , "kiera , no hitting" and she ran and sat down by the door, (time out spot) all by herself, she'll almost immediatly say, "i'm sorry" when she hits halle and will listen to halle if halle says, "no hitting, kiki, go sit in time out", she asked me to go down the water slide by herself, which has a few twists ('i do it, self, by, by mommie")...unfortuantely it flipped her so she went head first and she asked to sit on my lap the next time...but she is really brave, so i'm sure she'll get the courage up again

tonight she grabbed her arm while eating and said to me, "halle hit me" , me, "no, she didn't kiera" (halle would never hit kiera), "halle hit me, wuk, boo-boo" and she points to bbq sauce on her arm....i wiped it off and said, "nice try, kiki"

favorite phrases:
i don't like it
i like it
i love you
i missed you
i want it
wuk, wuk (look, look, she is constantly wanting us to look at her or what she is doing)
first thing in the morning , and every time she is hungry,
"I want lunch, LUNCH!!"
"I Want meh-ma-mine (medicine), candy meh-ma-mine" (she thinks medicine and candy are the same thing)
i want go swimming, where baby suit?
i want chips, purple chips...(which means the chips from the purple bag, the chili flavored doritos, which are so spicy her face turns red while she eats them and her eyes water, but she loves them)

kiera loves to watch halle play starfall.com....now when kiera sees letters anywhere she assumes she knows what they are ...so if we see letters somewhere, like in a book or on the side of a box, kiera points to the different letters and says the names of random letters...the most popular letter, is of course H, because halle points out H's everywhere, one time, she acually found an H and said H...i knew it was a coincidence, but a mom at a playgroup over heard and said, wow, she knows her letters already...yup, she's a smart one, haha...
we love our little kiki bear!

chef halle

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we went to the children's museum in hilton head, SC....they had a little kitchen/cook area...the girls had a great time at the museum...we stayed all morning....i wish we had a decent children's museum where we lived....the girls had a great time!

if you look close you can see halle's silver cap....it was one of my saddest days as a mom to take halle in to get a cap...i felt like the worst mother ever (although she did inherit a garrett gene where some of her teeth grow in without enamel, but still....). we call it her pirate tooth, told her its lucky and the same color as her silver jewelry...halle, being totally in love with everything about herself, was easy to convince that this was cool bling bling for her mouth...she showed all her freinds, got ruthie asking her mom for a princess tooth, and decided its okay to go back and get her other "tooth boo-boo" fixed because i promised her that i would throw her a "sleep-over" (actually just a late night) party that same day (halle has been dying to have a sleep over party for months) and i promised her some new earrings...she was happy about that and that relieved some of my mom guilt.

silly kiera

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mermaidia!

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halle asked me to take a lot of pictures of her as this mermaid...shes such a cutie pie and she totally knows it!

Hilton Head, SC

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I didn't do a great job at taking pictures on the beach, i didn't want to ruin the camera...still brings back all the good memories for me!

Beach Baby!

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Catch up

toms mom came for a visit last week...the girls had a great time playing with her, i enjoyed watching someone else take their orders...halle and kiera are spoiled by me and tom and demand to be played with non-stop....karen and them played games, did puzzles, barbies, swimming, shopping, hide and seek and more!!

last week tom had a work conference in Hilton Head, SC...we tagged along and had a great time....but felt guilty the whole time for having so much fun while tom sat in conferences all day....our hotel was right on the coast...it was a sooo relaxing and fun, we would swim, then play on the beach, then swim in the pool, then the girls would beg for a nap...and then we'd play some more after naps...the girls loved the beach, we brought home a bucket full of sanddollars to bleach and a starfish...and 3 crabs in shells, but they died... it was fun to have a pet in the hotel room and the girls loved "feeding" the crabs all sorts of snacks...kiera was fearless of the waves, after getting knocked over a few times, she realized that when you see them coming you have to get in a football stance, steady yourself and let it hit you, she got good at keeping her balance....there were little waves so with wings on the girls, I could go out into the ocean and swim with them...tom wasn't with us a lot and i was paranoid about staying together so i didn't get any pictures of us in the water....oh well, we'll be back to the coast soon enough! we spent a ton of time in the pool...halle taught herself how to swim and is really good at it! I asked her a few weeks ago when we started going swimming if i could teach her how to swim...she would have had to swallow her pride to ask me for help, so she just swore that she already knew how to swim...after watching the other kids at the pool, she has gotten really good and after just a few weeks can swim about 6 ft to the edge and then back to me...if she swims underwater she goes fast, but she loves to dog paddle , too...i'm impressed and i know she loves to figure things out without my help, so she's pretty happy with herself...she loves to practices over and over again and we have been swimming for 2/3 hours a day, almost everyday...its a lot of fun....kiera wears wings and can swim all over the pool by herself...she loves the kid area to run around and loves to float on her back or belly...
the girls favorite part of swimming is jumping in together, halle does really good at popping up and swimming to me, kiera jumps in with wings and goes completly under and pops up with a big smile on her face....it surprised people to see her be so fearless, and people kept asking me how old she was...
we got home last night, it was a really fun trip...

~halle, "mama, that outfit on kiera is the cutest thing i've ever seen on her!" (referring to one of kiera's really cute outfits)
~kiera in the elevator at the hotel, when it was full, a few times, shouted "hi, people"
~when the waiter came to our table, what can i get you to drink? kiera, "i want water, please"
~tom asked halle if he could have a princess lamp like hers. halle, 'daddy, i'll get you a star wars lamp for your birthday"