The Relentless Liesel Tongue

Visible but atleast inside the mouth. What a goof ball!

Metamora State Park

We finally made it to a beach here in Michigan. My great friend Holli and her four boys came with us and it was so much fun. The weather was just perfect. We will definitely be going again soon.

Liesel loved digging in the sand until she decided to taste some of it and this is what she thought of it.

Drew dressed Liesel up like a cowgirl-gun and all. She thought it was great to be able to touch his special gun that he never lets her hold because she might slobber on it.

Anna loves to be a big sister and help wash Liesel in the bathtub.

She hasn't learned to crawl yet but she will stand like this most of the day and cruise up and down the length of the couch. She wants so bad to be a big walking girl like her brother and sister.

The father-son lawn mowing team!

Our pretty princess will be three in 2 more weeks.

Bathtime

(a little crowded but Liesel doesn't seem to mind)

Beautiful Idaho

My sweet grandma passed away in June so we fly back to Idaho to be with family for 3 weeks. It was so wonderful being in that beautiful Valley this time of year. I almost want to live there again until I remember the winters. So we were able to celebrate the 4th of July with Grandma and Grandpa Pehrson. We couldn't wait till dark to light the fireworks but the kids didn't seem to care. They loved it anyway.

When we would light the poppers Anna would resume this position behind Grandpa.
Anna burnt her finger and had to have an ice cube to ease the pain.

I hate to brag but look at the size of this rainbow I caught with dad on the Teton river. It was 21 inches long and took me 15 minutes to reel him in. Dad kept telling me the old lines that just made me laugh like "Don't horse him" and "Let em run" These are some of my favorite times in in my life....fishing with the best fly fisherman in the world.


Our dear neighbor let us take his 4-wheeler for a ride. Drew even got to drive it by himself.

Mom and Liesel at the 4th of July Parade in Victor.

What a good lookin gang!

The kids were able to ride an old friendly horse of our neighbors. It brought back so many memories of my days of 4-H and riding my blue rosette horse, Patty. I love horses. Maybe someday I will have just one to ride whenever I want.

Liesel is 7 months

Our little Liesel is not so little anymore. She won't eat baby food (but who can really blame her right) she seems to be thriving on breast milk so who knows. Her first tooth just broke through two days ago. It seemed like such a little thing for all the drooling and fussiness we have been dealing with for the past two months.

When Liesel wakes up from her naps Drew likes to go in and read to her before I come pick her up so I caught him in the act today. He was reading her the childrens version of the scriptures and was definitely getting into it. You can tell from the picture Liesel was enjoying it too.

Anna is feeding Liesel a Cheerio. She will actually eat those.

Princess Belle

Our little princess Anna got into my make-up found some foundation and generously applied it to her lips. This is the fabulous result. Once it dried she quickly wanted it off. Later I found she had not put the lid back on the bottle tight and it had spilled all over in my bathroom drawer. Oh well it was worth it for this picture.

Last Day of Preschool

Last Thursday was Drew's final day of preschool. I told him to dress nice because I was going to be taking pictures and this is the outfit he appeared in. I couldn't bring myself to tell him to change so this is what we get.

One of Drew's cute little friends, Autumn

Ms. Barb and Drew


Memorial Day Festivities

Randy got Memorial Day off so we planned a full day of fun. First we headed over to Grosse Ile so Drew and Randy could run in a 1 mile run and so I could run a 8K. Drew did amazing. Ever kid that ran got a medal which made him so proud. He ran the whole thing with Randy with a time of 9 mintues 14 sec!

Drew's buddy Max ran the race with him too.

Then after the race we headed to a local metropark for a family bike ride. We thought Drew would be tired so we only planned to ride about 30 minutes. 8 miles and two hours later with Drew still leading the pack we came to a stop. It was so much fun to be able to ride at a good pace and be together as a family. There will be many more bike ride to come this summer. Liesel liked to be moving so she was not happy when we came to a stop.

Happy Birthday Randy!
We celebrated Randy's birthday this last weekend. Thanks to some great friends we were able to go out to dinner without kids. There is no better gift. We love you Randy!