Stupid Computer!

Well it finally happened....

The other morning, it happened to us. The computer crashed. I have never had to deal with anything like this. Needless to say we lost everything that was on it. I was a little bummed, but thankfully we didn't have anything to important on here. Our pictures were the only thing I was a little upset about but I guess this is one great thing about all my little addictions (blog, facebook, and myspace) all the pictures I would really want are all on those sites! And between my mom and sister they have a ton of pictures. So I ended up gutting my computer that morning and starting from scratch. And all is working great now.

What did we learn from this?
Back up, back up, back up!!

What were we thinking?

This past weekend my friend and I decided it would be great to have a garage sale. Well little did we know, It was going to be 100+ degrees all weekend!

I had so much baby stuff to get rid of, I was super excited to have the sale. Last year my sister and I did one and my baby clothes sold with in minutes. This year was OK but nothing like last year. Friday morning we set everything up and started our adventure in the blazing heat. It was so dead all day! We ended up bringing out the pool from the back yard and if you can imagine we had 4 kids and 2 adults in and out of this little plastic kiddie pool all day. That was pretty much the high light of the day. And the only way we could stay cool considering it topped out around 102 that day. At the end of the day I did end up selling most of my big baby furniture, so I did bring in a little money. I would have had my baby crib to sell too, BUT my wonderful husband busted it Thursday night "trying" to put it back together.... So I had our changing table and all the little pads and sheets that went with it, high chair, all kinds of stuff. We did have a ton of kids clothes ranging from sizes 12 months-12 years! those went through out the two day sale. Over all it wasn't that great of a success. But I did get a great tan from it all!!
Oh I forgot to mention during this heat wave and having to be out in it ALL day my daughter was cutting 2 teeth and cried just about all day both days! The only time she was happy was when she was playing in the pool. This made it extremely difficult to just make the best of it...
Last night I finished it all up going through what I had left and putting it in a Craigslist or Goodwill pile. Hoping I can sell the what I posted on Craigslist, guess we will see.

Hope you all enjoyed the hot weekend and stayed cool!

Amazing pics of my girls

Grandma and her girls

They are so pretty. I love this picture.

Such a good big brother.

If she is in front of the camera she is all smiles.

Such a goof ball!!

4th of July weekend

Let me start by wishing you all a happy 4th!

We had plans about a month ago to head over to Corvallis for the 4th so we could spend one last weekend with my brother and niece. Well things kinda changed when the past few weeks Justin has had NO work. So plans were to not go and say our sad good byes over the phone... :( But then my wonderful sister called and said you know what I was going over anyway just hitch a ride and come with us. :) I don't know what I would do with out her! I was so excited, we were only going over for one night, so leaving Friday and coming home Saturday. A quick trip but so happy to go. Anyways... We headed out Friday morning, getting about a 2 hour late start after we had planned but that's how we roll.. We had 6 kids, 2 adults, and one dog to pack and load up. Finally we got on the road and I finally got my coffee! When we got in to town we headed over to my brothers, to see them and figure out what we were going to do for our 2 days together. Karri was doing a photo shoot for one of my friends, and let me tell you it turned out SPECTACULAR!! After that we picked up all the kids and went off to get some fireworks, and dinner. We got back to my moms late that night but we decided to let the kids stay up and build a fire and let off the fireworks. It was a great night I think the kids finally crashed around 11:30 and the adults around 1. The next morning my wonderful mama got up early and went to the store and had a whole breakfast spread layed out for us out on the back patio, the kids ran around for a little and I soaked up the sun enjoying my morning coffee. That afternoon we decided it would be a good idea to get some pictures of just the little girls, since we really don't when the next time we are going to see Hailey again. Along with that we did a little shoot of Averee. My sister is such an amazing photographer! I'm so lucky to have her in my life! haha. We ended our trip that afternoon with lunch in Averee park, and two teary eyed sisters saying good bye to our little brother as he takes the next step in his singing journey, and flys off to Nashville on Wednesday. And Hailey will head back with her mama down to California. It was such a wonderful couple of days and we got some amazing photos to remember it all!


We came home on the 4th so we could spend the evening with daddy and watch some fireworks. Well mother nature had her own fireworks brewing for that night. I looked outside and the entire sky was this amazing deep bright pink and purple, and a little dark almost black clouds streaming across it. Next there was just lightening flashing with the following of loud thunder about every 15 minutes, and then all of a sudden you would see some bright fireworks light up the sky. It was quit a show. Ryder and I were sitting out side watching our neighbors light off some fireworks and then all of a sudden massive down poor! It was raining so hard! That lasted for about an hour and I think it put a real damper on everyones 4th. Shockingly I didn't hear anymore fireworks for the night and it was only 10:30. So that was our Holiday weekend. I hope you all had a great one like we did!!

(I would post some pictures of my son but he thought Avery Park was so cool he never slowed down long enough to take some pictures!!)

In a way this is my good bye to my brother. I wish him the best of luck and can't wait to see what his cards hold for him in this new city!!

Sisters

Growing up my sister and I have never looked alike! We always just assumed we looked like our dads (we have different dads) but in about the past year every where we go everyone always comments on how much we look alike. After taking some photos this past weekend I can totally see why people are saying this! haha.

I love her to pieces and wouldn't change a thing about her, she is one of my bestest friends!!
Love you sister!