every day fun

john being attacked by babies

bub on daddy's shoulders

apparently it's a comfy place:)

afterwards bub decided daddy should be on his shoulders!

the hilarious fashion sense of babe. granted, the clothes she didn't pick (she was still in pj's from the night before). but the hat and the "bracelets" were all her. in case you can't tell, her bracelets are those rings you make baby chains out of.

so it got quiet and this is what we found. if you can see it she is drenched in lotion (she's a fan of lotion). face, hands, arms, legs, the whole deal. she had so much on that even by the time she woke up we had to wipe her down b/c it couldn't all soak in.

hanging out...in the stroller basket...

i guess pushing the stroller wasn't quite manly enough. but bub loves to try to push the lawn mower. every time john mows he wants to be out there helping. it's pretty sweet.

Friday Fun

during the summer bv had these friday events with food and music, it was supposed to be a dancing in the street sort of event. we only went once but it was pretty fun.

babe got a glow in the dark bracelet (she loves bracelets) and swiped my lemondade:)

the city featured a local band "rockma". we thought it was fun since all the boys were 12 and we had had three of them as webelos (all but the drummer). so left to right...the drummer (don't know him) jordy, dransfield (nate) and jack. they did a pretty good job.

bub dancing to rockma

babe dancing to rockma

kid dancing is pretty much the best ever:)

walnut canyon

while we were at the family reunion (way back in june) we went on a hike through walnut canyon. a way cool place you should certainly see if you're in arizona (i hiked it pregnant with a kid on my back! if you know me you know that's a BIG deal, i am NOT physically fit, so you can totally do it too! they even had these great backpacks at the visitor center that we could use for free! so no excuses!) oh, p.s. i totally uploaded these on the wrong size...but there's a lot, and i really don't want to do it all over again...so yeah.

okay, so this plant is a prickly pear cactus plant. cool b/c my grandma takes the fruit off these and makes the best jam in existence. it's kinda a distant picture though since the plant was off the path and on a steep decline.

i just think this place looks cool. the rock formations are really neat.

i like pictures like this one (with my sister anja) b/c it shows you at least a little just how big it all is.

ander, my awesome little brother who carried around babe the whole way, despite her constant chimes of "mo' nack peas" translated as "more snacks please". he was such a trooper, way awesome.

this was kinda a leaning over the edge picture. it was seriously just cliffs going down. kinda scary, but way neat. the whole way my thoughts were 'wow!' and 'don't fall'.

my sister anja (in the pink) and my other little brother josiah (in the red).

yet another awesome little brother.

to the left is my mom, they're will be a better picture of her later. i'm so glad she was there. being completely not physically fit she was nice enough to hang back with me:)

i thought this was a cool tree, growing out of the rocks and all. i guess it's the purcell side coming out.

so i think these are way cool. it's where the native indians lived...in little cliff rooms they made...seriously, on the edge of a cliff! these were hardcore people.

another neat looking tree.

me and bub.

ander and babe.

okay, this lizard was totally cool. see how it's pushed up on it's legs? it would go up and down...this lizard was doing push-ups! it was the funniest thing. just up and down and up and down. it was great.

yay for mom!