I CAVED!!!

Yesterday was a big day for me. After a year and almost five months of swearing off soda, I gave in and had some. I did it right. I'm talkin' 36 oz cherry coke washed down with a slice of pizza. It was sweet and fizzy and delicious. I have to admit it was quite wonderful. I had a stomach ache and was shaky feeling for a while after. Not sure it was worth it. At the end of the day it's still not good for you. So here's to another year without soda!

Our new little friends

My parents have a beautiful garden. They work very hard to make it so. Their pet turtles think it's wonderful too. Which is why we have some new additions to our family!!

Meet Fred and Ginger!

They love dandelions. (Which have in abundance)

And hiding.

And being hand fed. (They are very domesticated.)

Most importantly, Kameron absolutely LOVES them.

He stands at the back door and asks "Turt-ah?" which is as close to turtle as he gets.

When we go outside, he immediately starts looking for them. (They hide quite well!)

He picks weeds to feed them. And he laughs when they eat from his hand. It's adorable.

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa!

Disappearing Nine Patch

I have a sickness. I have become addicted to quilting. And, I love it! I just finished the top of my Disappearing Nine Patch Quilt using the French General Collection. My amazing Aunts are teaching me the ropes. I love our little Quilter's Anonymous "Meetings". It's so much fun to visit while we share our hobby. Not too shabby for my second quilt. A year ago I could hardly sew in a straight line. Seriously.

These are pictures from our last "Meeting".

And this is the Quilt I just finshed piecing.

Birthday Party for Kam

Yesterday we had a birthday party for Kam and all the other summer birthdays on my side of the family. SO FUN! Swimming, bbq, family, friends, cake....what more could you want? Thanks to everyone who came, especially kyle's family for making the long drive to be there!! Also, thank you everyone for the gifts! Kameron is going nuts over all his new toys (um, YES, he is officially spoiled). The highlight for me was watching Kameron devour his birthday cake. Hilarious. The video is so long that I'll have to get creative on how post it. Thanks again everyone, it was great!

zoo with grandpa

My dad has always loved go to the zoo with the kids, and now grandkids. Such a fun activity and now it's "the thing" to do with grandpa. A few weeks ago, Kam and I tagged along with Shyla and Lexton. Kameron enjoyed his first trip to the zoo, even though it was crazy hot. Thanks dad!

One year ago...

We were blessed with this sweet little boy.

Turns out they don't stay little for long.

Vegas Baby!!

SO, Kyle and I took the this trip in APRIL. Unfortunately, I never loaded pics from the camera until, well, today! That's how I work people. (what's really scary are the Christmas pics and others of Kameron from about 8 months ago. Don't be jealous of my procrastinating skills) Verizon treated Kyle to a trip to Las Vegas because he's so dang awesome at what he does. They put us up in the Venetian Hotel(by far the nicest place I've ever stayed), hosted a really nice award banquet, gave us two really great seats to BLUE MAN GROUP. All we had to pay for was a plane ticket for me, food, souveniers, etc. LOVELY!

We spent a lot of time at the canal shops in the venetian. It was so cool how the painted roof felt like the sky. This was our veiw from where we ate lunch. We were seranaded by singing

gondola drivers as we ate, so cool!

Favorites-

Kyia-Blue Man Group. Insanely good. To tell you the truth, I have never been to something so weird. I love how they melded comedy, music, science, and that bizare x-factor so that you just can't help but get into it.

Kyle- The Bellagio fountians. Anyone who knows my husband, knows that he loves music. He

wanted to stay and watch them again and again. If you asked him, he might say the Blue Man Group was his favorite, but he's mentioned several times to me that we should make another trip and watch them again.

Least Favorite-

Kyia-The cigarette smoke, EVERYWHERE. Yeah, yeah, I'm a snob. I think it's gross. It makes me nauseous.

Random- my friend Chelsea and her fiance Tj happened to be in Vegas on their way to Utah and we were able to hook up for an hour or so, which was fun.

On our last day we were able to go the Las Vegas Temple. Beautiful. The celestial room is probably my favorite of any I've been to. Wish we could have stayed longer. It was such a quick trip! It really is like another world in Vegas, but it was nice to get away.