Busy, Busy moms listen up!

If your household is anything like mine, summers are just crazy busy! Dinner is the last thing you want to think about especially when in the evenings are usually the busiest. So as a new mom I have some tips to help ease the pain of thinking about what to make for dinner. Now a lot of you may already have this figured out, but to me its all new. Ok so my first tip is to make as much as possible in the morning as you can. The afternoons get so hot and its usually when we are the busiest. I like to make my salads in the morning like a pea salad or macaroni. In the summer we always eat fresh vegetables and fruit. Cut up watermelon, cucumbers , onions and corn on the cob are always on hand cause they make the easiest sides! For a main dish we almost always BBQ. Lately BBQ chicken is a hit around here. I cook the chicken in the morning for 1 hour then put it in the fridge until later to BBQ. This way all your doing is heating it up and its really fast. If your husband is anything like mine he will always call and let me know when hes on his way home. This way I know I have 20 minutes to throw together dinner because most of it is already done! Let me know of any other great tips or dishes for this summer. What is your family eating this summer??

How much more redneck can you get??

About a week ago Rich wanted a haircut really bad because he had some corporate people coming into his office the next day and didn't want to look like a rag muffin! Of course if you know my husband he is quite the procrastinator he had known about these people coming in for about a week or two. So the night before they are to come he says oh man I didn't get a haircut. Of course by this time its 8 o'clock at night and there are no salons open! So on our quest we go to find some hair clippers and I thought oh of course I can do this. My mom, dad, and brothers didn't have any. I though to myself who around here would have hair clippers, immediately I thought of Jan because she is very creative and probably has everything. We walked next door and we were bummed to find out Jan didn't have any clippers. Then her light bulb went off being as a creative woman as she is, she said our dog which is a poodle has clippers Ed uses them on him all the time. Rich being as desperate as he was said ok and we took the dog clippers to give Rich a haircut! It actually turned out pretty good considering our sources and me behind the clippers! Actually Rich did most of it himself!

Wallowa Fun!!!

Well we had an amazing trip! Lytton was such a little trooper. He made the whole 4 hour drive with no problems, I was quite impressed because he can get impatient in the car just when we drive around town! He was such a good baby for us it was just amazing. Well we did plenty of fun things, I had never been to Wallowa lake before, but we had so much fun we plan on going back every summer. They had an amazing hiking trail we climbed and there was a waterfall at the top it was gorgeous. We drove go carts, rode on paddle boats which Lytton loved, except for the life jacket! They had horse back riding and a tram that took you to the top of the mountain! We walked down to ride the tram and it had broken down with people on it so they had to fly in a rescue helicopter to get them down. Thank goodness Lytton needed a nap first or that would of been us up there! We were kind of bummed that we didn't get to ride it, but I guess next year. We also were able to walk right up to deer and feed them, Lytton loved that! The last thing I wanted to share was something that I did that I have always wanted to do and for me it was very adventurous, I was able to go PARA SAILING! I loved it it was so much fun, and not even that scary I would defiantly do it again! Here are some amazing pictures from our trip!

Rich, Lytton and I after paddle boating

Lytton on the paddle boat

Lytton and Grandpa on our hike

Rich, Lytton and I on our hike

Getting ready to Para Sail

Up, up, up

Lytton an Daddy getting ready to swim

Lytton and Rich on our hike

Feeding the deer

Happy 4th!

I hope everyone has a safe and happy 4th of July! For us we are going to be in Wallowa Lake until Sunday. We are super excited to get away for a bit and this will be our first vacation with Lytton, if anyone has tips for traveling with a little one and staying in a hotel I would greatly appreciate it! In other news we are going to start building our house this month! We are super thrilled and will be posting pictures very soon of everything that is going to be going on with the process.

Summer Fun Ideas!

The Children's Museum in the outlet mall is a perfect summer place to take your kids. I say that because it is super cheap, and they have tons of things there for them to do! We recently took Lytton and Rich's daughter Claire there for a birthday party and they both loved it! Kids from age 1 to 8 would probably really enjoy it. Anyways we took this picture of Lytton in one of those cut outs where you can stick a face in it, we thought it was hilarious and he looks so darn cute! Anyways I wanted to share it with everyone and enjoy, he sure does look silly!

My little swimmer!

This was lyttons first swim in the pool! He is so dang cute, and I wanted to share it with everyone. He is already 10 months old I cant believe it he is growing so fast! I love you lytton!

Update on Garrett

Well its already been two weeks since Garrett left and went to the MTC. We have been receiving letters pretty regularly from him and I thought I would give everybody an update. He absolutely loves the MTC. He has a companion that is from Connell right now and they are going to the same mission. Weird huh. He says hes not somebody he would usually hang out with but he says he loves him anyway. Big step for Garrett. He also was able to do a session at the Provo temple last week which he had to get up at 5am to attend. He said it was awesome and he loved it! Also very much not like Garrett he usually would sleep till 12. The MTC really changes people I can see that now. Garrett is turning into a perfect little young man right before our eyes and it is an awesome thing to experience as his sister. He likes the food he says its hit and miss. He leaves the MTC on June 10th to head down to Arizona. I will post pictures soon when I get them from my mom. He is doing really well and loves everything he is doing right now. So keep him in you prayers!