Look Mom, no hands!

 I walked into the room after putting Brooklyn in the bouncer to find this funny little girl! She cracks me up!

Minions for my minions!

 I saw this cute little cupcake on pinterest and decided to give it a try. They were a big hit for our treat during our Despicable Me movie night!

Yard work...

..this is the never ending battle for homeowners. John and I have tried really hard to win the battle of yard vs. homeowners and this year I think we are evenly matched. I'm hoping that we actually leave the season with our yard in descent shape. 

Brooklyn got caught in the thick of it while we pruned the trees!

Guys Day Out...

John and his friends from high school have been able to keep in touch through the years. They organized a much need guys-day-out!

 To keep in the manly spirit, they decided to go shooting, something I am always happy to pass off to someone else to participate in.

 Apparently they had tons of different kinds of guns to shoot.

After dinner they headed to a movie, another one which I wasn't dying to see. 

I'm so grateful for my hubby and all the hard work he does for our little family. Life wouldn't be the same without him!

4th of July

Okay another treat about having a little girl is buying cute tiny swimsuits! I bought her suit 2 weeks after I knew we were having a girl, and it looks even cuter with a tiny little baby inside it!

 Splash! Jackson and Bradley would run down Grandma Andersen's hill and then slow way down and dramatically jump into the pool. It cracks me, they had a whole audience watching them jump into the pool.

 Brooklyn's first taste of a sprinkler...she acted indifferent and didn't really seem phased. I'll take it as we have a whole lot more of sprinkler time in our future.

 Nana and Bradley

 We had a crew here shooting marshmellow and water wineys, playing in the pool and then watching the fireworks.

Lauren, Dave and Lyla

Firemen in Training

 Jessica and Spencer are always so good to let us come up and play every summer. We had such a ball, fishing, sand-boxing (is that even a word!), 4 wheeling, bike riding, playing games and of course playing with the firetruck!

 I really think Bradley could live in here if we let him.

 Watering the lawn or in the boys minds, fighting the huge fire in the middle of the grass!

 I got in on the action...you never know when you might need to know how to hold a fire hose! It's actually tricker than I thought!

I can't believe we didn't take better pictures! I guess we were enjoying ourselves more and didn't take anything else. This little guy in the middle is our latest in the Riggs family. His name is Louie and he is such a sweetie. He doesn't know much English yet, as he was first raised in the Congo, but seems to understand you and can play like the rest of them. I dare say he is fitting right in with our little crew. So fun to have more nephews!

Summer FUN!

 I always loved playing the sprinklers when I was young and now they have so many cool sprinkler toys it's hard not to join in the fun. John and I pulled out the slip n' slide and added on an extended slide with garbage bags and showed the kids how it was done. Turns out they don't like slip n' slides...all the more fun for John and I.

 The boys loved the snake but decided they should probably try to slay instead.

 Our beautiful flowers.

Enjoying the fun from the sidelines, she enjoys getting sprinkled for a minute or two then just snuggling Mom or watching her brothers from this front row seat.